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Climate Change / The War On Cars
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 10:47:55 am »
The War On Cars
APRIL 22, 2024
By Paul Homewood
 
As you know, I have been warning about this for years:
 

In a fit of self-loathing, the European Union has begun to destroy the economic engine that pays its bills. Some of this is well known, but some is not, and it will astonish you.

Only nine of the EU’s 27 member states are net budget contributors, and Germany pays the most – around €25bn (£22bn) in 2021. Without the generosity of the Bundesrepublik, the European Commission would struggle to keep the lights on at the Berlaymont.

In turn, that wealth comes from its manufacturing industry. Specifically, from strong global demand for the German vehicles which account for almost three-fifths of Europe’s car exports. As recently as a decade ago, the streets of Shanghai and Shenzhen teemed with German brand SUVs.
 
So you would think that the regulators in Brussels would show some care to the delicate vase they’re carrying across the room. But not a bit of it.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/04/23/the-war-on-cars/
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Legal Insurrection by Leslie Eastman April 22, 2024

Team Biden is is using the monkeypox outbreak in the Congo as the rationale for the “Global Health Security Strategy”.

I have been covering the recent attempts by the media and Big Government entities to gin up fear and angst over the bird flu and monkeypox.

In a previous post, I noted that the World Health Organization’s attempts to persuade countries to agree to the terms of a pandemic treaty have been floundering. Essentially, it is because no sane nation wants to hand over control of its population to activist bureaucrats who use pseudoscience to implement liberty-crushing, economy-destroying, nonsense policies.

Been there. Done that.

In fact, it appears the Republican party was gearing up to make this treaty an issue in the upcoming election.

    “The COVID-19 pandemic showed us that the WHO is not the preeminent global health institution that perhaps it once was,” said Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, who chairs the House Oversight and Accountability Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. “Politics should never have a place in science.”

    …[A] growing coalition of Republicans on Capitol Hill, as well as supporters of former President Donald Trump, have been rallying against the treaty. During a news conference Monday on Capitol Hill, Reps. Christopher H. Smith, R-N.J., and Wenstrup argued the treaty is too political and relies too heavily on financial support from U.S. taxpayers.

    Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council, called the draft “a global power grab” that forces progressive social policies on countries.

However, the allure of control to the power-mongering members of the Biden administration is like catnip to a cat. So, it’s coming up with its version of a “pandemic treaty“.

    …Biden’s administration will help 50 countries identify and respond to infectious diseases, with the goal of preventing pandemics like the COVID-19 outbreak that suddenly halted normal life around the globe in 2020.

More: https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/04/biden-administration-trying-to-implement-its-own-pandemic-treaty/
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Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem.
© Mario Tama/Getty Images

In sunny California, solar panels are everywhere. They sit in dry, desert landscapes in the Central Valley and are scattered over rooftops in Los Angeles’s urban center. By last count, the state had nearly 47 gigawatts of solar power installed — enough to power 13.9 million homes and provide over a quarter of the Golden State’s electricity.
 
But now, the state and its grid operator are grappling with a strange reality: There is so much solar on the grid that, on sunny spring days when there’s not as much demand, electricity prices go negative. Gigawatts of solar are “curtailed” — essentially, thrown away.

In response, California has cut back incentives for rooftop solar and slowed the pace of installing panels. But the diminishing economic returns may slow the development of solar in a state that has tried to move to renewable energy. And as other states build more and more solar plants of their own, they may soon face the same problems.
 
