[American Thinker] Starting on the day he was illegitimately inaugurated, Joe Biden began his joint operation with the drug cartels that control the border between the US and Mexico. By stopping the building of the border wall (and leaving the paid-for supplies to rust in the desert) he declared the border open to all comers, luring thousands of naïve migrants wanting a better life to risk their lives to get here.
But the opened border was open as well to the cartels that traffic in drugs and humans, especially young girls. Biden effectively went into business with the most brutal, barbaric people on the planet. These criminal organizations long ago discovered that they could double the massive profits they rake in from drug smuggling by trafficking human beings.
Joe Biden joined forces with the most lethal criminal organizations on day one of his presidency. He invited disaffected migrants from around the world to flock to our southern border; they would be welcomed he said and indeed they have been, all two millions-plus of them.
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[Rooters] Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, energy officials on Friday issued a sober forecast for the state's electrical grid, saying it lacks sufficient capacity to keep the lights on this summer and beyond if heatwaves, wildfires or other extreme events take their toll.
The update from leaders from three state agencies and the office of Governor Gavin can't be Bee'd Newsom ...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland... comes in response to a string of challenges with the ambitious transition away from fossil fuels, including rolling blackouts during a summer heat wave in 2020.
California has among the most aggressive climate change policies in the world, including a goal of producing all of its electricity from carbon-free sources by 2045.
In an online briefing with news hounds, the officials forecast a potential shortfall of 1,700 megawatts this year, a number that could go as high as 5,000 MW if the grid is taxed by multiple challenges that reduce available power while sending demand soaring, state officials said during an online briefing with news hounds.
Supply gaps along those lines could leave between 1 million and 4 million people without power. Outages will only happen under extreme conditions, officials cautioned, and will depend in part on the success of conservation measures.
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Reuters doesn't say it but there are two crucial details
- California imports 20 too 30% of its electricity
- In the summer, after the sun goes down and it is still hot, electricity generated from solar goes off but the demand for A/C is still high until well after midnight. During this period, California imports as much as 40-50% of its electricity.
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And they want everybody to switch to electric cars! Doesn't do much good if they cannot recharge their cars.
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Doing a little digging ...
California has around 118 power plants.
Many will have scheduled outages for extended maintenance or up CAL EPA required updates lasting 1+ year, over the next 10 years.
Cal. protested and forced cancelation of 13+ Nuke Power Plants in the last 15 years. Even the LA TIMES warned back 2019, if they kept shutting down power plants and not building new ones, there would be a serious energy shortage.
The California "Clean Energy" political agenda was killed by the Clean Affordable Energy political agenda promises.
It seems Natural Gas Power plants owners could not make enough using "Clean Energy" California politically regulated prices to operate the NG plants.
All this is boils down to Touchy-Feely, Tree-hugging, Earth 1st types. Being followed without looking at the likely repercussions back the road.
[EpochTimes] Court filing suggests entrapment operation run against the Oath Keepers by highly coordinated group
Defense attorneys are seeking to identify and investigate 80 suspicious actors and material witnesses, some of whom allegedly ran an entrapment operation against the Oath Keepers on January 6, 2021, and committed crimes including the removal of security fencing, breaching police lines, attacking officers, and inciting crowds to storm into the Capitol.
In a motion (pdf) and supplement (pdf) filed after 11 p.m. on May 5 in federal court in Washington, attorney Brad Geyer listed 80 people, some of whom he said could be government agents or provocateurs. The people are seen on video operating in a coordinated fashion across the Capitol grounds on January 6, the attorney alleged.
Geyer’s suggestion of an entrapment scheme will resonate with dozens of January 6 defense attorneys, coming shortly after two men were acquitted of an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ...Her Excellency, the dictator of Michigan, 2020 Dem VP contender who never got off the ground... (D). There was a hung jury on charges against two other defendants. The jury in that case was allowed to consider FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... entrapment as a defense.
Geyer, who represents Oath Keepers defendant Kenneth Harrelson, is seeking a court order from U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta compelling federal prosecutors to help identify the individuals and disclose whether they were working for law enforcement or any government agency on January 6. Geyer wrote that the information is exculpatory, which compels the government to produce it. Other Oath Keepers defendants are expected to join in the motion.
The May 5 filing comes on the heels of an April 12 Oath Keepers motion that alleged at least 20 "assets" from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) were embedded in the crowds on January 6.
