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California electric companies propose higher earners pay greater fees than lower earners under new state law

Ben Zeisloft
The Daily Wire
Mon, 17 Apr 2023 00:00 UTC
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© agri-pulseCalifornia power lines
Three electric utility companies in California proposed a fixed-rate billing plan under which high-income households would pay more than low-income households.

California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill last summer requiring energy utilities to impose a "rate component" in their power bills to collect revenues to fund the state's energy infrastructure. According to the Los Angeles Times, the law requires "a fixed monthly charge based on household income." Pacific Gas and Electric, Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas and Electric recently introduced a proposal intended to reduce fees for most households by imposing higher costs on wealthier families, a plan which the California Public Utilities Commission must approve by the middle of next year.

SDG&E CEO Caroline Winn said in a statement:
"We have listened to and heard from our customers that fundamental change is needed to provide bill relief. When we were putting together the reform proposal, front and center in our mind were customers who live paycheck to paycheck, who struggle to pay for essentials such as energy, housing and food."
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Elon Musk's Twitter lifts ban on 'misgendering' and 'deadnaming' trans people

Nicole Silverio
Daily Caller
Tue, 18 Apr 2023 19:06 UTC
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Twitter altered its "hateful conduct policy" Tuesday to lift its ban on "misgendering" and "deadnaming" transgender people.

The previous policy, enacted in 2018, specifically prohibited users from "targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals," which included using the wrong pronoun or a person's previous name. As of April 2023, the sentence regarding transgender individuals has been removed from the "Slurs and Tropes" category.

The previous statement from February read, "We prohibit targeting others with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category. This includes targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals."

The updated version has the same description without any mention of "misgendering" or "deadnaming" individuals identifying as transgender.
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As Walmart shuts down four stores in crime-ridden Dem-led Chicago, DailyMail.com lists all the big box shops - from Macy's to Target - which have closed due to millions in losses from rampant theft

Kamal Sultan
Daily Mail
Wed, 19 Apr 2023 18:22 UTC
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Major retailers in the US have been forced to shut down stores due to millions of dollars in losses as rampant theft plagues big box stores across the country
Major retailers in the US have been forced to shut down stores due to millions of dollars in losses as rampant theft plagues big box stores across the country.

This week, Walmart announced it will shut down four of its stores in Chicago just weeks after America's biggest employer shuttered its only stores in Portland.

It comes as shoplifting reaches alarming levels and other large retailers, including Target, Macy's and Best Buy, are now making good on threats to shutter outlets if petty crime was not lowered.

In 2021 retailers lost a combined $94.5billion to shrink, a term used to describe theft and other types of inventory loss. And organized retail crime incidents soared by 26.5 per cent in the same year, according to the 2022 National Retail Security Survey.

Along with brazen daylight thefts, self-checkouts have also made it easier for people to walk out without paying for items.

Progressive district attorneys in cities like Chicago, New York, Portland and California have also been blamed for effectively legalizing shoplifing with either not prosecuting thefts under $950, or letting criminals off with a slap on the wrist.

Here DailyMail.com lists all the big box stores which have been forced to close their doors after being savaged by rising theft.
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UK hounded by worst inflation in Western Europe


RT
Wed, 19 Apr 2023 18:13 UTC
UK grocery story
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Inflation in the UK came in at over 10% year-on-year in March, the highest rate among countries in Western Europe, official data showed on Wednesday.

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the consumer price index (CPI) in the UK fell by less than expected to 10.1% in March, whereas economists had predicted a drop to 9.8%. The February reading stood at 10.4% year-on-year.

"The largest upward contributions to the annual CPIH inflation rate in March 2023 came from housing and household services (principally from electricity, gas and other fuels), and food and non-alcoholic beverages," the ONS said.

Food prices rose at their fastest rate in 45 years, with the sharpest increases in March reported in goods such as olive oil (up 49%) and milk (up 38%).
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Fox News host previously barred from reporting on Dominion suit says he will cover trial 'fair and down the middle' UPDATE: Fox News settles defamation suit

Lauren Sforza
Fox News
Sun, 16 Apr 2023 15:00 UTC
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Fox's Howard Kurtz said on his "Media Buzz" show on Sunday that he will cover the lawsuit Dominion Voting Systems filed against Fox "fair and down the middle," after previously saying he could not cover it.

"The trial on the high profile Dominion voting systems lawsuit against Fox begins tomorrow in Delaware and let's face it, much of the mainstream media is rather openly rooting for Fox to lose," Kurtz said.

"I can assure you that I will provide fair and down the middle coverage of this $1.6 billion suit about coverage of false election fraud claims in 2020, despite the fact that I work here and with that, it's been a very rough week for Fox," he said.

Comment: UPDATE: From the New York Times:
Fox News reached a last-minute settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, which accused Fox News of pushing conspiracies that harmed the company.

The settlement averts what would have been a landmark trial.

The judge in the Fox News defamation case said on Tuesday that the case was resolved, abruptly ending a long-running dispute over misinformation in the 2020 election just as a highly anticipated trial was about to begin.

It was a last-minute end to a case that began two years ago and after the disclosure of hundreds of thousands of pages of documents that peeled back the curtain on a media company that has long resisted outside scrutiny. The settlement included a $787.5 million payment from Fox, according to Justin Nelson, a lawyer for Dominion.


