France may be hit by power shortages this winter, with almost one third of the country's nuclear power plants out of action.

The nuclear power plant of Nogent-sur-Seine in central France. Photo: AFP

French warned over possible power cuts this winter

Oliver Gee ·

 

France may be hit by power shortages this winter, with almost one third of the country's nuclear power plants out of action.

·         France forced to close several nuclear reactors for checks (19 Oct 16)

·         France's 'underground Chernobyl' moves step closer (12 Jul 16)

·         France shuts nuclear reactor amid Areva parts scandal (17 Jun 16)

It might be time to bring out the extra blankets at home. 

 

Grid operator RTE warned on Tuesday that it would have to take "exceptional measures" to keep the French warm this winter due to the fact that 20 of the country's 58 nuclear power plants have been temporarily disconnected for safety checkups. 

 

These measures may include "short power cuts in certain areas of the country in order to continue providing electricity to homes during the winter period", it said in a statement.

 

And the French will be grateful for anything that can keep their homes warm, especially with recent temperatures that have already proven to be colder than usual in France, the operator noted. 

 

Indeed, snow has already fallen in the Alps this week (and even Paris was given a dusting of snow on Monday).

 

While the power cuts aren't forecast to hit households as yet, the operator announced plans to release an app and a website early next month to let residents know how and when to save electricity in peak-demand periods. 

 

An example of the flash alerts that will be available from December 5th can be seen below, warning the phone user that a peak period is on the way. 

 

 

The operator suggested that at peak times, between 8am and 1pm and again between 6pm and 8pm, people should lower the household temperature by one to two degrees Celsius.

 

Residents should also try not avoid using household appliances like washing machines and dishwashers during these times, and should switch off lights in empty rooms or when leaving the house. 

 

The electrical shortages are predicted to occur within the first three weeks of December, the operator said, adding that it would first tackle them by increasing power imports and potentially paying industrial customers to turn off machinery.

 

The potential power cuts around the country would depend on the extent of the shortages. 

 

France's Nuclear Safety watchdog ordered the nuclear plants to be temporarily closed after weak spots were found in the steel used in the new plant at Flamanville in northwestern France.

Five more were closed late last month. 

 

France is extremely reliant on its nuclear power, with around three quarters of the country's electricity coming from its nuclear power stations. 

http://www.thelocal.fr/20161109/france-warned-over-possible-power-cuts-this-winter

Kansas City mom says students targeted, attacked her daughter because of her skin color

 

 

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A metro mom feels helpless after police say her daughter was attacked at school. The mother said students are targeting her daughter because of her skin color.
Police say a 12-year-old girl was punched in the face at school by another student Monday at the Frontier School of Excellence off 56th Street and Troost in Kansas City.
Chandis Kee said this is the second time in two weeks her daughter was attacked, and she said it’s because of her race.
“About two weeks ago she reported being called racial names,” the mom said.
She said that’s about the time her 12-year-old daughter Blessyed was first attacked by two girls.
“One pushed her and the other one pushed her and she tried to fight back, that was the end of that. They called her racial names that day,” she said.
The school confirmed “an incident happened” and said it was “quickly rectified and resolved.”
But Kee said Monday, her daughter was attacked again.
“She just started hitting me in my face area. Everything went black and every time she hit me, it was just like bursts of light. It happened so fast, and then I wondered, ‘Why would she do this?’ because I didn’t even know the girl. I’ve never seen her or ever talked to her.” Blessyed Kee said.
“My daughter got attacked. Attacked. Twice in two weeks,” the mom added.
FOX 4 asked the school for an interview but the media outreach coordinator said the Dean of Discipline declined. Instead, the school sent the following email:
Hi Megan,
In regards to your inquiry below, we take these situations very seriously – school safety is our priority.
Our Dean of Discipline at the school investigated and addressed the situation. We followed our Student Handbook discipline policy which is posted on our website @ http://www.frontierschools.org. The handbook can be located by clicking on the “Campuses” tab and then selecting Frontier School of Excellence (South Campus) – the handbook is located in the left navigation under “About Us”.
This is the only information we can share.
Thank you,
Jennifer Watson
FOX 4 obtained a copy of the police report from. It describes the victim’s swollen eye, and the vice principal told police “the attack was unprovoked.”
“It’s been multiple times. People call me white when I’m walking down the hallway or [pointing to the playground] we were standing over there one day and someone called me a white curse word,” Blessyed said.
FOX 4 asked the school about the victim’s previous reports of racial slurs and the school said officials “had no prior references to bullying.”
But Kee said, “She did warn them! She did warn them they were calling her racial names in the hallway.”
Kee said she didn’t feel reassured from school officials after either attack and now she doesn’t know what to do with her daughter.
“The school, how are they going to reassure me that they feel safe when she warned them and they didn’t care? She did all the right things,” said Kee. "She doesn`t want to be white anymore. What do I do then? I can`t change her color. She`s white."
Kee said the school told her girl who punched her daughter was suspended, but they wouldn’t tell her anything more, including the attacker’s name. Kee said that is frustrating because she needs to know who hit her daughter in order to request a restraining order.

