The Biden government on Thursday unveiled one of its most extreme environmental regulations yet, requiring coal-fired power plants to almost entirely eliminate their emissions or else face being shutdown. Under the new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation, these power plants must decrease their pollutants by an ambitious 90 percent by 2039 — one year earlier than the originally proposed 2040. Representatives from the coal power industry have called the emissions benchmarks set by the EPA unrealistic.
In addition to the new emissions standards, the EPA is imposing more stringent controls on mercury emissions — a neurotoxin associated with developmental harm to children — from specific plants that use lignite coal, an inferior grade of coal. Other regulations will require more rigorous management of toxic ash seepage from coal stations into the surrounding water table and promote stricter surveillance of coal plant wastewater discharge.
The EPA’s regulatory announcements could amount to the potential end of the coal industry in the United States. Environmental activists, however, hail the possibility as they contend that coal combustion is responsible for the highest level of carbon dioxide emissions globally.
These new regulations follow actions undertaken by the Biden government to severely restrict emissions from American cars and trucks. The new automobile emission standards aim in part to fast-track the adoption of electric vehicles among American consumers. Officials in the Biden government have reiterated their intent to reduce U.S. carbon emissions by roughly 50 percent by 2030 and achieve complete decarbonization of the power industry by 2035.
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The Biden government on Thursday unveiled one of its most extreme environmental regulations yet, requiring coal-fired power plants to almost entirely eliminate their emissions or else face being shutdown. Under the new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation, these power plants must decrease their pollutants by an ambitious 90 percent by 2039 — one year earlier than the originally proposed 2040. Representatives from the coal power industry have called the emissions benchmarks set by the EPA unrealistic.
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The U.S. Department of State has implemented a finalized policy making promotions contingent on employees‘ ability to document their active engagement in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices. Federal agencies, like the State Department, were required to update employment and promotion standards following President Joe Biden’s Executive Order 13985, which “established that affirmatively advancing equity, civil rights, racial justice, and equal opportunity is the responsibility of the whole of our Government.”
“We made the change that if you wanted to be considered for promotion at the Department of State, you must be able to document what you are doing to support diversity, equity and inclusion, and accessibility. This is how you are judged for promotion,” Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley explained during a speech at the City Club Forum in April last year. Abercrombie-Winstanley, the former ambassador to Malta, was serving as the State Department‘s chief diversity and inclusion officer when the executive order was issued and was tasked with laying the groundwork for the new employment policy.
She added: “So that means my allies who are not female or minority are also interested in being able to show ‘I’m doing good work on this.'”
When the Department of State first announced the finalized DEI rule for public review, they stated: “Establishing the advancement of [DEI] as an element for all employees as part of their job performance criteria, career advancement opportunities, and senior performance pay.” The policy change is, however, just one component of a broader shift to align employment procedures with the State Department’s “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Strategic Plan 2022 – 2026.”
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The U.S. Department of State has implemented a finalized policy making promotions contingent on employees' ability to document their active engagement in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices. Federal agencies, like the State Department, were required to update employment and promotion standards following President Joe Biden's Executive Order 13985, which "established that affirmatively advancing equity, civil rights, racial justice, and equal opportunity is the responsibility of the whole of our Government."
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Legislation extending the parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act failed on the House floor after former President Donald Trump urged Republicans to reject efforts to reauthorize the law, which permits certain forms of warrantless surveillance by the U.S. government. In a post on Truth Social directed at lawmakers on Capitol Hill, Trump wrote: “KILL FISA, IT WAS ILLEGALLY USED AGAINST ME, AND MANY OTHERS. THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!!!”
The former President’s move presented a considerable challenge to Republican defense hawks and their efforts to secure the votes to pass a reauthorization of the controversial law. House Republicans have been grappling with two separate bills addressing the future of FISA for several months now.
Despite the backlash, Republican House leadership proceeded with a vote on the bill Wednesday afternoon. The bill aimed to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, making only minor amendments. At least sixteen House Republicans opposed the rule to begin debate on the legislation, effectively blocking its path to adoption. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) had already voiced his intention to thwart the legislation earlier in the day.
Prior to the vote, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY)– the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee – said he believed the rule vote to begin debate on FISA reauthorization would fail.
