As New York State Energy Planning Board charts our energy future to implement the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), it is essential that we consider daily/hourly/seasonal demand profiles for each consuming region. Such sober analysis would help identify what combination of generation technologies can reliably serve the electricity loads and avoid blackouts… all while being cost effective and environmentally sustainable.

The below chart illustrates the daily grid electric load for New York State. There is an orange dot for each day corresponding to the average load in megawatts (MWs). //

However, let’s focus on minimum daily load. The rectangle underneath the teal line represents New York’s grid electricity needs that is constant over 365 days of the year. Since the 2023 total demand was 16,785 MW, 79% of New York’s electricity consumption is constant — also known as “baseload demand.”

The below chart graphs minimum daily load (in gigawatt-hours, GWh) against total demand over the 7 years 2017-2023. The light teal box shows the range of baseload demand over the period. Over 3/4 of New York’s grid electric consumption is constant.

Jack Smith has failed in his quest to try Donald Trump before the 2024 election. So instead, the special counsel has bent ordinary procedure to get in one last shot, just weeks before voters go to the polls.

Smith has now dropped a 165-page doorstop of a filing in federal court, on the issue of Trump’s immunity from prosecution. Judge Tanya Chutkan — who suddenly claims not to care about the impending election despite her earlier efforts to expedite the case to get it in before the very same election… duly complied with Smith’s wishes… //

New York Magazine
@NYMag
·
Follow
The special counsel had information he wanted to make public. But he bent important rules to do so, writes legal columnist Elie Honig.
nymag.com
Jack Smith’s October Surprise
9:12 AM · Oct 3, 2024 //

The larger, if less obvious, headline is that Smith has essentially abandoned any pretense; he’ll bend any rule, switch up on any practice — so long as he gets to chip away at Trump’s electoral prospects. At this point, there’s simply no defending Smith’s conduct on any sort of principled or institutional basis. “But we need to know this stuff before we vote!” is a nice bumper sticker, but it’s neither a response to nor an excuse for Smith’s unprincipled, norm-breaking practice. (It also overlooks the fact that the Justice Department bears responsibility for taking over two and a half years to indict in the first place.)

Jon from Richardson 75080
2 minutes ago
On the other hand, FOX News had a reporter reporting on striking dock workers. He asked the group how many were going to vote for Trump. ALL BUT ONE HAND WENT UP. The one guy who resisted was not going to explain why. //

Political-Paige
2 hours ago
Any mention of the fact that the ILE strike ended about 3 hours after DeSantis did a presser that he was sending in the FL Nat'l Guard to secure and "restore operations" in Florida's many ports?
He folded the paper tiger faster than an origami contest.

Erick-Woods Erickson
Oct 04, 2024

A lot of people who think the government is a mess are upset that it has been slow to respond to Helene. Of course it has. What did you expect?

In fact, it was FIVE DAYS after the storm struck that Joe Biden really mobilized the government. The Southern Baptist Convention was already on the ground while the flood waters were still raging.

The government is not going to help you.

You think FEMA is a mess? You’re damn right it is. You do not need to imagine maliciousness when the government that got research showing COVID doesn’t spread well outside decided to shut down beaches. You do not need to imagine maliciousness when the government that got research showing COVID mostly does not affect kids chose to shut down elementary schools. You do not need to imagine maliciousness when the government cannot deliver the mail competently, which is an Article 1, Section 8 responsibility, unlike disaster relief.

Besides, these people are fools, and a dementia patient leads them.

Pete Buttigieg and the Biden Administration have hindered private aviation’s ability to rescue people and ferry supplies as needed because Buttigieg et al put their trust in Uncle Sam’s man boob. Meanwhile, in North Carolina, neighbors are helping neighbors. Towns are rallying. Private helicopter pilots are defying threats of arrest to rescue people. Private pilots are shuttling supplies as needed. Baptists and Mormons are working together as first responders.

