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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Blames Power Outages on the Green New Deal

What has sent Texas reeling is not an engineering problem, nor is it the frozen wind turbines blamed by prominent Republicans. It is a financial structure for power generation that offers no incentives to power plant operators to prepare for winter. In the name of deregulation and free markets, critics say, Texas has created an electric grid that puts an emphasis on cheap prices over reliable service. On a wholly unsurprising side-note, that Texas even has its own, separate electrical grid is due to a desire to, as Houston Public Media noted, “avoid dealing with the feds,” and to avoid federal regulation and oversight.

Source: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Blames Power Outages on the Green New Deal

17th Day of February – Fatcowco – 1867 – The first ship passes through the Suez Canal

1867 – The first ship passes through the Suez Canal

The Suez Canal (Arabic: قناة السويس‎ qanāt as-suwēs) is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez.

An Anchor Line ship, the S.S. Dido, became the first to pass through the Canal from South to North on February 17, 1867.

1867 – The first ship passes through the Suez Canal

The canal offers watercraft a more direct route between the North Atlantic and northern Indian oceans via the Mediterranean and Red seas, thus avoiding the South Atlantic and southern Indian oceans and reducing the journey distance from the Arabian Sea to London, for example, by approximately 8,900 kilometres (5,500 mi).

Some sources estimate that over 30,000 people were working on the canal at any given period, that more than 1.5 million people from various countries were employed, and that thousands of labourers died, many of them from cholera and similar epidemics.

Source: 17th Day of February – Fatcowco

L.A. elementary schools can reopen, but it’s complicated – Los Angeles Times

Ultimately, she added, it’s a local decision based on the readiness of all concerned, including the school system’s ability to operate safely. Before any campus can reopen the district must have a detailed safety plan filed with the state and county — health authorities have seven days to raise objections. Some districts and independent schools already have had plans on file. Source: L.A. elementary schools can reopen, but it’s complicated – Los Angeles Times

Virologist: WHO Team Found No ‘Credible Link’ Between Wuhan Labs, COVID-19 | Vermont Public Radio

Is there anything that you think is necessary to know that you don’t have access to?

Not really. So if you say, did the Chinese colleagues hand over the complete raw data files? No, they did not. But then again, I did not expect that in a mission like this. So we’ve seen a lot of information. We’ve been given a lot of information. We’ve had access to the people working on the data, aggregating the data, looking at what exact questionnaires that they used, what does the data file look like. To me, that is quite extensive data access.

Source: Virologist: WHO Team Found No ‘Credible Link’ Between Wuhan Labs, COVID-19 | Vermont Public Radio