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  • Sanctions War: French and German Electricity Prices Up by 1,000 Per Cent over 2021

    08/27/2022 7:02:37 AM PDT · by rktman · 34 replies
    breitbart.com ^ | 8/27/2022 | Kurt Zindulka
    The economic powerhouses of the European Union, France and Germany, both set records on Friday for electricity prices, as the West’s sanctions war with Russia continues to bite. This time last year the cost of electricity per megawatt-hour (MWh) in both France and Germany sat at around 85 euros. On Friday, both countries set record highs, with the cost climbing by at least 1,000 per cent from last year to €850 in Germany and over €1,000 in France, Le Monde reports. While the price of energy has been rising since the end of the lockdown measures across the world last...
  • Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself: The Downfall of Ordinary Germans in 1945 When utopias fail.

    08/27/2022 6:53:14 AM PDT · by rktman · 64 replies
    frontpagemag.com ^ | 8/26/2022 | Danusha V. Goska
    Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself is one of the best books about Nazi Germany I've read. The author is 55-year-old Nuremberg native Florian Huber, who wrote his PhD on British policy regarding the postwar occupation of Germany. The book was first published in Germany in 2015. It became a bestseller. Penguin published an English translation in 2019. Huber's writing is as crisp and gripping as prize-winning fiction. His style is a bit like Hemingway's. The main text of the book is 267 pages, followed by 20 pages of notes. Promise Me is a quick read that covers an astounding amount...
  • F-111 Aardvark: The Air Force’s Failure Or Warrior In The Sky?

    08/27/2022 6:52:19 AM PDT · by whyilovetexas111 · 40 replies
    19FortyFive ^ | 8/27/2022 | Christian Orr
    Pity the poor F-111, the veritable “redheaded stepchild” of the Western jet fighter-bomber world. “What’s in a name?” quoth young Ms. Capulet to young Mr. Montague in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, but in the case of this warplane, the choice of name seemed to create some bad juju from the get-go. Instead of a regal bird-of-prey moniker like “Eagle” or “Fighting Falcon,” the warbird was instead officially dubbed “Aardvark,” after one of the more ungainly-looking mammals out there; accordingly, the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) nicknamed her “The Pig,” which shouldn’t automatically be viewed as an insult (“Pride-Integrity-Guts,” to quote...
  • Attack On Europe: Documenting Russian Equipment Losses During The 2022 Russian Invasion Of Ukraine

    08/27/2022 6:52:08 AM PDT · by SpeedyInTexas · 52 replies
    ORYX ^ | Since February 24, 2022 and daily | ORYX
    This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the...
  • Joe Biden: 'Republicans Are Full of Anger, Violence and Hate'

    08/27/2022 6:39:30 AM PDT · by rktman · 138 replies
    townhall.com ^ | 8/26/2022 1745 hrs edt | Rebecca Downs
    President Joe Biden had some choice of words for his opposing party members during his first political rally speech as the November midterm elections round the corner. While making his rounds in Maryland on Thursday night, Biden portrayed MAGA Republicans as a “threat to democracy,” criticizing former president Trump for creating a movement that so many support. “The MAGA Republicans don’t just threaten our personal rights and economic security… They're a threat to our very democracy. They refuse to accept the will of the people,” Biden boldly claimed, adding “Trump and the extreme MAGA Republicans have made their choice —...
  • Weekly Garden Thread - August 27-Sept. 2, 2022 [Fermenting & Brewing at Home Edition]

    08/27/2022 6:29:31 AM PDT · by Diana in Wisconsin · 111 replies
    August 27, 2022 | Diana in WI/Greeneyes in Memoriam
    The Weekly Gardening Thread is a weekly gathering of folks that love soil, seeds and plants of all kinds. From complete newbies that are looking to start that first potted plant, to gardeners with some acreage, to Master Gardener level and beyond, we would love to hear from you. If you have specific question about a plant/problem you are having, please remember to state the Growing Zone where you are located. This thread is a non-political respite. No matter what, you won’t be flamed, and the only dumb question is the one that isn’t asked. It is impossible to hijack...
  • 30 Countries Face Economic Annihilation as their Currencies are on the Brink of Collapse

