San Francisco, a city run by Democrats, has erected a huge steel wall downtown to increase security during Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping’s visit.
More: Newsom Assures Homeless They Can Resume Pooping On Sidewalks Once His Boss Leaves
I, Napoleon
To roaring applause: Lynne Pinches refuses to play against trans woman Harriet (Harry) Haynes in the EPA Women’s Champions of Champions Final today
Ban All The Things! Trust New Technology!
Oh, well I guess it’s back to coal.
Nuclear power is emission-free but complex, expensive and politically fraught. In recent years, small modular reactors have been touted as the answer to those problems. In the US, NuScale Energy Corp. has been at the vanguard of efforts to build viable SMRs.
So it was a significant blow to the industry last week when NuScale abruptly canceled a deal to construct the Carbon Free Power Project, a 462-megawatt power plant slated for a Utah-based consortium of municipal utilities.
For nuclear advocates, SMRs promise atomic plants that are faster and cheaper to build than large, conventional facilities that are bespoke. NuScale is the only company to win US approval
for an advanced fission reactor design. It was widely expected to deliver the first commercial power plant using next-generation technology.
However, like many other industrial projects, NuScale’s plans were beset by delays and soaring costs. It faced rising prices for steel and other key materials, as well as higher interest rates. The final blow for NuScale came when some members of the Utah group backed away from commitments to purchase power. NuScale wanted contracts for at least 80% of the electricity, but it fell short.
Related. Trust me, this is worth five minutes of your time.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
However much you hate the media, it’s not enough.
On October 7, four photojournalists who provide reporting and photos for the likes of the Associated Press (AP), CNN, the New York Times, Reuters, and other outlets were allegedly at the Israeli border with Hamas terrorists who committed acts of atrocities against innocent Israeli civilians that shocked the world. Since an Israel-supporting news watchdog website reported the claim, everyone wants to know if these Gaza-based reporters knew in advance about the attack and, more importantly, if they could have saved lives by alerting the world about it. The question arises: Did the AP, CNN, the New York Times, and Reuters know about the Hamas terror attack in advance?
The allegations have sent major media into panic mode and generated even more mistrust in the corporate press. […]
In war reporting, journalists are often given a heads-up and allowed to chronicle American troops heading into battle, for example. But this wasn’t an act of war — it was terror. It was murder for murder’s sake. There hadn’t been an Israeli offensive to which the Gaza terror organization was responding. Indeed, if Hamas had been wearing uniforms and acting as an “army” they would be accused of war crimes. As it is, they’re accused of crimes against humanity.
Are We Still A Member Of This Thing?
Since that horrific day, the U.N. has called numerous emergency sessions, held hours of debate, drafted hundreds of pages of draft resolutions – all of which amount to very little.
It has not passed a single resolution to condemn Hamas’ savagery, even though terrorists wore GoPros to document themselves slaughtering, raping and torturing civilians. Similarly, the U.N. has not called for the release of more than 200 hostages, including babies, children and the elderly.
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Well, this sucks: Physicists Simulated a Black Hole in The Lab.
The Most Interesting Man In The World
Those Moderate Muslims
Via Gad Saad – Don’t worry. It will all work out. We need to redouble our efforts to fight against Islamophobia.
Hundreds of Arab anti-Israel protesters traveled to a Jewish neighborhood in Melbourne, Australia to intimidate the local Jews.
A synagogue had to be evacuated after protesters started gathering outside
Soon, Jews were spat on & physically attacked
Margin Of Fraud
20-year Fulton County Election Official Susan Voyles Says Test Ballots Counted In Georgia
“This is the part that I am just so sure of. I think that some of the TEST BALLOTS from prior to the election made their way into these batches.”
“These are so clean, these are pristine. These are almost immaculate… I could tell that these had been printed… 107 of them all had this little eclipse for Biden… Every vote on every ballot, both sides, even soil and conservation, was exactly the same.”
“These were the cleanest ballots I have ever in my life seen… And then the paper felt different. There was just such an anomaly to these ballots.”
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that these 145,000 ballots in Fulton County need to be forensically audited.
Yet election integrity advocates like @VoterGa have been fighting in court for three years to inspect these “pristine” ballots on “different paper” with “no folds, or creases” and “perfect bubbles” that were “all for Biden.”
Simply Perfection
In separate warnings that could be unprecedented, the United Kingdom and Canada have both simultaneously declared terrorist threat travel alerts against each other.
h/t Jim.
Whatsisname’s Britain – Bumped For More Chewy Diversity Goodness!
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and Bobbies bar native born British “right wing thugs” from reaching the Cenotaph on Remembrance Day.
Or, they attempted to.
Tense scenes in central London as police clash with people trying to get near the Cenotaph war memorial for Remembrance Day/Veterans Day. They eventually get through and it becomes calm.
Five weeks of pro-Hamas protest is just healthy diversity.
DIVERSITY UPDATE: Pro-Palestine mob deface WWI memorial and scale buildings as police lose control
A pro-Palestine mob have defaced a World War 1 memorial and scaled buildings in Central London as police lose control of the march.