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/rooftop-solar-panels-are-flooding-california-s-grid-that-s-a-problem/ar-AA1nr34N?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=7abd4df0ffa641f4b7a38a568dd14aeb&ei=49
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Immigration/Border / Southern border sees surge of global migrants
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 10:38:23 am »
Southern border sees surge of global migrants

Many people who are migrating at the southern border are not just coming from Central America, but also from Asia and Africa. NBC News’ David Noriega spoke with some who traveled around the world to seek asylum in the U.S.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/southern-border-sees-surge-of-global-migrants/vi-AA1ntEug?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=7abd4df0ffa641f4b7a38a568dd14aeb&ei=39
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I guess I'm bad, because when I read "plan to light up" I was hoping it meant   :whistle:

 :laughingdog:
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SCOTUS News / “Ghost Gun” Ban Headed To Supreme Court
« Last post by Elderberry on Today at 10:36:16 am »
Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog 4/22/2024

Another ill-conceived bit of DOJ gun regulation is now headed to the Supreme Court.

    After the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) promulgated a rule to regulate home-built firearm kits, or what the Biden administration calls “ghost guns,” two Texas residents filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of the rule that will now be heard by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS).

The Biden Administration and other gun-grabbing Democrats call them “ghost guns” because they are literally, by law, not guns. They’re unfinished 80% receiver kits, or build kids that you must finish at home on a milling machine, 3D printer, etc. American citizens building their own guns without the approval of the federal government (which has only occurred since, oh, about 1873) promises to thwart their plans of complete civilian disarmament, hence “ghost gun” regulations.

    Represented by the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), the lawsuit from plaintiffs Jennifer VanDerStok and Michael Andren contends the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) exceeded the boundaries of federal law by implementing the new rules, which treat unfinished firearm kits as finished firearms and requires all firearms to possess a serial number.

    The DOJ argued it simply wants to make sure the unfinished parts kits are treated like any other firearm and says implementation of the rule will not prevent anyone who is lawfully allowed to possess a gun from obtaining one. Those wanting to buy one would need to undergo the regular process to purchase any firearm, which includes a background check.

    The plaintiffs disagree, writing in their SCOTUS brief that they believe the federal government’s goal in implementing the rule isn’t to simply regulate the firearm kit industry, but to get rid of it.

More: https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=57848
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 The Black Lives Matter legal revolution has come crashing down
Opinion by Michael Lind • 17h •


It’s not a good time to be a Leftist prosecutor in the United States. Pamela Price, the elected District Attorney of Alameda County, will face a recall vote later this year following a massive increase in crime that coincided with her policies of reducing criminal penalties and prosecuting police officers who used lethal force. 
 
Price is just the latest progressive prosecutor to face a recall election in mostly-liberal and Democratic California. A year before was the high-profile removal of Chesa Boudin, elected as District Attorney of San Francisco in 2019.

The son of two former members of the radical Leftist Weather Underground terrorist gang, Boudin was raised by two other militants after his parents were imprisoned for their part in the murder of three people targeted by the Black Liberation Army.

Boudin as District Attorney General of San Francisco carried out a soft-on-crime policy including the elimination of cash bail and “decarceration.” He was subsequently evicted from office in 2022 by voters in a recall election campaign – supported by many of his own former prosecutors.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-black-lives-matter-legal-revolution-has-come-crashing-down/ar-AA1nsLkP?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=7abd4df0ffa641f4b7a38a568dd14aeb&ei=29
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Biden’s new Title IX revisions are a repulsive attempt to erase biological truth
Opinion by Kirsten Fleming • 11h •


Last week, as the country was swept up in Caitlin Clark mania, Joe Biden — or whoever was holding his phone — sent out a pandering tweet, asking for compensation parity in women’s sports.

It was a request meant to celebrate the sisterhood, but had little regard for the financial realities of professional sports.

But days later, the Biden administration announced plans to kneecap lady athletes: introducing sweeping, radical changes to Title IX that would trample on fairness for females in locker rooms, sports and other single-sex spaces.
 
All with absolutely no regard for biological reality.

How has Biden been so wrong on so much in such a short period of time when it comes to women?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/biden-s-new-title-ix-revisions-are-a-repulsive-attempt-to-erase-biological-truth/ar-AA1ntwyl?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=7abd4df0ffa641f4b7a38a568dd14aeb&ei=14
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Fire hoses do wonders for crowds...

Jus' sayin'
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