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| by Niall Ferguson featuring Henry A. Kissinger via Bloomberg I personally had issues with Kissinger. He was brilliant but he was also a German and Germans are used to losing wars not Americans until recently. +++ The late secretary of state knew that diplomacy inevitably boiled down to a choice between evils. |
The De Santis/Newsom debate tonight (Nov 30) was a bust of sorts Both were asked not to interrupt and they both did not restrain themselves. It was a perfect opportunity for De Santis to rise above the gutter fray but he chose not to hold himself back. Hannity also lost total control as well so more accusations, more batting down lies etc.
In the department of facts DeSantis won hands down. Newson, the typical liberal, said whatever came first to his mind and felt absolutely no compunction to deal n facts but then liberals when they say anything it is so.
.They should have held it on the school yard playground for 3 year old's.
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One year after Winter Storm Elliot, our grid problem remains dire
By Salena Zito
Last year on the morning before Christmas, just as much of the country was preparing food for a holiday dinner that night or prepping for the next day as they welcomed family and guests to stay for the holiday weekend, Duke Energy in the Carolinas issued a jarring announcement to their hundreds of thousands customers that they would begin imposing rolling power outages immediately.
The outages were desperately needed because of the strain on the electric grid caused by the extreme weather that had crippled much of the country in the previous days. By noon, 340,000 Duke Energy customers were without power, and by Christmas morning, that number hit 500,000 at one point, with most of the outages lasting anywhere from a half-hour to several hours as the temperatures dipped into the low teens both days.
It could have been worse.
Two weeks ago, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, the regulator that monitors the nation's electrical grid, warned in their staff report on Winter Storm Elliot that this winter, a large swath of the country that extends from Texas up to the Canadian border could pass that “worse” stage. The group said the U.S. power grid is not prepared to handle extreme winter conditions such as prolonged arctic blasts or major snow storms.
In NERP’s report, the regulators assessed that despite promises from our politicians, our power grid is fraying under the stress of underinvestment.
“Much of North America is at an elevated risk of insufficient energy supplies this winter and is highly exposed to risks of energy emergencies in extreme winter conditions,” said the report.
NERC officials said several factors have contributed to this dire situation that all come to the same conclusion: We are not bringing sufficient new power online to meet demand.
In short, we have too much power scheduled to go offline and not enough coming online.
The Interstate Natural Gas Association of America said the Staff Report on Winter Storm Elliottillustrates that members of INGAA took decisive, real-time actions to maintain system integrity in the face of the significant challenges presented during the storm.
The authors of the NERC report warn that if there is a winter storm in the magnitude of Elliot last winter, then at best, we are looking at a repeat of outages that we saw last Christmas, not just in the Carolinas but all around the country.
And it's not just Christmas people should be worried about; NERC warned that half of the country and part of Canada could fall short of electricity throughout the winter because of the lack of infrastructure built for natural gas.
Why aren’t there enough natural gas lines in our infrastructure? Politics definitely plays a part in that, specifically climate change or climate-justice politics.
Last month, a sweeping report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine said for the United States to reach its ambitious climate goals outlined by the Biden administration, states and municipalities should adopt bans on new gas lines in places where they have not been previously built.
There is a consequence to that suggestion that could once again contribute to the same disruption or worse if we experience a prolonged, wide-range cold snap. NERC said that extreme cold weather events that have occurred recently have shown that energy delivery disruptions can have devastating consequences for electric and gas consumers in impacted areas.
The NERC report included recommendations to improve coordination among the entire gas supply chain and with electric utilities, including a North American Energy Standards Board effort to enhance situational awareness of production losses and when pipelines’ efforts to address those losses become unsustainable.
INGAA said its members look forward to working with stakeholders to identify potential improvements in this area.
“But more communication will not solve the problems created by extreme weather like Winter Storm Elliott,” said INGAA in a statement, adding, “The United States needs more natural gas pipeline capacity to maintain a resilient system that affords homes and the power grid access to multiple sources of this critical fuel.”
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Cannot come soon enough.
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Jewish High Schoolers Abandon Ivy League Aspirations in Response to Campus Antisemitism
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From a dear friend and fellow memo reader. I totally agree. Only a matter of time before Biden wobbles and allows Hamas to win.
