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I agree with her on this, I don't think there will be a free and fair election in the US. After all, those guys in Georgia that counted non vetted ballots as legitimate votes are still lurking around. What would stop them from trying to pull off another move like that one next November?
And how exactly does calling it a private letter make it any better!?
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LATIN AMERICA
How curious! That's exactly what I would say about Ortega if I could. 
Wait a second! 
I just did it!
EUROPE
A Third Assassination Attempt? Authorities Don't Think So
This event took place last Saturday.
Quote:The man arrested Saturday afternoon outside Donald Trump’s Coachella, California, rally had a shotgun and a handgun in his possession, at least one that was loaded.
The New York Post reported that the shotgun was loaded while other outlets described the handgun as loaded. What is not in contention is at least one of the guns was loaded and that the man, a 49-year-old Las Vegas resident, also had a “high capacity” magazine with him.
FOX LA noted that the 49-year-old had multiple driver’s licenses and “was also in possession of multiple passports with different names.”
The man was taken into custody for possessing the loaded firearm and for possessing the magazine with higher capacity than legal in California, which is the most stringently gun-controlled state in the Union.
The Daily Mail quoted the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office saying, “This incident did not impact the safety of former President Trump or attendees of the event.”
Quote:A man in illegal possession of a shotgun and a loaded handgun was arrested at an intersection near Donald Trump's rally in Coachella, California, on Saturday, police said.
The 49-year-old suspect, Vem Miller, was driving a black SUV when he was stopped at a security checkpoint by officers, who located the two firearms and a "high-capacity magazine".
Mr Miller was then taken into custody "without incident", the Riverside County Sheriff's office said. He was later released and told US media he was a Trump supporter who was not planning to harm the Republican presidential candidate.
The US Secret Service said Trump “was not in any danger”, and that the incident did not impact protective operations.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco also said that the encounter did not affect the safety of Trump or the rally's attendees.
Although it was impossible to speculate about what was in the mind of the suspect, Mr Bianco said he "truly believed" that his officers had prevented a third assassination attempt.
He added that it might be impossible to prove that this was the intent of Mr Miller, who he described as "a lunatic".
Mr Bianco is an elected official and a Republican who has previously expressed support for Trump. He is also acting as a surrogate - a representative - for Trump's re-election campaign.
Mr Miller himself told the Southern California News Group that he was "shocked" at his arrest, while denying accusations that he wanted to hurt Trump.
He also told Fox News that he "always" travelled around with guns in his vehicle, but had never fired one.
Before his release on a $5,000 (£3,826) bail, Mr Miller was charged with two misdemeanour weapons charges. No federal charges have been filed.
A federal law enforcement official told the BBC's US partner CBS News there was no indication of an assassination attempt connected to this incident.
Federal authorities say they are still investigating the incident, and it would be up to them to pursue any additional charges.
Feds Know About Child Sex Trafficking Reports Increasing Under Biden
Quote:Youth sex trafficking and its myriad cruelties tripled under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a report in TheFreePress.com.
TheFreePress.com described some of the harms inflicted on youth migrants under the lax policies set by Biden’s border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas’ tenure:
Sex-trafficking victims often suffer horrific abuse, as I discovered when I spoke to Landon Dickeson, the 36-year-old executive director for Bob’s House of Hope in Denton, Texas, the only shelter for male sex-trafficking victims ages 18 and up in the country. Dickeson says they’ve seen teens from Central and South America who have been so tortured by their traffickers they can barely function.
Dickeson described caring for teens who have brain damage from being so heavily drugged—teens who have had their fingernails pulled out, and lemon juice poured on wounds. When I asked to interview one of their migrant residents, Dickeson said they simply weren’t in any condition to speak to anyone, much less a reporter. “We think the cartels and gangs use torture as a control method for the males,” said Dickeson. “They’re not going to fight back if they chain their victims to a radiator, beat them up frequently, or drug them.”
The abuse and prostitution may be forced on young migrants who are indebted to smugglers and their affiliated trafficking gangs in the United States. If they cannot pay their debts, their families can lose farms and homes to the banks that hold the loans.
The rising number of youth sex-trafficking cases were posted at the Department of Health and Human Services when TheFreePress demanded the data under the Freedom of Information Act. The agency is responsible for checking and issuing Certification and Eligibility Letters to the children and youths who first request aid after escaping sex traffickers.