    08/27/2022 6:22:55 AM PDT · by PK1991 · 22 replies
    Youtube ^ | August 26, 2022 | Steve Van Metre
    Emerging markets are burning through stockpiles of U.S. dollars and other foreign currency at the fastest rate since 2008, raising the risk of a wave of defaults across the world’s most fragile economies. Emerging and developing nations’ foreign reserves have shrunk by $379 billion this year through June, according to data from the International Monetary Fund. Excluding the effects of exchange-rate fluctuations and the large foreign-exchange holdings of China and Gulf oil exporters, emerging markets are seeing the biggest drawdowns since 2008 according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.
  • Massachusetts, Washington State Adopt California’s 2035 Ban on Gas Powered Vehicles

    08/27/2022 6:17:52 AM PDT · by artichokegrower · 89 replies
    California Globe ^ | August 27, 2022 | Evan Symon
    Both Massachusetts and Washington state leaders announced on Friday that they would be adopting California’s new ban on the sale of gas powered vehicles by 2035, beginning a shift that may encompass more states in the coming months.
  • Judge Nixes Vaccine Mandate For DC Government Employees

    08/27/2022 5:56:59 AM PDT · by rktman · 17 replies
    dailycaller.com ^ | 8/26/2022 1341 hrs edt | TREVOR SCHAKOHL
    A D.C. Superior Court judge Thursday struck down D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s order that all District employees be vaccinated for COVID-19. Bowser instituted the mandate last August requiring vaccination or weekly COVID-19 testing for D.C. government workers in offices reporting directly to her, and proof of vaccination was later required by Feb. 15, 2022, according to Judge Maurice Ross’ decision. Ross found Bowser was not authorized to unilaterally require vaccination and ordered that all Fraternal Order of Police members be fully reimbursed for pay and benefits lost as a result. “Had the Mayor just engaged the Union in good faith...
  • Telegram Ukrainian Channel - Inside Look

    08/27/2022 5:56:53 AM PDT · by Cathi · 22 replies
    legitimate @legitimniy ^ | August, 2022 | legitimate
    legitimate #Rumors #Layout Our source reports that the West is not interested in transferring new types of weapons to Ukraine. Only Soviet samples will continue to be transferred to Ukraine, which will be bought from other countries from warehouses. The source explained that HIMARS were sent to Ukraine for only one reason, for pinpoint strikes and PR, to pump this installation up in the media and force NATO countries and other countries to buy them in bulk. The Americans were inspired by the PR strategy of the Bayraktars, who made a great hype at the beginning of the Ukrainian crisis,...
  • A society that cannot distinguish Hummus from Hamas

    08/27/2022 5:45:54 AM PDT · by Roman_War_Criminal · 5 replies
    Israel National News ^ | 8/24/22 | Giulio Meotti
    Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has built his political brand on a caricature of “sensibility”. The Wall Street Journal called him the "Trump woke", the Economist crowned him a champion of freedom and the Guardian discusses whether Canada is not the "politically correct paradise". "Maternal love will change the future of humanity," a woman told Trudeau at a rally. "We like to say 'peoplekind', not 'mankind', because it is more inclusive", Trudeau beat her, unable to give a definition of "woman”. Trudeau is the most "sensitive" man in the world. He was photographed between "ahlan wa sahlan" (welcome in Arabic)...
  • Texas realtor Esmeralda Upton spews anti-Indian vitriol: ‘Curry-assed bitches’

    08/27/2022 5:23:33 AM PDT · by vespa300 · 127 replies
    A Texas realtor has been charged with making terroristic threats after she was caught on camera hitting four Indian women while calling them “f—ing curry-assed bitches.” Esmeralda Upton, 58, was arrested Thursday in Plano for the prolonged, hate-filled attack caught in a video that starts with her yelling at the women to “go back to f—ing India!”
  • Constitutionally Protected Struggle Sessions?

    08/27/2022 5:23:32 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 11 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 27 Aug, 2022 | Thaddeus G. McCotter
    Let us hope Governor Ron DeSantis and Florida’s legislature continue to expand laws to protect their citizens from compulsory woke indoctrination. In a recent ruling, The Hon. Mark Walker, chief U.S. district judge for the northern district of Florida, Tallahassee division, granted an injunction against the state of Florida’s “Stop WOKE Act,” which endeavors to protect employees from left-wing critical race theory (CRT) indoctrination intrinsic to the “diversity, inclusion, and equity” (a.k.a., DIE—acronym is based on the chronological order in which the Left created these concepts) training sessions mandated by employers and (usually conducted by) their DIE consultants. The decision...
  • Fauci owes Americans answers about COVID-19 origin, and House GOP is determined to get them