The question should not be about the government stopping citizens' private charity but about the response of those citizens and communities to the government trying to stop them. After all, the government is ultimately beholden to the people.

Joe Biden's government wants people to rely on the government. After all, Democrats believe the government is the only thing we are all a part of. They forget about the community. We are all part of one. And our local community is what will help us through hard times. The local communities of North Carolina will provide more help than FEMA. The state government of North Carolina and its neighbors will provide more immediate resources and do more heavy lifting than the federal government and that is by design and how it should be.

FEMA has prioritized equity for relief distributions, and it’s still looking for underserved non-white communities in the mountains to help first.

FEMA and the feds should be a last resort. These disasters are best recovered at the state level, with an assist from the Feds. Local and state disasters are not, after all, in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution.

Currently, however, some people on social media profit from rumors, unsourced allegations, and lies. My personal favorite is about Chimney Rock, NC, where the feds have purportedly told people they’re going to leave the bodies in the street and let them rot, then bulldoze the town and take the land. Seriously — that allegation had over 2,000,000 views on Twitter.

It is not true.

How do I know? I asked my friend who lives in Chimney Rock who survived the disaster.

Lots of people are showing drone footage, claiming no one is coming to help the locals. Well, someone is there—bulldozers and dump trucks are working. You can see them in the very footage used as proof no one is there to help.

It is probably not FEMA, but it is not supposed to be. Despite the branding, FEMA is not actually a first responder and never has been. We’ve only been conditioned to think FEMA comes first because of Anderson Cooper’s outrage about the incompetent state and federal response to Katrina on CNN in 2005.

The Southern Baptists always show up first.

Americans show up first. They are first in and last out, as they should be. The government is not malicious. The trolls are preying on many people’s existing distrust of government to sow more discord and division. If it sounds super outrageous online, it just might not be true. //

What is true is that Americans will take care of each other, with or without the federal government. And this, my friends, is another reminder that we should not grow the federal government for Republican purposes. We should gut it and encourage people to rely more on their local communities and states.

In his pamphlet, “A Simple Way To Pray,” Martin Luther said of the line “Give us this day our daily bread,” in the Lord’s Prayer, that we should reflect on it praying, in part, “Grant to every estate-townsman or farmer-to be diligent and to display charity and loyalty toward each other.”

We get our daily bread not directly from God, but from the farmer who grows the wheat, the harvester who harvests the wheat, the petrol man who makes the gas to fuel the combine and truck that goes to market, the grocer who sells it, and the relief operator who buys it and delivers it to the mountains to those in need. It is the body of Christ working and the people in communities working who are going to provide relief and rescue.

The government will not save us. FEMA will not save us. We will save each other.

“[S]eek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.”

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Je 29:7). (2016). Crossway Bibles.

Modern doomsayers have been predicting climate and environmental disaster since the 1960s. They continue to do so today.

None of the apocalyptic predictions with due dates as of today have come true.

What follows is a collection of notably wild predictions from notable people in government and science.

More than merely spotlighting the failed predictions, this collection shows that the makers of failed apocalyptic predictions often are individuals holding respected positions in government and science.

While such predictions have been and continue to be enthusiastically reported by a media eager for sensational headlines, the failures are typically not revisited. //

1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life’

But no such ‘great peril to life’ has been observed as the so-called ‘ozone hole’ remains: //

2008: Al Gore warns of ice-free Arctic by 2013

But… it’s still there:

Perhaps you've seen the video of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg going around where he tells citizens to refrain from sending drones into the air, or piloting aircraft in the area where Helene has left a path of destruction.

"There's also some safety issues that come up," said Buttigieg. "For example, temporary flight restrictions to make sure the airspace is clear for any flights or drone activity that might be involved in helping to allow those emergency responders to do their job."

Brandon Morse @TheBrandonMorse
·
This video is the government attempting to stop footage from getting out that shows the extent of their ineptitude and halt civilians help so there’s no contrast to highlight it’s failure. Full stop.