The agency issued 1,143 letters in 2021, 2,226 letters in 2022, and 2,148 letters in 2024 under the welcome policies set by border chief Alejandro Mayorkas. The agency has not posted any data since the first week of September 2023.
The incomplete data adds up to 5,517 letters since October 2020, or an average of 1,8,37 letters per year.
Gray Lady Against Fox News Reporter
Quote:The New York Times is attacking Rachel Campos-Duffy, a co-host on Fox & Friends Weekend, for citing its reporting regarding President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) losing contact with tens of thousands of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) who have been released into the United States.
In February 2023, the New York Times issued a bombshell report, revealing that the Biden-Harris administration was releasing UACs to adult sponsors in the United States — the majority of whom are not their biological parents — as quickly as possible.
As a result, the Times discovered, HHS officials “could not reach more than 85,000 children” after they were released to adult sponsors in the United States.
The Times reported:
But as more and more children have arrived, the Biden White House has ramped up demands on staffers to move the children quickly out of shelters and release them to adults. Caseworkers say they rush through vetting sponsors. [Emphasis added]
While H.H.S. checks on all minors by calling them a month after they begin living with their sponsors, data obtained by The Times showed that over the last two years, the agency could not reach more than 85,000 children. Overall, the agency lost immediate contact with a third of migrant children.
[Emphasis added]
Late last week, the Times attacked Rachel Campos-Duffy for having cited their report during an interview in June with former President Donald Trump. In the interview, Campos-Duffy abbreviated the Times’ reporting and referred to the UACs as “lost.”
“Will you commit to finding those children?” Campos-Duffy asked Trump.
The Times claims that Campos-Duffy’s characterization of the UACs as “lost” is inaccurate because “the Times did not report that the children were ‘lost,’ but that they were more susceptible to exploitative and illegal working conditions.”
Fox News defended Campos-Duffy, saying her using the term “lost” to describe the UACs that HHS could not reach after they were released to adult sponsors is “an issue of semantics” and nothing more.
In August, evidence mounted that the Biden-Harris administration’s decision to release UACs to adult sponsors as quickly as possible has spurred an explosion in labor and sex trafficking among such migrant children.
Staffing Company Hiring Illegal Immigrants in PA
Quote:The federal government has opened an investigation into a staffing company that allegedly supplied illegal workers to a controversial food company in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, according to a local TV report.
Prosperity Services allegedly supplied illegals to Charleroi’s Fourth Street Foods, a company that assembles prepared meals for sale across the country.
Fourth Street employs 700 migrants for low-paying jobs, most of whom are supplied by third party staffing companies that do not offer normal workplace benefits, such as health care. However, Fourth Street executives say they only hired workers with legal work permits, according to WTAE-TV.
Still, the investigators say at least one contractor, Prosperity Services, is suspected of paying migrants cash and adding them into the pool of candidates for Fourth Street Foods even though they are not legally eligible to work in the U.S.
Federal officials reportedly said the contractor “knowingly paid undocumented non-citizen employees with cash” and “transported and housed undocumented non-citizens for employment purposes.”
The investigation continues on the tail of a raid on the offices of Prosperity owner Andy Ha where a million dollars in cash and company records were seized.
Gray Lady's Expert on Plagiarism is a Lazy Guy
Quote:The far-left New York Times disgraced itself Monday by clearing sitting Vice President Kamala Harris of obvious and blatant plagiarism. Now the expert used by the Times to exonerate Harris says he did not do a full analysis.
Monday afternoon, journalist Christopher Rufo dropped the bombshell that Harris “plagiarized at least a dozen sections of her criminal justice book, Smart on Crime.”
The 2009 nonfiction work, coauthored with Joan O’C. Hamilton, was written while Harris was the district attorney of San Francisco and gearing up to run (successfully) for California’s attorney general.
With the help of Dr. Stefan Weber, an internationally famous “plagiarism hunter,” Rufo provided one jaw-dropping example after another of Harris directly copying and pasting paragraph after paragraph into her book that were written by others. She did this without attribution or quote marks. In other words, she not only stole text from other sources, but she also stole ideas, reporting, and scholarship. That is textbook plagiarism.
Additionally, per Rufo, “Harris copied virtually an entire Wikipedia article into her book without providing attribution to Wikipedia” [and] “fabricated a source reference, inventing a nonexistent page number.”
