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Tennessee electric company prioritizes DEI while 90k remain without power

Kaitlin Housler
Tennessee Star
Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:03 UTC
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Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said Nashville Electric Service (NES) was discussing internal diversity initiatives even as tens of thousands of customers remained without power following Winter Storm Fern.

On Thursday's edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, as more than 86,000 NES customers were without power, Pappert reported that a draft board agenda from the Wednesday, January 28 meeting showed NES considering whether to renew a consulting contract focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

"Nashville Electric Service is under scrutiny across the nation because they have up to 90,000 now, people still without power five days after an ice storm. And what were they discussing? They were discussing whether or not to renew and extend the contract of an individual...who was consulting for Nashville Electric Service on DEI projects and initiatives," Pappert said.
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Footprints

Why the US was right to leave the WHO

Jeffrey A. Tucker
ZeroHedge
Wed, 28 Jan 2026 11:25 UTC
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The United States has pulled its membership in the World Health Organization (WHO), and many other nations are rethinking their participation. Of course, this could change with some future administration. The institution itself is not going anywhere. This is why it is crucial to understand the case for why the United States needed to pull out and cut all funding.

Get out and stay out.

It's also critically important that other nations join us and leave this organization. To top it all off, the WHO has become a pillar of duplicity even now.

Over the weekend, WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said:
"While WHO recommended the use of masks, physical distancing and vaccines, WHO did not recommend governments to mandate the use of masks or vaccines and never recommended lockdowns."
This claim is easily refuted.

The evidence that WHO backed lockdowns begins on Jan. 29, 2020, when Tedros praised the Chinese Communist Party and Xi Jinping in particular to the skies for its "amazing" response to COVID-19, which included welding people inside their homes and arresting and likely killing people for disobeying the authorities.
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Red Flag

Spanish nationalists rage as socialist Sánchez agrees to mass amnesty for 500,000 illegal immigrants bypassing parliament

Thomas Brooke
REMIX
Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:03 UTC
Migrants Spain
© Albert Llop/NurPhoto/Getty ImageMigrants set up an improvised camp under a city highway after being evicted on December 17, 2025
Vox leader Santiago Abascal accused Sánchez of "hating the Spanish people" and wanting to "replace them".

Spain's struggling socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has agreed with the far left to push through a mass amnesty for around 500,000 illegal immigrants by royal decree, bypassing parliament and avoiding any binding vote in Congress.

The extraordinary regularization, negotiated between Sánchez's Socialist Party (PSOE) and the far-left Podemos, is due to be approved by the Council of Ministers on Tuesday. By using a royal decree, the government can impose the measure directly, despite the fact that an almost identical proposal has been stalled in parliament for more than a year due to a lack of majority support.
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Wall Street

Mamdani pressuring NY Gov Hochul to jack up taxes on rich amid NYC budget woes

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:20 UTC
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© Associated PresNew York Governor Kathy Hochul speaks during a press conference with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026 in New York.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has lots of ideas - virtually all of which require extracting more money from taxpayers, as socialists tend to do.

To accomplish this, he's gonna need some help - and has been leaning on Gov. Kathy Hochul to hike taxes on the state's richest residents and corporations in the hopes of raising billions more to send to the Big Apple to plug mounting budget holes, Bloomberg reports.
Mamdani, the newly-sworn in democratic socialist, is arguing additional money from the state is necessary because the city faces a fiscal "crisis" created by his predecessor Eric Adams and by a push from former Governor Andrew Cuomo to shift costs from the state onto the city. Both Cuomo and Adams ran against Mamdani in last year's mayoral election.

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Attention

Kiev residents advise to use cat litter for toilets


RT
Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:52 UTC
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© Getty Images / Danylo Antoniuk/AnadoluEmergency services conduct repairs of a residential house where pipes have frozen amid heating outages, Kiev, Ukraine, January 21, 2026.
A local official has warned of "dire hygienic conditions" as heating outages froze sewers and left homes without bathroom facilities

Residents of Kiev have been advised to use improvised toilets, including digging feces pits and using cat litter, after heating outages caused sewer systems to freeze across parts of the Ukrainian capital.

Speaking to RBK Ukraine on Wednesday, Maksim Bakhmatov, head of Kiev's northeastern Desnyansky district, urged locals to stay in Kiev and "hold the line no matter what," claiming that "the enemy wants us out."

Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said last week about 5,600 apartment buildings in Kiev - a city of roughly 3 million - were left without heating, warning the capital was nearing a "humanitarian catastrophe" and urging residents to leave.

Comment: Russia has shown tremendous care in its strikes. Right up until the end of 2025, one could still find photos of Ukrainians clubbing in Kiev, as civilian infrastructure was meticulously being spared. Now they've taken the gloves off, fed up with three years of Zelensky's intransigence. Zelensky for his part, wants to keep the population in place as a human shield, roundly criticizing Klitschko for his humane advice for Kievans to leave the city if they are at all able to. What a coward.

