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Update: Texas grid operator takes emergency measures to avoid rolling blackouts as wind turbines fail to produce energy due to low winds

Cristina Laila
The Gateway Pundit
Wed, 13 Jul 2022 09:15 UTC
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© KXANTexas wind turbines useless in power outage
Texas grid operator ERCOT was forced to take unprecedented emergency measures on Wednesday to avoid rolling blackouts amid a heatwave as wind turbines failed to produce energy due to low winds.

ERCOT manages electric power to more than 26 million Texas customers and represents 90% of the state's electric load, according to the company.

On Monday ERCOT asked customers to voluntarily raise thermostats a degree or two, turn off lights, avoid using ovens, washing machines and dryers, and unplug appliances if possible during the hours of 2-8 pm.

According to ERCOT, a heatwave along with very low winds is causing the latest conservation alert. In a press release it said:
"Wind generation is currently generating significantly less than what it historically generated in this time period. Current projections show wind generation coming in less than 10 percent of its capacity."
ERCOT was forced to take emergency action two days after it issued a conservation alert.

Comment: Wind turbines consistently prove to be a costly investment with unreliability when most needed. Turbines must have wind to run and quit if it exceeds 50 MPH.

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75% of "poorly targeted" $800 billion PPP money sent to unintended recipients: Study

Tom Ozimek
Zero Hedge
Tue, 12 Jul 2022 01:40 UTC
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A multi-billion-dollar pandemic-era stimulus program meant chiefly to help small businesses keep staff on the payroll and hire back laid off employees was poorly targeted, with only about one-quarter of the money supporting jobs that would otherwise have disappeared, a new Fed report shows.

Lockdowns and a collapse in consumer spending during the first wave of the pandemic drove fears that America's small business sector was at risk of a collapse.

This prompted lawmakers in Congress to adopt a series of relief measures, including the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which directed roughly $800 billion in forgivable loans to small businesses and other organizations hit by the crisis.

At least 75 percent of the PPP funds were intended to maintain payrolls or hire back laid off employees and the remaining share could be earmarked for overhead costs like rent and utilities.

But was this money well spent?

That's the question researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis sought to answer in their July 6 study, which arrived at an unflattering conclusion.

Comment: Waste and fraud? How typical and intentional:

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Airplane

'Net Zero' global warming alarm based on temperatures measured next to airport runways with hot jet engines and tarmac

Chris Morrison
The Daily Sceptic
Fri, 15 Jul 2022 01:30 UTC
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About one half of all land surface temperature measurements used to show global warming and promote the command-and-control Net Zero agenda are taken near or adjacent to airport runways. This amazing fact from research by Professor Ross McKitrick casts further serious doubt on the validity of three major global temperature datasets, including the one compiled by the Met Office, which continue to show higher global temperatures compared with other reliable measurements made by satellites and meteorological balloons.

Airports are arguably uniquely unsuitable for providing an insight into global temperatures. Many of them are major industrial complexes spread over miles of heat-radiating tarmac and concrete, containing industrial buildings and subject to constant super-heated jet exhausts measuring hundreds of degrees centigrade.

There are three major global surface datasets. HadCRUT is compiled by the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit in collaboration with the Met Office, NASA runs the Goddard Institute for Space Studies GISS record, while NOAA is compiled by the U.S. national weather service. All three global averages depend on the same underlying land data from the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN). As I have noted on numerous occasions, all three datasets have made significant adjustments, which has had the effect of increasing recent warming and cooling the historical record.
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Bacon

Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: It gets worse on the food side of things


Adapt 2030
Wed, 13 Jul 2022 18:41 UTC
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Where has the lions share of American wheat stockpiles gone? U.N issues "Global Hunger Crisis" alert as global rice production is set to plunge further. Blackrock starts working on Bitcoin ETF products and seven waterspouts at the same time from a cloud.

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SOTT Focus: MindMatters: John Carter of Substack: Conspiracy, Clown World, and the New Dissidence

Harrison Koehli, Elan Martin, L.P. Koch, Adam Daniels
Sott.net
Sat, 16 Jul 2022 00:00 UTC
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Culture wars, political convulsions, social upheavals - you name it. If you're like us, we're always on the lookout for new voices giving their take on these strange times and just what the heck it is we're watching unfold in the West. There are a good many bloggers, pundits and observers out there, but...there can be only one. Enter John Carter (nom de plume), who writes "Postcards From Barsoom." A veteran of the academic world and all its woke garbage, John found himself transported to the fantastical realm called Substack, where he became a warrior battling various mythological beasts, alien armies and malevolent foes, armed solely with his mighty keyboard and nimble mind.