 

http://fox4kc.com/2016/11/17/kansas-city-mom-says-students-targeted-attacked-her-daughter-because-of-her-skin-color/

Conditions around Azteca Stadium 'devastating' for players

 

The Oakland Raiders and Houston Texans could face a huge challenge from the local climate.

MEXICO CITY – As the National Football League seeks to further broaden its international reach with Monday’s clash between the Oakland Raiders and Houston Texans, the match-up is already guaranteed to be the high point of the season in one regard.
Azteca Stadium sits at 7,280 feet above sea level, higher than Denver’s Sports Authority Field at Mile High, which is by far the NFL’s most-elevated venue at 5,280 feet. The height, plus the atmospheric conditions of Mexico’s capital, could cause significant issues for the players.
“Azteca Stadium is the worst place to ever play a sporting event,” former United States national team soccer star Eric Wynalda told USA TODAY Sports.

“You can’t breathe. The pollution is so bad that if you don’t have some form of rain that’s brought all that down you are going to be sucking wind.

“They (will) break a record for how many oxygen masks they have on the sidelines. The combination of being that high up with pollution is just devastating to the body.”

The U.S. soccer teams  Wynalda played on are among many sporting visitors to the venue that have struggled desperately. The altitude of Mexico City, added to the smog that accumulates in the bowl-like natural topography that surrounds it, gives home teams a huge advantage.

Both the Raiders and Texans are in the same position of unfamiliarity,  each being coy on the measures they are using to combat the elements. Local sports medicine and respiration doctor Jorge Avendano Reyes warned that the players are in for a rough ride.
“There can be headaches, dizziness, sensation of fatigue, accelerated heartbeat, hyperventilation,” Reyes said. “We can also have respiratory symptoms, when we are exposed often to the pollution.

“The amount of oxygen that reaches the cells decreases, leading to the faster heartbeat and cardiac activity. The body tries to ventilate more quickly.”

The Azteca is an iconic venue in Mexico,  the only stadium to have hosted two soccer World Cup finals. Teams familiar with the surroundings claim that the complaints of visitors are nothing but sour grapes. Yet science suggests otherwise.
Reyes said bigger players such as linemen would find things more testing than leaner athletes, while adding that typical oxygen masks may do little to help aid respiration.
“We’re on an equal playing field,” Texans offensive lineman Duane Brown said. “No one’s more used to the altitude than the other team, so we’re all going out there with the same struggle, if there will be a struggle.”
Some players believe the slower pace of American football, rather than the constant movement of soccer, may help lessen the effects. Wynalda disagrees.
“You don’t really feel it until you stop and when your heart starts to beat and tries to slow down,” Wynalda said. “You just have these moments where you click out. You almost feel like you are going to pass out. The players stop for a second, you try to catch your breath, and then it is almost like you’ve just had a very long blink, and something bad happens.
“For American football I really am curious to see how these guys handle it. It is going to have a massive effect on their body. These are some big bodies out there, 300 pounds people who are trying to get oxygen into their muscles and to their brains. I think you will see a lot of delay of game penalties.”
Conventional wisdom suggests that teams should either come in two weeks early to allow the body to adapt to the conditions – or very late to reduce the amount of time for the elements to make an impact. Given that the former option was impossible, both teams were due to arrive on Sunday.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/conditions-around-azteca-stadium-devastating-for-players/ar-AAkxt3I?ocid=spartandhp

PODCAST: The Serenity Of Stoicism

 