12:26 PM · Oct 3, 2024

The excuse is that you need to keep your drone or aircraft out of the sky in order to allow emergency workers to do their jobs and not complicate matters. That would be a valid thing to suggest... if there was an effective rescue operation going on, but there's not. As I covered in my last VIP article, FEMA is out of disaster relief money because it was spent on illegals.

If you're like me, you probably didn't see this as a federal official attempting to help people. Given that this is the Biden-Harris administration, you probably became suspicious pretty quickly that something else was likely behind Buttigieg's words.

Personally, this feels a lot like a call for censorship, even if it's just an attempt to encourage it through "advice."

If you want to know what the real story on the ground is, the government isn't going to tell you. Their response has been disastrous, and it makes them look awful. The less you see of this disastrous response, the better for them. They can craft their own narrative where they were the ever-present heroes working hard to help victims.

But it would be an egregious lie. The real heroes are the ones out there helping their fellow civilians in any way they can. Private pilots are attempting to rescue stranded victims. Food and water are being delivered where it can be effective, and this is in spite of government disaster groups telling them to stop. //

Maximus Decimus Cassius
19 hours ago
The "authorities" are trying to enforce no-fly zones for everything--helicopters, drones, whatever--to prevent assistance to the stricken. This is beyond treason.

Lets just call it what it is: government sponsored genocide. //

Vigilo
17 hours ago
This is like the Biden regime response to the Maui wild fire. "No cameras allowed". //

Sancho Panza
18 hours ago
The idea of citizens taking direct action to make things better for their communities, neighbors, families and selves has uncomfortable connotations for fascists. They feel it keenly, and instinctively suppress it any way they can.

https://www.crossway.org/NEWSLE

The likely cause is the plant is essentially fully-depreciated //

CGNP's key finding was obtained by dividing PG&E's DCPP net cost forecast of $418,407,000.00 by the number of megawatt-hours (46,519,200 MWh) the plant would be producing if it ran 100% the time during this period. (PG&E must supply the replacement power any time the plant is not producing power, such as during an outage.) The net result was $8.9858 / MWh. Since there are 1,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) in a MWh, this corresponds to only 0.8958 net cents per kWh. This net cost is similar to the cost of running a large hydroelectric dam, the least-expensive means of grid-scale electric power production. //

Finally, DCPP's owners are not economically compensated for providing substantial synchronous grid inertia (SGI) to the California power grid. CGNP located a relevant 2018 filing from ERCOT, the Texas grid operator that underscores the economic value of nuclear power plants. Nuclear power plants contribute substantial capacity and SGI. ERCOT considers SGI so important that they post the current SGI value at their overview dashboard. CAISO should emulate ERCOT in properly valuing DCPP for its abundant capacity and SGI contribution to stabilize the California grid.

The government response to Hurricane Helene has been nothing short of horrific. As RedState has been covering, everything that should be functioning normally to help the American people in terms of rescue efforts and assistance has been a colossal failure due to our inept and corrupt government.

Amid all of this failure of government has been an incredible display from private citizens who are lining up to help those in trouble in the affected areas. They're willing to put their time, money, resources, and skills at the disposal of those in need. It truly is a stunning display of humanity.

(READ: The Government's Failure to Help After Helene Goes Far Beyond What the Media Is Willing to Tell You)

But among all of this are reports that there are government officials attempting to halt the people's efforts in various ways. They threaten to arrest helicopter pilots who are rescuing the stranded. Reports that FEMA has told people to stop giving supplies out privately and direct them to FEMA camps have been made.

As former Army Ranger and MMA fighter Tim Kennedy told a local news agency, the government is actively hampering attempts to help. //

A Man Of Memes @RickyDoggin
·
She’s based. She’s 100% correct and you can’t deny it or bust her argument.

