[ZERO] Now that the Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking trial is in the hands of the jury, lawyers representing some of Epstein's accusers are asking why just four victims were called by prosecutors (led by the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey).
"They had a mountain of evidence that they could have brought," said attorney Adam Horowitz, who has represented several Epstein victims, noting that the prosecution "had a very difficult burden and didn’t seem to put on as much evidence forward as I thought they would have."
Maxwell, who was Epstein's former girlfriend an subordinate, has been charged with grooming and enticing underage girls for sexual abuse by the convicted pedophile and his friends. He was found dead in a jail cell in 2019 while awaiting his own trial for sex-trafficking, according to Bloomberg.
If convicted, the British socialite faces up to 40 years in prison. Her lawyers argued that she's being scapegoated for Epstein's crimes.
"An acquittal wouldn’t surprise me," said Horowitz. "It’s a difficult case and [the prosecution] put on some really good witnesses, but the defense did a good a job poking holes in some of them."
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Something very odd is going on. The FBI may bave lost a warehouse sized load of evidence? Her connection to a foreign intelligence agency or two seems obvious and yet its not even touched by either side seeking more details or exculpatory evidence? Im looking for something unexpected.
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An acquittal would introduce 'double jeopardy' for what its worth these days (see any state charges). It does not rule out civil suits by the 'recruited' or 'accidents' that may follow.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] The oldest teenager charged with the carjacking of Democrat Representative Mary Gay Scanlon was out on bond at the time of the crime on Wednesday from stealing another car.
Josiah Brown, 19, is facing federal charges for the carjacking in Philadelphia. He already has a string of other arrests.
Along with Brown, four other teens were involved in the carjacking raning from ages 13-16 — all of whom were released back to their parents. No pics of the Perps. Damn White Supremacists! Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant. Just look at the competent way he dumped Afghanistan... called Democratic Representative Mary Gay Scanlon after she was carjacked.
“Mumble mumble mumble....C’mon, man!”
'Is the president taking crime in big cities more seriously now that a Democratic member of Congress, Mary Gay Scanlon, has been carjacked at gunpoint?' Fox News' Peter Doocy asked White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki ...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job... at Thursday's briefing.
'Let me first say that we're relieved that she was not injured,' Psaki replied. 'And the president called her and spoke with her this morning, as well.'
'It is absolutely unacceptable for any American, whether they're a member of Congress or not, to be victimized by crime like that,' she added.
Brown, from the president's home town of Wilmington, Delaware, is expected to face federal charges in Scanlon's carjacking, the Delaware State Police said Thursday.
Three of the other teen carjackers were boys ages 13 and 16 and a girl aged 14. They were all charged in Delaware with receiving stolen property and were each released to their guardians on $1,500 unsecured bond.
The fifth was a 15-year-old boy charged with receiving stolen property, resisting arrest and two counts of criminal mischief, according to police. He was taken to the New Castle County Detention Center on $3,500 bond.
Brown is a suspect in several other incidents over the last few years.
Most recently, an arrest warrant was issued for Brown in March 2021 after his fingerprints matched up with those connected to a string of vehicle break-ins in Chester County, Pennsylvania in late 2020.
FDR Park, where the crime occurred, is within City Councilman Kenyatta Johnson's district, who claims carjackings are happening at all times of day and that anyone is falling victim.
'Right now in the City of Philadelphia, people feel like there's a sense of lawlessness,' he said. 'At the end of the day, you see carjackings taking place during the holiday season. We see people being robbed of their Rolexes, so at the end of the day, we have to figure out how do we get ahold of this senseless violence.'
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said in a statement: 'It's disheartening, and quite frankly infuriating, that criminals feel emboldened to commit such a reckless crime in the middle of the day in what should be a place of tranquility and peace-one of Philadelphia's beautiful parks.'
Scanlan and Illinois State Senator Kimberly Lightfordand, both Democrats who supported police reforms in Philadelphia and reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel... respectively, were carjacked just 16 apart from each other.