Kamala has been caught red-handed. There is no defending this. Nevertheless, while reporting on the Rufo bombshells, I warned Breitbart News readers that the “corporate media will almost certainly either ignore this scandal or attempt to wrist-flick and ‘fact check’ it away as a ‘Republican-fabricated controversy.’
Within just a few hours, that is precisely what the New York Times did. “Conservative Activist Seizes on Passages From Harris Book,” reads the easily predicted Times headline.
Even more predictable… The Times article lied to its readers to protect Kamala:
The passages called into question by Mr. Rufo on his Substack platform involve about 500 words in the approximately 65,000-word, 200-page book. Ms. Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, wrote the book with another author when she was the district attorney in San Francisco.
In a review of the book, The New York Times found that none of the passages in question took the ideas or thoughts of another writer, which is considered the most serious form of plagiarism. Instead, the sentences copy descriptions of programs or statistical information that appear elsewhere.
Then comes this beauty… The Times enlisted its own plagiarism expert to back its claim that this is no big deal:
Jonathan Bailey, a plagiarism consultant in New Orleans and the publisher of Plagiarism Today, said on Monday that his initial reaction to Mr. Rufo’s claims was that the errors were not serious, given the size of the document.
Then the Times accused Rufo of racism.
But now the Times’ lies are all coming undone.
First, Rufo torpedoed the Times’ primary defense:
The Times claims that I only argued that Kamala Harris plagiarized “five sections” involving “about 500 words.” But this isn’t true. In my story, I wrote that Stefan Weber argued there are “more than a dozen” instances of “‘vicious plagiarism.'” This past Saturday, I provided the Times not only with my written analysis, which argues that there are “more than a dozen,” but with Weber’s full dossier, which included 18 allegations of varying severity. So, the Times deliberately withheld this crucial contextual information from its readers and from the supposed plagiarism expert, who, based on this limited information, called it “not serious.” They could have easily confirmed the “more than a dozen” point, but instead, lied by omission.
Further, Rufo posts passages he said he gave directly to the Times that make mincemeat out of the claim “that none of the passages in question took the ideas or thoughts of another writer[.]” The fact she cut and pasted a Wikipedia page alone kills that defense.
Kamala Doesn't Think There'll be a Free & Fair Election
Quote:Vice President Kamala Harris raised doubts on Tuesday about whether November’s election will be “free and fair.”
Harris has not yet answered if she would support certifying a Trump victory, although she has been highly critical of Republicans who objected to President Joe Biden’s victory in 2020.
“Why are people acting like this is going to be a free and fair election and he won’t try to steal it?” Charlamagne tha God asked Harris.
Harris replied the election would only be “free and fair” if Americans “stand up for that.”
“It will be a free and fair election if we, the American people, stand up for that,” Harris said before delivering a word salad.
You know, I see it as this. I think that the democracy has it’s like two points of nature. One, there’s a fact about a democracy that when it is intact, it the strength that it possesses in terms of the protection of people’s individual rights and liberties. When a democracy is intact, we protect your rights and your liberties.
Harris’s answer comes as top congressional Democrats told Axios on Thursday they would not commit to certifying the 2024 election if former President Donald Trump wins.
The failure to commit to certifying the election would prove many members to be hypocrites, including House Oversight Committee ranking member and former January 6 committee member Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who told Axios that he is unsure if he’ll certify a Trump win.
I agree with her on this, I don't think there will be a free and fair election in the US. After all, those guys in Georgia that counted non vetted ballots as legitimate votes are still lurking around. What would stop them from trying to pull off another move like that one next November?
Another Biden Arms Embargo Against Israel
Quote:The Biden-Harris administration is quietly threatening an arms embargo against Israel, citing humanitarian concerns about the war in Gaza, where Hamas continues to hold Israeli hostages while Israel tries to stop it from regrouping.
The revelation about a potential arms embargo came Tuesday in a leaked letter from Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to his Israeli counterpart, Lloyd Austin [the author meant Yoav Gallant instead], threatening to withhold weapons if the Gaza situation deteriorates.
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The letter claims, without evidence, that Israel is blocking aid to Gaza, and that humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza have plummeted. (Israel claims the opposite — that it continues to expand humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza.)
The aid demands that Israel “surge” aid to Gaza, and that it end the “isolation” of northern Gaza — where the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) ordered the evacuation of Palestinian civilians due to an ongoing offensive against Hamas.
