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Households across Britain could be paid on Tuesday evening to help take strain off the country’s energy grid as French nuclear plants will be unable to help deal with demand.National Grid’s system operator said it was considering the first ever live run of its Demand Flexibility Service – which is designed to avoid blackouts."Even though wind is coming back for tomorrow evening’s peak, slow return of nukes in France plus lower temperatures may mean that there is a reduction in available imports across the interconnectors"

Five days ago, the so-called "concerned" members of the liberal arm of Congress (assisted, of course, by the press) began what they thought was a "win-win" strategy. Win #1: Get the public to look to THEM as those who care about national security. Win #2: Get the public to LOOK AWAY from the Commander-In-Chief by implying he was asleep at the wheel in the summer of 2001. "What did the President know and when did he know it..." is how DICK Gephardt put it, I believe. Everywhere you looked at news: online, broadcast, cable, print, radio, all one ingested was...