Stoicism is a philosophy for your mind that helps you deal with suffering and misfortune. In this podcast, I review stoicism’s strongest points as presented by three powerful thinkers (Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius) by using direct quotes from their most important works. I also share how I’ve used stoicism to reduce pain in my own life and how you can do the same through an effectively four-point strategy.
Listen on Soundcloud or download the MP3:

http://www.rooshv.com/the-serenity-of-stoicism

Hudson,Wisconsin Catholic Church asked to resettle five Syrian families in departure from normal resettlement process

 

Posted by Ann Corcoran

First, this proposal to a specific Catholic Church to effectively become a resettlement agency in a town with no resettlement office tells me that the refugee industry is getting desperate.

Frankly, as Congress has not appropriated enough money for Obama’s large refugee numbers for FY17 (already underway) because it has not acted on the budget for the upcoming year, contractors like the US Conference of Catholic Bishops are looking for ways to pawn off some of their responsibilities on, in this case, an individual church.
Members of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church are apparently in the process of deciding if they will take responsibility for five (most likely Muslim since 99% of the Syrians entering the US now are Muslims) families.  (I saw this story almost a week ago, so maybe they have already decided.)

US Conference of Catholic Bishops attempting to get the most bang for their federal bucks by not opening an office while turning over responsibility for Syrian families to a specific church.

This is a huge undertaking. I watched as a church near where I live in 2007 took on the responsibility for one family and it was an enormous chore that didn’t end well.  My local story is a long story, but members of St. Patricks must be prepared for many duties not the least of which is shuttling refugees in their own cars to myriad appointments (doctors, schools, social service departments) and often to jobs for months (one of the first things volunteers ultimately become weary of!).
And, one of the other things that volunteers tire of is the lack of appreciation some ethnic groups of refugees show for volunteers.  I can’t say that will happen here, but the fun and excitement of taking care of Africans and Middle Easterners wears thin when the refugees act entitled.
One more thing before I get to the story:  Hudson, Wisconsin is on the border of Minnesota. Normally a federal contractor has an office within a hundred miles of where it places the refugees, but the three offices maintained by the Bishops in Wisconsin (Greenbay, Sheboygan, and Milwaukee) are all hundreds of miles away.  However, the USCCB office in St. Paul, Minnesota is only 18 miles from Hudson so I assume that out-of-state office will be sending the federal money to St. Patrick’s.  My first thought is that the USCCB is now making decisions from over the border in Minnesota for what happens in another state.
Here is the news from the Hudson Star-Observer:
Rev. John Gerritts and St. Patrick’s Church received a call from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops for the parish to assist with the resettlement of five Syrian refugee families from a camp in Turkey to Hudson. The church has not yet made a decision.
The conference is one of several organizations that helps with the federal government’s refugee resettlement program. Through the program, the U.S. will admit 85,000 refugees this year [reporter has it wrong, that was FY16, the number for FY17 is 110,000—ed] , according to the U.S. State Department.
These five refugee families have been vetted by the government and approved for resettlement in the United States, a process that can take between 18 and 24 months, Gerritts explained.

Hudson is right across the state line from a huge resettlement area (mostly Somali refugee resettlement) in Minnesota.

“It’s quite thorough and lengthy,” Gerritts said. “They are fully approved to move here. This is working through the government.”
Hudson was selected as the families’ new home because they indicated they had a relative in Hudson during the vetting process. [One relative and five families are coming? Sounds fishy—ed]
Whether or not these five refugee families come to Hudson is not up to the church, as they have already been approved by the federal government. Instead St. Patrick’s is being asked to be a resource to spearhead the resettlement.
[….]
Usually, after a location for resettlement is determined, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will reach out to an agency in the area that specializes in resettlement. The Hudson community does not have an agency like this, so instead St. Patrick’s has been asked to assist. St. Patrick’s is one of the first parishes in the country who have been asked to take on this role.
[….]

St. Patrick’s would not bear any of the financial cost for these services. The church would be responsible for disbursing the government funding provided for refugee resettlement.

For the full story, go here.
LOL! Parishioners at St. Patrick’s better get that in writing and the town of Hudson’s elected officials are presumably being briefed because there will be many costs to local taxpayers!
For new readers in Wisconsin, see our ‘Ten things your town needs to know’ by clicking here. It is not just one Catholic parish that will be impacted by the decision, but the whole town!  If you don’t like what is happening be sure to let Speaker Paul Ryan hear from you!