Footage and photos from the scene show a World War 1 memorial covered in signs with a “Free Palestine” placard attached to the statue of the soldier.
Other memorials were targeted too. Taking to X, GB News contributor Darren Grimes said: “Pro-Palestine yobs drape our war memorials in foreign flags, desecrating the Machine Gun Corps Memorial at Wellington Arch. Where are the police?”
Close by two pro-Palestine protesters scaled a building only to be met by security on the level they decided to leave at.
Their actions come as police lose control of the protest which has seen over 100,000 people march through Central London on Armistice Day.
@RaheemKassam– Muslims are terrorising the streets of central London tonight. No one is stopping them. Britain is on the cusp of recognising the importance of America’s Second Amendment.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Breitbart has the latest on an allegation that’s been picking up steam over the past day or two.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration is demanding answers from several prominent news agencies after criticism emerged of their photographers appearing to have been embedded with Hamas terrorists during the October 7 attack.
As Breitbart News reported Wednesday, the Associated Press said that it had no foreknowledge of the attack, even though its photographers appeared alongside Hamas terrorists from the first moments that they broke through the Gaza border fence.
The pro-Israel media watchdog organization brought up ethical concerns Wednesday, noting that media photographers seemed to have known about the attack and were quite at ease among the terrorists, who were shooting every other civilian they found.
Later, photographs emerged of one of the photographers posing for selfies with the local Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar.
What were they doing there so early on what would ordinarily have been a quiet Saturday morning? Was it coordinated with Hamas? Did the respectable wire services, which published their photos, approve of their presence inside enemy territory, together with the terrorist infiltrators? Did the photojournalists who freelance for other media, like CNN and The New York Times, notify these outlets? Judging from the pictures of lynching, kidnapping and storming of an Israeli kibbutz, it seems like the border has been breached not only physically, but also journalistically. […]
HonestReporting has obtained screenshots of Eslaiah’s now-removed tweets on X in which he documented himself standing in front of the Israeli tank. He did not wear a press vest or a helmet, and the Arabic caption of his tweet read: “Live from inside the Gaza Strip settlements.”
More: Impartial CNN Gaza Reporter Joined Hamas Terrorists During Mass Slaughter of 1,400 Jews on Oct. 7. – Was Filmed Carrying Grenade to the Kibbutz Massacre
This Is My Brother Muhammad, And This Is My Other Brother Muhammad
Gradually, Then Suddenly.
In plain terms, yesterday’s bond auction means the government sale of debt that is necessary to continue running the economic Ponzi scheme we call fiscal and monetary policy didn’t go quite as well as old crow Janet Yellen’s medicine show would have liked.
Lest We Forget
Live coverage from Ottawa: National Remembrance Day Service
More Pavilions At Folkfest
Related: Hamas supporters in NYC have surrounded Grand Central Station and are attempting to breach the outer doors to reach police officers sheltering inside. (fixed)
War On Meat: ENEMY IN RETREAT
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
If a frog is put suddenly into freezing water, it will jump out, but if the frog is put in tepid water which is then cooled slowly, it will not perceive the danger and will be frozen to death.
In 2019, then-President Donald Trump mocked the idea of powering our society on unreliable wind and solar power by joking, “Darling? Darling? Is the wind blowing today? I’d like to watch television.”
Now, wind and solar advocacy groups are advocating for this exact policy, but instead of being honest with the public about their desire to curb your electricity use when the wind isn’t blowing or the sun isn’t shining, they use innocuous-sounding words like “demand response” and “load flexibility” to hide their true intentions from ordinary people.
For example, Fresh Energy, a wind and solar special interest group located in Minnesota, says the grid of the future will need to be balanced not by building enough reliable peaking power plants to make sure the lights stay on but by charging people more to disincentivize them from using power during times of peak demand and otherwise controlling or rationing power to keep wide scale blackouts from occurring.
Don’t expect sanity to intervene in Minnesota any time soon.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
Cruisin’ into robo-bankruptcy;
The bad news continues for Cruise, the autonomous vehicle company owned by GM.
Last month Cruise’s ability to operate in San Francisco was suspended after their cars were involved in two separate accidents. One of the accidents was very serious and involved a woman who was hit by a car driven by a person in an adjacent lane. The victim was sent flying into the lane of the Cruise taxi which braked but wound up running over the woman. Even worse, the taxi performed an automated procedure to move itself out of the way and wound up dragging the victim under the car.
In the wake of that event, Cruise suspended its operations throughout the US.
It gets worse.
G.M. has spent an average of $588 million a quarter on Cruise over the past year, a 42 percent increase from a year ago. Each Chevrolet Bolt that Cruise operates costs $150,000 to $200,000, according to a person familiar with its operations.
Half of Cruise’s 400 cars were in San Francisco when the driverless operations were stopped. Those vehicles were supported by a vast operations staff, with 1.5 workers per vehicle. The workers intervened to assist the company’s vehicles every 2.5 to five miles, according to two people familiar with is operations. In other words, they frequently had to do something to remotely control a car after receiving a cellular signal that it was having problems.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Like the hostage posters anti-Semites are pulling down in major cities in the US and Europe, WaPo staffers don’t want to be reminded of what they actually support.