In just a short time, John has shown himself to be a voice worth listening to. And speak with aplomb he does. His writings are insightful, challenging, creative, and playfully hilarious. And in our conversation today, nothing is off the table: science, psychology, spirituality, philosophy, politics, sci-fi - whatever ideas have the explanatory power to help describe and understand the world we're facing. At a time when we're being barraged by the weapons of 'cognitive conquest' nothing is more important than communicating the ideas that could provide a good sword and shield, and a means with which to face the future.

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Bad Guys

Mexican network begins export of abortion pills to US in the wake of Roe decision


The Post Millennial
Fri, 15 Jul 2022 19:27 UTC
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A Mexican abortion group is ramping up efforts to send abortion pills to the US, where access to the procedure has become restricted in some states.

Since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade in June, which legalized abortion nationwide, the group has been bombarded with calls and messages from people in the US looking for abortion pills, a short New York Times documentary uncovered.

The group is called "Las Libres" meaning "the free ones."

Comment: The overturning of Roe has really given insight into how desperately attached some people are to abortions. There are other forms of birth control, people.

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Man who spent decades in prison for Malcolm X murder sues for wrongful conviction

Cami Mondeaux
Washington Examiner
Fri, 15 Jul 2022 13:00 UTC
Muhammad Aziz
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A New York man who spent two decades in prison for the murder of civil rights leader Malcolm X is suing city leaders and former law enforcement officers over his wrongful imprisonment after he was exonerated late last year.

Attorneys representing Muhammad Aziz, 83, filed a lawsuit with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York against New York City seeking $40 million for the more than 20 years he spent in prison after being convicted in 1966 for the death of Malcolm X, a crime that occurred in New York City's Audubon Ballroom while Aziz was at home, officials later determined. Aziz was exonerated in November 2021, 56 years after the assassination.

"As a result of his wrongful conviction and imprisonment, Mr. Aziz spent 20 years in prison for a crime he did not commit and more than 55 years living with the hardship and indignity attendant to being unjustly branded as a convicted murderer of one of the most important civil rights leaders in history," the lawsuit said.

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Pills

California fentanyl bust: Feds seize 1 million counterfeit pills worth up to $20 million

Paul Best
Fox News
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 20:17 UTC
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© DEA Los Angeles Field DivisionAbout one million fentanyl pills worth between $15 and $20 million were seized at an Inglewood home last week.
Law enforcement seized about one million counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl at a residence in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood last week, the DEA announced on Thursday.

The pills have an estimated street value of $15 to $20 million and are believed to be linked to a drug trafficking ring associated with the Sinaloa Cartel.

"This massive seizure disrupted the flow of dangerous amounts of fentanyl into our streets and probably saved many lives," DEA Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner said in a statement.

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NPC

Lia Thomas nominated for NCAA' Woman of the Year' award

Jordan Dixon-Hamilton
Breitbart
Fri, 15 Jul 2022 00:01 UTC
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The University of Pennsylvania has nominated transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, a biological male, for the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Woman of the Year award.

Thomas is one of 577 nominees selected from the roughly 223,000 female collegiate athletes nationwide.

The NCAA's Woman of the Year award recognizes "female student-athletes who have exhausted their eligibility and distinguished themselves in their community, in athletics and in academics throughout their college careers."

Comment: So the NCAA have decided to honor cheaters. They may find their 'distinguished awards' may not be very distinguished for long.

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Why did Frontiers publish a flawed study massively exaggerating Covid risk to children?

Norman Fenton
normanfenton.com
Thu, 14 Jul 2022 08:10 UTC
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<Note: Before publishing this article we sent it to the Editors of Frontiers in Pediatrics asking if they wished to correct any inaccuracies or provide any updates, giving them several days to respond. They did not acknowledge or respond.>

In September 2021 Frontiers in Pediatrics published this article by members of the Indonesian Pediatrician Association (IDAI) claiming that the case fatality rate (CFR) for children with 'suspected' Covid in Indonesia was 1.4% (i.e. 1 in 71) with a CFR of 0.46% (1 in 217) for those with 'confirmed' Covid. No such high Covid fatality rates for children have been observed elsewhere in the world. In fact, worldwide the infection fatality rate was estimated (at the time the IDAI paper was published) to be 1 in 37,000 for those aged under 20.

The IDAI authors also made the startingly claim that, of the 175 'confirmed Covid deaths' of children in their study, 62 had no existing comorbidities. But again, elsewhere in the world cases of covid death in children without serious comorbidities are almost unheard of. For example, in the UK in the whole of 2020, a deep analysis of ALL child deaths with Covid (there were 28 in total) revealed only 8 were confirmed as likely caused by Covid and that all 8 had a comorbidity recorded, seven of whom had a life-limiting condition.

Comment: The people behind this study, and those promoting it, should be held criminally liable.

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