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Oilprice.com 

Haiti’s Largest Hydropower Plant Shuts Down After Protests

Haiti’s largest hydropower plant, Peligre, has been shut down after people stormed the facility demanding access to electricity. The war-torn island nation has been struggling to secure its energy supply, prioritizing the capital city, Port-au-Prince, over other parts of the country, which seems to have angered many. “Such actions, far from helping meet the population's electricity needs, make EDH's challenges even more difficult as the equipment used to operate plants are expensive and hard to repair... Читать дальше...

Caught Offside 

Exclusive: Why Liverpool didn’t sign CB this summer, but Reds & Newcastle will target him again

Liverpool’s interest in Sporting Lisbon’s talented defender Goncalo Inacio has been a hot topic internally at the club in recent transfer windows, as well as in terms of media speculation. Despite the club’s keen interest, however, the deal did not materialise this summer as Liverpool ultimately didn’t end up strengthening with the signing of a […]

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Thedailybeast.com 

Opinion: Kamala Harris Is Right. Unions Are Vital—Mine Saved My Family

Photo Illustration by Erin O'Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images and Reuters

My wife, Martha, received a breast cancer diagnosis in 2020. I haven’t publicly discussed her cancer before, and I’m not going to do so now, except to make the point that her treatment would have bankrupted us had we not had health insurance. The thing of it is, though, by the time of her cancer diagnosis, we would have already been bankrupt because of a rare lung infection she’d developed a few years before, which required a major surgery and a lengthy recuperation. Читать дальше...

Google.com 

VW Says Weak Europe Car Sales Leave Two Factories Empty - Bloomberg

  1. VW Says Weak Europe Car Sales Leave Two Factories Empty  Bloomberg
  2. 'A declaration of bankruptcy': Unions lash out as Volkswagen weighs possible German plant closures  CNBC
  3. Volkswagen has ‘a year, maybe two to turn around’, financial chief warns  The Guardian
  4. VW warns time running out as clashes with workers over cuts  Reuters
  5. Volkswagen could close plants in Germany, warns of "serious situation"  Axios

The Washington Free Beacon 

Colin Allred Embraces Pro-Farrakhan Pastor Who Accused Israel of 'Apartheid' One Day After Oct. 7

When Texas Rep. Colin Allred visited Dallas’s Friendship-West Baptist Church in June, the pastor, Rev. Frederick D. Haynes III, was already known for praising anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan as a "wonderful man" and delivering an anti-Israel, anti-American rant the day after the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks. But Allred didn’t hesitate to embrace the radical pastor on stage.

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