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Southwest Airlines flights grounded nationwide due to 'computer issue'

Mike Pearl
Mashable
Tue, 18 Apr 2023 23:05 UTC
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© Michael Ciaglo / Getty ImagesDelayed passengers from another Southwest glitch a few months ago.
Southwest Airlines departures all over the country were briefly halted on Tuesday due to a computer issue, causing significant disruptions at airports.

At a little after 11 a.m. ET, 36 percent of Southwest's flights were paused, according to Leslie Josephs of CNBC. The pause ended not long after it was announced, but flight delays continued.

As of this writing, many Southwest flights were still not departing on time. Jennie Runevitch, a reporter for the local NBC affiliate in Indianapolis, noted that the departure board at her local airport showed that "most" Southwest flights were delayed by roughly an hour. The board in her photo, it should be noted, also showed some Southwest flights departing on time.

Comment: And it's not just Southwest airlines, nor just US airlines, that seem to be having an increasing number of 'glitches' causing flights to be grounded:

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1 dead after NYC parking garage collapses, neighboring buildings ordered to evacuate

Paul Farrell
Daily Mail
Tue, 18 Apr 2023 21:34 UTC
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This picture shows that one section of the collapsed floor was completely undamaged
At least one dead and four injured in NYC parking garage collapses as officials warn death and injury toll may 'change rapidly' and order

At least one person has been killed and four others injured after a parking garage collapsed leaving cars piled up in New York City on Tuesday afternoon.

The incident occurred at Enterprise Ann Parking at 57 Ann Street between Nassau Street and William Street in lower Manhattan at 4:15pm resulting in a huge emergency response.

A woman was heard screaming 'get out!' and images showed the top floor caved in with vehicles falling through crumbled concrete.

People were also trapped in the elevator shaft which caved in. City officials said that as a result the floors 'pancaked' on top of each other.

Comment: One gets the impression that NYC is falling apart - reported March 1st: Chinatown apartment building evacuated after bulging façade found

Meanwhile: New York to spend $275M on hotel rooms to house 5,000+ migrants

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Here's what a Philadelphia children's hospital quietly scrubbed from its website amid public backlash against gender transitions

Megan Brock and Laurel Duggan
The Daily Caller
Tue, 18 Apr 2023 21:28 UTC
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© CHOPThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), which operates a gender clinic, removed numerous videos and posts discussing childhood gender transitions, including irreversible surgeries, from its website amid public backlash, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

The CHOP Gender and Sexuality Development Program came under scrutiny in September 2022 after some of its training videos on childhood gender transitions were circulated online, and the clinic said it was tightening its security that October due to threats. Resources including videos in which clinic staff promoted cross-sex medical interventions for minors and advised school workers to keep children's gender identity secret from their families have since disappeared from CHOP's website; these pages are saved in online archives, but their links either redirect to error pages or go to pages that have been heavily altered with certain links removed.

Comment: What will it look like when the pendulum of gender identity swings back to the traditional societal norm of two? Will those who have been brainwashed be rightfully viewed as mentally ill and get the help they need, or will the ill will engendered by truly fanatical trans-activists and their enablers become a violent backlash?

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Trump vows to crack down on Soros-funded DAs if elected president in 2024

Hannah Nightingale
The Post Millennial
Fri, 14 Apr 2023 00:00 UTC
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© UnknownFormer US President Donald Trump • Billionaire philanthropist George Soros
In a campaign video published on Thursday, former President Donald Trump vowed to crack down on Soros-funded district attorneys that have taken office across the country if re-elected.
"There is no more dire threat to the American way of life than the corruption and weaponization of our justice system. And it's happening all around us. If we cannot restore the fair and impartial rule of law, we will not be a free country.

"As president, it will be my personal mission to restore the scales of justice in America. We want fairness and equality under the law. And to that end, I will appoint US attorneys who will be the polar opposite of the Soros district attorneys and others that are being appointed throughout the United States. Very unfair to our population, very unfair to our country.
Trump stated:
"These 100 attorneys would be the most ferocious legal warriors against crime and communist corruption that this country has ever seen. As we completely overhaul the Federal Department of Justice and FBi, we will also launch sweeping civil rights investigations into Marxist local district attorneys. And that's what we have, they're Marxist in many cases. By refusing to charge countless crimes, the Soros prosecutors appear to be engaging in selective enforcement based on illegal radical discrimination."
In cities across the nation, Trump said that the district attorney's offices should face "federal subpoenas of their staff, their emails, and their records to determine whether they have blatantly violated federal civil rights law."

Comment: See also:

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warns 'digital cash' is 'ultimate mechanism' for 'control'

Frank Bergman
Slay News
Sun, 16 Apr 2023 12:20 UTC
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© UnknownRobert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has issued a warning to the public that the global push for "digital cash" is being driven by an agenda to usher in an "ultimate mechanism" for "social surveillance and control."

Kennedy, a candidate for the Democratic Party's 2024 nomination, is speaking out against central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). His comments come in direct contrast to top Democrats, including President Joe Biden, who are aggressively advancing plans to replace physical cash with a "digital dollar."

The nephew of former President John F. Kennedy made it clear that he's pro-digital and financial freedom by opposing CBDCs, calling out de-banking, and blasting Digital IDs.
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