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France to shut off household smart water heaters REMOTELY to avoid blackouts as nuclear reactors remain offline and energy prices spike 28%


Time Turk
Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:50 UTC
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While gov't is looking for solutions to ongoing energy crisis, French people increasingly fear harsh winter ahead
According to the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies, energy prices for households in France have risen 28% in less than a year.

As the crisis and accompanying inflation are hitting the lowest-income households hard, tenants, of social housing face skyrocketing costs, although 35% of them live below the poverty line.

The Ecological Transition Ministry announced an official decree in late September that Enedis, France's largest electricity supplier, would be allowed to remotely shut off water heaters between noon and 2 p.m. local time, with over 4.5 million people to be affected by these restrictions planned for mid-October-mid-April.


Comment: This report is again confirmed by mainstream news outlet, The Connexion, here.

France appears to have a variety of insidious 'green' initiatives at the ready: France to hire 3,000 'green police' to improve investigation of environmental issues, medicine tracking, and bioterrorism


Comment: And France is just the latest country to begin enforcing energy rationing, but it's likely that much worse is to come for Europe.

It's perhaps no surprise that protests in France have already begun: France's energy workers' strike enters third week, shortages at gas stations prompts calls for Macron to negotiate





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Of course they did: Colorado officials 'incorrectly' sent out 30,000 voter registration postcards to noncitizens

Brandon Drey
Daily Wire
Wed, 12 Oct 2022 17:53 UTC
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© Hyoung Chang/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty ImagesDemocratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold
Colorado officials claim they accidentally sent approximately 30,000 postcards last month to noncitizens instructing them how they could register to vote.

First reported by Colorado Public Radio News, Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold's office said department employees had sent the postcards on Sept. 27 after comparing a list of 102,000 names provided by the Electronic Registration Information Center, a nonprofit organization aiming to improve U.S. voter rolls and advocating residents to vote.

"The Department has become aware that approximately 30,000 EBU [Eligible But Unregistered] postcard mailers were incorrectly sent to ineligible Coloradans," a spokesperson for the Colorado Secretary of State's Office told local media. "The office is undertaking an internal review of the incident and will take any corrective action that is warranted."

Griswold insisted noncitizens would not be allowed to register to vote.
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Lefties melting down as John Cleese enters the Culture War

Nick Dixon
The Conservative Rebel
Wed, 12 Oct 2022 17:36 UTC
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John Cleese, elder statesman of comedy and staunch anti-woke campaigner
John Cleese has announced he will be hosting a new show on GB News.

This sentence, perfectly banal in any other era or on any other channel, is now a statement of such vast controversy that it was trending on Twitter for an entire day.

As we are becoming used to with good old GB, the pre-frontally challenged mob immediately descended to explain to us that John Cleese was now 'far right', his Silly Walk now a sinister goose-step.

Ubiquitous Twitter leftie and park serenader Femi expressed his disappointment that Cleese was now literally Hitler.

Comment: More information on Mr. Cleese's new venture from Rebel News:
Legendary actor and comedian, John Cleese has defended his new show against cancel culture, saying that "wokes" won't like it because they are "authoritarians."

Following his appearance on the BBC's 'Today' show, Cleese said on Twitter that his show, which is to be aired on GB News, would 'never get on the BBC.'

The show, which is currently unnamed and is set to tackle the culture war, has already received a lot of flack for Cleese's apparent opposition to wokeness. Cleese told the BBC that the show would be canceled within the first "five minutes" if it was on the public broadcasting network.

"I'm sorry, can we just stop to appreciate that [John Cleese] went on the BBC today to talk about how he would be cancelled if he went on the BBC and there is no irony?" wrote a commenter on Twitter, to which Cleese responded.

"It would depend on the subject, wouldn't it," Cleese replied. "The show I have in mind for GB News would NEVER get on to the BBC. Are you able to understand that? I think...probably not."

"It's content," added the veteran comedian when another commenter asked if he thought he'd be welcome back on the BBC after his show goes live. "There's a massive [amount] of important information that gets censored, both in TV and in the press. In my new show, I'll be talking about a lot of it. You should be prepared to be shocked."


When other users condemned Cleese for teaming up with GB News, Cleese wrote: "I thought 'guilt by association' went out with communism."


"You're a bit like Mary Whitehouse, trying to get Life of Brian canceled before they'd even seen the script," he added.

Later, the comedian responded to someone who told him that he was willing to keep an open mind about the show.

"I appreciate your open mindedness, Harry," wrote Cleese. "But beware the 'wokes'. They won't like it! Like all people who believe [they] are purer than they actually are, they are authoritarians. Which is why all the best comedians make fun of them."

The show, which also involves the work of comedian Andrew Doyle, will go live on GB News in 2023.
But will Britbox carry it for the rest of us??

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More money for big-pharma - America quietly prepares for nuclear war

Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics
Wed, 12 Oct 2022 17:32 UTC
Nuclear Blast
© Waterford Whispers
I mentioned in a prior post that the US was purchasing anti-radiation medication. The media is urging the public not to fear as this is simply a precaution. Yet, the US would not have shelled out $290 million on a drug if the intelligence agencies did not fear the potential of a nuclear attack.

The US Department of Health and Human Services downplayed the severity and said that this is part of its "long-standing, ongoing efforts by the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response to better prepare the U.S. for the potential health impacts of a wide range of threats to national security." Of course, Joe Biden fanned the flames of panic by stating there was a risk for a "nuclear Armageddon" not seen in 60 years. "We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis," Biden said. Obviously, no nuclear weapons were used then, and America is the only nation to have used one during war. However, the US is certainly taking the threat of nuclear war with Russia seriously.