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Colin Kaepernick has never registered to vote in any election

 Surprise!....Not!

 

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San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick said he did not vote in the 2016 presidential election because it would have been hypocritical after his national anthem protest. But The Sacramento Bee found Kaepernick has never been registered to vote.

Colin Kaepernick raised eyebrows last week when he revealed that he did not vote in the presidential election amid a football season in which his protest of racial inequality gained national attention. In fact, it would have been problematic if he had. The Sacramento Bee found that the San Francisco 49ers quarterback has never been registered to vote.
Kaepernick, who was raised in Turlock, turned 18 in 2005, but he has not registered to vote in California at any point in the last decade, according to records maintained by the California Secretary of State. He also did not register in Nevada while he attended the University of Nevada, Reno, from 2006 to 2010, according to the Washoe County Registrar of Voters.
That means he missed presidential elections in 2008 and 2012 – when Democrat Barack Obama was elected president – in addition to a variety of state and local elections in other years.
Attempts to reach Kaepnernick were unsuccessful. Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Kaepernick said he did not care who won the 2016 election and it would have been “hypocritical of me to vote” for either President-elect Donald Trump or Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
“I said from the beginning I was against oppression, I was against the system of oppression,” Kaepernick said. “I’m not going to show support for that system. And to me, the oppressor isn’t going to allow you to vote your way out of your oppression.”
Kaepernick’s protest began in August, when he refused to stand during the national anthem because he refused to “show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.” Other athletes have since joined in the gesture, though it has also generated intense backlash, including from Trump himself, who called it “a terrible thing” and suggested Kaepernick “find a country that works better for him.”

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article114803073.html

Blog: More useless advice from Obama to Trump

On Thursday, Obama at a press conference in Germany with German chancellor Angela Merkel again offered useless unsolicited advice to Trump.

Obama spent the last few months ignoring his job as president while campaigning every day for Hillary to win his third term.  Now that the voters elected Trump and rejected him, Obama is touring Greece, Germany, Italy, and Peru.  While in Greece, he attacked Americans who voted for Trump by labeling them as voting for the "dark side" of populism.

Thursday, Obama said:

He ran an extraordinarily unconventional campaign and it resulted in the biggest political upset in perhaps modern political history[.] ... What I said to him was that what may work in generating enthusiasm or passion during elections may be different than what will work in terms of unifying the country and gaining the trust even of those who didn't support him.

Obama, with his outsized ego, is lecturing Trump on how to act as president.  He is lecturing that Trump must unify the country and gain the trust of those who did not support Trump.  Obama ignored the separation of powers to bypass Congress by issuing executive orders and agency regulations.  He bragged that he had a pen and a phone to issue executive orders.  Think of the DREAM Act to defer deportation of illegal aliens brought here as children, passing Obamacare with only Democratic votes on a parliamentary trick by Harry Reid to avoid the filibuster, calling the Iran deal an agreement instead of a treaty to avoid the two-thirds vote in the Senate, and amending Obamacare with waivers and executive orders and agency regulations.

Obama did his best to divide Americans by race and income.  He did not attempt to gain the trust of Republicans; he attacked, mocked and ignored them.

He told Republicans that he won, so Republicans need to get in the back of the bus.

He told Senator McCain during the Obamacare debate that he won, the election was over, and that was that.

Obama attacked Trump as a racist endorsed by the KKK and unfit for the presidency.  Now Obama is desperate to salvage his legacy, so he attempts to act as a wise and experienced statesman.

Trump is showing class by ignoring Obama.  Let him talk – nobody now cares what he says.

Trump ran an "unconventional" campaign because he fought back against the lies of the Hillary campaign and its cheerleaders in the MSM and challenged the debate moderators.  He worked much harder than Hillary in the battleground states by making more appearances and rallies than Hillary.  He took his message directly to the voters with "yuuuge" rallies and social media.

Trump is in New York at Trump Tower, taking calls from Putin and Netanyahu and meeting with the Japanese prime minister.  Trump is meeting with his rivals, such as Cruz and Romney, acting presidential.  Meanwhile, Obama is doing a useless overseas trip, craving attention to remain relevant, and alternating between criticizing Trump voters and offering advice to Trump.