    08/27/2022 5:17:30 AM PDT · by whyilovetexas111 · 39 replies
    Fox News ^ | 8/26/2022 | James Comer
    This week Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and President Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor, announced he will be retiring at the end of the year. While Fauci’s federal career is coming to an end, congressional oversight of his efforts to possibly conceal the origins of COVID-19 is just getting started. The American people have many questions for Fauci, and we are determined to get answers. For the past two years, Republicans on the House Oversight and Reform Committee have called for Fauci to testify before the committee and provide documents and information...
  • Tucker Carlson: The FBI has been working on behalf of the Democratic Party

    08/27/2022 5:15:16 AM PDT · by whyilovetexas111 · 38 replies
    Fox News ^ | 8/26/2022 | Tucker Carlson
    Every year since 1970s, the State Department has published a document called "World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers." You probably haven't read it, but it is interesting. It's a detailed accounting of global arms sales, what weapons were sold and where they wound up after they were. The U.S. government published this report in the interest of transparency and then continued to publish it through multiple politically charged scandals and conflicts that would include through Iran Contra, two separate wars in Iraq and all 20 years that we occupied Afghanistan. A report like this would be especially useful to have...
  • Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem(8/27/22)[Prayer]

    08/27/2022 5:14:19 AM PDT · by left that other site · 13 replies
    The Holy Scriptures | 8/27/22 | left that other site
    Pray For The Peace of JerusalemExodus 11The Plague on the Firstborn 11 Now the Lord had said to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here, and when he does, he will drive you out completely. 2 Tell the people that men and women alike are to ask their neighbors for articles of silver and gold.” 3 (The Lord made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and Moses himself was highly regarded in Egypt by Pharaoh’s officials and by the people.) 4 So Moses said, “This...
  • Democrats to conservatives: We hate you; we really hate you

    08/27/2022 5:10:35 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 75 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 27 Aug, 2022 | Andrea Widburg
    The rhetoric from establishment Democrats is getting increasingly eliminationist, something that should worry us all. It seems like just yesterday that politicians would try to sway voters to come to their point of view and cast a vote for them. Things have changed. In the past week, Charlie Crist told conservative voters he wants nothing to do with them because they're evil; Kathy Hochul told Republicans to leave her state; and, in the culmination of this abuse, Joe Biden effectively affixed the label "fascist" to Trump's 74,216,154 voters (all of whom are actual human beings). Is it any coincidence that,...
  • Pennsylvania Abruptly Changes Voter Registration Form, Combines With Mail-In Ballot Application

    08/27/2022 5:05:32 AM PDT · by george76 · 62 replies
    The Epoch Times ^ | August 26, 2022 | Beth Brelje
    In the middle of the election cycle, the Pennsylvania Department of State has suddenly changed its voter registration application form to include a mail-in ballot application. The applications used to be on separate forms, but this seemingly small clerical change is creating logistical headaches for county election directors and causing voter confusion. Registering to vote and seeking a mail-in ballot are two different actions requiring different responses in the county election offices. “We use the voter registration application for one thing, we use a mail-in ballot application for something different,” Christa Miller, Lancaster County’s election director, told The Epoch Times....
  • Alaska will be counting for weeks thanks to idiotic ranked choice voting

    08/27/2022 4:54:05 AM PDT · by george76 · 23 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | August 27, 2022 | Editorial
    Well, you can't say we didn't warn you, Alaska. As of this writing, voters already know the outcomes of all the special elections and primary elections in New York and Florida that took place Aug. 23. But nobody has any idea who won Alaska's special House election held a week prior. In fact, the outcome won't be known until next month. Why? Because Alaska went and adopted the idiotic, needlessly complicated ranked choice voting system in a 2020 referendum that just barely passed. Voters might want to consider a do-over and rank "no" first on their ballots this time, except...
  • China chipmaker SMIC to build $7.5bn plant in Tianjin

    08/27/2022 4:53:49 AM PDT · by FarCenter · 7 replies
    Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. will invest $7.5 billion to construct a new factory in the city of Tianjin, the Chinese chipmaker announced Friday, as China and the U.S. race to bolster their domestic chip supplies. SMIC, China's largest contract chipmaker, has reached an agreement to set up a new subsidiary based in an economic development zone in Tianjin. It will have the production capacity for 100,000 12-inch wafers a month, though SMIC did not say when operations are expected to begin. The facility will specialize in production processes of 28 nanometers or larger. U.S. authorities appear to be restricting companies...