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German energy prices surged on Monday due to insufficient wind generation.In April, Germany unveiled the Easter Package, a plan to expand renewable energies through onshore and offshore wind development in line with the European Union’s REPowerEU Action Plan, a plan to make Europe independent from Russian fossil fuels before 2030. The Easter Package target goal is to transition 80 percent of Germany’s electricity to renewables by 2030. Wind droughts, such as that which plagued Europe in summer and fall of 2021, have been exacerbating the continent’s current energy crisis, already severe because of the disturbance to global energy markets from...

Several weeks ago we offered our first installment of Power Line’s Lexicon of Leftist Terms, and it is time for an update that includes several worthy suggestions from readers. Taking it from the top: Populism: When the wrong person or cause wins a free election, like Brexit or Trump. Racism: Any kind of resistance, conscious or unconscious, to the political program of the left. Democracy: Any institutional design or voting system that enables the left to get what it wants. Updated version: “Our” democracy—the version of “democracy as the left defines it.” “Threat to democracy”: When Republicans win an election....

As Sunday night gave way to Monday morning (“National 7/11 Day”), a string of Los Angeles area 7-Elevens were robbed and two people — one customer and one clerk — were killed. Three others were wounded in the five armed robberies that occurred over the course of the late evening and early morning. “Our hearts are with the victims and their loved ones. We are gathering information on this terrible tragedy and working with local law enforcement,” said 7-Eleven in a statement. “Right now, our focus is on Franchisee, associate and customer safety. With that in mind, we encouraged stores...

Movie on life and career of Elvis Presley

Two men are facing felony charges for their involvement in a church burning. On the morning of Sunday, June 26, 2022 at 10:26 A.M., Trooper D.L. Daniels was called to a reported structure fire at 2136 Irish Mountain Road, in Shady Spring, West Virginia.Once on scene, he was advised by the Beaver Volunteer Fire Department that the structure that was burned down was the Saint Colman Catholic Church. The church had been completely burned to the ground. Upon further investigation, it was discovered the church was burned the night before, but no one reported it to emergency services.

Police are looking for a suspect after a stolen vehicle crashed into a D.C. church early Tuesday morning, officials said. DC Fire and EMS crews said a vehicle struck Urban Outreach ministry in the 5300 block of C Street SE around midnight.Officials said the sole building occupant was evacuated and the driver fled the scene when they arrived. Police are looking for the suspect that was driving the stolen vehicle, crews on scene tell 7News.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday offered Americans who live close to the US border with Mexico to enter his country and purchase gasoline at lower prices than that sold in the United States. “Since the energy crisis started, Mexico has used 72 percent of its crude oil exports to the United States,” Obrador said. “While we’re waiting for prices or gasoline to go down in the United States, we have decided that it was necessary for us to allow Americans who live close to the border… to go and get their gasoline on the...

Just curious, has anyone obtained religious exemption as a DoD contractor working on a military base?

Explanation: It's northern noctilucent cloud season. Composed of small ice crystals forming only during specific conditions in the upper atmosphere, noctilucent clouds may become visible at sunset during late summer when illuminated by sunlight from below. Noctilucent clouds are the highest clouds known and now established to be polar mesospheric clouds observed from the ground. Although observed with NASA's AIM satellite since 2007, much about noctilucent clouds remains unknown and so a topic of active research. The featured image shows expansive and rippled noctilucent clouds wafting over Paris, France. This year, several northern locations are already reporting especially vivid displays...

A Florida man who evaded deputies earlier this year by escaping into a swamp was caught on Saturday after he tried to outrun law enforcement on a riding lawnmower, authorities said. Dusty Mobley, 40, was located around 9:30 a.m. at a home on Pasco Broxson Circle in Holt, the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office said. He was wanted on warrants related to the theft of a $40,000 boat in January. When Mobley spotted the deputies, the sheriff’s office said he switched a John Deere riding lawnmower "into high gear" and tried to flee the scene. Mobley was quickly apprehended after pursuing...