Instead of lecturing Trump, Obama should lecture the anti-Trump rioters to obey the law and knock off the rioting.  Then he should tell the snowflakes and delicate flowers who are seeking therapy, missing school, and crying because Trump won to grow up and support Trump to unify our country.

Obama is irrelevant.  Trump is president.  Putin and Bibi know it.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/11/more_useless_advice_from_obama_to_trump.html#ixzz4QO263hZr

The Age of the Honey Badger Dawns

 

Honey badger don’t care!

 

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They brought everything they had. But the honey badger, you see, does not care. The honey badger will fight through venom, prey on predators.

This time was different.

The mainstream media and the Democrats brought every weapon they had to the fight against Stephen K. Bannon — and, by extension, Donald Trump, and 61 million deplorables.
For the first 24 hours, they had total control of the debate, and near-total control after that. They defined Bannon, and Breitbart, as antisemites, white nationalists, neo-Nazis. Who could survive that?
And yet Trump did not waver, and the Republican Party did not bend, and the conservative media did not break.
This time, there were no betrayals — no political leaders who tried to help themselves by abandoning the victim of an entirely false and unjustified attack.
Even most of Bannon’s critics and rivals in the conservative media declined to condemn him.
They understood: these were lies. And they knew: if we yield now, they will never stop.
J. Christian Adams noted at PJ Media:

Twenty years ago, the conservative media landscape looked very different. Bannon and others have ushered in nothing less than a revolution.
The Washington Post hardly matters at all anymore, and those legacy conservative forums matter far less. Is it a coincidence that some of them are hosting the most toxic attacks on Bannon? Perhaps.
But you can’t help but wonder if this is more about competitive advantage being sought by the publications who mattered a lot more before Steve Bannon and other conservative media sources supplanted the dominant players from two decades ago.

What changed? What brought sudden unity and courage to a movement that had been fractured, just days before, by grudges and promises of retribution?
Was it the glow of victory after Election Day? Was it Trump’s example, repeated so often in the campaign, of never giving up in the face of media attacks? Was it the bare-knuckle fight-back of Breitbart News? Or was it the silent, steel resolve of Bannon himself?
Whatever the reason, it is clear that there is a new spirit in the Republican Party and the conservative movement.
The GOP elephant — loud and mighty, but frightened by mice — has begun to learn from the honey badger.
The honey badger, you see, does not care. The honey badger will fight through venom, prey on predators.
Welcome to the age of the honey badger.
We. Never. Quit.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. His new book, See No Evil: 19 Hard Truths the Left Can’t Handle, is available from Regnery through Amazon. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/11/18/enter-the-honey-badger/

Vast shale oil field in Texas could yield 20 billion barrels

 

A vast field of shale rock in West Texas could yield 20 billion barrels of oil, making it the largest source of shale oil the U.S. Geological Survey has ever assessed, agency officials said.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/vast-shale-oil-field-in-texas-could-yield-20-billion-barrels/ar-AAknrRV?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=spartandhp

 

Criminals Breaking State and Federal Gun Laws in This State Continue to go Unchecked

 

It is both a state and federal crime for a "prohibited person" to attempt to purchase a firearm, but these criminals know their actions will go unpunished.

The Evergreen State has an interesting way of doling out justice and holding citizens accountable for breaking the law: they’re ignoring gun crimes.
This year alone, thousands of Washingtonians prohibited from owning firearms through court orders have been denied a gun purchase when their background check failed to clear. Although it is both a state and federal crime for a “prohibited person” to attempt to purchase a firearm, these criminals know their actions will go unpunished.
“I’m not going to beat around the bush. We’re not going to do anything with them,” said King County Sheriff John Urquhart.
Already this year, more than 3,2oo “prohibited people” have been denied a firearm purchase. But Sheriff Urquhart said even if a background check prevents one sale, it doesn’t mean that person wouldn’t find another way to get their hands on a firearm.
“If he really wanted to do harm to that woman with that gun, he can go out and buy one on the street like that,” the sheriff said as he snapped his fingers.

