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Texas shatters record for winter electricity use - grid manages without rolling blackouts

Jeff Mosier
Dallas News
Wed, 17 Jan 2018 18:37 UTC

Snow covers Corpus Christi in Texas on December 8 2017. First time in 13 years. via

Bitter cold across Texas brought a new winter record for peak electricity use, ERCOT, the state's independent electric grid operator announced Wednesday morning.

At one point, Texans were using 65,731 megawatts, blowing past the previous record by nearly 5 percent. Multiple records were set overnight as temperatures plunged statewide, but the new peak arrived between 7 and 8 a.m.

The peak use was significantly higher than the Electric Reliability Council of Texas' projection of 61,068 megawatts for a peak this winter. It fell short of the "extreme" peak projection by just 1,044 megawatts.

Overnight, the Dallas area recorded a low of 13 degrees, well below the average low of 34. While frigid, that was still far from the record low of 2 degrees in 1930.

Judgment Day: Texas judge tells jury God told him defendant was innocent

Ryan Autullo
American-Statesman
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 18:15 UTC

A state district judge in Comal County said God told him to intervene in jury deliberations to sway jurors to return a not guilty verdict in the trial of a Buda woman accused of trafficking a teen girl for sex.

Judge Jack Robison apologized to jurors for the interruption, but defended his actions by telling them "when God tells me I gotta do something, I gotta do it," according to the Herald-Zeitung in New Braunfels.

The jury went against the judge's wishes, finding Gloria Romero-Perez guilty of continuous trafficking of a person and later sentenced her to 25 years in prison. They found her not guilty of a separate charge of sale or purchase of a child.

Robison, who also presides in Hays and Caldwell counties, did not respond to a message left with his court coordinator, Steve Thomas, who said the case is still pending. Robison is scheduled to return to the bench in Comal County on Jan. 31.

The Herald-Zeitung reported that Robison recused himself before the trial's sentencing phase and was replaced by Judge Gary Steele. The defendant's attorney asked for a mistrial, but was denied.

Propaganda: Why African Americans are moving to Africa

Azad Essa
Al Jazeera
Sat, 20 Jan 2018 17:46 UTC

They have come from the big cities of San Francisco, Chicago, and New York. Thousands of them. And many refuse to return.

Comment: How many is many?

A new wave of African Americans is escaping the incessant racism and prejudice in the United States.

Comment: Hardly.

From Senegal and Ghana to The Gambia, communities are emerging in defiance of conventional wisdom that Africa is a continent everyone is trying to leave.

Comment: Not everyone, just hundreds of millions.

It is estimated that between 3,000 and 5,000 African Americans live in Accra, the Ghanaian capital. They are teachers in small towns in the west or entrepreneurs in the capital and say they that even though living in Ghana is not always easy, they feel free and safe.

Comment: And about 51,000 Americans live and work in Tokyo. So what?

Take Muhammida el-Muhajir, a digital marketer from New York City, who left her job to move to Accra.

She says she moved, because despite her education and experience, she was always made to feel like a second-class citizen. Moving was an opportunity to fulfil her potential and avoid being targeted by racial violence.

She told Al Jazeera her story:

Comment: For those so inclined, it's probably a good move for them to move to a community or country that is ethnically conspecific for them.

#MeToo: Sex vs. Political Correctness?

Angelo Codevilla
American Greatness
Tue, 09 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC

The Left has some reason to worry that the newfound solicitude for sexual propriety spread by #MeToo might overflow the traditional bounds of political-correctness-as-weapon.

No different from demands regarding race and identity politics generally, the strictures of political correctness concerning sex do not define rights and wrongs. Rather, they claim authority to suppress such evils as the powerful may impute to their enemies. They also serve the ruling class's war against Western Civilization. But current demands for "sensitivity" for women's sense of sexual self-worth, rather than merely enhancing the power of better-connected people over less-connected ones, might actually lead America to consider what proper or improper sexual behavior is.

Neither P.C.'s partisan nature nor its corrosion of our civilization are in doubt. Elsewhere, I showed that Communists originated the term to distinguish between the "correctness" of what serves the Party's interest from that which is factually correct - and that the Party's paramount long-term interest lies in overcoming the reality that human beings perceive through the senses and reason with the Party's "correct" version thereof.

Comment: See also:

Vegas cops say shooter Paddock possessed child porn, new 'person of interest' discovered in case

RT
Sat, 20 Jan 2018 16:54 UTC

© OFF / Agence France-Presse
Stephen Paddock, the gunman who killed 58 people and injured over 500 during an open air concert on October 01, 2017 in Las Vegas.

A new person of interest has been identified in the case of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock, but authorities insist he acted alone in the massacre.

On Friday, Sheriff Joseph Lombardo of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) released an 81-page preliminary investigative report on Paddock that reveals a new person of interest in the case. However, investigations are ongoing and many details are yet to be confirmed. The person of interest is not Paddock's girlfriend, Marilou Danley, who authorities had previously been looking into.

The file also contains "disturbing" internet searches for SWAT tactics and photos of Paddock's deceased body surrounded by the arsenal of weapons he allegedly used during the shooting. The FBI also found "several hundred images of child porn" after scanning Paddock's computer. It further revealed google searches for other potential public venue targets, ballistics and questions such as, "How tall is Mandalay Bay."

Comment: Wait a minute. How did they find that information? Las Vegas shooter's laptop found at scene is missing its hard drive

Comment: Four months on and the stench of an FBI cover-up is as strong as ever.

