Cuba's Largest Thermoelectric Power Plant Offline Amid Depot Blaze

Cash-strapped Cuba was forced to take its largest thermoelectric power plant offline due to a multi-day blaze at a fuel depot in the northern part of the country.

Bloomberg reported the Ministry of Energy and Mines said the 200 MW Antonio Guiteras thermo plant was disconnected from the grid because of a water shortage. A local media outlet said the fire at the nearby Matanzas industrial storage complex had used up the water delivery to the power plant as firefighters battled the blaze, affecting four of the facility's eight storage tanks.

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/cubas-largest-thermoelectric-power-plant-offline-amid-depot-blaze

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‘You Have Martyred Donald Trump’: CNN Guest Rips Mar-A-Lago Raid

The Monday raid on Mar-a-Lago carried out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation could end up making former President Donald Trump a “martyr,” a CNN guest said Monday night.

“If you don’t convict Donald Trump now, you have martyred Donald Trump,” Scott Jennings, a former aide in the George W. Bush administration, told “Anderson Cooper 360” guest host John Berman. “You have basically guaranteed him the nomination for the Republican Party in 2024, and you’re going to give him a big weapon to go after Joe Biden or, you know, whatever Democrat emerges in 2024 if they don’t convict him.”

https://dailycaller.com/2022/08/09/scott-jennings-mar-a-lago-raid-cnn/

FBI raid on Trump compound stands in stark contrast to Clinton treatment years earlier

Legal experts question why FBI conducted raid and didn't use subpoena, especially when Hillary Clinton's lawyer got to hold classified materials in his safe.

The official word so far that the FBI raided Donald Trump's compound at Mar-a-Lago looking for classified documents stands in sharp contrast to the way the bureau and Justice Department acted seven years ago when similar questions arose about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's email.

Back then in the summer of 2015, there was no raid of Mrs. Clinton's home in Chappaqua, N.Y., where the server has been operated. In fact, the former secretary of state's lawyer, David Kendall, was allowed to keep a thumb drive of the archive of her inbox — complete with classified materials — inside his office.

The FBI even approved a special safe for Kendall to use to store the classified materials. In the end, Mrs. Clinton faced no prosecution because then-FBI Director James Comey refused to send the matter to DOJ even though he declared her handling of classified emails as reckless.

The disparate handling of two cases involving famous figures led immediately to charges Monday night that the FBI was acting with a political double standard.

Conservative radio and TV host Mark Levin, former chief of staff to Reagan Attorney General Ed Meese, called the raid Monday on Trump's home and office in Florida "an unprecedented act of state-sponsored lawlessness."

"Millions have rightly lost faith in the DOJ, FBI, media, and Congress, and this is beyond anything I can ever recall," he said in a tweet, adding the raid left the perception Joe Biden or his administration was seeking to harm the man who might run against him again in 2024.

"The Biden Administration raid on former President Trump's Florida home is a bald attack on our republic. The Democrat Party is dragging us into the Third World," Levin's tweet added.

Esteemed Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, a lifelong Democrat who voted for Biden but also defended Trump during impeachment, said the raid was an aberration, given that Trump wasn't even in Florida. A grand jury subpoena, he said, would have been more appropriate.

Dershowitz said absent convincing proof that Trump was planning to destroy evidence, the Biden DOJ and FBI risked committing an abuse of power with the raid.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/fbi-raid-trump-compound-stands-stark-contrast-clinton-treatment