Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Want to understand why the net zero green energy scheme is a potential disaster waiting for us: Watch this short video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed8JLg92zGw

Making the US less dependent on foreign pharmaceutical sources

Merck to invest $1B in new US plant to make blockbuster cancer treatment Keytruda



If Europe wants to stop Russian expansionism they need to stand up

Waltz says Ukraine’s defense must be ‘European-led,’ calls out ‘woefully inadequate’ allies over preparedness



Good shooting and the end of a repeat offender

Driver of stolen Porsche shot dead by cops after attempting to evade roadblock and nearly hitting officer: NYPD



Another law breaking judge caught

Boston judge set to face hearing for helping illegal migrant slip out of court to avoid ICE agents in 2018



Sounds like a criminal act to me

Employee hospitalized, diagnosed with failed pancreas after US investment bank forced 110-hour work week: report



What they say about assumptions!


Tourist’s dumb decision nearly costs him his life in crocodile enclosure



J.B. Pritzker is the oligarch the Dems are waiting for...a super wealthy trust funder who has never produced a thing

Yes, J.B. Pritzker is running for president: Time to make him a figure of fun

Q. What’s the 2028 version of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris?
 
A. J.B. Pritzker and Stacey Abrams. Their campaign slogan is Make America Morbidly Obese Again.
 
Pritzker has subtly, but very clearly called for political violence against Republicans. He deliberately timed this call for the first week of warm weather in the Chicago area. And there’s really no telling what will happen this weekend, or the rest of the summer, as a result.
 
We have a president who was targeted by active shooters — not once, but twice. He was actually shot once. There have been many other credible threats against Donald Trump’s life, including a plot by the Iranian regime.
 
Clearly, we live in a period of increased political violence and volatility, due almost entirely to Black Lives Matter, Antifa and other Democrat-aligned groups. Democrats will fire back about Jan. 6, but there’s more and more evidence that that was a deliberate set-up by elements that were (and remain) hostile to Republicans.
 
Besides, that was one genuinely “mostly peaceful protest” that got a little bit out of hand. BLM and Antifa spearheaded at least 700 bona fide riots in the summer of 2020, with more than 25 people killed, over 1000 police officers injured, and billions of dollars in damage.
 
In his statement, Pritzker didn’t say or do anything to discourage violence. Clearly, he wants the summer of 2025 to be another “Summer of Love,” as the Democratic governor of Washington described the summer of 2020.
 
Following is how we should be expressing displeasure with our political opponents in America. As Saul Alinsky pointed out, the most potent political weapon is ridicule.

Spain’s power network has remained silent on the actual cause of Europe’s worst power blackout in a generation,

‘Net Zero Madness’: Spain’s Reliance on Solar Energy Blamed For Massive Nations-Wide Power Cut

Spain’s power network has remained silent on the actual cause of Europe’s worst power blackout in a generation, but has acknowledged that it is “very possible” that a problem with solar power systems may have contributed to the failure.

A freak weather incident was blamed on Monday for a massive power cut that affected the entire Iberian Peninsula, depriving Spain and Portugal of electricity. However, this narrative was quickly questioned by energy industry insiders, and Spain’s national energy company now acknowledges that renewable power failure may have been a contributing factor.

Red Eléctrica (RE), the national energy grid firm, has stated that it has ruled out a cyberattack and insists, “We were able to conclude that there was indeed no intrusion into Red Eléctrica’s control system,” despite the national counter-terrorism prosecutor ordering an inquiry. Judge José Luis Calama has given RE and the national cyber-security centre ten days to compile initial reports into the sabotage hypothesis, reports El País.

While the Spanish media is today full of the effects of yesterday’s total blackout, with 150,000 having to be rescued from underground trains trapped in tunnels and whole areas, including hospitals, left without water as the electric-powered pumps fell silent, the public unable to buy food and drink unless they had ready cash to hand, and telephone and internet networks being rendered non-functional, less is being said about how the crisis began.

Bloomberg energy industry journalist Javier Blas, who is Spanish, stated he had received the RE timeline on how power fluctuations caused a cascading failure that disconnected the whole Peninsula and millions of people from electricity, but noted caustically that “I find very difficult to believe that the Spanish government doesn’t have by now a rough idea of the origin of the blackout… [there is] silence about the causes of the worst blackout in living memory in Europe.”

Blas related that, per RE, there had been two “events” that had been “akin to loss of power generation” within one and a half seconds of each other. While the grid was able to self-stabilise after the first, it could not resist the second, leading to a cascade failure, including the loss of the France-Spain power interconnector.Incredibly, it was revealed that earlier statements from RE that there had been some power generation still available on Monday in Spain had been mistaken. At the “worst point of the blackout, Iberian Peninsula generation did fall to zero”, meaning that two whole European countries had no energy being supplied to their national grids whatsoever for the best part of a day.

As noted by Blas, RE remains silent on the actual causes of those “events” but it is reported Tuesday morning that the network has acknowledged it is “plausible” the cause was a sudden loss of solar power at a time when it was supporting 70 per cent of national demand, causing the whole system to stall.