'Border protection unit' to prevent another refugee crisis - Austrian Interior Minister

RT
Sat, 20 Jan 2018 15:49 UTC

© Michael Dalder / Reuters
Migrants stand in queue before passing Austrian-German border in Wegscheid in Austria, near Passau.

Austria's new interior minister is planning to introduce a "border protection unit," stating that scenarios like the 2015 refugee crisis "cannot be allowed to happen" again.

Herbert Kickl of the right-wing Freedom Party (FPÖ) told Tiroler Tageszeitung newspaper that he wants to introduce a police standby force, which will be able to react and secure border crossings within a few hours. The force is also to carry out identity checks.

Kickl added that the monitoring existing right now is effective, though everything should be done to prevent a repetition of the 2015 refugee crisis.

Video shows heartbreaking moments after cop kills unarmed 16yo boy in Ohio courtroom

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 20 Jan 2018 16:35 UTC

As TFTP reported this week, in juvenile court, a 16-year-old boy intervened after a police officer allegedly pushed his mother against the wall-so the police officer shot and killed him. Now, we have the disturbing video of the aftermath of the shooting. It is nothing short of heartbreaking.

The boy who was killed this week for allegedly intervening to help his mother fend off a cop was Joseph Haynes and he was unarmed.

Comment: Unarmed teenager tries to stop cop from hurting his mom - Gets shot and killed for it

Video of the aftermath was taken by Constance Gadell-Newton, Juvenile Defense Attorney for Franklin County Ohio who witnessed the lethal altercation and pulled out her camera to document it.

In the video, we can see Haynes' mother hysterical after her son lay dying on the floor of the courtroom. Infuriatingly enough, instead of attempting to call for help or render aid to the boy bleeding out on the floor, police call in back up to remove Haynes family.

"Oh my god you killed my son!" Haynes' mother screams in horror. At this point officers then begin to forcibly remove the mother and the grandmother who are in obvious shock after witnessing Joseph's killing.

'All of our transports make it through': Dirty LA cop arrested in drug trafficking sting

Jack Burns
The Free Thought Project
Sat, 20 Jan 2018 16:28 UTC

Kenneth Collins, a 15-year veteran of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, was arrested this week in an undercover FBI sting operation. Collins, along with three alleged accomplices were arrested and charged this week with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.

It turns out the drug traffickers were actually FBI agents who informed Collins they would be transporting nearly 45 pounds of cocaine and more than 13 pounds of methamphetamine. Arrested with Collins are David Easter, a 51-year-old Hyde Park resident; Grant Valencia, a 34-year-old from Pomona; and Maurice Desi Font, 56, of South Los Angeles.

In the past, Collins used to mentor ex-convicts through a program called "Emerging Leaders." Now the career cop is forced to confront the possibility he, too, may spend time behind bars.

According to KTLA, Collins had been rumored to be a dirty cop, often accepting bribes in exchange for protecting drug dealers and their operations. The FBI investigated, set their trap, and caught their badge-wearing criminal who was believed to be the "ring-leader."

What MLK's 'letter from Birmingham jail' tells us about 16y/o jailed Ahed Tamimi

James North and Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Mon, 15 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC

Ahed Tamimi

In recent weeks, several people have said that the liberal indifference to Ahed Tamimi's detention in an Israeli prison for slapping an occupying soldier on December 15 is reminiscent of the white liberals in Martin Luther King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail, written in 1963. Today, you can give yourself no better political lesson than rereading that inspiring document of the American movement for freedom.

King's letter is an explanation of the need for "direct political action." King addresses a group of white liberal ministers and rabbis who have said they're against segregation but times are changing, so why do "extremist" black clergy have to risk a backlash with provocative demonstrations? King answers that time is neutral and won't do anything on its own; blacks have waited for hundreds of years for some modicum of justice and learned that the privileged will never give up privilege without pressure. White businesses promised to remove humiliating signs directing blacks to segregated water coolers and bathrooms and never followed through, and meantime anti-colonial struggles in other countries have outpaced American change, and inspired blacks to dream of an equal future.

Comment: See also:

Baltimore police commissioner fired as city struggles with record murder rate

RT
Sat, 20 Jan 2018 13:42 UTC

Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis has been fired after the city's mayor grew "impatient" with his inability to stop the record pace of killings in the city. A replacement has already been named.

Mayor Catherine Pugh named Deputy Commissioner Darryl D. De Sousa, 53, to replace Davis, with his appointment effective immediately. Pugh said she would ask the City Council to make the posting permanent, the Baltimore Sun reported.

De Sousa told reporters Friday morning that he "has a lot of respect" for Davis, but also said residents are "frustrated and they want answers and they want change," according to the Sun.

The new commissioner promised to deploy "waves" of officers to stamp out the violence in well-known "hot spots" and key corridors throughout the city.

Comment: See also: Baltimore murder rates soar after police pullback from Black Lives Matter demands

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Society's Child

Texas shatters record for winter electricity use - grid manages without rolling blackouts

Judgment Day: Texas judge tells jury God told him defendant was innocent

Propaganda: Why African Americans are moving to Africa

#MeToo: Sex vs. Political Correctness?

Vegas cops say shooter Paddock possessed child porn, new 'person of interest' discovered in case

'Border protection unit' to prevent another refugee crisis - Austrian Interior Minister

Video shows heartbreaking moments after cop kills unarmed 16yo boy in Ohio courtroom

'All of our transports make it through': Dirty LA cop arrested in drug trafficking sting

What MLK's 'letter from Birmingham jail' tells us about 16y/o jailed Ahed Tamimi

Baltimore police commissioner fired as city struggles with record murder rate

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