The letter also defends the role of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in distributing aid, even as Austin admits that UNRWA has been linked to terror and the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel that launched the war.
Effectively, the letter demands an end to the current Israeli offensive in Gaza, and holds Israel responsible to harm to civilians due to the war. The letter does not mention the remaining 101 hostages or make any demands of Hamas.
Austin gives Gallant and strategic affairs minister Ron Dermer 30 days in which Israel is to comply with his demands.
“Failure to demonstrate a sustained committment to implementing and maintaining these measures may have implications for U.S. policy under [National Security Memorandum]-20 and relevant U.S. law,” the letter states.
NSM-20 and other U.S. laws and regulations require recipients of U.S. military aid to comply with human rights norms. A review of Israel’s conduct in May was worded in a sloppy fashion that left the administration’s position unclear.
Countries that fall short of the standards of international law — as judged by the bureaucrats in the State Department, widely considered to have an anti-Israel bias — could lose their access to American weapons as a result.
A Pentagon spokesperson was on the defensive in a briefing on Tuesday, claiming that Austin’s letter had been “personal” or “private” and had not been intended to be leaked. Left-wing critics of Israel have been demanding an arms embargo on Israel since the start of the war.
And how exactly does calling it a private letter make it any better!?
MIDDLE EAST
Former Israeli Ambassador Criticizes Possible US Arms Embargo
Quote:Former Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren blasted the Biden-Harris administration Tuesday after news emerged that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin had threatened an arms embargo against Israel over Gaza.
As Breitbart News reported, Austin wrote a letter to his Israeli counterpart that was leaked to the media and which included a threat to cut off weapons to Israel unless the humanitarian situation in Gaza improved substantially.
The letter claimed, without evidence, that Israel has been blocking aid and that the situation had deteriorated. It also effectively demanded that Israel end its fight against Hamas in northern Gaza. (It made no demands of Hamas at all.)
Oren, who was the ambassador during the administration of President Barack Obama, and later accused Obama of creating a gap between the U.S. and Israel, has tried to maintain a bipartisan stance and stay out of U.S. politics.
But in the face of a threatened arms embargo, with Israel still under attack, Oren said he could no longer be silent:
The Biden Administration’s warning to suspend arms to Israel unless the “humanitarian situation” in Gaza improves is deeply disturbing. Israel strongly denies that any crisis exists and works daily to ensure a fully adequate food supply to Gaza. Though I’ve spent my career striving for bipartisanship, at this fateful time, I cannot keep silent. The administration’s willingness to abandon Israel in the middle of a war for our nation’s survival casts doubts on America’s dependability as an ally and its commitment to defend the Free World.
Netanyahu on Macron
Quote:Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday after the European leader insulted Israel by suggesting that it would not have existed except for the United Nations.
France, the former colonial power in Lebanon, has demanded a ceasefire there for the past several weeks, as Israel has made advances against the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist organization.
As Breitbart News reported earlier this month, France also called for an arms embargo against Israel, calling for an end to the war against Hamas in Gaza. Netanyahu responded by saying that Israel would win regardless, but that France’s shame would endure.
On Tuesday, Macron insisted that Israel should respect the United Nations, despite its pronounced anti-Israel bias. His reason: he claimed that Israel would not exist but for the United Nations.
As Politico’s Europe edition reported:
French President Emmanuel Macron warned Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to “ignore United Nations decisions” during a weekly meeting with his ministers Tuesday, according to French media reports, confirmed by a participant in the meeting.
“Mr. Netanyahu must not forget that his country was created by a U.N. decision,” he is quoted as saying, referencing the U.N. General Assembly’s November 1947 vote that terminated the British mandate of Palestine and split the land into a Jewish and an Arab state.
Netanyahu responded in a statement:
A reminder to the French President: It was not a UN decision that established the State of Israel but the victory that was achieved in the War of Independence with the blood of our heroic fighters, many of whom were Holocaust survivors, including from the Vichy regime in France.
It would also be worthwhile to recall that in recent decades, the UN has approved hundreds of antisemitic decisions against the State of Israel, the purpose of which is to deny the one and only Jewish state’s right to exist and its ability to defend itself.
LATIN AMERICA
Nicaragua Against Israel & Zelensky
Quote:Communist dictator Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanuayu on Monday evening, calling him “Hitler” and accusing him of being the “son of the devil” days after he had the country break diplomatic ties with Israel.
