Mega blackout imminent? France shuts down half its nuclear reactors

France is an important factor in Europe’s energy supply. But the country is planning on shutting down more than half of its nuclear reactors. The reason given is that they supposedly need maintenance.

The energy exporter is going to have to access energy from abroad. But that can turn out to be more difficult than planned with the European energy crisis expanding. Is a mega blackout looming?

Some 56 nuclear reactors at 18 locations normally supply France with electricity. But 18 of these reactors are already shut down. Long-term maintenance work is to be carried out. That had been planned for a long time, authorities said. But then France also had to shut down 12 more reactors last week.

Damage caused by corrosion is said to be the reason for this. The supply in Europe’s power grid seems all the more uncertain in winter.

In many places, the European power grid is dependent on the energy security of the neighboring country. If a country fails over a large area, other states are drawn into the blackout. France has been an important factor in European energy supply in recent years. But the Grande Nation itself may have to switch to energy imports.

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/08/11/mega-blackout-imminent-france-shuts-down-half-its-nuclear-reactors/

UK: Nearly 1 in 3 births are to foreign-born mothers

Newly released data on live births in the United Kingdom point to rapidly changing demographic trends in the country, with nearly three in ten births in the U.K. to women who were not born in the U.K.

The data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows that last year 179,726, or 28.8 percent of births were to foreign-born women. Meanwhile, 445,055 babies last year were to U.K.-born women.

The most common country of origin for non-UK-born mothers was Romania, while for non-UK-born fathers, Pakistan remained top of the list.

Albanians made it into the top ten list of mothers for the first time last year with more than 3,000 babies, despite official figures putting the Albanian population in the U.K. at less than 50,000.

Campaign group, Migration Watch UK, said on Wednesday that this was “clear evidence that the [immigration] system is being exploited,” in the U.K., and follows news broken earlier this week which revealed that 4 in 10 of illegal immigrants crossing the English Channel from the European mainland currently are from Albania.

The data is in line with trends already seen over previous years, with babies born to foreign women accounting for nearly a third of births for years now. However, the lion’s share of population growth in the United Kingdom has stemmed primarily from mass migration. Since 2002, the U.K.’s population has grown by 8 million, with 80 percent of that figure related to immigration. The ONS indicates that as of 2020, 14.3 percent of the U.K.’s 66.3 million people were foreigners, with 6 million of them believed to be from non-EU countries.

The massive influx of people to the small island over the least two decades has put serious strain on public services, led to an erosion of green space, fueled higher rents and housing prices, and placed serious strains on the country’s fragile healthcare system.

More babies being born out of wedlock

ONS data also showed there were more babies born out of wedlock in England and Wales in 2021 than to married parents for the first time since records began in 1845.

In total, 624,828 live births were registered in England and Wales last year, according to data provided by the Office for National Statistics. Of these, 320,713 births, or 51.3 percent were to women who were unmarried at the time of delivery, compared to 304,115 produced by women who were married or in a civil partnership.

The total number of births was an increase of 1.8 percent on 2020, the first time the birthrate has increased in England and Wales since 2015.

Dr. James Tucker, head of health analysis at the ONS, said the figures followed a “long-term trend of declining marriage rates and increasing numbers of cohabiting couples seen in recent decades.”

One caveat to acknowledge is the effect of social restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic which saw the United Kingdom locked down three times, resulting in many marriage ceremonies canceled or postponed.

Advanced maternal age

The data also showed fertility rates among age groups were changing significantly, with the trend revealing women are waiting until they are older before having children. The fertility rate among women and girls under 20 years of age fell by 16 percent, while women aged 35-39 saw an increase in their fertility rate of 5 percent.

Women are now twice as likely to have a child later on in life than as a teenager, the data showed.

https://rmx.news/article/uk-nearly-1-in-3-births-are-to-foreign-born-mothers/

Facebook and social scoring

By Bill Rhea

If you’ve been in Facebook Jail more than once it means, more than likely, you’re saying things on the platform the so-called ‘fact checkers’ don’t like. You pissed off a snowflake, a diseased liberal incapable of critical thinking who doesn’t have a humorous bone in “their” frail body and will use any excuse to marginalize you for going against the platform narrative. By the way, the ‘platform’, for all intents and purposes, is an effective operating subsidiary of the DNC. Just like the IRS and now the FBI. They are instruments of the current regime to control free speech and individual behavior.

So let’s have a dose of reality now. We’re all part of a grand experiment to control human behavior writ large. Facebook is merely the laboratory to perfect the techniques.

Unless We The People stand up and take charge soon, Americans will have surrendered their freedoms to big government and the unelected Deep State. We already have a situation where the CIC is a figurehead puppet, installed by rigging election outcomes and controlled by elite leftists. If uninterrupted, they will soon control the money supply (digital currency), energy supplies, the electric grid, the food supply, water supply, other supply chains, healthcare, and access to transportation.

