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"A Storm Waiting To Happen": The Average American's Power Bill Is About To Rise As Much As 30%

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"A Storm Waiting To Happen": The Average American's Power Bill Is About To Rise As Much As 30% Tyler Durden Fri, 07/03/2020 - 21:25

Today in "The Fed can't find inflation anywhere" news, it looks as though the average American's 2020 is going to go from bad to worse. Bloomberg is reporting that with rising temperatures during what is expected to be a blistering summer, most consumers are about to face "sharp increases" in electric bills that could "drive some to the brink of financial ruin". 

That's a serious claim to make about a power bill, but the facts are there to back it up. People that are stuck at home instead of at the office this summer are going to depend on air conditioners far more than they used to. This will drive up power bills by "25% in parts of the U.S.," according to the report. This comes at a time where about 50 million people are experiencing financial hardships.

Working from home has already increased residential demand for electricity by 15% during work hours, according to Innowatts, a utility consultant. Con Ed has warned customers bills could go up 10% this summer and in California, the average bill may rise by 25% to over $200, the state's Public Utilities Commission has warned. 

In parts of the U.S. south, prices could rise as much as 30%, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists. 

The increases could amount to as much as $50 per month, the report says, and will disproportionately affect many who are already struggling through the pandemic.  

Sindy Benavides, chief executive officer of the League of United Latin American Citizens said: “There will be people faced with figuring out whether to pay their bill or put food on the table. It’s a storm waiting to happen.”

Lower income families spend about 9% of their budget on energy bills, according to the report. The problem disproportionately affects Black and Hispanic families who are twice as likely to live in poverty, according to the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy and the U.S. Census Bureau.

Jacqui Patterson, director of the NAACP’s environmental and climate justice program, said: “People will start to make very tough choices. It’s another situation where people are paying the price of poverty with their lives.”

A long hot summer is being predicted for most of the U.S. this year and places like California have already dealt with two serious heat waves. New York, Boston and Philadelphia have already reached or exceeded 90 degrees this year. 

Jim Rouiller, lead forecaster at the Energy Weather Group, said: “We have made the turn into what is going to become a long summer of heat.”

Jeremiah Bohr, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh concluded: “It highlights the larger issue of how difficult it is to make ends meet.”



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“It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan,” Zhao suggested, calling for the CDC – and the US in general – to “be transparent” and share what they know

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Exclusive: US Army Brought COVID-19 to China with Fake ‘Military Games’ Team (March 12 story)

By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor -June 22, 2020

VT’s overall poor relationship with the Trump presidency has moved up a notch.  The report Trump is referencing went, not unnoticed, but rather totally censored in the Western press, as has so much else until VT sought out the facts and published them.

Now, for the second time, Trump has made sad and silly denials, this one filled with hyperbole and grandiose behavior, typical of a spectrum sociopath.


March 12, 2020: In October 2019, the US brought 172 (really 369) military athletes to Wuhan for the World Military Games.  Despite having the largest military in the world, tenfold, the US came in 35th behind nations like Iran, Finland and Slovenia. No video or photos exist of the US team, no records were kept, a huge team but a pitiful performance for the best military in the world.

The US team did so badly that they were called “Soy Sauce Soldiers” by the Chinese.  In fact, many never participated in any event and stayed near the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, where the disease is said to have originated only days after the US left the area.

The US team went home on October 28, 2019, and within 2 weeks, the first human contact cases of COVID 19 were seen in Wuhan.  The Chinese have not been able to find “patient zero” and believe he was a member of the US team.

They also have sources that say the US had misrepresented influenza that Trump claims have killed thousands, influenza carried to China by the US team, influenza that was really COVID 19, a disease developed in a military bio-warfare facility in the state of Washington, now “ground zero” in the US for COVID 19.

The Chinese claim, something censored in the US, that the inattentive attitude and disproportionately below average results of American athletes in the game indicates they might have been in for other purposes and they might actually be bio-warfare operatives, and that their place of residence during their stay in Wuhan was also close to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, where the first known cluster of cases occurred.[28][29]


RT/Moscow: The US army might have brought the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to China’s Wuhan, the city where the virus was first detected in the country, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Thursday.