[WashingtonExaminer] A judge directed Republicans in the Wisconsin State Assembly not to delete any records in the investigation of the 2020 presidential election in the state.
Dane County Circuit Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn expressed disbelief that she had to issue such an order but emphasized it was necessary because the inquiry is being led by former state Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... Justice Michael Gableman, whose team has said they destroyed unimportant documents.
"I don’t want any records destroyed," Bailey-Rihn said, per Fox 11 News. "I’m frankly amazed that I have to say, 'Don’t destroy records that are subject to an open records request,' or order that to occur. All of us know what the law is."
A lawyer for Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos argued that the speaker has no control over Gableman's cooperation with open records laws, but Bailey-Rihn was unconvinced. She noted that while Gableman would not be held in contempt of court, Vos could face such a ruling. The judge moved to hold the speaker in contempt in March for not releasing all the records from Gableman's inquiry in an earlier order.
"I just can't believe the explanation is, 'We can't control our subcontractors,'" Bailey-Rihn said, per WPR. "That just doesn't seem to be satisfactory to the court since the contractors work for the Assembly. They work for the taxpayers."
The new order came in response to a lawsuit brought by watchdog group American Oversight seeking records from state Assembly contractors "created prior to the establishment of the Assembly’s Office of Special Counsel."
"Speaker Vos’s ever-expanding list of excuses — they don’t exist, they’ve been deleted, we can’t control our contractors — for failing to produce records to which Wisconsin citizens are legally entitled don’t ring true," Melanie Sloan, senior adviser at American Oversight, said in a statement. "Next, he’ll claim the dog ate them. This deliberate effort to deprive the public of information undermines our democracy and the rule of law."
Last month, in a separate lawsuit, a different judge ordered Gableman not to delete any documents that may pertain to American Oversight's public records requests. Lawyers for the watchdog group presented a letter from Gableman's office that said documents deemed "irrelevant or useless" got deleted, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. Wisconsin law contains exceptions that allow politicians to destroy certain types of records, and Gableman's attorneys unsuccessfully argued that applied to him.
Vos hired Gableman to investigate the 2020 election in the Badger State amid pressure over former President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... 's heavily disputed allegations of election fraud there. The speaker renewed the state's contract with Gableman in March.
Shortly before the contract renewal, Gableman released his preliminary interim report and claimed the state should consider decertifying the election because of widespread malfeasance. His allegations centered on claims that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ...the Peewee Herman clone who owns Facebook. He's got more money than Croesus and thinks he should be regulated by the government because it does such a nifty job with all the other stuff it regulates. Until it does, he's not going to stop doing the things he sez need regulated... had an improper influence on the election by funding a nonprofit group that gave financial aid to municipalities working to adapt election procedures to the pandemic. The Wisconsin Elections Commission aggressively panned his report.
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The law for keeping records like this should be "Should the official fail to provide the records, they will be taken to the public square and be hung, for failing in their duty."
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Judge VBR should have had the same reaction when various Wisconsin State and Local government election officials (not Judge Gableman's group) deleted misplaced 'originals' of the 2020 election records and only offered limited or incomplete copies for the auditors.
[IsraelTimes] Mostofsky, one of most recognizable of those who stormed US Capitol, dressing as a caveman in fur pelts and a police bulletproof vest, will serve 8 months in prison
A Jewish New York City judge’s son who stormed the US Capitol wearing a furry "caveman" costume was sentenced on Friday to eight months in prison.
US District Judge James Boasberg said Aaron Mostofsky was "literally on the front lines" of the mob’s attack on Jan. 6, 2021.
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Only actors wear their shit like that when playing 'the rube'.
No, not peltmaster here, he was so obvious he had to serve time. Dude wearing a stocking cap and a baseball hat, seriously?
An excellent source material on what actors think working people are and dress like is the movie The Perfect Storm. Its what the kids call Cringe. Brand new Carhartt vest? All of the clothing and props, brand new. Except the backpack; backpack may have seen some things cough cough. Maybe has a funny smell to it?
[NYPost] President Biden on Friday told a story involving an Amtrak conductor who supposedly grabbed his cheeks and shouted "Joey, baby!" — despite facts contradicting the tale, which Biden has told on at least six prior occasions as president.
The amusing anecdote — in which Biden apes former Amtrak conductor Angelo Negri’s Italian-American accent — was declared "False" last year by CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... "Facts First" journalist Daniel Dale.
In some tellings, the encounter happened at the end of Biden’s eight years as vice president after he crossed 1 million miles on Air Force Two. But that version is impossible because Negri, who retired in 1992, died in May 2014.
