Gone With The Wind: Power Shortages Are Becoming The New Normal | Climate Dispatch
"If it wasn’t miserable enough being told that I have to spend the next month at home, now I have ‘Pete’ from Octopus Energy emailing me and asking if I would mind terribly turning off a few appliances between 4.30 pm and 6.30 pm.
If fact, he says, if I can halve my energy usage during those hours he’ll give me a half-price deal on the rest.
Apparently, it’s because the National Grid has issued an ‘electricity margin notice’ for those hours – basically a plea for Britain’s remaining coal and gas power stations to turn up the power and squeeze a little more energy out of their plants.
That’s not going to be easy, admits Pete, and so electricity companies like his are going to be paying through the nose for the power – ten times as much as normal, he says.
Hence the plea for me to switch off the TV, or whatever...Read all.
"Even if news organizations declare a winner in the close presidential race, that’s not the official result. States have until Dec. 8 to settle any election disputes and certify their results before the meeting of state electors in every state Dec. 14, when they cast their Electoral College votes for president.
While knowing who won a presidential election usually doesn’t take this long, it isn’t unprecedented if it does.
Think back to Bush v. Gore...
Here’s a look at legal fights in key states.
Pennsylvania...
...Now What?
Clearly, this election has generated significant litigation. We can’t help but wonder if a lot of it could have been avoided if election officials had heeded our warnings about the dangers of mail-in voting and changing election procedures too close to an election without their state legislature’s approval.
...Two things should be kept in mind.
First, gathering the evidence of misconduct, fraud and other problems that may have compromised an election is extremely difficult and expensive. As an Indiana state court pointed out in an election fraud case in 2004, “the time constraints that govern election contests, primarily designed to serve important interests and needs of election officials and the public interest in finality, simply do not work well in those elections where misconduct” is widespread and multifaceted.
Second, courts are usually very reluctant to overturn election results even with substantial evidence of possible problems that raise questions about the legitimacy of the outcome...Read all.
ESPN to Cut 500 Positions to Free Up Money for New Video Ventures
ESPN’s chief said the Disney sports-media division would eliminate 500 positions – 300 employees and 200 posts that are currently unfilled – in a bid to free up resources for streaming, digital and other kinds of video experiences designed for the new ways fans are engaging with sports...Read all.
Former Hope College president Gordon Van Wylen dies after contracting coronavirus - mlive.com: GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- A former Hope College president who helped transform the school in the 1970s and 1980s -- and who also was a World War II Navy veteran -- has died at age 100.
Trump presumably will fight it in court. But I think he should take a page from his own playbook and hold rallies the contested spots over the next couple of days.
I suspect that such Save Our Democracy rallies would attract tens of thousands of people, just as Trump’s campaign rallies did these past weeks. There is no way that Sleepy Joe Biden could compete with them. Not only would they dramatize the extent and enthusiasm of Trump’s support, they would also serve as a salutary reminder that Trump, unlike so many Republican politicians, is willing to fight to assure a free, open, and fair election. They would have the additional attraction of driving the Left even more beyond the pale than than they already are. It’s not nice to take pleasure in the sufferings of others, but I am willing to make an exception in the case of the anguish such rallies would cause among the people who have spent the last four years trying to destroy the president and anyone who came into his orbit.
Save Our Democracy! It has a ring to it. I hope team Trump will consider organizing a bunch of them now, today...Read all.
Trump was big on the national stage long before he was president. Why would he go away after the election is over? He’ll still have tens of millions of (probably angry) followers, deep pockets and a huge megaphone.
There has already been some talk of Trump starting his own television network to rival Fox News, and/or his own social media platform — the latter made more plausible by the heavy censorious hands of those running Twitter and Facebook — and I suspect that Trump would regard a 2020 loss as a setback, not a defeat. Grover Cleveland came back to win a second term after losing the White House, Trump might reason. Why not me? He’ll probably hold campaign-style rallies around the country starting right after the election.
Democrats want to get rid of Trump because they think it will get rid of Trump voters.
But they’ll still be around no matter what happens in the election, and they have legitimate grievances — lots of them — with the way the country has been run...--Posted byGlenn Reynolds"...Read all!
“Death to Fascism and the Liberalism that Enables it” read one banner in Denver, a sentiment echoed by Antifa-led protests in the streets of multiple progressive cities overnight that led to property damage and arrests.
Anarchist organizers under the slogan #EverybodyOut, and “F**k Trump, F** Biden” clashed with police and destroyed property in Portland, New York, Chicago, and Denver.
In Portland, the Pacific North West Youth Liberation Front (PNWYLF) called for targeting the “property-owning oppressive bastards” and “Death to America” in social media posts...Read all.
1860 - Abraham Lincoln was elected to be the sixteenth president of the United States.
1894 - William C. Hooker received a patent for the mousetrap.
1903 - Philippe Bunau-Varilla, as Panama's ambassador to the United States, signed the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty. The document granted rights to the United States to build and indefinitely administer the Panama Canal Zone and its defenses.
1923 - Jacob Schick was granted a patent for the electric shaver.
1952 - The first hydrogen bomb was exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
Facebook censorship board is comprised mostly of foreign nationals with ties to George Soros "The recently appointed Facebook oversight board tasked with deciding which posts get blocked from the world’s most popular social networking website is stacked with leftists and foreign nationals who will be functionally regulating the speech rights of American citizens in the United States. András Sajó was one of the ECHR judges in an Italian case (Latusi v. Italy) that ruled unanimously that the display of a crucifix in public schools in Italy violates the European Convention on Human Rights.
...Sajó’s deep ties to Soros are also concerning.
Through his OSF, Soros funds projects aimed at spreading a leftist agenda by, among other things, destabilizing legitimate governments, erasing national borders, erroding national identities, financing civil unrest, and orchestrating refugee crises for political gain. ...At least ten other members of the censorship board are connected to leftist groups tied to Soros — groups that have directly benefitted from his funding commitments and donations...Long list of anti-Americans. Read all!"
Alexander Soros, George’s son and heir, with Democrat nominee for Vice President Kamala Harris.
…the Trump administration’s American domestic economic revival and its hard-nosed trade agreements with China demonstrated that the U.S. could and would counter China’s economic hegemony. Washington used legal, financial and diplomatic instruments to penalize Chinese intellectual-property theft. It also targeted Chinese spying, which penalized lucrative Chinese companies like Huawei linked to espionage.
Meet the Jewish Democrat at Fox News’ ‘decision desk,’ the man who called Arizona for Biden early
"Fox News’ “decision desk” team, which makes the network’s election night calls, was the first to call Arizona for Joe Biden Tuesday night.
Fox’s call came so early, in fact, that the network’s anchors seemed surprised.
President Trump was reportedly furious with his favorite network, and he criticized the decision in an early morning White House appearance, specifically dismissing “the gentleman who called it.”
That gentleman was Arnon Mishkin — a Jewish registered Democrat from New York who is the leader and face of the Fox numbers team...Read all.
Professor: Student extracurricular activities serve racism, sexism | The College Fix
"A sociology professor from George Mason University says student extracurricular activities serve “to perpetuate inequality” and benefit white males the most.
Blake Silver’s new book “The Cost of Inclusion: How Student Conformity Leads to Inequality on College Campuses” details the daily activities of some 100 college students participating in “a living-learning community, a club sports team and a student organization focused on service.”...Read all.
While knowing who won a presidential election usually doesn’t take this long, it isn’t unprecedented if it does.
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