“When did patient zero begin in the US?  How many people are infected?  What are the names of the hospitals? It might be the US army that brought the epidemic to Wuhan. Be transparent! Make public your data! The US owes us an explanation!” Zhao tweeted.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Lijian Zhao has demanded US authorities reveal what they’re hiding about the origins of Covid-19, going as far as to suggest the coronavirus may have been brought to China by the US military.

Pointing to a video of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Robert Redfield apparently admitting the US had several deaths from Covid-19 before they were able to test for it, Zhao called on the American watchdog to come clean in a tweet posted on Thursday

“It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan,” Zhao suggested, calling for the CDC – and the US in general – to “be transparent” and share what they know about where and when “Patient Zero” was first diagnosed.

Aug 2019: US army biohazard labs shut down for failing safety checks.

The lab is in Washington State where they have highest incidence of COVID-19.

Oct 2019: Military World Games in Wuhan.

Dec 2019: First COVID-19 case in Wuhan. https://t.co/VPfdutbSoj— Twain (@twainus) March 12, 2020

In the video, Redfield acknowledged that some cases of coronavirus were misclassified as influenza as the medics did not have an accurate test for the new epidemic at the time. He did not elaborate on when these misdiagnosed cases first appeared – saying only that “some cases have been diagnosed that way.”https://platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html?dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-2&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1237985967195095041〈=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.veteranstoday.com%2F2020%2F06%2F22%2Fchina-us-brought-covid19-to-china-during-army-games-hid-disease-in-us-as-influenza%2F&theme=light&widgetsVersion=9066bb2%3A1593540614199&width=550px

In the absence of any patients’ details or chronology of deaths, speculation has swirled. Zhao’s “theory” in particular focused on the military delegation that traveled to Wuhan in October for the Military World Games, weeks before the city confirmed the outbreak in December. The delegation was part of the 300-member group of American athletes taking part in the multi-sport event held every four years.https://platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html?dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-3&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1238111145740898304〈=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.veteranstoday.com%2F2020%2F06%2F22%2Fchina-us-brought-covid19-to-china-during-army-games-hid-disease-in-us-as-influenza%2F&theme=light&widgetsVersion=9066bb2%3A1593540614199&width=550px

Zhao is not the only high-profile political figure to voice suspicions about the timing of the Games and the introduction of the coronavirus in Wuhan. Former Malaysian PM Matthias Chang offered similar speculation back in January, zeroing in on the event as the launch point for what he deemed a biological war waged by the US against China.https://platform.twitter.com/embed/index.html?dnt=true&embedId=twitter-widget-4&frame=false&hideCard=false&hideThread=false&id=1232904495702503426〈=en&origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.veteranstoday.com%2F2020%2F06%2F22%2Fchina-us-brought-covid19-to-china-during-army-games-hid-disease-in-us-as-influenza%2F&theme=light&widgetsVersion=9066bb2%3A1593540614199&width=550px

The World Health Organization (WHO) states that what is now the Covid-19 pandemic was first reported as a coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China, on 31 December 2019. The search for the deadly disease’s origin has been ongoing, with conflicting versions blaming the Wuhan food market and bats – a local delicacy – sold there in particular, while others opined humans might have gotten the virus from pangolins, an endangered scaly mammal.

Less orthodox theories suggest malicious intent, with the head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards sensationally claiming last week that Covid-19 could possibly be “a product of a biological attack by America which initially spread to China and then to Iran and the rest of the world.”

So far, the problem with all of those theories, blaming both animals and humans, is that no direct causal proof has been established, while the identity of China’s “patient zero” also remains unclear. And it’s not China alone: in Washington state – which seemingly identified and successfully isolated its first infected traveler, with dozens of contacts identified and monitored – the virus somehow began spreading anyway. Even Steve Wozniak, Apple’s co-founder, at one point claimed he and his wife may have been the US’ patient zero after developing a bad cough on return from China. It has since emerged his wife’s diagnosis was “a sinus infection,” however.


Why does the plague in Wuhan depend on the PLA?

2020-01-30 17:01:10 Source: school coffee house   Author: fish off the deep

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From October 18 to October 27, 2019, the World Military Games was held in Wuhan, and the United States sent 369 soy sauce soldiers to participate.

Why is it soy sauce soldiers?

Because in the 10-day game, the performance of the American soy sauce soldiers was so disappointing that even Bahrain was unnecessarily disappointed, the gold medal was even missing, and the overall score was left far behind by North Korea, which once gave Mexico a chance. The urge to counterattack the continental United States.

