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Electric bikes have a small problem: they keep bursting into flames


Futurism
Tue, 01 Nov 2022 10:28 UTC
electric bike fire
Electric bicycles are meant to be a boon for green transit — but their occasionally volatile batteries are causing issues both in terms of actual safety and the realm of public perception.

As NPR notes in a gutting new story about the risk of e-bike battery fires, the Fire Department of New York has investigated 174 battery fires so far in 2022, which is going on double from 2021, and quadruple from 2020.

The primary factor in these fires is the e-bikes' lithium ion batteries, combined with the fallibility of charging equipment. While the chargers are supposed to turn off once fully charged, sometimes they don't, sometimes resulting in disaster.

The batteries have also been known to leak electrolytes from the battery's core, which can sets off a dangerous chain reaction resulting in a blaze.

Comment: The same issue has been found in electric vehicles, particularly those that have suffered flood damage: Electric vehicles are exploding in Florida because Hurricane Ian's water damage has caused batteries to corrode

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Stock Up

China discovers large offshore natural gas deposits

Christopher Lenton
Natural Gas Intel
Thu, 27 Oct 2022 12:00 UTC
china natural gas
China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) has made a large offshore natural gas discovery in the South China Sea as it continues to work toward adding oil and gas reserves.

Proven gas in-place of the Baodao 21-1 field has "successfully passed the Chinese governmental review and filing," the firm said. CNOOC says the field holds 50 billion cubic meters of natural gas.

The find is considered the biggest discovery in more than half a century in the Songnan-Baodao Sag area of the Qiongdongnan basin, in the western South China Sea. The discovery well Baodao 21-1-1 was completed at a depth of 5,188 meters, encountering 113 meters of pay zone. The well is set to produce 587,000 cubic meters/day.
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Pirates

Finnish gangs smuggling western weapons from Ukraine to Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, reports Finland's largest media outlet Yle


News Front
Mon, 31 Oct 2022 17:25 UTC
finland weapons ukraine
One of Finland's largest media outlets, Yle, ran a story on the flow of smuggled weapons from Ukraine. It is about assault rifles, pistols, ammunition and even drones
The weapons supplied to Ukraine were also found in Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands, the publication said, quoting Crime Police Commissioner Krister Ahlgren.

Weapons supplied to Ukraine by Western countries, through various routes, reach Finland.
"We have a lot of intelligence that criminal organisations are very interested in supplying weapons to Ukraine," says the commissioner. There are already routes to deliver weapons to Europe.

Comment: The law of unintended (and intended) consequences: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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On second thought, just throw plastic away

John Tierney
City Journal
Sun, 30 Oct 2022 00:00 UTC
Plastic piles
© Jason South/The Age/Getty ImagesPlastic waste
Even Greenpeace has finally acknowledged the truth: recycling plastic makes no sense.

This has been obvious for decades to anyone who crunched the numbers, but the fantasy of recycling plastic proved irresistible to generations of environmentalists and politicians. They preached it to children, mandated it for adults, and bludgeoned municipalities and virtue-signaling corporations into wasting vast sums — probably hundreds of billions of dollars worldwide — on an enterprise that has been harmful to the environment as well as to humanity.

Now Greenpeace has seen the light, or at least a glimmer of rationality. The group has issued a report accompanied by a press release headlined:
"Plastic Recycling Is A Dead-End Street — Year After Year, Plastic Recycling Declines Even as Plastic Waste Increases."
The group's overall policy remains delusional — the report proposes a far more harmful alternative to recycling — but it's nonetheless encouraging to see environmentalists put aside their obsessions long enough to contemplate reality.
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Snakes in Suits

Meet the new boss...Same as the old boss

Scott Ritter
Scott Ritter Extra
Sun, 30 Oct 2022 00:00 UTC
Four words, typed out by the new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, at 11:49 PM on October 27, sent Twitter and the rest of the world into a frenzy. After much speculation about whether the enigmatic CEO of Tesla and SpaceX would follow through on his pledge to buy Twitter for $44 billion, Musk pulled the trigger.

Musk, earlier in the day, at 9:08 AM, in a message to advertisers wrote:
"The reason I acquired Twitter is because it is important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence.

"That said, Twitter obviously cannot become a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences! In addition to adhering to the laws of the land, our platform must be warm and welcoming to all..."
There is no more critical issue in these days than that of war and peace. In this regard, the ongoing conflict in Ukraine stands out as representing the greatest threat to international peace and security, including the potential for nuclear conflict.
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Dem blows whistle on widespread Orlando area ballot-harvesting operation in Black communities

Patty McMurray
100PercentFedUP.com
Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:00 UTC
Cath and Gregg
© UnknownGregg Phillips • Catherine Englebrecht
For many Americans, the Dinesh D'Souza 2000 Mules movie, based on investigative work by True the Vote founder Catherine Englebrecht and Gregg Phillips, tracked thousands of ballot mules across several key swing states in 2020 using geofencing tracing data was an eye-opener.