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Why is this a federal crime? It crossed no state boundaries. It's an example of assuming authority and power that eats up resources best reserved elsewhere.
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..I understand that, but if it doesn't cross state lines there is no reason that the feds should ever be involved. It's another example of ignoring the 10th Amendment, its a state's responsibility.
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If i read the summary of the carjacking statute correctly, every carjacking could be charged federally. Massive overreach of federal power given the forgotten 10th amendment. But since I never heard of such a charge before in federal court this is clearly an example of selective prosecution for one of the special elites in our ruling class. Equity is far different than equality for our emerging aristocratic peers.
[NYPOST] An NYPD school safety agent was rubbed out on her 27th birthday outside a Queens nightclub early Thursday — when her beau and ex-boyfriend got into a shootout and she was struck in the fray, according to cops and police sources.
The agent, whose birthday was on Wednesday, her boyfriend and her cousin were celebrating inside Solletto on Steinway Street near Astoria Boulevard N, the sources said.
At some point, the agent’s ex-boyfriend showed up — but when he tried to enter, the bouncer stopped him because he had a gun on him, according to the sources.
When the trio walked out of the club just after 4 a.m., the agent’s ex got into a scuffle with her boyfriend, the sources said.
Both men pulled out guns and fired at each other, the sources said.
The agent was struck in the torso and leg by stray bullets, according to cops and the sources.
She was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital-Queens, where she was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim! cops said.
Her name was not immediately released, pending family notification.
Her 27-year-old cousin was also blasted by a stray slug in the left knee, and her boyfriend, who turned 27 Thursday, was struck in the buttocks and left shoulder, authorities and the sources said.
They both were taken to Elmhurst Hospital in stable, pH balanced condition.
The ex-boyfriend fled after the shooting in a white BMW that was stopped in New Jersey for speeding, the sources said.
New Jersey cops did not know he was wanted for the shooting, so they confiscated the car but let him go, according to the sources.
Police were still on the hunt for him later Thursday
Gunfire also erupted on Holland Avenue near Astor Avenue in the Allerton section of the Bronx around 11:15 p.m. Wednesday, cops said.
Responding officers found the victim lying on the ground, with a gunshot wound to his chest, police said.
The victim, who lived down the block from the scene, was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim! His name also was not released, pending family notification.
The circumstances of the slaying are unclear.
Also on Wednesday, 27-year-old Jordan Gilliam died of injuries sustained in a shooting a week earlier at the corner of 97th Street and 57th Avenue in the Corona section of Queens, cops said.
Bullets flew in front of a deli just after 8:30 p.m. Dec. 15, striking Gilliam in the right shoulder and buttocks, police said.
A 37-year-old man was also shot in both thighs, cops said.
Both men, who are members of the Bloods gang and have criminal pasts, were taken to Elmhurst Hospital, where Gilliam was pronounced dead Wednesday.
The older man remained in stable, pH balanced condition, police said.
No arrests have been made in the shooting, which may have been gang-related, authorities said.
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the bouncer stopped him because he had a gun on him
Both men pulled out guns
A crossing guard?
Why did the current boyfriend get in with a gun?
Sounds like a good civil suit against the club, and the bouncer.
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Well, in the state of New York, political juice is a requirement to get a carry permit if you are anything other than a cop. If either of the shooters were carrying illegally, well, there's yet another tribute to the value of repressive gun laws.
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[MSN] Los Angeles police fatally shot a 14-year-old girl inside a Burlington Coat Factory dressing room on Thursday when they opened fire on a male suspect inside the North Hollywood store.
The shooting suspect was also killed in the police shooting, authorities said.
Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department responded just before noon to a report of an assault with a deadly weapon.
When they arrived, "officers encountered the suspect, who was in the process of assaulting another person," Officer Drake Madison told Insider. Police then opened fire. The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene.
A man and a woman were listed as deceased, but officials did not immediately clarify which victim was the suspect.