King County Sheriff’s Office records reviewed by KING 5 and Northwest News Network show that purchases were attempted by fugitives with active warrants, felons, domestic abusers and people who violated court protection orders.
A half dozen women who were victims in those domestic violence cases said they were too frightened to speak publicly upon learning that their abusers had attempted to purchase firearms.
“He’s mentally ill and scary,” one woman said of the former boyfriend who stalked her. He kept a gun close at hand until the court ordered him to surrender all his firearms.

“It’s troubling. It’s deeply concerning. These are individuals who are not allowed to have a gun for a serious reason,” Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said.
“Access to Firearms in Washington State“, a white paper report released by the Attorney General’s office in October, recommends “follow-up and potential enforcement” of attempted purchases by prohibited buyers, an idea Private Sector Arms owner Don Teague thinks would go a long way in curtailing this pattern of criminal activity.
“Prosecute some of those guys. You put a couple of those guys on the news for trying to purchase weapons and going to jail, that will put an end to that pretty quick,” Teague said.
“That’s what makes it so concerning. It’s not because you have a parking ticket. It’s not because you were speeding. These are serious situations, DV (domestic violence) felonies – that type of thing,” Ferguson said.
Sheriff Urquhart said even if could find the resources to investigate these cases, the county prosecutor’s office would not be able to handle the extra caseload. Proving once again, we have all the gun laws needed to end violence: what we are lacking is the resources to enforce them.

http://bearingarms.com/jenn-j/2016/11/17/in-the-state-of-washington-thousands-of-gun-crimes-go-unpunished/?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

Stephen Hawking Sets Deadline for Humans to Leave Earth

 

 

I can think of some people we should launch into space now.

 

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Stephen Hawking says humanity's existence has a cap, and it's sooner than we think. Sam Berman with the scoop.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/wonder/stephen-hawking-sets-deadline-for-humans-to-leave-earth/vi-AAkpWoW?ocid=spartandhp

The Two Americas of 2016

 

A view of two imaginary nations created by slicing the country along the sharp divide between Republican and Democratic Americas.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/16/us/politics/the-two-americas-of-2016.html?_r=0

California Votes Still Not Counted: If We Junked The Electoral College We Wouldn’t Know Who Was President Until Thanksgiving

 

If we junked the Electoral College ... California would deign to inform the country who had been elected President by national popular vote by, at the latest, Thanksgiving. Or, worst case scenario, by Cyber Monday. Tops.

http://www.vdare.com/posts/california-votes-still-not-counted-if-we-junked-the-electoral-college-we-wouldnt-know-who-was-president-until-thanksgiving

Spectator Article On Hillary's Election Night Tantrum -

 by Anonymous Conservative

Secret Service sources paint a fascinating picture:

Sources have told The American Spectator that on Tuesday night, after Hillary realized she had lost, she went into a rage. Secret Service officers told at least one source that she began yelling, screaming obscenities, and pounding furniture. She picked up objects and threw them at attendants and staff. She was in an uncontrollable rage. Her aides could not allow her to come out in public. It would take her hours to calm down.

There were reports that she also threw a bottle of champagne through a 150″ TV at the party, ripped a model of the White House off the celebration cake and embedded it into a wall before destroying the cake, and assaulted both Robby Mook and John Podesta.

I guess if you are Hillary, and just endured the biggest loss of your life, you make the temper tantrum count.

My guess is this was an epic amygdala hijack because it was a violation of expectation. All day her amygdala had grown accustomed to the idea that by the next morning she would have made history, assumed the highest office in the land, and been immunized against all of her criminal activity. It is kind of like working hard, making billions of dollars, getting the private Island, the private jets, the staff, the luxury, the freedom and free time, and then losing it all on a bad investment, and having to go back to a 9 to 5 job, five days a week, every week. If you have always worked the 9 to 5, it is just normal. If you were homeless and jobless, it is heaven. But if you were just a billionaire, it is torture.

For Hillary, having the Presidency and then being told she didn’t must have been an agony we could not imagine. This was literally taking a mental defective, and hitting them with their ultimate trigger, in the most perfect way possible, just to see how volcanic a rage you can create. You could not have done this more effectively than to add in the violation of expectation aspect.

It is also worth noting, with an amygdala like that, 4chan, Reddit, Free Republic, and the entire Alt-Right dodged a real bullet. Having an amygdala like that in control of the NSA, CIA, FBI, and other forceful government agencies, when it had such hatred for us would have been extraordinarily risky. If she had just barely won, ala George Bush, she would have ordered her minions to take those agencies and come after us with a vengeance. And the Republican Establishment wasn’t about to try and protect us.