The government is purchasing a drug called Nplate that was approved by the FDA in 2021 to treat radiation syndrome. "Nplate is indicated to increase survival in adults and in pediatric patients (including term neonates) acutely exposed to myelosuppressive doses of radiation," the company notes. Although not a worthy source, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS) occurs in four stages.
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Pound falls sharply against dollar as BoE announces end of emergency intervention, concerns it will impact global economy

Larry Elliott
The Guardian
Tue, 11 Oct 2022 20:13 UTC
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© Maja Smiejkowska/ReutersSterling falls more than a cent to below $1.10 after Andrew Bailey tells pension firms they have 'got to get this done'
The pound has fallen sharply against the dollar after Andrew Bailey warned the Bank of England would not extend its emergency intervention in financial markets beyond this week, after the turmoil sparked by the government's mini-budget.


Comment: If the mini-budget were solely to blame, why is Credit Suisse, and Deutsche Bank, alleged to be on the verge of collapse? Why is the US warning of a recession there and 'market chaos'? Why is China selling off record amounts of US Treasuries?


Sterling skidded by more than a cent against the dollar to below $1.10 after the Bank's governor insisted the £65bn scheme to purchase UK government bonds would not be continued beyond the deadline on Friday.

Pensions industry leaders and one of the Bank's former deputy governors had earlier called for an extension to mop up the ongoing bond market fallout triggered by Kwasi Kwarteng's ill-received mini-budget last month.

The central bank had started the day by saying it would revamp the scheme's bond-buying firepower - within the existing timeframe - for a second time in as many days, warning there were still "material risks" in government debt markets affecting UK pension funds.
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France's energy workers' strike enters third week, shortages at gas stations prompts calls for Macron to negotiate

Hamin Mikhail
Top War
Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:44 UTC
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© REUTERS/Gonzalo FuentesCars queue to fill their fuel tanks at a Total petrol station in Paris, France, October 8, 2022.
Gasoline shortages were catastrophic at gas stations across France last Monday as workers on strike at energy giant Total Energies enter their third week. At the same time, the government, realizing the seriousness of the situation, is trying in every possible way to achieve negotiations.

According to official estimates, about 30 percent of filling stations were either empty of all, or at least some, fuels, leading to long lines of desperate motorists.

There were hopes that the wage strike at Total Energies, one of the world's largest energy multinationals, would end quickly after management agreed on Sunday to continue wage negotiations in exchange for workers reopening.

Comment: Footage allegedly showing some of the scuffles at petrol station queues:


Note that it was only back in March that the government managed to avert a burgeoning protest by farmers and fisherman over the rising cost of fuel. Perhaps part of their concern about those protests may have been that it was fuel tax hikes that sparked the scandalous, nationwide Yellow Vest protests that, whilst they were losing steam by the end of their second year, they were only really stopped because the of Covid hysteria and government enforced lockdowns.

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Pfizer admits it had no idea if mRNA vaccine would prevent transmission before releasing it

Ian Miller
OutKick
Wed, 12 Oct 2022 01:11 UTC
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In a stunning turn of events, one of Pfizer's top executives admitted Monday that the Pharma giant had no idea if the mRNA vaccine that Pfizer developed would prevent transmission of the coronavirus.

According to The Blaze, the company's president of international development markets, Janine Small, testified before the COVID committee of the European Parliament in place of CEO Albert Bourla.

There was no word if Bourla missed the event after testing positive for COVID yet again, despite his previous claims that his company's vaccine was 100% effective.

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The last of the Covidians

David Marcus
Spectator
Fri, 07 Oct 2022 22:45 UTC
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© Spencer Platt/Getty Images
How should we treat those who refuse to acknowledge the pandemic is over?

They walk among us. The last of the Covidians. We see them every day, masked while walking their dog in the park, or alone in their car. We have that friend or loved one who badgers us about vaccines and boosters like a mid-level PR executive at Pfizer.

There is also the social media warrior who will never admit they got anything wrong about lockdowns, that even with our economy and education system in shambles, we should be grateful.

Comment: There is a (not-so) rare breed of human that actually enjoyed the confining restrictions of lockdowns and masking and is very reluctant to let it go. The fact that they mark themselves by continuing to wear masks is actually a good thing - the rest of us know who to avoid.

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A rogues' gallery of diversity consultants

Chadwick Moore
Spectator
Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:00 UTC
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Chadwick Moore on the cover of his new book.
They're here to help!

Last Thursday, the Biden administration launched what its calling a Chief Diversity Officers Executive Council to help implement strategy for diversity, equity, and inclusion training across the federal government. While researching my book, So You've Been Sent to Diversity Training: Smiling Through the DEI Apocalypse, I was plagued by the question: what kind of person aspires to become a diversity czar?

Unfortunately, no czars would speak to me, perhaps suspecting I may not have their best interests in mind. Instead, I talked to workers from across the economy about their experiences with DEI training on the job. From our conversations, I drew up a taxonomy of the DEI consultant. If, like most Americans, you've been forced in the workplace to sit through a tedious haranguing on race and gender, it likely came from one of four types of detestable reject, now sitting on an Executive Council at the White House: the Masochists, the Parasites, the Saviors and the Born Losers.

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Hundreds of Muslim protesters shut down Michigan School Board meeting over sexually explicit LGBTQ books

Cassandra Fairbanks
Timcast
Tue, 11 Oct 2022 00:01 UTC
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Hundreds of protesters against sexually explicit LGBTQ books being provided to children shut down a Michigan school board meeting on Monday.

The majority of those who attended Monday's Dearborn Public Schools board meeting and took a stand against the books were Muslim. There were also a handful of counter-protesters present to defend the books, including members of the American Federation of Teachers union.


Comment: When the fundamental values of two minority groups come to a head within a wokespace, who wins?

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