However, the poor performance in the game did not affect the mood of the soy sauce soldiers playing in Wuhan.

They teamed up in groups of two, and played around the streets of Wuhan, leaving many romantic accidents.

It should be pointed out that the location of the US guest house of the Military Games is not far from South China Seafood City.

At the end of the military games, just when people were wondering, how could these gangsters who ca n’t wait to build muscles on their faces suddenly get fired up? Did the American soldiers ’food only be grappled? Or did they forget to eat it during the game? Snickers?


*   Host nation (China)

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  China (CHN)* 133 64 42 239
2  Russia (RUS) 51 53 57 161
3  Brazil (BRA) 21 31 36 88
4  France (FRA) 13 20 24 57
5  Poland (POL) 11 15 34 60
6  Germany (GER) 10 15 20 45
7  North Korea (PRK) 9 8 15 32
8  Bahrain (BHR) 9 1 7 17
9  Uzbekistan (UZB) 8 7 5 20
10  Ukraine (UKR) 5 13 15 33
11  Italy (ITA) 4 12 12 28
12  Kazakhstan (KAZ) 4 3 5 12
13  Belarus (BLR) 4 2 8 14
14  Iran (IRI) 4 2 5 11
15  Switzerland (SUI) 4 1 8 13
16  South Korea (KOR) 3 10 11 24
17  Norway (NOR) 2 4 2 8
 Slovenia (SLO) 2 4 2 8
19  Egypt (EGY) 2 2 5 9
20  Kenya (KEN) 2 1 2 5
 Morocco (MAR) 2 1 2 5
22  Turkey (TUR) 2 0 3 5
23  Romania (ROU) 1 4 3 8
24  Mongolia (MGL) 1 3 5 9
25  Hungary (HUN) 1 3 1 5
26  Czech Republic (CZE) 1 2 5 8
27  India (IND) 1 1 2 4
28  Belgium (BEL) 1 1 1 3
29  Latvia (LAT) 1 1 0 2
30  Lithuania (LTU) 1 0 1 2
31  Bulgaria (BUL) 1 0 0 1
 Namibia (NAM) 1 0 0 1
 Tunisia (TUN) 1 0 0 1
34  Finland (FIN) 0 4 2 6
35  United States (USA) 0 3 5 8
36  Austria (AUT) 0 3 1 4
37  Algeria (ALG) 0 2 5 7
38  Azerbaijan (AZE) 0 2 4 6
39  Dominican Republic (DOM) 0 2 3 5
40  Slovakia (SVK) 0 2 1 3
41  Qatar (QAT) 0 2 0 2
42  Thailand (THA) 0 1 5 6
43  Canada (CAN) 0 1 2 3
 Sri Lanka (SRI) 0 1 2 3
 Sweden (SWE) 0 1 2 3
46  Oman (OMA) 0 1 1 2
 Syria (SYR) 0 1 1 2
 Vietnam (VIE) 0 1 1 2
49  Denmark (DEN) 0 1 0 1
 Ecuador (ECU) 0 1 0 1
 Estonia (EST) 0 1 0 1
 Saudi Arabia (KSA) 0 1 0 1
 Tanzania (TAN) 0 1 0 1
54  Serbia (SRB) 0 0 3 3
55  Venezuela (VEN) 0 0 2 2
56  Albania (ALB) 0 0 1 1
 Armenia (ARM) 0 0 1 1
 Barbados (BAR) 0 0 1 1
 Greece (GRE) 0 0 1 1
 Indonesia (INA) 0 0 1 1
 Ireland (IRL) 0 0 1 1
 Kuwait (KUW) 0 0 1 1
 Luxembourg (LUX) 0 0 1 1
 Pakistan (PAK) 0 0 1 1
 Rwanda (RWA) 0 0 1 1
 Spain (ESP) 0 0 1 1
Totals (66 nations) 316 316 389 1021

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Note: Para Athletics, Para Archery, Gymnastics, Tennis and 3 Senior Triathlon events not counted in the medal table.

BIOGRAPHYGordon Duff, Senior EditorSenior Editor , VTGordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War. He is a disabled veteran and has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades. Gordon is an accredited diplomat and is generally accepted as one of the top global intelligence specialists. He manages the world’s largest private intelligence organization and regularly consults with governments challenged by security issues.

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