[insider@insider.com] One victim was transported to a hospital for injuries sustained during the attack, police said. Their condition is unknown.
When LAPD officers open fire, internal inquiries, as well as an investigation by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office is triggered, according to NBC News.
Police said they plan to review surveillance footage amid an ongoing investigation.
A representative for Burlington Coat Factory did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
Responding officers went upstairs and found a man assaulting a woman. The police opened fire and killed the man. Police have not yet identified the suspect. Dominic H. Choi, an assistant chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, said at a news conference that officers found a heavy metal lock cable near the man, but no gun.
Officer Drake Madison, a spokesperson for the department said that the suspect was taken into custody and died at the scene.
Los Angeles Police chief, Michel R. Moore, said that the shooting was the "worst thing anyone can imagine." The police did not immediately release the 14-year-old girl’s name who had been in the dressing room with her mother trying on dresses for a quinceañera.
Nicholas Prange, a spokesperson with the Fire Department said that another woman was injured and taken to a trauma center.
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This is why only police officers should have guns. /sarcasm
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A gun-grabber would tell you this is proof only the military should have guns.
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A gun-grabber would tell you this is proof only the military should have guns.
Until the 'National Security Police', solely under the direction of then current national political administration, is instituted.
They were called Sicherheitspolizei in an earlier time and place.
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A gun-grabber would tell you this is proof only the military should have guns.
gun-grabber doesn't know the law concerning the military -
Title 10 USC - The Militia
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
Clearly every able bodied male citizen, over 17 and under 45, not in uniform are members of the unorganized militia - ie the military.
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How bout one of those "national discussions" on when shop-lifters, bail-jumpers, warrant-evaders and general arrest-resisters need to be shot? None of those things are death penalty offenses. As for the ones shot while at a traffic stop, maybe one officer should boot the car while it's pulled over? Put's the person who doesn't want to be arrested on foot. As for the shoplifters, are you kidding me? Now, in the age of flash mob grab n dash?
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#9 Indeed they are
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A non-local cop is at so many disadvantages.
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Tough break for the cop, who did a lot less wrong than Alec Baldwin, but failed to realize there was an occupied changing room beyond his target; at least one of the cop's victims was a righteous shooting.
Tougher break for the poor girl in the changing room.
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No innocent person should ever suffer from police activity. We are talking about a shoplifter here, not Ted Bundy. Short of an active shooter with a fully automatic weapon, there's no excuse for this.
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...yeah, you keep pushing the envelope on that and you're in the San Francisco league.
I had a father. One of his words of wisdom was 'Do what the cop says. You may be right, dead right'
Apparently too many out there lacked such a father.
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Authorities said one of the bullets went through a changing room wall and struck the teenage girl.
9mm slugs designed to penetrate car doors, windshields and body armor don't slow much in cardboard walls. Check the dude's loads.
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We are talking about a shoplifter here, not Ted Bundy.
Seems events were a bit more exciting than mere thievery:
"officers encountered the suspect, who was in the process of assaulting another person,"
The article mentions a bike chain or lock.
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I guess it's just a good thing the people who think cops should always have a blank check don't extend that to Fauxi ordering mass lethal injections for COVID.
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So, be honest. Which is more important. A beating was stopped or the girl gets to grow up? We like to make fun of the "he was maybe the next Einstein" thing, but maybe she would be happy in her own life. If it wasn't snuffed out. That would be enough, a happy person. The eggs / omelet crowd should volunteer to take her place, if only that was possible.
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[FoxBusinessNews] FDA issues EUA to authorize second ORAL COVID-19 antiviral, Merck's molnupiravir. The molnupiravir pill is cleared for use by adults 18 and older who have tested positive for COVID-19 and are at high risk of hospitalization or death
PARIS/MILAN, Dec 22 (Reuters) - France has cancelled its order for Merck & Co's (MRK.N) COVID-19 antiviral drug following disappointing trial data and hopes instead to receive Pfizer's (PFE.N) competing drug before the end of January, the health minister said on Wednesday.
