Kathy Griffin
@kathygriffin
If you don’t want a Civil War, vote for Democrats in November. If you do want Civil War, vote Republican.
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California Issues Level 2 "Real & Immediate" 'Blackout' Threat As Power Usage Soars Despite Warnings
Update (1400ET): As we warned about earlier, Califiornians are apparently not heeding officials' warnings that they should sacrifice their comfort for the sake of whatever business or social-engineering plan is the new thing.
CAISO shows that usage is up 13% today from yesterday at the same time of day and for a second consecutive day, the state’s grid operator issued a level-2 energy emergency alert.
The emergency declaration allows officials to order some large power consumers to shut down in a last-ditch effort to avoid outages.
“We are heading into the worst part of this heat wave, and the risk for outages is real and it’s immediate,” California Governor Gavin Newsom said in a video posted Tuesday on Twitter. He urged residents and businesses to cut back on energy use during the late afternoon and early evening to help the state avoid outages.
And average day-ahead prices for power on Tuesday in the southern part of the state surged 44% to $300.55 a megawatt-hour, the highest in 18 months.
With heat soaring things are only likely to get worse:
“We’re looking at a lot of records today,” said Bob Oravec, a senior branch forecaster at the US Weather Prediction Center.
“They are having a lot of issues with power out there, and this isn’t going to help.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/californians-ignore-pleas-conserve-power-grid-pushed-brink
Russia comments on IAEA nuclear plant report
Moscow’s UN envoy is disappointed at the IAEA’s refusal to say who is shelling Zaporozhye and its proposed solution
It is regrettable that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) would not identify the culprit for the shelling of the Zaporozhye power plant,while its proposal to demilitarize the facility is “not serious,” Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, said on Tuesday.
IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi personally led a team of inspectors to the Russian-held facility last week, and witnessed an artillery attack firsthand. However, the IAEA report on the visit, published earlier on Tuesday, made no mention of who was shelling the Zaporozhye NPP, even though the Ukrainian General Staff has publicly admitted to targeting nearby Energodar.
“I cannot make that determination,” Grossi told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. “We do not have the means to do that. As you know, you would need to be looking or monitoring the military operation in the region and all its vastness, which is not only beyond the mandate of the IAEA, but would require enormous capabilities.”
Nebenzia, who has previously provided evidence of Ukrainian culpability to the UN, said the watchdog’s reluctance was regrettable. He also noted that Kiev made a “monstrous attempt” to capture the power plant during the IAEA team’s visit.
Grossi’s proposal to demilitarize Zaporozhye is “not serious,” Nebenzia told journalists in New York, explaining that Russian troops are providing security to the plant and withdrawing them would allow Ukraine to seize it.
“It is not militarized, anyway,” the Russian envoy to the UN said, adding that “there is no artillery there, only trucks used to transport the guards” who protect the facility. The IAEA report mentioned this as well.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Gutteres has called on both Kiev and Moscow to “not engage in military activities” in and around the nuclear power plant.
Grossi told CNN he wasn’t calling for “demilitarization” but something “more modest,” calling it a “nuclear safety and security protection zone” that would get a “commitment from all sides to avoid any aiming at the plant, any shelling at the plant.”
Russian troops secured Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in early March, and it functioned normally until mid-July, when Moscow says Ukrainian forces began attacking it with drones and US-supplied artillery. Kiev had claimed that Russia was staging false-flag attacks to make Ukraine look bad, while stationing heavy weapons inside the facility.
The IAEA “abdicated its duty” and “turned a blind eye” to the Ukrainian shelling, even after being presented with exhaustive evidence of Kiev’s culpability, Vladimir Rogov, a member of the Zaporozhye civilian-military administration, told RIA Novosti.
https://www.rt.com/russia/562326-nebenzia-rogov-zaporozhye-iaea/
California's 2035 EV Mandate Being Debated In More Than Dozen States
More than a dozen states are now debating whether to adopt California's radical green vehicle initiative, which bans all gasoline-powered new car sales by 2035.
Fox News reported seventeen states could soon be on a path to follow the Golden State's emission standards.
Several of the 17 states are likely to move forward with the plan, including Washington, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, and Vermont. California's restrictions are the strictest in the country, mandating that all new vehicles run on either electricity or hydrogen by 2035.
Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, the District of Columbia, and Rhode Island are other states that might consider the new emission standards.
Meanwhile, Colorado, Pennsylvania, and Virginia are three states rebelling against rapidly moving toward electric vehicles.
The problem with states mandating future new car sales to be 100% electric in 13 years is that power grids will need a drastic upgrade to handle the millions of new EVs. Consider California. There are more than a million plug-in vehicles registered in the state, and in the last week, utility officials requested EV owners not to charge their vehicles due to a menacing heatwave.
Without a power grid overhaul to reliable on-demand clean energy, such as nuclear, grids across the country will be under extreme duress in the future of increased EVs on roads, leading to instability issues and frequent blackouts, similar to a third world country (or California).
Forcing everyone to depend on a battery without a grid overhaul sounds like a catastrophe waiting to happen.
Let's hope this 2030 prediction doesn't play out:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/californias-2035-ev-mandate-being-debated-more-dozen-states
Israel carries out new attack on Aleppo airport – Syrian media
At least one missile reportedly struck the runway of Syria’s second-largest airport
In a second attack on the Aleppo international airport in the span of a week, at least one missile struck the runway while “several” were shot down by Syrian air defenses, the state media in Damascus reported on Tuesday evening, blaming Israel for the strike.