Let’s change the status quo. The quickest way to change it is to vote for the person that both sides hate…. Hmmmm, I wonder who that is?

6:25 PM · Oct 3, 2024

Summarized, her point is this.

If the media were to begin accurately reporting on the civilian effort to help the people and how successful it's been, operating on a shoestring budget with supplies gathered here and there, and all without government assistance, then you'd likely start wondering what the point of the government is.

The government wants you to believe that without it, you're entirely vulnerable and at the mercy of everything around you. It wants you to believe that you need it for your protection and survival. To be sure, there are elements of it that should exist for that very reason. Police forces and the military are necessary to maintain safety from both domestic and foreign threats.

However, it's pretty clear that the extraordinary amount of taxpayer dollars that we pay to it in order to keep the country functioning as it should are being wasted continuously. Even with all the billions and billions of dollars it takes from us, it can't seem to prioritize it well enough to be utilized properly. You start to realize you don't need the government as much as you think you do, and before long, you're enthusiastic about shrinking it, giving it less of your money, and reducing the number of people who work there.

This is a nightmare scenario for the government. If you know your own power, it highlights the weakness of the government //

If anything, Helene is a wake-up call. It's a full-on display of the power of the people, and a perfect example of how government should always be small and minimally funded based on basic need. //

Xanthro
33 minutes ago
All this failure is because of the current Administration. CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) is actually part of FEMA and we have been part of search and rescue for years. We are the ones who often train others, as we are volunteers and usually have decades of experience.
When we showed up at a disaster, we often even took lead, because we were there first. CERT is sometimes called the Zero Responders, because we are in the community, we don't need to travel to it.
I noticed a massive change with the snowstorms the San Bernardino Mountains. People were trapped for days and we were not allowed up the mountain, and those who came down the mountain were not allowed back up. People were tricked into coming down the mountain in refill medications and were arrested to prevent them from going back up, all the while their family members died.
While have no direct knowledge of the Maui, it screams the same incompetence.
Nowwe are once again prevent from rescuing people. Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina are insanely impacted. FEMA is doing everything they can to thwart rescue and aid.
I'll admit, FEMA was pretty shoddy at time pre-Katrina, but after that they stepped up their game, but all that improvement is gone.
FEMA is the problem, not the solution. //

C. S. P. Schofield
an hour ago
The Progressive Establishment firmly believes in the wonderfullness of Central Planning. They believe in it the way Medieval Aristocrats believed in the Divine Right of Kings. No matter how often it falls down, it is their reason for existing in the first place. And, to be fair (and it hurts to be fair to these weasels) Central Planning has had its victories. The spread of water and sewage systems was planned that way. Such networks are hard to start as private enterprise because the value they impart is diffuse and therefore hard to charge for up front. But the Progressives think EVERYTHING should be centrally planned and controled, and that simply doesn’t work.

The core idea behind our Constitution and Bill of Rights was that government should be a service organization, limited in authority. It was a radical idea in 1789 and 1791 (when the Constitution and Bill of Rights were ratified, respectively), and it has REMAINED a radical idea ever since. Elites do not like the idea of limited government. They do not like the idea that the peasants (that’s us) get to tell them to go climb a tree. So they try to undermine the Constitution every chance they get.

According to Presler, he uncovered an attempt by the Pennsylvania Department of State to begin maintenance of their registration system during the Trump rally. As Presler stated in an interview with Human Events Daily, the registration site announced that the registration website will be "undergoing maintenance" during Trump's big return in order to deaden the hype around his appearance and hopefully cause fewer registration sign-ups.

As Presler noted, usually when maintenance is done, it's in the "wee hours of the morning," however, this particular maintenance was scheduled between 6 pm and 12 am. The Trump rally that day was going to begin at 5 pm.