France is the first country to publicly say it has cancelled an order for the Merck treatment after the company released data in late November suggesting its drug was markedly less effective than previously thought, reducing hospitalisations and deaths in its clinical trial of high-risk individuals by about 30%.
Merck's COVID pill loses its lustre: what that means for the pandemic
Molnupiravir was initially heralded by public-health officials as a game-changer for COVID-19, but full clinical-trial data showed lower-than-expected efficacy.
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Merck has been a long time player in the pharmaceutical industry. Multinational company since 1891. Japan just approved oral dosage.
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"C'est la vie" is the French version of inshallah. When lots of old French people died due to heat wave / blackout some years back, the only French who were outraged were those who lost family. And not even all of the were particularly upset.
This is a replay.
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I wonder if the projected $500 a dose had anything to do with the decision by France?
#5
The vaccines aren't sterilizing. But they work to keep you out of the hospital:
The latest daily caseload, 6,509, is more than double the total reported Tuesday. It’s unvaccinated residents who remain particularly exposed to the worst effects of COVID-19. From Dec. 5 to 11, unvaccinated Angelenos were five times likelier to get infected, 21 times more likely to require hospitalization and 18 times likelier to die.
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[NewsFrontInfo] News Front editor-in-chief Konstantin Knyrik announced that the West was preparing a chemical attack in Donbass, he announced this on the air of the program "Evening with Vladimir Solovyov" on the channel "Russia."
Oh dear.
According to the head of News Front, the head of the Russian military department, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, said this earlier, with which he absolutely agrees.
Confirmation of this preparation Konstantin Knyrik called the massive interest of Western journalists in the events in the Donetsk People's Republic:
"The last time such activity was Western was only in 2014. Could it be that they were accredited under this provocation? Obviously, they did not go there to show the truth or tell about Ukraine's violation of the Minsk agreements, because we have never seen the truth in these publications," said the head of News Front.
We will remind, earlier the head of the department Sergei Shoigu said that in the Donbass, namely in the settlements of Priazovskoe and Avdeevka, there are more than 120 employees of private military companies of the United States. They are engaged in equipping firing positions in the homes of ordinary people and at facilities that are classified as socially significant.
American mercenaries are preparing Ukrainian special forces and radicals for active hostilities. The likelihood of provocations is high. Containers with unidentified chemical components were brought to Avdiivka and Krasny Liman.
[RIA Novosti] US planes supplied Ukraine with an "antidote" for chemical weapons back in October, then delivered the toxic substances themselves, said Eduard Basurin, an official spokesman for the People's Militia of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic.
It was unloaded at the Kiev airport Borispol . The second shipment arrived in November.
"It (chemical weapons Ed.) arrived in metal flasks of 45 millimeters," said Basurin on the air of the TV channel "Russia 24".
According to him, now chemical weapons are stored in warehouses in the Kharkov region.
In December, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that American private military companies were planning a provocation using chemicals in the Donbass. According to him, for this purpose, "reservoirs with unidentified chemical components" were brought to Avdiivka and Krasny Liman. There are about 120 representatives of American PMCs in the region who train Ukrainian special forces, Shoigu said.
On Thursday, the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin said that Ukraine already has chemical weapons. Whether Kiev will apply it or not is "a matter of time," he noted, expressing the hope that this will not happen. The substances themselves, he said, were packaged in such a way that they can be dropped from drones.
In April 2014, the Ukrainian authorities launched a military operation against the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR, which declared independence after the coup d'etat in Kiev in February 2014.
According to the latest UN data, about 13,000 people became victims of the conflict. The issue of resolving the situation in Donbass is being discussed, including during the meetings of the contact group. But even after the armistice agreements, shootings continue, in the DPR they announced the shelling of residential areas with Ukrainian heavy artillery.
