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Nearly 20 years of service and multiple combat deployments, all of it wasted! It pains me to admit that our military has become a ruthless, toxic mélange of spineless, gas-lighting leadership. A place where leaders live a different standard than the one they force on those to whom they are supposed to "guide." I use the word "guide" loosely, as my family and I currently fight a leadership team determined to destroy my husband's career, without cause. Chief Warrant Officer 3 Brandon Budge is living through the ugliest side of our current political culture and climate. His leadership has been allowed to operate outside of what is just and prudent. Colonel Shane Finison and 7th Infantry Division Commander Major General Stephen G. Smith have abused and mistreated our family to the point of breaking. The reason? A medic falsified his records to show him receiving a COVID "vaccine" when he hadn't, even though he, under threat had agreed to be vaccinated while on leave. He had spoken to his commander the day he departed for leave, explaining his plan to be vaccinated while on leave. Brandon was accused of falsifying his records, he didn't. He swore an oath to defend the Constitution and is now being denied due process by those who took the same oath.
"It is the domino effect that has happened with us having to take a huge increase on energy. We have to try and raise our prices to retailers a little bit, and unfortunately that goes on to consumers."Kona Haque, head of research for commodities trader ED&F Man, warned:
"I think the worst is still to come as energy prices rise. This winter will be a game changer and processing costs will likely go up."
"Regarding the color: the ministry emphasized that manufacturers should not use loud colors. There is no order or regulation to clarify which colors are deemed illegal. Society does not have a problem with this kind of clothing [knee-length open cloaks in bright colors]. If the relevant institutions want to create restrictions on the type of production, they should first change the taste of society."The news comes amid recent reports that authorities in Iran are increasingly cracking down on women deemed to be in violation of wearing the hijab, which is mandatory in public in Iran.
Cold weather combined with gas shortages is expected to force UK authorities to enact a "reasonable worst-case scenario," providing for four days of blackouts during the upcoming winter, Bloomberg reports.
The probable outages may affect not only industry, but also the country's households, as a result of an electricity capacity shortfall amounting to about a sixth of peak demand - even after emergency coal plants have been fired up.
At the same time, Britons are expected to see average annual energy bills rise above £4,200 ($5,086) in January from the current fee of just under £2,000, adding to the soaring consumer price inflation.
Meanwhile, the government's base case scenario doesn't include blackouts. The first stage of the UK's emergency plan reportedly involves the network operator directing flows of gas on the system, temporarily overriding commercial agreements, while the second stage includes halting supplies to gas-fired power stations, triggering planned power cuts for industrial and domestic users.
The UK energy industry regulator Ofgem has said it would adjust its cap quarterly rather than half-yearly due to current volatility in energy markets, meaning bills are likely to rise again in January.
Britain, which has reportedly been shipping record amounts of gas to continental Europe, has very little domestic storage capacity. The UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) said Britain isn't dependent on Russian energy imports, as it has its own North Sea gas reserves and "steady imports from reliable partners." It also pointed out that the UK has the second largest LNG port infrastructure in Europe and "a gas supply underpinned by robust legal contracts."
Comment: Countries like Sierra Leone and Malawi, were already vulnerable to even minor dips in the global economy, meanwhile others, like Sri Lanka, required gross government malpractice to wipe out its ability to be self sufficient; and the West too will suffer its reckoning as the various converging issues, from inflation to food shortages, are made infinitely many times worse by incompetent, and nefarious, government policy
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