The short answer by Bill King: not enough design margin. Market forces would not pay for reserve reliability and renewables could not provide it.
Continue reading “Why the Texas power grid failed”The serpent revealed
Money and power rears its reptilian head in the Internet walled gardens.
New at the Belmont Club.
The social media war goes global
‘We will not be intimidated’: PM takes Facebook fight to India and the world
Global leaders will be asked to back Australia in a fight with Facebook after the social media giant silenced news, health and emergency services in a bid to halt a federal law.
Was ‘60 Minutes’ TV’s Most Toxic Workplace? – The New York Times
Behind the righteous facade.
Continue reading “Was ‘60 Minutes’ TV’s Most Toxic Workplace? – The New York Times”Facebook Takes Down All Posts Spreading Misinformation About Fictional Nation Of ‘Australia’
The big reveal
The world is getting an illuminating glimpse into the power wielded by Facebook, Amazon and social media which can blank out Australia, remake the retail landscape of India. They’ve watched in breathless wonder as tens of thousands of nursing home deaths were covered up by the official news. Some have stood awestruck as the Western medical bureaucracy shut down whole economies and entire continents.
Continue reading “The big reveal”Amazon’s secret plan
It’s almost like they had a secret plan to dominate the world.
Amazon documents reveal company’s strategy to dodge India’s regulators
Internal documents show how Amazon secretly favored big sellers on its India platform and got around rules meant to protect the country’s small retailers.
Cuomo thunderbolt and lightning
Cuomo said ‘he can destroy me’: NY assemblyman alleges governor threatened him over nursing homes scandal
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been pleading with lawmakers for support and even threatening political retribution against Democrats who have criticized him in an aggressive effort to contain political fallout from revelations that his administration had concealed the full extent of nursing home-rel…
Cars break down en mass in Rangoon
Cars mysteriously break down in Burma. Suspected protest.
Muse experiences mass vehicle breakdowns
Multiple cars suffered breakdowns at road junctions near the 105 Mile trading zone at Muse on the morning of February 17.
Facebook censors countries
The announcement comes in response to proposed new laws in Australia that would force tech companies to negotiate with media companies over how much to pay them for news content.
Mark Zuckerberg has also been featured on a Project Veritas secret video expressing doubts about the Covid 19 mRNA vaccines that the company has forbidden others to say.
Facebook restricts Australians’ access to news
Facebook will restrict publishers and people in Australia from sharing or viewing Australian and international news content. The move will also prevent people overseas from sharing Australian content on the social media site.
De Blasio calls for ‘full accounting’ of Cuomo nursing home cover-up
Mankind in the Iron Mask
Why Vaccine Passports Are ‘Inevitable,’ Explained By Tony Blair
The former British Prime Minister says they are the fastest way back to normal.
An unholy alliance
A coalition between left wing activists and business titans. One wants your body and the other your soul. Can it endure?
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Covid “may never go away”
Experts have some news for those who thought bringing back the old order would change everything. “White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci, Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel and World Health Organization executive director of the Health Emergencies Program Dr. Mike Ryan have said in recent weeks that the coronavirus may never go away.”
Doctors warn that Covid will become endemic and people need to learn to live with it
More and more physicians and public health officials are warning that even with the mass rollout of vaccines, Covid may become endemic.
Anal swabs as Chìna shows the way
Health authorities in China are testing residents for coronavirus – using anal swabs.
Doctors claim the invasive procedure can be more effective in detecting the virus than nasal swabs.
Missing Link sought in coronavirus origin
WHO proposes the virus came to humans from bats through an unidentified species. But which?
WHO releases report on COVID-19 origin after independent investigation in Wuhan
The WHO and Chinese investigators announced several key findings including that the virus could have been present in other regions or countries before the first cases were reported in Wuhan.
Acquitted
“A conviction would have also set the stage for a vote to bar him from serving in public office again.” The outcome leaves the populist forces in the field and the old GOP party in the dust.
Up next: the battle to define conservative politics as Biden faces a new world.
Donald Trump acquitted of incitement of insurrection in second Senate impeachment trial
The US Senate votes to acquit former president Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial, with less than two thirds of senators finding him guilty of incitement of insurrection.
Was it suddenly or all along?
It’s abandon ship at the Lincoln Project. The worst lies are those we make up and come to believe ourselves.
Cuomo And The Lincoln Project Are Media-Created Monsters
A culture of impunity led media to celebrate a governor who presided over a cover-up of nursing-home carnage and boost a GOP group now engulfed in scandal.
Masked until further notice
The mutating virus is in an evolutionary race with politicians and public health authorities. How long did it take them to win the Cold War or War on Terror again?
Biden tells Americans to wear masks for COVID-19 until at least 2022
President Biden on Thursday stressed the importance of wearing masks until at least 2022 to save lives — despite declaring the US will have enough supply of vaccines by the summer to inoculate 300 …
Scoops missed by that much
Ben Shapiro expresses disappointment at all the bombshell scoops — Cuomo, Hunter Biden, the Lincoln Project — that the press just missed exposing presumably due to bad luck.