Moscow has repeatedly stated that Kiev is not fulfilling the Minsk agreements and is delaying negotiations to resolve the conflict.
KYIV, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Negotiators from Ukraine, Russia and the Organisation of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) agreed to restore a full ceasefire between the Ukrainian government forces and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, the OSCE said on Wednesday.
"I was delighted that participants expressed their strong determination to fully adhere to the Measures to Strengthen the Ceasefire agreement of 22 July 2020," the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG), Ambassador Mikko Kinnunen said in a statement.
Kyiv and Moscow have blamed each other in recent months for violation of a previous ceasefire, which had been agreed in July 2020 and helped significantly reduce the number of casualties last year.
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The Wagner PMC is there now. It will start soon. Likely with a Wag valse grond aanval (false ground attack), possibly several, in small Russian border villages. A few Ukrainian POWs will be left dead along with many local villagers. The Russians will claim a Ukrainian GUR MOU and SBU operation on Russian-controlled territory and be forced to respond. I'll give it thirty days, probably less.
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Frankly I’m surprised that they haven’t blamed the shipyard fire in St. Petersburg last Friday on sabotage. Losing a stealth corvette (Provorny) designed to carry hypersonic missiles after eight years worth of construction is a big hit. “Remember the Maine”
[Philadelphia Inquirer] As with everything else this year, the price of passports is going up.
Starting Dec. 27, the cost of a U.S. passport book will rise $20 for all customers, the State Department announced this week. The price for a first-time or replacement adult passport will be $165; a renewal will be $130. The expedited fee, which gets you your passport weeks earlier, will remain $60.
The State Department said the fee increase is "necessary to ensure we continue to produce one of the most secure travel and identity documents in the world."
Americans are paying more for goods and services in many places, from the gas pump to the grocery store, and apparently government services are not immune. Prices across the United States rose at the fastest pace in nearly 40 years in November.
Earlier this month, President Joe Biden signed an executive order allowing Americans to renew their passports online for the first time in an effort to speed up the process. This will eliminate the need for physical documents and paper checks to be sent through the mail.
The passport system has been backlogged because of the coronavirus, causing massive delays for travelers. In October, the State Department said wait times had gone down to a range of eight to 11 weeks, or five to seven weeks for expedited services.
The White House said the order regarding online renewals could take between six to 12 months to take effect.
For now, travelers have to send their documents - and increased fees - through the mail.
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I just renewed mine. Got a passport card too. If I need it at all in the next 10 years, it will be for a very good (read lucrative) reason.
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On line of course. What a mess. Absolute code command hack wide open at this time. No mo patch available <"Log4JShell>' 15 min. no vpn, invisible. Never know you were in. No digital footprint.
<"log4">
Need Patch <"logshellJ4">
60% no password needed
Runs off Java Script
Build Websites.
Shop talk yesterday among an extremely unusual personalities. My opinion collusion with China and big tech here. Chrome patches and they are in again as if they know how to get in. I keep suspecting Google myself. No known answer to this at this time. Our leadership in DC are so far behind the times. Punch cards and such.(That was from Deacon man and his slide rule usage back in the day).
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I downloaded the PDF of the renewal form, sent it in with the picture and check and I was done. Bad java code didn't stop me. This was back in the spring of 2021.
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And, I'm not saying there are not lots of problems, Dale. Not saying that at all.
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[WFYI] Indiana officials are working on a plan that the governor’s office said Wednesday would result in taxpayers receiving $125 refund payments from the state’s growing budget surplus.
Officials had announced in July that stronger-than-expected tax collections following the COVID-19 pandemic recession would trigger Indiana’s automatic taxpayer refund process.
The distribution plan from Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb, however, aims to make more people eligible for what would be direct payments from the state rather than a credit on their state tax returns submitted next year.
Those payments to an estimated 4.3 million taxpayers will come after overall state tax revenue grew 14% for the past budget year. That pushed state government’s cash reserves to a record-high $3.9 billion as of June 30.