"It was clear that the Pennsylvania Dept. of State was engaging in election interference, trying to stop all this national attention from translating into new voter registrations," Presler told Human Events. //

When you really stop to think about it, this kind of subtle manipulation could very well be happening all over the nation. Often, we see election interference and cheating as big things, but it's small, sometimes undetectable, things like this would have been in any other situation. The truth is that there are people out there who are doing everything they can in order to tilt the scales in Kamala Harris's favor, no matter how grand or small.

It's crazy that we have to be this observant, but this is the enemy Republicans are up against. They're a party whose unofficial motto is "by any means necessary."

Even if it means flooding swing states with illegals, this is what they'll do. //

KJSpeed 2 hours ago

And these same people are going to go quietly into the night if Trump pulls out an electoral victory on November 5th? Not bloody likely!

Maximus Decimus Cassius KJSpeed 2 hours ago

Correct. People who steal elections don't allow a transition of that power--peacefully or otherwise.

Sonia Purnell’s just released biography of Pamela Harriman, Kingmaker, attempts to be fairer to its subject than previous biographies. As the subtitle implies, Harriman led a “Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue,” and there is a lot in here about the subject’s early role as a courtesan. Whatever the details of that role, it was far in the past when I came to know and work with Ambassador Harriman on issues of international importance.

During my last four years in the FBI, I worked with dozens of U.S. ambassadors. I served as the Legal Attaché (“Legat” in Bureau jargon) at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. However, for the FBI and the DOJ, our office had wide regional responsibility. We handled the business of the Justice Department with 26 countries in Africa. So, I dealt with a wide variety of our ambassadors at posts large and small.

“Political” ambassadors are often criticized as dilettantes who buy their appointments with large campaign donations. They are contrasted with career ambassadors, who rise through the ranks of the State Department. I have quite a different impression. The political ambassadors, coming from various roles in American society, saw their mission as representing the United States as a whole, while career ambassadors narrowly protected the interests of the State Department, to the exclusion of other agencies.

When I was first assigned to the embassy in Paris, it was led by an ambassador who understood and valued what the FBI could do. Yes, she was a substantial fundraiser for President Bill Clinton, who appointed her, but she demonstrated a love for her adopted country. Pamela Churchill Harriman, a British-born aristocrat, had become the U.S. ambassador to France just months before my arrival in June 1994. //

That is how we happened to set up a luncheon for a group of federal judges.

At that luncheon, Thomas S. Ellis III, a federal district judge from the Eastern District of Virginia, discussed the World War II Normandy landings. Tom Ellis was recommending a new book. He mentioned a specific finding by the author, concerning a key Allied decision.

Ambassador Harriman responded, “No, that was Ike’s call.”

Judge Ellis persisted. “This author says …”

The ambassador: “Oh, no, Omar Bradley told me it was Ike’s call.”

A look of recognition came over Judge Ellis’s face: He realized he was in the presence of someone with firsthand knowledge of World War II.

Pamela Churchill Harriman was truly a remarkable woman. Once married to Winston Churchill’s only son and the mother of Churchill’s only grandson, she was in the room when many of the key decisions of World War II were made. For the next half century, she would continue to meet influential men, be they from London, Washington, or Hollywood. //

Thomas J. Baker is an international law enforcement consultant. He served as a FBI Special Agent for 33 years in a variety of investigative and management positions facing the challenges of crime and terrorism. He is the author of "The Fall of the FBI: How a Once Great Agency Became a Threat to Democracy."

If ActBlue is engaged in smurfing, that would be blatant election interference and give Democrats an unfair advantage in the all-important fundraising battle between the two parties. The Patriot Act gave law enforcement agencies the authority to curb money laundering by putting into place reporting requirements for deposits over $10,000. Given they have that authority, it's unlikely the group of state attorneys general will stop their investigation any time soon. They have requested the answers be delivered by October 23, 2024, well in advance of Election Day. //

Cynical Optimist
14 hours ago
ActBlue has been doing this for years, yet nothing has ever been done. I wonder how often I have said that phrase?