Without naming names, over the fear of being sued, Gregg Phillips has repeatedly stated that the stash houses they've identified that were used by ballot harvesters to make their mule operations possible were ALL funded by left-leaning NGOs (non-governmental organizations).

During their testimony in front of the AZ Senate on June 2, Engelbrecht and Phillips released a bombshell video featuring investigator Gregg Phillips and a whistleblower in Yuma, Co., Arizona, who revealed how the elections were stolen in her community.

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Lockdown proponents won't get away with pretending they were sceptics from the start

Michael P. Senger
The Daily Sceptic
Sat, 29 Oct 2022 11:14 UTC
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© Unknown
More than two years since the lockdowns of 2020, the political mainstream, particularly on the Left, is just beginning to realise that the response to Covid was an unprecedented catastrophe.

But that realisation hasn't taken the form of a mea culpa. Far from it. On the contrary, in order to see that reality is starting to dawn on the mainstream Left, one must read between the lines of how their narrative on the response to Covid has evolved over the past two years.

The narrative now goes something like this:
Lockdowns never really happened, because governments never actually locked people in their homes; but if there were lockdowns, then they saved millions of lives and would have saved even more if only they'd been stricter; but if there was any collateral damage, then that damage was an inevitable consequence of the fear from the virus independent of the lockdowns; and even when things were shut down, the rules weren't very strict; but even when the rules were strict, we didn't really support them.
Put simply, the prevailing narrative of the mainstream Left is that any upside from the response to Covid is attributable to the state-ordered closures and mandates that they supported, while any downside was an inevitable consequence of the virus independent of any state-ordered closures and mandates which never happened and which anyway they never supported. Got it? Good.
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Ambulance

Hochul administration slapped with lawsuit for secretly cutting access to life-saving medical care for 1.2M NY workers, retirees

Carl Campanile
New York Post
Sun, 30 Oct 2022 18:58 UTC
Kathy Hochul
Gov. Kathy Hochul's administration is being sued for allegedly cutting access to specialty doctors for government workers and retirees covered by the Empire Health Plan.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul's administration is being accused in a lawsuit of secretly slashing access to specialty doctors — and potentially life-saving medical treatment — for 1.2 million government workers and retirees, The Post has learned.

The explosive claims, laid out in a suit filed in Albany Supreme Court, accuse Hochul officials of illegally ignoring state law when making changes to the Empire Health Plan, which serves state and local government employees.

The suit says Acting Commissioner Rebecca Corso and the state Department of Civil Service, who oversee the health insurance program, have dramatically slashed the reimbursement rates that "out of network" doctors can receive for providing services to plan members.
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Poll finds most Americans think the country is 'out of control'


RT
Mon, 31 Oct 2022 18:05 UTC
US voting machines
© Clay Jackson/AP
A survey finds that 73% of respondents believe things are "going badly" for the country

Almost eight out of ten Americans believe the government is not in control as the country heads into next month's midterm elections, according to a poll released on Sunday.

The CBS News-YouGov survey found that 79% of respondents see the current state of affairs as "out of control," while 21% disagree. Meanwhile, 73% of likely voters see things as going either "somewhat" or "very" badly in America, with only 26% expressing optimism.

A majority of 56% of Americans disapprove of the job Joe Biden is doing as US president, while 44% have a positive view of his performance.

Comment: Looks to be a Democrat bloodbath on the way. Unfortunately, the color of the 'wave' is all that is likely to change.

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Arrow Up

The UK's transition from Tweedledee to Tweedledum

MK Bhadrakumar
The Cradle
Mon, 31 Oct 2022 17:22 UTC
Don't expect Britain's first Asian prime minister to radically reverse the UK's direction, as he is an pillar of the establishment.
Rishi Sunik
© The Cradle
Rishi Sunak's inauguration as Britain's prime minister turned out to be a cathartic experience for Indian elites, spontaneous in its emotional release and spiritual cleansing. But Indians often tend to go overboard when it comes to the diaspora in the West.

Prime minister Narendra Modi went as far as to describe Sunak as a bridge between India and the UK. Such lofty thoughts will inevitable lead to exaggerated notions. Although a Hindu, Sunak will remain a Briton who reads Bhagavad Gita, and a British politician who will only make his decisions on behalf of the British establishment.

From an Indian perspective, a cautious attitude and a pragmatic approach is called for, as identity and ideology have become the primary drivers of British politics, and contradictions are bound to arise on that score.
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