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Legislation extending the parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act failed on the House floor after former President Donald Trump urged Republicans to reject efforts to reauthorize the law, which permits certain forms of warrantless surveillance by the U.S. government. In a post on Truth Social directed at lawmakers on Capitol Hill, Trump wrote: "KILL FISA, IT WAS ILLEGALLY USED AGAINST ME, AND MANY OTHERS. THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!!!"
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The U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to hear a case that has the potential to weaken a critical component of federal immigrationlaw dramatically. At the center of the case is the doctrine of “consular nonreviewability.” The legal doctrine states that a consular official’s decision to refuse a visa to a foreign individual cannot be subjected to judicial review.
Proponents of the doctrine argue that the legal doctrine is essential to the smooth operation of our immigration system. Open borders advocates, meanwhile, contend that the doctrine should be relaxed on constitutional grounds and in favor of family unity.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE v. MUNOZ.
The case began when U.S. citizen Sandra Munoz contested the denial of an immigration visa for her Salvadoran husband, Luis Asencio-Cordero, who had been living in the U.S. illegally. A consular officer denied Asencio-Cordero’s visa, citing his gang tattoos as evidence that he was a member of MS-13.
In July of last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit overturned a previous district court ruling in favor of the federal government. The judges argued that the application of the consular nonreviewability doctrine violated the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The 9th Circuit ruled that Ms. Munoz had “a fundamental liberty interest in their marriage” and “a liberty interest in residing in their country of citizenship.”
‘AN ADMINISTRATIVE NIGHTMARE.’
In a dissenting opinion, 9th Circuit Appellate Judge Patrick Bumatay noted that the “speedy-notice requirement will be an administrative nightmare. Now consular officers will have to sift through countless visa applications to determine who is entitled to the heightened notice by relation to some citizen.”
The government’s appeal of the 9th Circuit decision in Department of State v. Munoz will be heard by the Supreme Court on April 23.
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The U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to hear a case that has the potential to weaken a critical component of federal immigrationlaw dramatically. At the center of the case is the doctrine of "consular nonreviewability." The legal doctrine states that a consular official’s decision to refuse a visa to a foreign individual cannot be subjected to judicial review.
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A US State Department-funded study authored by the consultancy firm Gladstone AI says the government should consider a temporary ban on artificial intelligence (AI) that surpasses a certain computational power threshold. The study’s authors warn that advanced AI poses an extinction-level threat to humanity.
Their 247-page report proposes the enactment of sweeping government powers to regulate the development of AI as the technology could “destabilize global security” by hijacking nuclear weapons and critical infrastructure. Gladstone AI suggests the executive branch be granted new emergency powers to respond to hypothetical AI threats.
The State Department commissioned report also recommends treating high-end computer chips crucial to AI development as international contraband and implementing strict monitoring of hardware usage. Gladstone AI’s conclusions echo sentiments expressed by some in the technology industry, government, and academia who warn that while AI holds significant potential, mismanaged deployment could be radically disruptive.
Gladstone AI’s safety report follows recent concerns raised by UNESCO over neurosurveillance and mental privacy infringements relating to emerging brain chip technology. The AI report was prepared for the State Department’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, tasked with studying and curbing the threat of emergent weapons systems.
Mark Beall, one of the report’s co-authors, has since left Gladstone AI to launch a new Super PAC, Americans for AI Safety. Beall, the former DoD AI strategy chief, and his Super PAC hope to make AI safety “a key issue in the 2024 elections, with a goal of passing AI safety legislation by the end of 2024.”
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A US State Department-funded study authored by the consultancy firm Gladstone AI says the government should consider a temporary ban on artificial intelligence (AI) that surpasses a certain computational power threshold. The study's authors warn that advanced AI poses an extinction-level threat to humanity.
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Public employees in the Biden government are colluding with far-left non-profit groups to boost turnout among key Democrat constituencies ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Emails obtained by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project reveal government officials with USAID have been taking direction on how to register voters from Demos — a left-wing non-profit dedicated to ‘racial justice.’ USAID — a part of the U.S. Department of State — is ostensibly an international development agency with a $27 billion taxpayer-funded budget that provides economic support to over 100 countries worldwide.