"Yet nothing has ever been done." //

KilRoy-db
11 hours ago edited
Yeah that 85yr old lady that Okeefe (from OMG) found that supposedly gave $105,000 from her social security check to Act Blue !! She didn't seem to know anything about it when
he spoke to her at her Government Housing apartment....
But it was broken up into 1050 donations over a period of a year. Yeah 3 a day !! //

chaz KilRoy-db
3 hours ago
https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/

I spent minutes and found lots of people donating small dollar amounts several times a day for months. The info is out there, it is beyond ridiculous. //

anon-6hg6
12 hours ago edited
For years OMG has shown examples of citizens being listed as small amount donors in the tens of thousands, but when the home owner/resident is asked they have no knowledge of the donations. Better late than never on these investigations.

Without sufficient synchronous grid inertia, the grid becomes unstable and a blackout occurs.

Inertia refers to a system’s capability to resist change. For a power grid, greater synchronous inertia confers greater ability to resist frequency changes. //

In contrast to gigantic 2,256 megawatt nuclear power plants such as Diablo Canyon Power Plant (DCPP) near San Luis Obispo, California which provide very large amounts of synchronous grid inertia, so-called inverter-based resources (IBRs) such as solar powered generators, wind power generators, and batteries supply negligible amounts of synchronous grid inertia. //

Prior to the introduction of significant penetrations of IBRs, each power grid's synchronous generators (coal and natural gas-fired generators, large hydroelectric dams, geothermal plants, and nuclear power plants) had sufficient synchronous grid inertia to assure power grid stability. The synchronous generators have a large amount of rotational inertia as a consequence of having massive rotating turbines and massive rotating generator rotors. (See photograph below.)

As a simplified example, each of the pair of DCPP’s generators have rotating components which weigh in excess of a million pounds (500 tons.) DCPP’s turbines rotate 30 times per second. The rotating magnetic field induces the 60 cycle per second (Hertz) AC voltage (25,000 Volts) and AC current (45,120 Amperes) in the stator windings of each unit. In response to perturbations in grid frequency, the rotational kinetic energy can be instantaneously converted to changes in the output power of the generator which tend to stabilize the generator’s output frequency and voltage.

For his part, Biden just keeps tearing down that narrative in no uncertain terms. On Friday, he showed up in the White House briefing room and again reiterated that Harris owns every part of the administration's policies and decision-making. For context, he did the same thing while appearing on "The View" in late September, claiming that he had delegated most tasks to the vice president. //

BIDEN: Well, she's, I'm in constant contact with her. She's aware, we're all, we're singing from the same song sheet. We, she helped pass all the laws that are being deployed now. She was a major player in everything we've done, including passage of legislation we were told we could never pass. And she's been, and, her staff is interlocked with mine in terms of all the things we're doing. //

If there's one thing we know about Biden, it's that he's a petty, vindictive man. //

Biden has had ample opportunity at this point to help elevate Harris in what is already a tough race. Instead, he's repeatedly countered her campaign's narrative and not taken basic actions that could improve the environment she's running in. It's getting hard to believe it's not purposeful. //

Scholar
39 minutes ago
I don't think he is fully aware of the consequences of his statements. He may think that he is helping Kamaala by saying she is a competent leader.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) climate disclosure rule posts real problems for public companies. The SEC’s mission is to do facilitate capital formation and maintain market efficiency, but for the first time in its 90-year history, the SEC has injected political risk factors into its traditionally principles-based disclosure framework.

Leading up to the new rule, the SEC buckled under pressure from left-wing special interests to impose the first environmental disclosure mandate on public companies. If the SEC’s final rule is allowed to go into effect by the courts, it will be a financial disaster for the public markets. //

The climate rule will require most large and mid-sized public firms to report annual and quarterly disclosures that account for an endless range of climate risk factors. This translates to approximately 3,488 firms spending upwards of $628 million on direct disclosure costs and millions on indirect costs.