Ortega, whose regime maintains close ties with Iran and other authoritarian regimes such as China and Russia, broke ties with “the fascist and genocidal government of Israel” on Friday in response to Israel’s ongoing self-defense operations against the jihadist group Hamas. Nicaragua joined the fellow authoritarian regimes of Cuba, Venezuela, and other far-left governments in the region such as Colombia in taking similar action against Israel following Hamas’ slaughter of an estimated 1,200 and other atrocities in its October 7, 2023, attack against Israel.
The dictator’s decision stemmed from a “request” by the regime-controlled Nicaraguan National Assembly, which – reportedly with the presence of diplomatic personnel from Mexico, Cuba, Russia, and the Palestinian Authority as guests – passed a motion on Friday urging Ortega to cut ties with Israel. The Assembly’s motion described Israel as the “enemy of humanity” and accused it of “endangering world peace” through the alleged “complicity and logistical and military support of the North American and European empires.”
Friday’s decision marks the third time Ortega has ordered Nicaragua cut ties with Israel, which he first did in 1982 during the Sandinista revolution and then in 2010. While the countries restored relations in March 2017, Israel did not have an ambassador stationed in Managua.
Three days later, on Monday evening, Ortega attacked Netanyahu during an official event to mark the 45h anniversary of the Nicaraguan police, comparing him and Israel’s actions to that of Adolf Hitler during Nazi Germany. The communist dictator, a close ally of Russia,
availed himself of the opportunity to also lash out against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky immediately afterwards. Zelensky, like Netanyahu, is Jewish.
“At the head of the government of Israel is a prime minister who is the son of the devil because he carries in practice a policy of terror and he is Hitler,” Ortega said in his speech.
“He is Hitler, yes, the prime minister of Israel is Hitler installed there calling for the destruction of the peoples,” he continued. He then accused Zelensky of being “another Nazi, another son of Hitler, wanting to commit NATO to go to war against the Russian Federation.”
How curious! That's exactly what I would say about Ortega if I could. Wait a second! I just did it! Evo Morales Doesn't Care a Darn Bit About Bolivia
Quote:Bolivian socialist former president Evo Morales threatened this weekend to order his loyalists to blockade the nation’s roads, causing daily multimillion-dollar losses to the country’s economy, should he be arrested as part of an ongoing probe into accusations of human trafficking and statutory rape.
“We have to mobilize. Possibly, illegally and unjustly they can arrest me, but they will never arrest you. Possibly they have plans against our lives, but the process of change will never end,” Morales told sympathizers during a speech on Saturday marking Columbus Day, which Bolivia celebrates as the “Day of Decolonization.”
Roadblocks and similar blockade tactics serve to paralyze the local economies of the target locations. They make it difficult for residents to make it to work, for people to shop, and – critically – block trucks from bringing in food, medicine, and other key goods to supply stores.
Morales is being investigated on accusations of human trafficking and statutory rape after evidence was found in the southern city of Tarija indicating Morales had a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl in 2016, at a time when Morales was serving his third presidential term. In 2018, a birth certificate in Tarija was found listing Morales as the father of a child born of the same minor at a time when she was 16. The child is now eight years old, according to state media.
The investigation started in 2019 but remained “frozen” until its reactivation in early October led by Bolivian prosecutor Sandra Gutiérrez, who issued an arrest warrant against Morales that was immediately overturned by Attorney General Juan Lanchipa. Lanchipa fired Gutiérrez immediately after she issued the arrest warrant, but was reinstated as prosecutor days later thanks to a ruling issued by a constitutional judge.
Following the reopening of the investigation, Morales “bunkered” himself in the Chapare, Cochabamba, a region considered a political bastion of Morales and his sympathizers, where the socialist former president remains under the protection of loyalists, including local coca leaf farmers.
The Tarija local Prosecutor’s Office summoned Morales to testify on Thursday, but he did not appear. Gutiérrez told reporters on Thursday that a new arrest warrant is being prepared against Morales in response to his refusal to testify.
The prosecutors will also issue arrest warrants for Emeterio Vargas Mamani and Idelsa Pozo Saavedra, the parents of the minor that Morales allegedly raped. A “migration alert” was issued by Bolivian authorities against Morales on Monday to prevent him from leaving the country.