USAID is not the only government agency actively working with Democrat-aligned groups like Demos to assist President Joe Biden’s re-election efforts. In 2021, Biden signed Executive Order 14019 — which directs the various agencies and departments in his government to “consider ways to expand citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process.”
Under the guise of a ‘public service,’ President Biden’s order effectively incorporates the federal government in aiding Democrat turnout efforts. While the order claims agencies are to only work with ” approved, nonpartisan third-party organizations,” that has not happened in practice. According to Demos, they expect to be able to add 3 million new voters to the 2024 election rolls – paid for by U.S. taxpayer dollars.
The Biden re-election campaign, now with the assistance of the U.S. federal government, has rushed to ramp up efforts to maximize their political base’s turnout. Polling has shown the Democrat incumbent consistently trailing former President Donald Trump. Voter concerns regarding Biden’s age and health, inflation and the economy, the illegal immigrant invasion of the southern border, and the chaos in the Middle East have driven Biden’s approval ratings to near-recordlows. The President’s deep unpopularity has left national Democrats questioning whether he can defeat Trump in 2024.
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Public employees in the Biden government are colluding with far-left non-profit groups to boost turnout among key Democrat constituencies ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Emails obtained by the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project reveal government officials with USAID have been taking direction on how to register voters from Demos — a left-wing non-profit dedicated to 'racial justice.' USAID — a part of the U.S. Department of State — is ostensibly an international development agency with a $27 billion taxpayer-funded budget that provides economic support to over 100 countries worldwide.
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The Biden’s White House’s tap dancing troupe has been a long-standing promoter of anti-white hatred, as well as boosting the Palestinian “ethnic cleansing” hoax, according to the organization – Dorrance Dance’s – own website.
What Is Dorrance Dance?
Dorrance Dance was founded in 2011 and has since promoted the disreputable and discredited 1619 Project – which claims the foundation of America was not the 1776 Declaration of Independence but rather when the first slave arrived at Port Comfort, Virginia, in 1619. The site also claims America is forever chained by the “original sin” of slavery and systems of inequality.
Dorrance Dances suggests its fans educate themselves by reading openly racist books about white people, such as “White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide,” “White Fragility,” and “Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority.”
The organization links to a number of other online bookstores that promote similar so-called “education” books, such as the virulently anti-Israel Ilan Pappe’s “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” – a book widely discredited for its poor historiography and dishonesty. Another link to Afriware Books includes the book “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome” and “White Fear: How The Browning Of American Is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds,” which encourages its readers to understand and “neutralize” it.
A third link to Mahogany Books offers titles such as “White Reign: Deploying Whiteness In America,” which investigates whether one can “reshape whiteness,” and “Black Women Will Save The World: An Anthem.”
The organization has received major donations from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the MacMillan Family Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation. It is a recipient of a U.S. Small Business Administration Shuttered Venue Operators grant, which was made possible by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
The Founder of Dorrance Dance.
The organization was founded and is directed by Michelle Dorrance, daughter of Anson Dorrance, the former head coach of the U.S. Women’s Soccer team between 1986 and 1994.
Michelle – who appears in the White House video after one minute and ten seconds – is a far-left activist and supporter of Black Lives Matter (BLM) with an open hatred of white people. She regularly apologizes for her “whiteness,” and has posted her support for Martin Luther King’s radical claim that the American “Negro’s greatest stumbling block” is not the “White Citizen’s Counciler [sic] or the Ku Klux Klan” but rather the so-called “white moderate.”
In a note on her website entitled, “Why antiracism work is important to me,” Michelle Dorrance establishes her “never-ending struggle against systemic racism and white supremacy in this country.” She refers to American society as one that “privileges white people and whiteness” while calling on white people to understand “how deeply embedded white supremacy, racism, and colonialism is in our culture is paramount to understanding our role (as white people) in perpetuating it.”
She has shown a similar antipathy towards former President Donald Trump. Dorrance said the Trump administration’s “capacity for hatred is endless” and demanded people stand up against it.
Dorrance has also encouraged people to buy demonic artwork featuring the devil as a naked woman from transgender artist and designer E Henderson.
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A bit of magic, wonder, and joy brought to you by the talented tappers of Dorrance Dance, performing their playful interpretation of The Nutcracker Suite.
