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Germany's gas reserves 'emptying at record speed' due to colder than average weather

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© Anadolu AgencyPermits for new buildings have dropped dramatically since last year
Pleiteticker.de here reports how Germany's natural gas reserves "are emptying at record speed" because wind and solar power have been on the scarce side over the past few weeks. This means gas turbines have had to jump in to pick up the slack in electricity production - not one the German government had hoped as it wrestles with the heightening energy crisis.

"Germany is converting gas into electricity in record quantities," pleiteticker.de reports. "Thanks to high pressure system 'Erika', the current December is colder than it has been for years. [...] In recent days, gas storage facilities have therefore been emptying much faster than before. From December 12 onwards, more than one percent was withdrawn from gas storage facilities in Germany every day."

"Last week, almost one third of all electricity was generated from natural gas. These are record figures," writes pleiteticker.de.

Sherlock

ANOTHER large-scale fire in Russia, this time at an oil and gas field

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The fire occurred at the oil and gas condensate Markovskoye field in the Russian Irkutsk Oblast; five injuries were reported.

Source: RBC. Meduza

Details: It is reported that the fire with the area of thousands of square metres was localised quickly; there were no victims, and five people were injured.

Propaganda media report that "there was a fire at the technological installation"; people wrote that they heard an explosion on social media.

Comment: TASS reports:
"The fire was localized at 02:24 a.m. local time (09:24 p.m. Moscow time). The jet fire at the buffer drum area has been extinguished. Firefighting operation continues. There is no threat to the local population," it said.

The fire broke out on Sunday during the works at the field's gas treatment unit. According to preliminary data, five people were hurt, Konstantin Vlasov, head of the settlement of Verkhnemarkovo, located 2.5 kilometers of the field, told TASS. He also said that the accident did not tell on the operation of the settlement's vital facilities.

Discovered in 1962, the Merkovskoye oil and gas condensate field is operated by the Irkutsk Oil Company, which obtained the license in 2000.

The Irkutsk Oil Company is one of Russia's largest independent producer of hydrocarbons. It operated in the Irkutsk region, Krasnoyarsk territory, and in the Republic od Sakha (Yakutia). It plans to commission a gas chemical facility in the north of the Irkutsk region in 2024.
Below are just some of the most recent suspect fires and explosions in Russia. We suspect that most of them are due to sabotage and/or remotely-activated cyberattacks.


Black Magic

Best of the Web: Excess deaths DOUBLED in 2021, NOT from Covid, lockdown partly to blame, WHO research reveals

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© David Cliff/NurPhoto/Getty ImagesFILE PHOTO: An empty street in London during lockdown in March 2020. World Health Organization research suggests that during just the first two years of the pandemic, 14.83 million more deaths occurred worldwide than would otherwise have been expected .
Nearly 15 million excess deaths from any cause may have occurred during 2020 and 2021, nearly three times the 5.42 million covid-19 fatalities that were reported over the same two-year period.


Comment: And even those labeled Covid may be deaths 'with' Covid, when actually the person died due to multiple comorbidities or old age.


William Msemburi at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, and his colleagues estimated the number of deaths that would have occurred globally from January 2020 to December 2021 if the pandemic hadn't taken place.

For some countries, the team used mortality data from 2015 to 2019 to calculate the number of expected deaths per year, which they compared with the number of reported deaths from any cause over two years of the pandemic.

Comment: Deaths from the experimental Covid jabs will account for possibly a quarter - 2.5 million - of those excess deaths, if not significantly more. And counting.


Fire

Huge fire at industrial estate in Russian city of Vladivostok

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© Twitter@NOELreportsScreenshot of the fire in Vladivostok.
A huge fire broke out in a confectionery warehouse on an industrial estate in the Russian city of Vladivostok.

A huge fire has been blazing for some hours this evening, Saturday, December 17, in a warehouse located on an industrial estate in the Russian city of Vladivostok. According to local online reports, the facility manufactures confectionery goods.

Around 1,100m² of the 'Yashinko' building has been destroyed according to reports, and the roof has allegedly collapsed as well. There has been no confirmation as to the cause of the huge blaze.

Comment: Below are just some of the most recent suspect fires and explosions in Russia. We suspect that most of them are due to sabotage and/or remotely-activated cyberattacks.


Question

Internal email reveals top Maricopa election offices couldn't reconcile 15k disparity in outstanding votes

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"Unable to currently reconcile [Secretary of State] listing with our estimates from yesterday," Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer wrote in a Nov. 10 email.

Recently disclosed internal communications between top election officials in Arizona's Maricopa County in the immediate aftermath of Election Day reveal that they struggled to reconcile a discrepancy of almost 16,000 in outstanding ballot totals.

The governor's race in Arizona was decided by a margin of just over 17,000 votes.

Maricopa County was plagued by numerous issues with ballot machines at many of its vote centers on Election Day, resulting in delays and long lines.

Prior to a Maricopa County press conference with Board of Supervisors Chair Bill Gates and Recorder Stephen Richer on Nov. 10, Richer sent an email to Elections Director Scott Jarrett, Gates and others about a significant discrepancy between the county's estimated remaining ballot totals and the number reported by the secretary of state's office.

Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs was also the Democratic nominee for governor in the Nov. 8 election.

Comment: Twitter gets the last word:




Cow Skull

Eco-hypocrite: Google tries to hide gobbling up nearly 300 MILLION gallons of city's water amid droughts

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© AP File Photo/Andrew SelskyGoogle's data center in The Dalles, Oregon on Oct. 5, 2021.
Google says it seeks to "foster sustainability at scale" and to reduce the "environmental impact" of its operations. The tech giant also claims to provide "critical information ... in moments of crisis."

When the residents of The Dalles, Oregon, attempted to figure out precisely how much of their water was being used by the local Google data center amid a drought affecting over 540,000 residents in the state, the city sued on the company's behalf to keep the amount a secret.

That lawsuit was dropped this week and with it the veil hiding the full extent of Google's water consumption.

Google released its annual water metrics for 2021, revealing that it had consumed 274.5 million gallons of water last year. It withdrew 358.3 million gallons and only discharged 83.8 million gallons.

According to John Devoe, the executive director of WaterWatch, that's enough water to cover the city's seven square miles in water 3 inches deep.

Ambulance

Australian actuaries raise alarm: Citizens are "unexpectedly" dying at an exaggerated rate

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The Australian government should be urgently investigating the "incredibly high" 13% excess death rate in 2022, the country's peak actuarial body says.

An extra 15,400 people died in the first eight months of the year, according to a new analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistics ("ABS") data by the Actuaries Institute, with around one-third of those having no link to Covid.

Karen Cutter, an actuary of more than 25 years and spokeswoman for the institute's Covid-19 Mortality Working Group, said 13% was an "incredibly high number for mortality" and that it was "not clear" what was driving the increase. "Mortality doesn't normally vary by more than 1% to 2%, so 13% is way higher than normal levels," she said.

Comment: The elephant in the room can be hidden with statistical chicanery for only so long. The real numbers will out, as seen by those who are on the front lines, such as insurance companies and funeral homes. But will anyone ever be held responsible?


MIB

Not just Baker: Twitter's top ranks were positively infested with ex-FBI employees

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© The Conservative TreehouseJames Baker, FBI's former general counsel who later worked in the same role for Twitter. (L) Elon Musk (R)
Twitter's top ranks were riddled with ex-FBI agents and executives, stitching the company even closer to the federal agency now under fire for leaning on Twitter to meddle in the 2020 elections.

More than a dozen former feds flocked to the company in the months and years prior to Elon Musk's purchase of the social network in October.

The Post found FBI influence was considerably more significant than just James Baker, the FBI's former general counsel who later worked in the same role for Twitter. He was recently fired by Musk for interfering in the billionaire's efforts to come clean about past transgressions at the company.

The news comes on the heels of the latest Twitter Files disclosures which show how the agency dedicated dozens of agents to pressuring the company to remove political tweets it found objectionable.

In some cases, the former G-men and -women held positions that would have put them close to company leadership directly involved in censoring The Post's Hunter Biden coverage in October 2020.

Stormtrooper

UK study finds young military veterans face up to four times higher risk of suicide

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© Press Associations(L) British recruits in training (R) Veterans’ affairs minister Johnny Mercer
The risk of suicide for British armed forces veterans under the age of 25 is up to four times higher than for civilians, a major new study suggests.

However, the Ministry of Defence-funded project, which looked at more than 458,000 veterans, found they generally do not have higher suicide rates than the rest of society.

Leaving service before the age of 35, leaving before a decade of service, or being untrained were all linked to a greater chance of dying by suicide.

Speaking to ITV News Mr Mercer said: "I think access to an understanding of the mental health provision that is available in this country remains the biggest challenge."

Veterans' affairs minister Johnny Mercer said the suicide rates among younger former service personnel are a 'concern'

Comment: The decades of modern warfare's horrors, waged at the behest of the psychopathic elite, are affecting armed forces around the world.


Book 2

'Unstoppable Us: How Humans Took Over the World' - the gospel of Harari for children

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Unstoppable Us: How Humans Took over the World, by Yuval Noah Harari, was released October 18, 2022. It was published by Bright Matter Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House. This book is marketed to children from 10-14 years.

The front book jacket begins with:
THE STRANGEST TALE YOU'LL EVER HEAR . . . AND IT'S A TRUE STORY!
Is it?

Who is Yuval Noah Harari and why has he become so influential? What is his message? Does his heavily-marketed new book for children echo the same sentiments he so adamantly feeds his adult audiences?
Prof. Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and the bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, and Sapiens: A Graphic History. His books have sold over 40 million copies in 65 languages, and he is considered one of the world's most influential public intellectuals today. [Click here to read the complete bio on Harari's website.]
Harari was a keynote speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in both 2018 and 2020. His speeches and interviews on various media platforms are watched by millions.

Yuval Noah Harari is not shy about stating his beliefs. In a nutshell, in Harari's gospel there is no God, no soul, and no freewill. Once these pillars are accepted as truth by his followers — many of whom are in positions of power — the next step will be deciding the fate of billions of people who are no longer necessary in a future world that consists of Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, and Transhumanism.