Spain has one of the greenest power systems in the world, and just this month, it celebrated powering the entire Iberian Peninsula — the south-western part of Europe, primarily covered by Spain and Portugal — with only renewable energy. Like many European countries, left-wing Spain has been busy demolishing its conventional power plants and is even, like Germany, decommissioning its nuclear power fleet.

Just last week, Spain signalled that it was open to reconsidering the rush to phase out nuclear amid global energy insecurity, indicating that the government had already realised it was going too far, too fast with total renewables.

Energy consultant Kathryn Porter, one of those who early on questioned the initial claims that the outage may have been caused by freak atmospheric conditions —  “unusual meteorological or atmospheric phenomenon”, force majeure in other words and a handy means of avoiding blame — didn’t go so far as to say the cause had been a cyber attack but said it was “certainly possible”. As noted by Spain’s national telecoms company in 2022, Spain is one of the most-targeted countries for cyberattacks in the world.

Yet more critical, Porter said, was that Spain’s rush for solar and wind had made the power network more fragile because, without system inertia and redundancy, it is susceptible to shock.

In this case, as Porter stated, inertia isn’t metaphorical: traditional power networks are kept synchronised and insulated against shock by the literal inertia produced by the enormous spinning metal of turbines and generators inside power stations. Solar power, which has no moving parts, does not contribute to this at all, and wind turbines have much smaller generators with less inertial energy.

It is this lack of inertia in the Spanish and Portuguese renewable-heavy system that may have allowed what could have been a local blackout to spread to the whole network, with oscillations in the system causing power inputs — like power stations, solar arrays, and even energy import interconnectors — to automatically disconnect themselves to prevent severe damage to their equipment.

A report on the importance of inertia in a functioning power grid cited by Porter in turn quoted the United Kingdom’s National Grid Electricity System Operator, who explained in 2022: “Operating the system with low inertia will continue to represent a key operational challenge into the future and we will need to ensure we improve our understanding of the challenges this will bring”.

That report, published by a supplier of clutches for power stations, noted: “Renewable generation is increasingly displacing conventional generation in the generation mix, reducing the amount of heavy, rotating turbines on the grid and therefore the amount of inertia they provide.”

These fragilities are not unknown to the electricity industry, and much has been written on the challenges of transition to renewable power. Yet Bloomberg’s Blas wrote just last week that it has only been comparatively recently that the green energy lobby has even acknowledged such problems, having taken the position in the past that any criticism of green energy systems was motivated by cynicism and ideological opposition, rather than what he called “electricity realism” and real concern about grid resilience.

He wrote last week:

…[the risk is] matching a demand that requires 24/7 supply with a generation system that, at the margin, depends today on whether the sun is shining and the wind is blowing… It’s unclear how the grid will work when the weather isn’t helping. That’s a reality that the IEA — and renewable advocates — have long downplayed. It’s refreshing that’s now acknowledged openly.

As splashed by Spanish conservative newspaper El Mundo this morning, Red Eléctrica itself warned its shareholders that the shift to an all-renewable power model, as being pursued, “increases the risk of operational incidents,” blaming “regulator requirements” for the closures of traditional power. Nevertheless, when this warning reached the ears of the public and RE were questioned by the press, the company insisted, “There is no risk of blackout” because “Red Eléctrica guarantees the supply”.

Naturally, political attention throughout Europe has turned to the Iberian blackout, particularly as left-leaning governments strive to catch up with Spain in what they call decarbonising their own energy grids. In the United Kingdom, where the government says it wants to reach “Net Zero carbon emissions” by 2050 and wants to achieve this without importing slave-labour-linked solar panels from China, Green Great Reset sceptics have spoken out on the need for a pause and rethink in the light of this week’s events.

Brexit’s Nigel Farage, who is already styling himself as a Prime Minister in waiting and who is cruising towards what pollsters say may be a convincing election victory in nationwide local government contests this week, said on Tuesday morning that “the power outage in Spain is a warning”. The United Kingdom is dangerously reliant on foreign energy imports, he said, stating: “This net zero madness must end”.

Trump strips 4,000 student visas over first 100 days — 90% flagged for 'serious' crimes


Trump strips 4,000 student visas over first 100 days — 90% flagged for 'serious' crimes

Impacted students who haven't already left the country will soon face deportation.

President Donald Trump's administration revoked roughly 4,000 visas for foreign students over the first 100 days of his second term.

A senior official with the Department of State told the New York Postthat 90% of those who had their visas revoked had a "serious" criminal record.

'We established an action working group, which has resulted in thousands of visas being revoked because these individuals broke our laws.'

The foreign students were accused of a list of illegal offenses, including arson, human trafficking, child endangerment, domestic abuse, robbery, and more.

The news outlet reported that 500 of the individuals were accused of assault.

Democrats love their crooks


Democrat proposal will decriminalize welfare fraud under $25,000 in California

The state senator says administrative errors have led to unfair criminal investigations. 

California state lawmakers are proposing a law to decriminalize some cases of welfare fraud under $25,000 that were due to administrative errors. 