Consequentially, firms will need to expend great resources hiring climate scientists, ESG experts, lawyers, and accountants to properly prepare their disclosures for SEC review, neglecting the time normally spent on enhancing their market value.

Corporate boards will lose much of their discretionary decision making, forced to prioritize environmental risk factors over purely financial concerns. In its place, corporate boards must infuse speculative climate science to determine which climate risks warrant inclusion in their SEC disclosure.

With the SEC’s 12 new climate disclosure categories, investors will be spammed with a flood of confusing and potentially contradictory environmental data. This will undermine the ability of investors to navigate the actual meaningful risks in the markets or assess the health of a company. The doom and gloom of climate risks will imperil sensible financial analysis. //
As many as 25 state attorneys general have pursued two lawsuits against the SEC for exceeding its statutory authority and violating the major questions doctrine by promulgating climate regulation.

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals was chosen by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to consolidate nine challenges into one case against the SEC. Soon after, the SEC halted the rule’s implantation to fend off its legal challenges.

The SEC is in the unenviable position of trying to defend the indefensible. //

Mandatory climate disclosures represent an undemocratic form of ESG policymaking that neither Congress nor the U.S. electorate actually approved.

Scientists are suing an academic publishing company for retracting three key studies exposing the dangers of the nation’s most popular abortion drug regimen shortly before the U.S. Supreme Court was slated to hear arguments in a landmark mifepristone case.

Ten of the researchers responsible for producing the three scientific papers filed a petition to compel arbitration this week against Sage Publications for issuing what they called “pretextual and discriminatory” retractions of their findings on the abortion pill. One of the studies in question, which the lawsuit notes is “the second most-read article” in the journal’s history, specifically determined mifepristone is responsible for a 500 percent increase in abortion-related emergency room visits.

The 2019, 2021, and 2022 papers originally passed peer review for publication without a hitch. The editor-in-chief of Sage’s Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology (HSRME) journal even emailed Dr. James Studnicki, the lead author of the 2021 and 2022 papers, to commend him for his “fine contribution[s],” according to the petition.

In February 2024, however, Sage’s tune changed over a “reader’s concern” that the authors’ links to pro-life organizations “present conflicts of interest that the authors should have disclosed as such in the article.”

Abortion activist researchers publish plenty of papers on the topic without scrutiny. Yet Sage, after what it called an “independent review,” ultimately followed through with the retractions.

Trump War Room @TrumpWarRoom
·
.@AshleyMoodyFL: "Everyone should be waking up this morning outraged... They have taken the FEMA EMERGENCY food and shelter program, and over time, siphoned off hundreds of millions of dollars into basically making it an illegal immigrant resettlement program."
1:22 PM · Oct 3, 2024 //

FEMA @fema
·
If you were affected by Helene, we urge you to apply for assistance as soon as possible.

We understand that everyone's journey to recovery is different, so we are here to help with your unique situation.

To apply, call 1-800-621-3362 or visit http://DisasterAssistance.gov.

#Helene
5:22 PM · Oct 2, 2024

But riddle me this: How do people who have absolutely no access to phone, power, or internet accomplish this? This is one indication that someone at FEMA failed to think this through.

There have been claims that FEMA is restricting private citizens from rendering rescue, aid, and comfort to the ravaged towns and limiting emergency response to their approved agencies, and counter claims that this is not occurring. What appears to be confirmed is that whatever resources FEMA does have available are not being distributed. Aircraft, ambulances, fuel supply tankers, and trucks with supplies that are supposed to be for the Hurricane Helene victims are sitting on a tarmac in Greenville, SC, still waiting to deploy. //

RedinOR 3 hours ago edited

This is why we should NOT have socialized healthcare. The government (as currently mismanaged) is incapable of efficiency. No one in the government bureaucracy is incentivized to operate in a way to maximize resources and funding. Their survival is based on growing, when they should be focused on staying as small as they can be and still cover the bases. It is said that a piece of writing is perfect not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove. The same can be said of a bureaucracy.