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Rather than standing strong along side our ally Israel, the Biden PR effort is typical of this forked tongue Administration. From one side their mouth they support Israel. From the other side they support an approach to the war that aids Hamas.
The timid response to the attacks by Iran’s proxies on our troops simply reflects their continued quest to allow Iran to produce nuclear weapons.
John Kerry’s limp fingers are all over this.
We damn well better win in 2024.
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The timid response to the attacks by Iran’s proxies on our troops simply reflects their continued quest to allow Iran to produce nuclear weapons.
John Kerry’s limp fingers are all over this.
We damn well better win in 2024.
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And:
‘Iran-Loving, Hamas-Appeasing Buffoon’: Blinken Blasted For Reportedly Threatening Israel It’s Running Out Of Time To Destroy Hamas.
Blinken is a disgrace. If he is doing Biden's bidding and had any decency he would resign and tell Biden to get another Sec. of State.
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Finally:
THE MEANING AND PURPOSE OF ISRAEL
As Israel is involved in an ongoing battle with forces that seek to wipe it from the map, and as an ideological war rages to undermine the Jewish state’s very existence, it is an opportune moment to examine the ancient origin and founding mission of the Jewish nation.
In this week's parsha, Vayishlach, the Jewish people is given the name by which it will come to be known throughout the ages: Israel. The patriarch Jacob is renamed Yisroel as he returns to the land of his birth after two decades abroad, and ever since then the twelve tribes that he fathered have been known as Bnei Yisroel, the children of Israel. What is the significance of this name, and why has it become the eternal moniker by which both the Jewish people and the Jewish homeland have been known?
The name Israel has many explanations. The most common is the way it is expounded by the angel who changes Jacob’s name after the two have wrestled. “It shall no longer be said that your name is Jacob, but rather Yisrael, for you have nobly contended with God and men and you have prevailed” (Genesis 32:29). This name Yisrael can be broken down into two words, “שׂר/sar,” which connotes nobility and victory, and “א-ל/E-l,”” which is one of the names of God. Because Jacob struggled against the angel of God and was victorious, his name was changed to Yisrael, meaning “one who has wrestled victoriously with God."
The 16th century commentary Kli Yakar provides another stunning interpretation of the name Yisrael which helps us to understand Israel’s ultimate mission and purpose. Explaining the two component parts of the name slightly differently, the Kli Yakar identifies the first part of the word as “שׁר/shar” (rather than “sar”) which means “to see.” He thus translates the name to mean “One who sees God."
The Kli Yakar further teaches that the name of the angel that fought with Jacob was “סַמׇאֵל/Samael,” which, according to Jewish mysticism, is the name of an angel otherwise known as “the satan." Torah does not believe in a devil that works against God’s will, but the concept of “satan” is a force created by God to provide an alternative option so that one can choose to do the divine will rather than being forced to accede to it by compulsion. As such, the satan is as much a part of God as everything else, and its ultimate will is that one should be strengthened by the challenges that it presents. How does the satan challenge us? We see this through understanding its name. Samael is a compound of the Hebrew word “suma,” which means “blind,” and “E-l,” God. As opposed to Yisrael, which means “one who sees God,” Samael means “one who is blind to God." Satan/Samael is the force that tries to blind us to God’s existence and presence.
From here we learn that the mission of the nation of Israel is to see God in everything and to reveal His omnipresence to all of His creations. There are potent and persistent forces in the universe that will constantly battle us in order to keep us from fulfilling this mission. Yet with all this, we must remain cognizant of the fact that it is God is One, and that it is therefore He Himself who created the darkness and our blindness. It is God who creates the environment in which it is difficult for us to see Him. It is He who sends His servant Samael to kick dust in our eyes. And yet He creates the nation of Israel as a force of vision and light in the darkness. He provides Israel the Torah, and instructs us to teach its wisdom to the other nations. In so doing, He provides us all the potential to be victorious over Samael, and to manifest His infinite presence wherever it was previously unseen.
— Excerpted from Pnei Hashem, an introduction to the deepest depths of the human experience based on the esoteric teachings of Torah. www.pneihashem.com
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