“Israeli aggression targeted the Aleppo airport,” the Syrian Arab News Agency reported on Tuesday, adding that air defenses “shot down a number” of missiles fired from international airspace over the Mediterranean Sea.
The strike involved at least five missiles and took the Aleppo airport out of service once again, according to several local reports, which could not be independently confirmed.
Tuesday evening’s attack is the second strike against the Aleppo airport in the space of a week. Last Wednesday, several Israeli missiles made it past the Syrian air defenses, striking and damaging the runway and disabling the airport. The same air raid caused damage at the Damascus international airport as well, but it remained operational.
According to the Russian military, on that occasion Israeli jets fired a total of 16 projectiles, including missiles and glide bombs. Syrian authorities said the Aleppo runway would be repaired by Friday.
The Aleppo airport had only reopened for civilian traffic in February 2020, having been badly damaged by the fighting with Western-backed militants seeking to overthrow the Syrian government. Civilian flights in and out of Syria were rerouted through Aleppo in June, after a series of Israeli strikes damaged the Damascus airport runway.
Israel has repeatedly struck Syria with missiles. On the rare occasions the Israeli government has acknowledged the attacks, it has described them as preemptive self-defense against Iran. Tehran has offered military aid to Damascus in recent years against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorists and other radical militants.
Syria has denounced the strikes as illegal and unacceptable. The Foreign Ministry in Damascus informed the UN last week that Israel will “bear all legal, moral, political and financial responsibilities for deliberately targeting the international airports of Damascus and Aleppo and for endangering civilian facilities and lives.”
https://www.rt.com/news/562322-aleppo-airport-syria-israel/
https://www.rt.com/news/562322-aleppo-airport-syria-israel/
After Entire Police Department Quits, Council Fires Town Manager
When an entire government department resigns en masse, you know something major is going wrong.
When that department happens to be the police force, the alarm bells should start going off.
That is what happened in a small town in North Carolina when the town’s law enforcement officers resigned in the face of what they called the “hostile work environment” created by the recently hired town manager.
The dust-up in Kenly began on July 19 when Police Chief Josh Gibson and four other full-time officers handed in their resignation letters. On Aug. 2, the officers turned over their badges, uniforms and other equipment, WTVD-TV reported at the time.
Following the shocking mass resignation, the Kenly Town Council launched an investigation into town manager Justine Jones’ behavior.
The town, situated about 40 miles east of Raleigh, hired Jones only three months ago. On Tuesday, the town council voted 3-2 to release her from her contract, The News & Observer reported.
Despite the firing, officials did not say that there was any truth to the police officers’ accusations.
The month-long investigation led by Town Attorney Chip Hewett and the North Carolina League of Municipalities found no evidence that Jones had fostered a hostile work environment, according to the Observer.
“This really didn’t surprise us,” Hewett said. “Could there be some improvements, or could there be some things changed? Yes.”
The reason given for Jones’ firing? A vague “She wasn’t working out.”
“The termination of our contract with Jones is not solely related [to] the investigation and the resignation of the employees,” Mayor Tooie Hales said. “Those are separate items, and we looked at them separately.”
Tellingly, Hales would not explain exactly why Jones “wasn’t working out.”
One former Kenly police officer, Jason Tedder, said one of the problems was that Jones would give Gibson “crazy write-ups” for things like talking with local business owners while on duty, the Observer reported.
Tedder also said Jones refused to listen to the concerns the officers had.
“When you’ve got a problem, the very first thing you do is sit people down and say, ‘Hey, this isn’t going right, how do we fix this?’ None of that ever happened,” he said. “I would love to go back. … But there needs to be a more professional work environment where people can sit down at a table together.”
Naturally, some progressives are claiming it’s all about race when an all-white police force resigns after the hiring of a black town manager.
But Tedder pointed out that some of those on the town council who voted to fire Jones are black, and he said that the accusations of racism are untrue and unfortunate.
“The only reason racism still exists is because the old people still talk about it,” Tedder said. “It hurt me that it went to [race] because it was nothing like that.”
For her part, Jones blasted the council members for not divulging the reasons they decided to fire her.
“The decision to not communicate the entire story and publicly share the findings of the report is most unfortunate,” she said in a statement, thanking those who appreciated “the difference I was making.”
Perhaps, though, she also hinted at why she was fired when she said, “Through our conversations, I am confident the citizens of Kenly want a more progressive and equitably served community and will hold all members of council accountable for moving the Town toward that goal.”
Right there could be the biggest reason. Jones took the job wanting to force a progressive agenda on the city. And one of the most prevalent progressive tenets is hatred and distrust of the police.
It seems likely that Jones went into office with animosity toward the Kenly police officers before she even had her first interaction with them.
It all shows just how dangerous the progressive ideology is, as it brings conflict and division and ultimately puts the safety of the citizenry in jeopardy.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/entire-police-department-quits-council-fires-town-manager/
Israel is trying to stop Syria taking back the Golan Heights and Syria is trying to stop Israel, Turkey and the deep state stealing all their oil.while they run a proxy (terrorists white helmets ISIS etc…) war which is basically cover for their child trafficking operation
Busted: Deputy police chief shows up at Florida prostitution sting with White Claws, says Grady Judd
https://youtu.be/U8eIvuoLps8