You have to fight. But we were just unbelievably lucky to have Donald as the cause we were fighting for. No other Republican would have tried to protect the movement from the Uniparty establishment, nor would any other Republican have beaten Hillary. And beating Hillary may have been the difference between life and death, given what a nut she was.

This was the big one, and we won, big time.

http://www.anonymousconservative.com/blog/spectator-article-on-hillarys-election-night-tantrum/

Soros Is Getting Out Of Gold -

 by Anonymous Conservative

Kind of funny:

George Soros’s hedge fund Soros Fund Management sold its stake in a widely used gold exchange-traded fund in the third quarter, according to a regulatory filing out Monday.

The fund reported no stake in the SPDR Gold Trust GLD, +0.58% in the period ended Sept. 30. That’s after disclosing a position worth $30.4 million in a second-quarter filing.

The storied billionaire investor had attracted attention during the second quarter for being generally bearish on world markets — and scooping up safety-play gold.

Soros got into gold when he thought Hillary was getting elected, economies would collapse, currencies would become worthless, and only gold would be redeemable after the storm had passed.

What this means is one of the smarter financial minds thinks Trump may just turn everything around, and create an economic boom. The next item on his agenda is to turn his underground vault into a funky nightclub.

I still love that he was knowingly trying to elect the architect of an Apocalypse that could have triggered a major World War and killed millions. It is not surprising given his Nazi past, but it still shocks to see it confirmed. It also tells you what he is doing with his Muslim migrant strategy. He is trying to destroy the world, to enrich his own investments.

It also tells you what side Trump is on, and that all of the evil within the cabal know it.

Never underestimate how evil the intelligent rabbits at the top are, or how evil the ends they are working toward are.

http://www.anonymousconservative.com/blog/soros-is-getting-out-of-gold/

Veronika Zajec - Stoparjeva polka

 

What is this instrument?

 

 

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What This Election Taught Us About Millennial Voters

 

Bloomberg) -- The history books won't count millennials among the coalition that put president-elect Donald Trump into office, as most younger voters came out for Hillary Clinton. But in a departure from past voting patterns, young millennials were also keen on third-party candidates this year—nearly one in 10 voted for Jill Stein or Gary Johnson or wrote in their own candidate. Here are three ways to parse the numbers, based on an analysis of exit polls by the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement.
1. Democrats took the millennial vote—just not among whites.

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Among the younger portion of the millennial generation, 18 to 29 year olds, Trump earned 37 percent of the vote to Clinton's 55 percent. Millennials of color were considerably more likely to support Clinton than Trump, Circle found, while young white voters actually threw more support behind the winner. Trump secured 48 percent of the white vote in the 18-to-29 age group, while Clinton won just 43 percent. Still, Republicans fared poorly with youth vote overall. The election had the fourth-lowest turnout by young voters for a GOP nominee since 1972.
2. The emergence of young third-party voters
All but the very oldest millennials were too young to cast a ballot in 2000, when a third-party candidate last played an arguable role in the outcome. Eight percent of the 18-to-29 demographic voted for someone other than a major party nominee this year, compared with just 3 percent in 2012. "The percentage of youth supporting the Democratic candidate was lower than in both of President Obama’s elections, and closer to the level achieved by Bill Clinton in his successful 1996 campaign," wrote Circle.
Young millennials were slightly less eager to vote for the Democratic nominee than in 2012, when President Obama earned 60 percent of their votes to Mitt Romney's 37 percent. The same number of millennials—19 percent—voted in 2016 as in 2012.
3. Not enough millennials voting to swing states

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Battleground states felt the impact of Democratic-leaning millennials, but it wasn't enough to swing the outcome to Clinton. In Florida, for instance, Clinton earned 57 percent of the 18-to-29 year old vote compared with 35 percent for Trump. In North Carolina, Clinton took 60 percent of this vote compared to Trump's 36 percent. Had only millennials voted, Clinton would've won the election in a landslide, with 473 electoral votes to Trump's 32.
To contact the author of this story: Polly Mosendz in New York at pmosendz@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Josh Petri at jpetri4@bloomberg.net.
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