[Anatoly Kurmanaev at Thread Reader] This is Venezuela’s main power distribution hub, the San Geronimo B substation outside Valle de la Pascua on Sunday. It was shut since Thursday. A cow roamed among transformers. No buzz from current. Workers said most of them were sent home indefinitely Friday.
San Geronimo B is the only path for high-voltage (765 KV) supplies from Guri to 80% of Venezuelan population (Caracas, Central & Western Venezuela)
The nearby San Geronimo A back up substation transmits much weaker 400 current from Macagua hydro plant near Guri to Caracas vía Santa Teresa. It’s been working on & off last 2 days. This, together with some limited thermal, is what’s been keeping intermittent light in Caracas.
Corpoelec current, former employees & power expert @SoyJoseAguilar said this is unsustainable. The 400 KV line is too weak. Caracas outgrew is capacity already in early 80s when it launched Metro.
Is it possible to provide stable supply to the country without San Geronimo B? “Impossible,” said @SoyJoseAguilar
The La Horqueta substation in Villa de Cura, which sends Guri’s power to Valencia and onwards west via San Geronimo was also down Sunday. This is very bad news for Western Venezuela. They are last in line.
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My apologies for accidentally deleting the content of this article. I’ve sent Besoeker a note, so hopefully he’ll be able to reconstitute it before the rollover.
— trailing wife at 9:50 p.m. ET
Update at 10:40 pm: Fixed except for Besoeker’s image. Whew! My apologies again.
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Sounds like an adjacent step-up transformer yard next to the Guri power plant blew up when they tried to re-start the turbines there. Nobody had shut them down before restarting the turbines ('phased startup') and they went to 100% immediately...and you can guess the rest.
Kind of like restarting your 1/2-ton truck from a dead-stop while in gear, uphill, and towing 50K lbs. Something is gonna give.
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The whole thing reads like a lost chapter of Atlas Shrugged.
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The whole thing reads like a lost chapter of Atlas Shrugged.
Agreed
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Shutdown and startup procedures are a social construct of the white man, and this is a CIA infiltration plot on the dam to steal electricity and keep South America poor.
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Shutdown and startup procedures are a social construct of the white man, and this is a CIA infiltration plot on the dam to steal electricity and keep South America poor.
They've really never liked electricity or well chambre bien éclairée.
[Babylon Bee] AUSTIN, TX‐While attending a special SXSW filled with many affluent haters of capitalism, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was filmed while signing several economics textbooks, a gesture that was offensive to many.
"Someone so hostile to math putting her name on such a book just seems like a mockery of everything economics stands for," said economics professor Esther Summers. "To people who believe fervently in things like supply and demand and free markets, this is a real slap in the face."
"She has expressed nothing but contempt for all the luxuries and other gains of our capitalist system," stated pundit Richard Larson. "This is extremely offensive to the billions of people lifted out of poverty by capitalism this past century."
Ocasio-Cortez seemed unfazed by the controversy. "Yay! I like writing my name!" she told reporters. "Though sometimes I have to google how to spell it since it’s kinda long."
[American Thinker] The Democrats, the Deep State, and their media allies placed an enormous bet on the bespoke fantasy concocted by Fusion GPS that Donald Trump stole the 2016 election with the assistance of Russia. Now, like a poker player trying to fill an inside straight, they are concerned that the big pot they created with all that attention focused on the allegation might be lost. The many signals that the Mueller investigation soon will be public and has no evidence at all of collusion have got a lot of people worried.
Will the mainstream media be able to avoid responsibility for peddling a fantasy?
ABC TV's senior national correspondent Terry Moran, appearing on his network's Sunday morning political show This Week, predicted just such a "reckoning":
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...Interestingly, yesterday Speaker Pelosi said that she wasn't pursuing impeachment because "he wasn't worth it." And a few hours later, REP Adam Schiff, who has been one of the biggest boosters for going after the President, said bluntly that impeachment was a bad idea as long as the GOP held the Senate.
The comments and their proximity to one another was no accident. They've either actually seen the report (which wouldn't be surprising) or they've gotten a summary (more likely)...and it says there's nothing there. The media will cover for them - or flatly ignore it, which is effectively the same thing - but they're going to take a hit, especially as DJT ain't gonna let 'em forget it...
Mike
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They've either actually seen the report (which wouldn't be surprising) or they've gotten a summary (more likely)...and it says there's nothing there.
Or — and this is what I believe — they always knew there was nothing there, but as long as the rubes were eager to vote for it they’d sell ‘em 100% steak-free sizzle.
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Or - the scandalous DRT distraction accomplished it's mission. Little is now discussed or remembered about Clinton 'Uranium One', classified data, or email communication irregularities.
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Leaving aside for a moment the juvenile and imbecilic notion that Tsar Vlad has the keys to the White House, is it really at all plausible that in the hypothetical event Mueller had found actual evidence that he would not have said something?
You know, 'Hey look at all this written evidence, I better just wait until the final write up.' I really don't think so, and the process indictments don't suggest a strong case either.
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The media has already memory holed the stories about collusion. Now it is about the demoncrats in congress digging up financial bullshit and beating Trump and his circle over the head with that.
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It's OK, I'm sure they'll go easy on themselves.
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they have already decided to pivot to trump's business dealings
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^ The New York state Dept. of Taxation and Finance announced a 20 year 'investigation' into Trump's tax returns. Since you generally can only go back three years to do a legitimate tax audit, there should be no doubt that this is harassment and nobody should cooperate in this unquestionably out of scope request.
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I am sure Trump has been audited prior. Any re examine because he is now president should be met with an immediate court order as harassment. Maybe Pelosi and Schumer should show their taxes as good faith.
[DAWN] WHAT began with a song and a dance continues in a seemingly endless spiral of violence. The killing of Afzal Kohistan ...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns.... i ‐ who in 2012 made the apparent ’honour’ killing of five women in Kohistan public ‐ is not surprising. Afzal himself had feared it for many years.
But it should still shock us for both its audacity and inevitability, and for what it indicates about the extent to which the Pak state’s writ has eroded (if it ever existed, that is).
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[Rudaw] The Ottoman Turkish government has repeatedly tried to stress that it distinguishes between ordinary Kurds on the one hand and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Syrian Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) on the other.
It has sought to stress this as it simultaneously threatens to launch another cross border military campaign into Syria against the YPG in Syrian Kurdistan's (Rojava) cantons, but how long will Ankara’s rhetoric stand?
"This organization never had the aim to defend the rights of our Kurdish brothers or any group in the region," said Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Babylon Bee] AUSTIN, TX‐While attending a special SXSW filled with many affluent haters of capitalism, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was filmed while signing several economics textbooks, a gesture that was offensive to many.
[DAWN] WHAT began with a song and a dance continues in a seemingly endless spiral of violence. The killing of Afzal 