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Bizarro Earth

Trump responds to Minneapolis Mayor Frey's latest act of defiance: 'PLAYING WITH FIRE!'

Cooper Williamson
The Blaze
Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:37 UTC
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D)
© Stephen Maturen/Getty ImagesMinneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D)
The Trump administration has received pushback from the leadership of Minnesota

Earlier this week, President Trump sent border czar Tom Homan to speak personally with leaders in Minnesota. In the latest update to those exchanges, President Trump called out a top official at the center of the controversy for refusing to cooperate with the administration.

On Wednesday morning, Trump issued a stern warning to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) after Frey indicated on Tuesday afternoon he was not going to enforce federal immigration law.
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Reporter slams Nashville electric service, Democratic leadership in Nashville power crisis

Kaitlin Housler
The Tennessee Star
Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00 UTC
Linemen Tennessee
© UnknownLinemen work to restore service in Tennessee power outage
Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, criticized the handling of Nashville's recent ice storm, highlighting what he described as systemic mismanagement by city officials and the Nashville Electric Service (NES) board.

More than 108,000 NES customers remained without power Wednesday morning after an ice storm swept through the region over the weekend. The utility company has since faced criticism after multiple union members and contractors reported that NES declined offers of assistance from available linemen to restore service.

Two members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, who spoke anonymously to Fox 17, claimed that NES "declined offers of assistance from multiple union crews, potentially opting for less expensive contractors instead."

In comparison, other Middle Tennessee electric companies have reported far fewer outages. Middle Tennessee Electric, which serves more than 359,000 customers, reported only 284 outages at noon on Wednesday.
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Star of David

Israeli cyber CEO found guilty of statutory rape, assaulted children as young as 4 years old


Jerusalem Post
Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:58 UTC
Itai Levy, CEO of KERNELIOS cyber sex crime children israel
Itai Levy, CEO of KERNELIOS cyber
On several occasions, Levy engaged in different kinds of non-consensual sexual activity with minors, the details of which are laid out in the Prosecutor's Office statement.

Modi'in resident Itai Levy, CEO of KERNELIOS cyber company, was found guilty of committing several sexual offenses against minors aged 4-12, according to a Wednesday statement from the State Prosecutor's Office and KAN News.

Levy confessed and pleaded guilty to four separate counts of statutory rape of a minor under 16 years of age, as well as indecent acts on a minor under 16 years of age, and violation of privacy.

As part of his plea bargain, the Prosecutor's Office requested that the court sentence Levy to ten years of actual prison time, as well as an additional suspended sentence and a NIS 258,000 fine.

Comment: Considering Israeli citizens actually rioted on behalf of IDF soldiers' "right" to rape Palestinian prisoners, this is hardly surprising. What a cesspool of a "country".

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Cell Phone

FBI launches 'Signal-gate' investigation: Patel

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:25 UTC
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"Signal-Gate" continues to erupt out of Minneapolis, as the organizational structure or command-and-control nodes of left-wing activists operating within encrypted messaging apps were infiltrated and exposed on Sunday, revealing that on-the-ground pressure campaigns against federal agents were highly coordinated and, according to some experts, exhibit characteristics of a "low-level insurgency."

"We're investigating. As soon as Higby put that post out, I opened an investigation on it. If that leads to a break in the federal statute or a violation of some law, then we are going to arrest people. They should be worried. If they broke the law, you should be worried," FBI Director Kash Patel told Benny Johnson this afternoon.
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Red Flag

Crumbling infrastructure: Massive sewage spill flowing into Potomac River upstream from Washington

MICHAEL PHILLIS, REBECCA BOONE and GARY FIELDS
Midland Daily News
Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:54 UTC
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A massive pipe that moves millions of gallons of sewage has ruptured and sent wastewater flowing into the Potomac River northwest of Washington, D.C., polluting it ahead of a major winter storm that has repair crews scrambling.

DC Water, which operates the sewer system, is hooking up pumps to divert sewage around the rupture and allow crews to make repairs. It has cautioned people to stay out of the area and to wash their skin if exposed.

The spill was caused by a 72-inch (183-centimeter) diameter sewer pipe that collapsed late Monday, shooting sewage out of the ground and into the river. DC Water spokesperson John Lisle said the utility estimates the overflow at about 40 million gallons (about 150 million liters) each day — enough to fill about 66 Olympic-size swimming pools — but it's not clear exactly how much has spilled into the river since the overflow began.

Signs warn the public to stay away

"Oh, my god, the smell is horrific," said Dean Naujoks, the Potomac Riverkeeper and part of an environmental nonprofit. "It's such high concentrations of sewage that just grabbing a sample is a public health risk."
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