The probe against Morales occurs amidst a lengthy power struggle over control of the ruling Movement Towards Socialism Party (MAS) between Morales and current socialist President Luis Arce, a former protegé of Morales now at odds with his former mentor.
EUROPE
North Koreans in Ukraine
Quote:Speculation has built for weeks over the presence of North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia inside Ukraine, and now President Zelensky has acknowledged their presence for the first time.
North Korea, which on paper has one of the largest armies in the world and has been supplying munitions to Russia for months to feed what it calls its special military operation inside Ukraine for months may now be providing direct military aid, Kyiv states for the first time. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to admit what has been discussed by other world leaders and Ukraine war watchers for weeks in his nightly address, reports German newspaper Die Welt, which translates his speech as stating ‘North Korean soldiers are fighting together with Russians’.
Ukrainian state media published Zelensky’s address, in which he said of the development: “We see the alliance between [Russia] and such regimes as North Korea becoming stronger, and is no longer simply the transfer of weapons, it is about the transfer of people from North Korea to the military forces of the occupier.”
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This development is a clear sign Ukraine’s demands for more weapons, and for permission for the weapons it has already been given to be used in long-range strikes against the Russian interior to degrade its war machine must be heeded. He continued: “It is obvious in such circumstances our relations with partners need to develop further. The frontline needs more support. When we talk about giving Ukraine greater long-range capabilities and more decisive supplies for our forces, it’s not simply a list of military equipment”.
While many foreign nationalities fight in Ukraine, both for Kyiv and for Moscow, the support of the North Korean army could be a significant boost to Russia. On paper, the nation fields and army over one million strong, but as with anything inside secretive nations long under the yoke of communism, to what extent all or a fraction of that total is ready to deploy is obscure.
North Korea does have some apparent advantages, however. While the free world made the very most of the ‘peace dividend’ at the end of the Cold War, cutting military spending and redirecting that money to other purposes — and cutting expensive stockpiles of weapons in the process — North Korea has not, and consequently has 20th-century levels of reserves of Soviet-type ammunition in reserve.
UK Shut down Last Coal Power Station
Quote:An automated notification system that warns energy generators that supply is expected to be insufficient to meet predicted demand was activated for the first time in two years on Monday, apparently as the wind simply isn’t blowing fast enough.
The National Energy System Operator (Neso) issued a capacity notice on Monday, part of an automated system designed to rectify mis-matches between predicted supply and demand. The notice referred to the Monday afternoon demand spike — when workers get home, turn on the heating, and cook their meals — and showed the system had automatically identified a potential shortfall.
Open source energy data shows this alert is likely down to the confluence of two events: a not inconsiderable increase in demand for energy over the past 24 hours arriving at the same time as flatlining wind power generation. The reasons for these are simple and not exactly uncommon: the United Kingdom is experiencing cold, still weather, leading to more energy being used for domestic heating while wind turbines stand unproductive.
In the early hours of Sunday morning windmills were producing over 60 per cent of the nation’s power, but as the wind dropped this fell to as little as five per cent. Even now, wind accounts for less than ten per cent of national demand, leaving gas to pick up the slack. Burning gas accounted for 56 per cent of power generated on Monday morning, and it has already swung back up to 53 per cent on Monday afternoon just as the evening surge begins.
Gas is generally reliable, but the international market has proven volatile in recent years, making it increasingly expensive. The United Kingdom also has comparatively little bunkering capability, meaning its ability to ride out price surges has proven to be extremely limited.
At midday Monday, demand for electricity was five gigawatts higher than the same time on Sunday, the equivalent to two recently-shut-down coal power plants working at maximum generating capacity.
UK Soldiers & a Brexit Reset?
Quote:The European Union is reportedly demanding that the UK offer up British soldiers for so-called “peacekeeping” missions conducted by Brussels as a part of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s “Brexit reset”.
At a meeting in Luxembourg this week, Eurocrats impressed upon UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy that Britain would be expected to commit its soldiers to EU Common Security and Defence Policy missions if it wants a restructuring of post-Brexit relations, the Financial Times reported.
The globalist-oriented paper cited unnamed sources who explained that Britain would not be expected to participate immediately in EU “peacekeeping” efforts, but “they will do”.
The foreign minister said the meeting was a “historic moment that marks our EU reset” and declared that the UK and Europe’s security is “indivisible”.