And your access to all the above will be controlled through a social score system.

First offenders will be lightly punished by being denied just enough essentials of food, water, electricity, and transportation to get their attention. Multiple offenders will become isolated in such a way that they increasingly become ‘radioactive,’ wherein no one will dare help them out of fear their own social score will suffer. And multiple offenders will eventually wither and die, relieving big government of any of their Social Security or Medicare benefits.

And all this will be controlled by unelected members of the Deep State. Just like what is happening in China. And Facebook is providing the statistical model to perfect the technique.

Critical thinkers will understand this, no further explanation is necessary. For non-critical thinkers, no explanation is possible.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/08/facebook_and_social_scoring.html

Soros pushes left-wing reforms for US judiciary

In the run-up to the US midterms elections, the big speculator and “philanthropist” George Soros has found a new field of activity. He now excels at funding American prosecutors who want to “reform” the US justice system. Republican politicians and lawyers are outraged. They blame Soros for the increase in violence in the country.

An op-ed by Soros, in which he openly admits to supporting progressive US prosecutors, has drawn sharp criticism. “My tools are intended to give a public voice to sensible, reform-minded candidates,” Soros wrote on July 31. His contribution is entitled: “Why I Support Reform Prosecutors”.

Soros wants to counter “injustices in the system”, which he believes are responsible for the increase in violence and murder in the US. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report in May showed the highest rate of gun murders in 2020 in 25 years.

With his cash injection, Soros supports the agenda of progressive US politicians and officials “for a more efficient and fairer justice system”. The financial resources of the criminal justice system should primarily be used for prevention and therapy instead of criminal prosecution.

For Soros, more justice would be achieved if drug addicts were treated as infirm instead of being punished as criminals. He also advocated “decriminalizing” crimes based on poverty or mental illness. And the fact that “Blacks in the US are five times more likely to be imprisoned than whites is an injustice”.

Rudy Giuliani, ex-US Attorney, former New York City Mayor and Trump supporter, was outraged by the Soros statement. He vented his displeasure on Twitter: “If one person is responsible for the record rise in murder and violence in America’s cities, it’s George Soros.”

Giuliani explained: “He’s a big donor to Black Lives Matter, Antifa, the Democratic Party, Biden, Harris and about 40 district attorneys. Blood is on his hands.”

The former New York mayor is not alone in his criticism. The Washington Postreceived numerous letters from politicians and lawyers. Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas Giuliani agreed: “Few men have done more harm to public safety and justice in America than George Soros. Even now, given the carnage wrought by the prosecutors he financed, he has no regrets.”

And ex-Judge Thomas F. Hogan commented: “Soros wants to replace police officers with psychologists, ignoring that the police are almost always the first to respond to mental health emergencies because they are usually dangerous.” According to Hogan, Soros and his followers are convincing American electorates in some regions that crime is not an issue and that violent crime can be ignored. The result has been violence and chaos.

Democrats are all in to secure mid-terms as well as election

The Democrats are meanwhile ramping up their efforts to thwart a rerun of President Trump. A Democratic Party Florida judge Bruce Reinhart, who signed off on the FBI’s raid of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, is the same individual who had “prosecuted” Jeffrey Epstein’s associates, essentially giving them immunity from prosecution, according to reports.

The FBI raid was conducted in order to secure alleged illegally-held documents held in Trump’s safe. The Obama Administration, however, hid almost half a million documents seized from the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in order to perpetuate the lie that Al Qaeda was defeated after bin Laden’s death, thus paving the way for Obama’s 2012 victory. Obama was never prosecuted for this.

In a similar development, the US Internal Revenue Service are ramping up their services to target Republican voters. They quickly deleted a job posting page from its website when confronted by the facts. The description detailed duties for prospective new agents, including using “deadly force if necessary” during tax audits.

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/08/11/soros-pushes-left-wing-reforms-for-us-judiciary/

Syrian stabbed employee of the Foreigners’ Registration Office in Wuppertal

On Thursday morning, a female employee was stabbed several times at a foreigners’ office in Wuppertal ( North Rhine-Westphalia)!According to the newspaper BILD, the perpetrator is a 21-year-old Syrian. According to initial information, the man stormed into the building in the Elberfeld district at 8.58 a.m., jumped over the reception counter in the entrance area and abruptly stabbed the woman.The security guard was eventually able to overpower the attacker and the police subsequently arrested him.The female office worker was taken to hospital. According to the police, she was seriously but not life-threateningly injured. It is not yet clear why the man attacked her.

https://www.bild.de/regional/duesseldorf/duesseldorf-aktuell/bluttat-in-wuppertal-nrw-messer-mann-greift-jobcenter-mitarbeiterin-an-80974154.bild.html

France: The “Ramadan Market” in Lyon, which takes place during the month of Ramadan, will change its name. The environmentalists at the top of the city will now call it the “Market of Oriental Tastes”