The bill, proposed by Democrat state Sen. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas, is meant to allow some cases of alleged welfare fraud to be investigated by officials rather than be handed over for criminal prosecution. 

The bill does not help the needy but rather shields 'those who intentionally steal from assistance programs and put the viability of those programs at risk.' 

"California’s safety net should lift families up, not trap them in poverty," the Democrat told Fox News Digital. "Right now, a missed deadline or paperwork mistake can lead to felony charges that tear families apart — even when there’s no intent to deceive."

"This bill is about keeping families out of the criminal justice system from making administrative errors on raising the threshold for welfare fraud prosecutions," she said on social media.


The danger posed by repeat offenders being allowed to roam free

54-year-old repeat offender accused of fatally stabbing woman, 25, after first spitting on her in Chicago



Tuesday, April 29, 2025

The ICC doesn't want you to know what they're doing

ICC judges order that arrest warrant requests in Palestine case be kept secret



Exclusive: Prosecutor barred from public announcements as he prepares round of applications for Israeli suspects

The prosecutor of the international criminal court has been restrained from publicising any new applications for arrest warrants in the court’s Palestine case after judges ordered they must be kept secret, the Guardian has learned.

In an order issued behind closed doors this month, ICC judges are understood to have told the prosecutor, Karim Khan, he can no longer make public announcements referring to the existence of his applications for arrest warrants or his intention to seek them.

The new order comes as Khan is preparing a fresh round of applications for Israeli suspects in connection to alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in the occupied Palestinian territories, according to sources familiar with the situation.

Khan has already secured arrest warrants against Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister Yoav Gallant. A warrant was also obtained for the leader of Hamas’s military wing but was withdrawn after he was confirmed dead.

The inconvenient truth of unicorn farts and net zero

Power Restored In Spain, Portugal But The Situation Reveals A Very Serious Underlying Problem...

BY TYLER DURDEN
TUESDAY, APR 29, 2025 - 05:05 AM

Spanish power distributor Red Eléctrica announced on X early Tuesday that 99% of the country's power capacity had been restored following a daylong, unprecedented blackout that plunged much of Europe's Iberian Peninsula into chaos and darkness.

Zimbabwe

April 26, 2025

Zimbabwe has started paying out white farmers who were stripped of land due to reforms more than two decades ago. But many of the former commercial farmers are seeking to renegotiate the compensation deal of 2020 because, they say, due to the long-term nature of the payout, some may never even see any money.

https://www.dw.com/en/zimbabwe-pays-white-farmers-compensation-but-is-it-enough/video-72337162

The consequence of no consequences

Illegal migrant accused of snatching Kristi Noem’s Gucci purse was free after similar crime in NYC last month



Leftists are certain they are entitled to arson and violence

Tesla arson suspect arrested in Arizona after he allegedly set brand new Cybertruck on fire


Police in Arizona arrested a suspected arsonist at a Tesladealership after he allegedly lit a newly delivered Cybertruck on fire.

Mesa police responded just before 2:00 a.m. on Monday, April 28, to reports of an explosion at the Tesla Service Center in Mesa, Ariz. 

Witnesses reported smoke and flames near the building, which officers determined were coming from a newly delivered Tesla Cybertruck.

Footage from Fox News affiliate, KSAZ-TV, captured federal and state law enforcement surrounding the Tesla dealership after the fire was put out.

The arson suspect, identified by local police as 35-year-old Ian Moses, allegedly wrote “THEIF” (sic) on the side of the dealership before setting the Cybertruck on fire.

The footage captured the charred electric truck as investigators taped off the scene. No injuries were reported.

During their investigation, police said they noticed a suspicious van parked nearby and observed a man riding a bicycle approaching and opening the van’s door.

Officers immediately contacted the individual and identified the suspect.

Investigators were able to match Moses to security photos captured by the Tesla Security Center during the incident.

He was arrested and booked into jail for one count of arson of a structure and property.

The Mesa Police Department announced that it is collaborating with federal authorities, and additional charges against Moses are pending as the investigation continues.


This arrest comes amid a broader national movement targeting Musk’s companies, driven by activists protesting the billionaire’s involvement with the Trump administration.

Fox News Digital has reported on recent Tesla vandalism incidents nationwide. 

A Minnesota man is accused of causing $20,000 in damage to Tesla vehicles. Surveillance footage in Florida captured two suspects ramming through a dealership gate and stealing a Tesla.

This arrest comes amid a broader national movement targeting Musk’s companies, driven by activists protesting the billionaire’s involvement with the Trump administration.

Fox News Digital has reported on recent Tesla vandalism incidents nationwide. 

A Minnesota man is accused of causing $20,000 in damage to Tesla vehicles. Surveillance footage in Florida captured two suspects ramming through a dealership gate and stealing a Tesla.

Another pedophile teacher

Alabama teacher charged with raping 12-year-old student



What a difference a President makes


Only nine illegal immigrants released into US during Trump’s first 100 days — 99.99% drop from same period under Biden: Homan