“At this time, whether it is the aggression of Russia in Ukraine, the tremendous issues and conflicts in the Middle East, or global affairs and geopolitical affairs more generally, it is hugely important the UK and Europe remain steadfast,” Lammy added.
In a joint statement following the meeting, Lammy and EU High Representative Josep Borrell—the bloc’s top diplomat—said that they “reaffirmed the importance of the relationship between the European Union and the United Kingdom for European security and defence and agreed to advance work towards a security partnership to address common threats and challenges.”
Should the leftist Labour government, which is staffed full of anti-Brexit politicians, acquiesce to the demands, it could be seen as a major betrayal of the outcome of the 2016 referendum.
EU Sanctions Iranian Officials
Quote:The European Union on Monday imposed sanctions on Iran´s deputy defense minister, senior members of its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and three airlines over allegations that they supplied drones, missiles and other equipment to Russia for use in its war against Ukraine.
Deputy Defense Minister Seyed Hamzeh Ghalandari is one of seven senior officials now banned from traveling in Europe and whose assets in the bloc were frozen. The EU said he “is involved in the development of Iran´s (drone) and missile program,” given his high-level defense role.
Iran Air, Mahan Air and Saha Airlines had their assets frozen. The EU said their planes were “used repeatedly to transfer Iranian-made unmanned aerial vehicles and related technologies to Russia, which have been used in Russia´s war of aggression against Ukraine.”
EU foreign ministers endorsed the sanctions at a meeting in Luxembourg.
In March, the bloc had warned that “were Iran to transfer ballistic missiles and related technology to Russia for use against Ukraine, the EU would be prepared to respond swiftly, including with new and significant restrictive measures.”
EU member countries, with the exception of Hungary, have been supplying weapons and ammunition as well as economic and other support to Ukraine worth some 118 billion euros ($129 billion) since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
Russia VS Alleged French Spy
Quote:Prosecutors asked a Russian court on Monday to deliver a prison sentence of three years and three months to a French citizen arrested on charges of unlawfully collecting information on military issues.
Laurent Vinatier, who was arrested in Moscow in June, earlier admitted guilt, setting the stage for a fast-track trial without a detailed examination of evidence.
Detentions on charges of spying and collecting sensitive data have become increasingly frequent in Russia since it sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022.
Vinatier´s arrest came as tensions flared between Moscow and Paris following French President Emmanuel Macron´s comments about the possibility of deploying French troops in Ukraine.
Russian authorities accused Vinatier of failing to register as a “foreign agent” while collecting information about Russia´s “military and military-technical activities” that could be used to the detriment of the country´s security.
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KyoGemBoost XP VX & ACE, RandomEnkounters XP, KSkillShop XP, Kolloseum States XP, KEvents XP, KScenario XP & Gosu, KyoPrizeShop XP Mangostan, Kuests XP, KyoDiscounts XP VX, ACE & MV, KChest XP VX & ACE 2016, KTelePort XP, KSkillMax XP & VX & ACE, Gem Roulette XP VX & VX Ace, KRespawnPoint XP, VX & VX Ace, GiveAway XP VX & ACE, Klearance XP VX & ACE, KUnits XP VX, ACE & Gosu 2017, KLevel XP, KRumors XP & ACE, KMonsterPals XP VX & ACE, KStatsRefill XP VX & ACE, KLotto XP VX & ACE, KItemDesc XP & VX, KPocket XP & VX, OpenChest XP VX & ACE
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List of Compiled Binary Executables I have published...
HiddenChest & Roole
Give me a free copy of your completed game if you include at least 3 of my scripts!
Just some scripts I've already published on the board...
KyoGemBoost XP VX & ACE, RandomEnkounters XP, KSkillShop XP, Kolloseum States XP, KEvents XP, KScenario XP & Gosu, KyoPrizeShop XP Mangostan, Kuests XP, KyoDiscounts XP VX, ACE & MV, KChest XP VX & ACE 2016, KTelePort XP, KSkillMax XP & VX & ACE, Gem Roulette XP VX & VX Ace, KRespawnPoint XP, VX & VX Ace, GiveAway XP VX & ACE, Klearance XP VX & ACE, KUnits XP VX, ACE & Gosu 2017, KLevel XP, KRumors XP & ACE, KMonsterPals XP VX & ACE, KStatsRefill XP VX & ACE, KLotto XP VX & ACE, KItemDesc XP & VX, KPocket XP & VX, OpenChest XP VX & ACE