The Omicron BA.5 subvariant has become the dominant coronavirus strain in the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While this variant is fast-spreading, it appears to be less severe than early versions of the virus, and its symptoms are similar to those of other Omicron subvariants, experts say. Symptoms of Omicron infections are typically coldlike, including a sore throat, sneezing, and a runny nose. Symptoms like fever, chills, and cough are still seen sometimes in Omicron cases but not as frequently as in earlier variants of the virus. Like past variants in the Omicron lineage, BA.5...

The God you can’t make upWhen his atheist friends asked W. H. Auden why he jettisoned his atheism for Christianity, he said: “I believe in Jesus because he fulfills none of my dreams.”Let that sink in for a moment.Enter most any church today and you’ll be told the exact opposite. At the very least, the message given is that Christ will remove the hardships you have in life, and in some cases, the line delivered is that Jesus wants you rich and in perfect health from top to bottom.Sounds pretty dreamy to me. After all, didn’t Christ say: “Come to...

Hundreds of people protested Monday against price hikes and corruption in Panama, protests that led the country’s president, Laurentino Cortizo, to announce the reduction or freezing of the price of gasoline and several products of the basic food basket. “I understand the dissatisfaction of the various sectors for the situation we are living caused by the effects of the pandemic and the consequences of the conflict in Ukraine”, said Cortizo in a message to the country. For this reason, the president informed that the price of a gallon (3.78 liters) of fuel will now cost “3.95 (dollars) for private vehicles...

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 7: Simone Biles, Olympic gold medal gymnast and mental health advocate, listens as U.S. President Joe Biden speaks before awarding Presidential Medals of Freedom during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House July 7, 2022 in Washington, DC. President Biden awarded the nation's highest civilian honor to 17 recipients. The award honors individuals who have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public or private endeavors. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Olympic gymnast Simone Biles shared what she was given on a plane...

NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. (WHEC) - Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Tuesday that there is a new COVID-19 public awareness campaign to educate New Yorkers who test positive for COVID-19. She also announced that $10 million was awarded in the first round of the Abortion Provider Support Fund.

In what appears to be yet another sign of the growing disenchantment with Joe Biden due to his poor performance in the White House, the Associated Press did something on Monday that would have been unthinkable a year ago: It compared Biden very unfavorably with Donald Trump.And it wasn't just for the sake of doing so, but it concerned the comparison was over their relationships with the leader of a key U.S. ally: Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.AP pointed out just how terrible Biden's relationship is with AMLO in contrast to the much better relations with Trump who was...

Naomi Wolf: The CCP Has Infiltrated The American Health System, Covid Injections Produced By CCP..... VIDEO AT LINK.................

Starbucks is closing 16 stores in Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC. The closures are due to "challenging incidents" that make stores unsafe for workers and customers, Starbucks says. The stores will close by the end of July. Starbucks is permanently closing 16 locations around the US by the end of July, The Wall Street Journal first reported. "After careful consideration, we are closing some stores in locations that have experienced a high volume of challenging incidents that make it unsafe to continue to operate, to open new locations with safer conditions," a Starbucks spokesperson told Insider. The...

12 July 2022 Den Haag, Netherlands Mind dump , sans edit Netherlands is going Full Dictator. Lawfare is in the works now to allow Mayors to kick Dutch citizens out of their homes to be replaced by alien invaders from the Middle East and Africa, or to force Dutch citizens to allow invaders to stay in their homes. Room and board. ...

The NYPD is hunting a 'serial stabber' who attacked three homeless men sleeping on park benches across the city, leaving one dead, during a seven-day crime spree. The unidentified man's crime-ridden week began on July 5 around 3am on the Hudson River Park walkway in Manhattan's West Village. The attacker, who goes by the name Delly, was seen wearing a sweatshirt from Innocence Project - a nonprofit that helps exonerate the wrongly convicted - when he approached a man, 34, lying on a park bench and 'displayed an unknown sharp object.' He then stabbed the man in the stomach before...