The state refund law’s calculation directs that $545 million be refunded to taxpayers as that process was triggered for the first time since 2012.
"We did the right thing by putting a formula together that would send that money back if it hit a certain limit," Holcomb said.
State tax collections have continued to be better than anticipated since July, leading to talk within the Republican-dominated Legislature of cutting taxes, although some are urging caution.
[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] Belgium will shut all seven of its nuclear reactors by 2025 but will not close the door on new-generation nuclear technology, according to a deal reached by the coalition government yesterday.A government source said the all-night negotiations included an agreement of "investments of around 100 million euros (US$113 million) on small modular reactors."
Progressively phasing out nuclear power has been enshrined in Belgian law since 2003. The final date is 2025, a target the government committed to meet when it took office in October 2020.
But the issue has divided the governing seven-party coalition of greens, socialists, and Prime Minister Alexander De Croo’s liberals.
The French-speaking liberal MR party argued against completely abandoning nuclear power, the strategy proposed by Phlegmish green Energy Minister Tinne Van der Straeten.
They said some of Belgium’s current nuclear capacity should be retained as new gas-fired power stations planned to secure energy supplies were too polluting.
Belgian broadcaster RTBF reported that a ministerial meeting agreed to invest in "renewable and carbon-neutral energies," including new-generation nuclear power.
The government source said the budget for investing in the technology had already been prepared.
The source added the compromise retains the energy minister’s "scenario A" and "confirms the investment mechanism put in place to replace current nuclear power, which is obsolete."
Nuclear power has also divided other EU member states as the bloc wrangles over including it and natural gas on the bloc’s list of sustainable energy sources eligible for investment. The list exists to promote greener energies and facilitate the transition to a carbon-neutral future.
Internal market commissioner Thierry Breton on Monday said he expected the list to include nuclear power and natural gas when it is presented in January.
But critics say nuclear power is not climate-friendly and should be phased out in favor of other energy sources.
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Welcome to the dark side.
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I had a "Let the bastards freeze in the dark" bumper sticker back in the day.
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77 years ago right now a lot of people got to find out what Belgian winter weather was like (Battle of the Bulge.) If 'global warming' doesn't come on strong in the next four years the Belgians will get a non-nuclear reminder.
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Russia was working to subvert U.S. elections and sow discord among Americans, Congress directed the creation of an intelligence center to lead efforts to stop interference by foreign adversaries. But two years later, that center still is not close to opening.
Experts and intelligence officials broadly agree the proposed Foreign Malign Influence Center is a good idea. The U.S. has lacked a cohesive strategy to fight influence operations, they say, with not enough coordination among national security agencies. Adversaries that tried to interfere in the last two presidential elections continue to bombard Americans with disinformation and conspiracy theories at a time of peril for democracy in the U.S. and around the world.
But the intelligence community and Congress remain divided over the center’s mission, budget and size, according to current and former officials. While separate efforts to counter interference continue, a person identified this year as a potential director has since been assigned elsewhere and the center likely will not open anytime soon.
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Adversaries that tried to interfere in the last two presidential elections continue to bombard Americans with disinformation and conspiracy theories at a time of peril for democracy in the U.S. and around the world.
You mean the mainstream media and the U.S. intelligence community?
Remember the Wikileaks. They were caught red-handed spying on us, which we made 100% illegal. Nobody went to prison for it.
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Wow. It just seems like if foreign interference is causing so much tsuris, physical, hand-marked, in-person paper ballots could put lots of minds at rest.
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Da Ferret & the rest of American Stasi are still putting the final touches on their Domestic Malign Influence Center
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[ZERO] Now that the Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking trial is in the hands of the jury, lawyers representing some of Epstein's accusers are asking why just four victims were called by prosecutors (led by the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey).
...a valley girl who woke up one morning and found she was spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of State under Obama. A new American success story, under Biden she became spokeswoman for the whole administration, and she was even able to get her sister a job...
As Russia was working to subvert U.S. elections 