Biden called the latest version a "true story" and said it happened early in his vice presidency before his mother died in 2010, which is equally difficult to square with facts because Biden didn’t cross 1 million miles on Air Force Two until September 2015.
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What did Goebbels say about the Big Lie technique? If you repeat it often enough, eventually people believe it?
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'We will immediately terminate Joe Biden's so-called disinformation governing board,' Trump said at a Pennsylvania rally Friday
He called it 'a chilling and un-American power grab'
Oz, the celebrity heart surgeon who is running for the Pennsylvania Senate seat despite not living in the state, is a 'great gentleman,' Trump said
'You know, we endorse a lot of people a little bit out of the box, you know, they said well, does he endorse front runners? No,' Trump said
Dr. Mehmet Oz told rally goers in Greensburg, Pennsylvania on Friday evening that Republicans are 'walking into this culture war knife fights with index cards'
'Index cards don't work there, you've got to go in there with your fists sometimes – metaphorically,' he said
Oz received a mixed but tepid response from the pro-Trump crowd
Trump recruited newly elected Senate GOP candidate in Ohio J.D. Vance to tee up Oz's remarks
Both Vance and Oz were endorsed by Trump but not the favored candidate of voters ahead of primary election day
Pennsylvania's primary election is on May 17 and many voters are still undecided
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Can someone out there dox Soros?
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Justice Clarence Thomas said on Friday that the court cannot be 'bullied' by protesters over the leak of the Supreme Court decision regarding Roe v Wade
The leak set off a political firestorm, with abortion-rights supporters staging rallies outside the courthouse and at locations around the United States
Thomas, one of the most conservative justices on the nine-member court, made only a few passing references to the protests at a conference in Atlanta
As a society, 'we are becoming addicted to wanting particular outcomes, not living with the outcomes we don't like,' Thomas said
'We can't be an institution that can be bullied into giving you just the outcomes you want. The events from earlier this week are a symptom of that'
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If the SCOTUS decides to continue Roe vs. Wade?
The Protesters will take this as a victory by their using threats of attacks to accomplish their goals.
This will lead to bolder Political and Radical Threats and subversive actions, as other Far Left Agendas become threaten by the SCOTUS rulings.
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Like most things these days, we will never get the truth about what happened. I don't see all this printing going on if this wasn't how they were going to vote. But I don't actually know that.
A thought the whole idea of lifetime appointments was to be past all political and public pressure to do this or that as opposed to following the law.
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I thought...
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Ref #2: No, prolly never get the truth on that one. Likely one the black robed tyrants themselves. If it was one of the underlings, they'd have been run outta town by now. The entire matter has now been Memory Hole express laned.
[Breitbart] Democratic strategist James Carville said Thursday on CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... ’s "OutFront" that the average American does not understand how good the U.S. economy is doing.
Burnett said, "So mentioned a new CNN poll that found two-thirds of all Americans now disapprove of how President Biden specifically is handling the economy, two-thirds of all Americans. That’s bad. On top of that, more than 50% of Democrats think the economy is in poor shape, up 16 percentage points from December. Eighty-one percent of independents think the economy is in poor shape. These are all bad, no good numbers in this entire thing. How big of a problem is this for the president?"
Carville said, "Well, it’s a huge problem. Let me tell you another thing. A plurality of Americans think no jobs have been created under Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. S You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... , and I think in his first 16 months it’s the best opening 16 months of any president since World War II in job creation."
He continued, "We have supply chain issues causing a great deal of grief. Shanghai is probably the leading port in the world in terms of supply chain. So they have formidable problems but understand we’ve had real good job creation and we have had a real reduction in child poverty."
He added, "I don’t think people, I think there is an entire picture of an economy here. I don’t think the people in America are understanding completely where it is. There are bad things, but if we’re making these decisions on the assumption, no jobs created, that’s just not true. Jobs are being created left and right."
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inflation is so bad that in the past 2 months a lot of people, probably over 50k have come out of retirement because they need more income to survive
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I view this statement as an intent to make the economy much much worse.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...mayor of San Franciscoas it transformed itself into Poopville, currently governor of Californiaas it transforms itself into Cinderland...
...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
President Biden on Friday told a story involving an Amtrak conductor who supposedly grabbed his cheeks and shouted "Joey, baby!" — despite facts contradicting the tale, which Biden has told on at least six prior occasions as president.