This is a tragic reminder that the government cannot be trusted to be there when we most need support. //

duggersd 3 hours ago

Someone else pointed out to me that the beginning of the fiscal year is October 1. So how did they run out of money in less than 4 days?

The world is exploding – not just the Middle East. Russia is, again, rattling nuclear sabers. A thug union leader, who resembles Nikita Khrushchev playing a “mafia capo,” issued a Khrushchev-like “we will bury you” threat. A massive disaster is unfolding in America’s South. Joe has been napping.

The people close to him knew that he was a human train wreck. Jill Biden had to have known that even before he announced in 2020. Much like Edith Wilson taking the reins for her own addled husband, Jill Biden has been the titular president for at least two years. She knew. So did Kamala Harris. Not once has a debate moderator asked that very basic “leading” question.

"When did you know that Joe was incapable of being president?"

Sure, they would lie, but make her face the camera and lie to our faces.

Kamala Harris knew that her boss was incapable of acting as president, yet because of optics and Jill Biden's hubris, an addled, incompetent Joe Biden was “allowed” to stay in the presidency. A human head of broccoli is "running" the executive branch.

The world is falling apart but because of backroom politics, we have “Bob” from Shady Hills as President of the United States.

God Help Us. //

ibt
18 hours ago
They kept Joe in place so they could make the decisions and blame him when things went wrong. How much graft is going on behind the scenes to people that can legally claim they had nothing to do with the decision Joe made. //

Betsy Ross
20 hours ago
God stands back. He did with Israel. After doing EVERYTHING for his people, many times over, he allowed, what they allowed. You believe you are smarter than the Creator? You believe you can live among pagans and evil and take what you want from me and ignore what you don't like?
Prophets warned. People ignored.
Pretty much where we are.
Look around. People still believe government will save them. We have very little regard for the One who controls the universe.
Joe Biden is a perfect example of why governments have and will always fall. He believes he is God.

This is a conflict of good vs. evil. There is simply no other way to describe it.

Fawzia Amin Sido, an innocent girl, was kidnapped as a child and sold into slavery. That's an act of such depraved barbarity as to be hard to imagine among civilized people, and yet, that's what happened. She was rescued by troops from Israel - the same Israel that clueless useful idiots on American college campuses accuse of "genocide." Israel was acting on information provided by the United States - the same United States that the mullahs running the theocracy in Iran accuse of imperialism. The United States was given that information by unnamed officials in Iraq, which is unfortunately at the crossroads of the entire Middle East (and thus all its conflicts).

Civilized people don't take children as captives and sell them into slavery. Good people don't do these things. Uncivilized, evil people do these things. Savages, barbarians, and the utterly inhuman do these things.

And they would do them here, in the United States, given the opportunity.

Those are the stakes. Fawzia Amin Sido's case serves as a horrible reminder. Her captivity is over, but she will bear the scars, emotional and physical, as long as she lives. She is back with her family, but the memory of her captivity will no doubt always haunt her. But if civilization does not prevail, her suffering, and the suffering of untold thousands like her, will have been for nothing. //

Claudius54 Indylawyer
16 hours ago edited
You really don't need to 'expect' ... 300K missing children in U.S. is a documented known fact due to Harris/Biden (illegal) immigration policy. Waltz tried to paint this as 'compassion' the other night. You really don't need to turn your eyes a half world away to witness barbarity. Most likely it's occurring right next to you. Truth be told the cartels probably make Hamas look like pikers. The difference is that IDF is resolving crap like this is Gaza ... while juvenile immigrant chattels in the U.S. are depending on Alejandro Mayorkas. I'm old enough to remember when they started putting missing kid's faces on milk cartons. Now all the talking heads can manage to do is change the subject or obfuscate the definition of "legal status".