Australia reports that rooftop solar briefly generated 101% of South Australia’s electricity demand on Saturday around 2 pm local time.
Source: In First, Rooftop Solar Alone provides 101% of South Australia’s Electricity Demand
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Actions in 2022 by NewsGuard and PayPal and inquiries by a British official proved that powerful establishment actors oppose Consortium News. Help us show them they are wrong. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News For Consortium News the year 2022 was marked by notable achievements,
In June, The GrayZone reported on leaked emails which showed that a British Foreign Office official had contacted Nina Jankowicz, who at the time was heading the Biden administration’s now disbanded Disinformation Governance Board under the Department of Homeland Security. In an email, the official said he would look into CN‘s editor. He said Jankowicz told him she would “ask around” about Consortium News.
It is not clear who she asked, whether in or out of government. But Jankowicz told the official she thinks CN was not being funded, presumably by a foreign power such as Russia, but instead were just being “useful idiots.”
This year Twitter permanently banned two of our regular contributors, Scott Ritter and Patrick Lawrence.
In 2020, the Canadian electronic intelligence agency, the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) falsely accused Consortium News of being in the forefront of a Russian cyber attack.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt said about his fiercest right-wing critics: “They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.” We welcome the Establishment’s hatred too. We also welcome all the support you can give us to help us continually beat them.
Electricity providers have stung their customers for $10 billion in supernormal profits, despite crying poor to the regulators and despite siphoning out billions, largely free of tax to foreign billionaires and power companies. Mark Sawyer reports on the latest analysis of Australia’s energy sector.
The AER released some data on network profitability last year which no one seemed to notice which showed that the networks were making profits over the past 8 years that were two-thirds higher than what the regulator had originally deemed necessary to enable financing of reliable network provision. Total excess charges to customers adds up to almost $10 billion between 2014 and 2021 or between $800 to $1200 per customer (depending on state with only ACT residents managing to avoid these huge excess fees).
What’s worse is that there’s no sign of any real improvement in the AER’s ability to address this in recent years and the AER and AEMC don’t seem to be acknowledging any serious problem.
Co-ordinated government action is required to urgently improve the regulations governing monopoly electricity networks, to reduce pressure on consumer’s electricity bills.
Source: Gold-plated Rorters: power users gouged $10bn as big suppliers sobbed crocodile tears – Michael West
The American people had no share in this windfall
The latest figures from the Bureau for Economic Analysis show that the profits of the U.S. coal and oil industry increased 340% between the first and second quarters of 2022. Companies selling petroleum and coal products made an estimated $49.7 billion in profits from April to June, compared with $11.3 billion from January to March.
It’s sort of like when Craig Kelly speaks and Scott Morrison says that we have free speech so I can’t disagree with him because we have free speech and I certainly can’t say that he’s an embarrassment to the party because I’m the PM and we can’t tell you our views on anything apart from our right to holiday. Gee, when this didn’t age well!
Why I Don’t Believe Anything Unless It’s From Some Conspiracy Theorist On The Internet… – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Democratic presidential candidates spoke out Sunday against President Donald Trump’s racist and xenophobic rhetoric, linking it to the El Paso shooting as police are investigating whether the suspected gunman, a 21-year-old white man, was motivated by a hatred of Hispanic people.
For former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas), Saturday’s violence that killed at least 20 people and injured dozens more struck the city he calls home.
“We’ve got to acknowledge the hatred, the open racism that we’re seeing,” he told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “There is an environment of it in the United States. We see it on Fox News, we see it on the internet, but we also see it from our commander in chief. He is encouraging this. He doesn’t just tolerate it, he encourages it.”
via 2020 Democrats Link Trump’s Racism To El Paso Shooting: ‘He Is Responsible’ | HuffPost Australia
The wealthiest 3 billionaires in the U.S. –Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett — now have as much wealth as the bottom half of the U.S. population combined.
Since 1982, these three families have seen their wealth increase nearly 6,000 percent, factoring in inflation. Meanwhile, the median household wealth went down 3 percent over the same period.
The dynastic wealth of the Walton family grew from $690 million in 1982 (or $1.81 billion in 2018 dollars) to $169.7 billion in 2018, a mind-numbing increase of 9,257 percent.
via Is Bernie Sanders Right that 3 Billionaires Have more Wealth than Half of America?
Here lies the Real News one needs to ask why our Government is in the business of selling Fake News ( OD)
(ANTIMEDIA) The world’s eyes and ears have once again turned toward Syria following last week’s chemical weapons attack and U.S. President Donald Trump’s subsequent air strikes on the Assad government. Mainstream media, independent media, and social media platforms are fixing fierce attention on the ongoing developments. These events undoubtedly deserve widespread, ongoing scrutiny. From the United States government’s lack of evidence that the Syrian government was behind the chemical attack to the media’s complicity in driving a pro-war narrative and president Trump’s hypocrisy in bombing Syria — after criticizing former president Barack Obama for doing the same thing — further
Source: Not Just Syria: 5 Huge News Stories to Keep an Eye on amid the Madness
If the government keeps discussing non-existent “black holes” instead of addressing fiscal policy, it is just a question of when, not if, the bubble will burst.
Source: Government mismanagement and Australia’s ticking time bomb of debt
David Meech reports all the real news – not fake news – about President Trumpet, some of which involves Prime Minister Trombone.
Once again, President Trump has accused the media of lying without providing evidence to support his claim. His latest accusation, via Twitter of course: Just leaving Florida. Big crowds of enthusiastic supporters lining the road that the FAKE NEWS media refuses to mention. Very dishonest! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 12, 2017 Trump’s own […]
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