The Biden's White House's tap dancing troupe has been a long-standing promoter of anti-white hatred, as well as boosting the Palestinian "ethnic cleansing" hoax, according to the organization – Dorrance Dance's – own website.
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The United States terrorist watchlist has expanded to over two million people, almost doubling over the past six years and including an ever-increasing number of U.S. citizens, according to a recent investigation.
The government watchlist, which contains the names of either known or suspected terrorists, had just 120,000 included when it first launched in 2003. However, it soon grew to over 1.16 million by 2017, and crossing the two million mark for the first time this month.
Government policy requires agents to have a “reasonable suspicion” that someone may commit an act before they can be added to the watchlist. Yet, the government refuses to mention upon what the suspicion is based or what criteria must be met.
“It means there’s something that has led a department or agency to say, ‘This person needs a closer look,” stated U.S. intelligence service veteran Russ Travers. It doesn’t mean they’re a terrorist.”
A number of national security officials suggested there are a number of people who should have their names scrubbed from the list, with Travers admitting that there are likely “a lot of people that are in the database that are dead, that we don’t even know it.”
Indeed, the U.S. government has often demonstrated carelessness in maintaining the list but argues there are not enough people to audit every person’s file regularly.
Worse still, there have been countless examples of the government mistakenly adding people to the watchlist, such as one a Stanford PhD student who was forced to fight for over nine years to scrub her name from the list after an agent accidentally ticked the wrong box.
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The United States terrorist watchlist has expanded to over two million people, almost doubling over the past six years and including an ever-increasing number of U.S. citizens, according to a recent investigation.
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Republican lawmakers have begun questioning the Biden government‘s $3 billion loan to solar energy company Sunnova, which has been accused of “scamming” and taking advantage of elderly dementia patients to sell long-lasting leases on solar paneling.
“We are alarmed about recent, credible reports that Sunnova has racked up numerous consumer complaints, including those alleging troubling sales practices…” wrote Chair of the Senate Republican Conference John Barrasso (R-Wyo) and Republican Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash) in a letter to the director of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Programs Office, Jigar Shah.
Reports found that Sunnova has targeted vulnerable patients – including some on their deathbeds – for “multi-decade solar panel leases” costing up to $60,000. Roughly 50 complaints have been lodged against the company since last year. Some of the issues included delays to maintenance as well as “predatory sales tactics.” Another, at least, 1,000 have been filed against Sunnova in Puerto Rico.
One Texas resident stated her senile father was sold a solar system worth $60,000 despite having several months to live. He died soon after, with Sunnova placing a lien on the home, preventing any sale of the property. “My dad told [the salesman] at that time he was on hospice and dying. And basically, he wasn’t in his right mind,” his daughter explained.
As a result, both Senator Barroso and Representative Rodgers are demanding all documents relating to the loan – the largest ever made to a solar power company – and communication between the DOE and the company be turned over to them for oversight.
“These allegations are particularly troubling, as LPO has stated this program will focus on disadvantaged communities,” they added.
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Republican lawmakers have begun questioning the Biden government's $3 billion loan to solar energy company Sunnova, which has been accused of "scamming" and taking advantage of elderly dementia patients to sell long-lasting leases on solar paneling.
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Houses in the United States are less affordable than at any time in the country’s history, with the average monthly price of home payments increasing from $1,787 to $3,322 per month since Joe Biden became President in January 2021.
The average monthly mortgage payment is 52 percent higher than the average cost of renting an apartment. In metropolitan areas and cities, such as Seattle, Austin, and several Californian cities, the figure increases to a staggering 175 percent.
Someone taking out a mortgage on a house costing $430,000 with a ten percent initial payment is forced to pay $3,200 every month: 60 percent more than three years ago.
As a result, the average age of a “first-time buyer” is n0w 35, three years older than under Donald Trump’s presidency. The number was even higher in 2022 at 36 years old. One-third of house purchases were made by first-time buyers, far below the average of 38 percent.
“There is a lot of shadow demand for homes, with a bunch of first-time buyers waiting on the sidelines for the payment-to-paycheck calculation to work for them,” Odeta Kushi, deputy chief economist at First American Corporation, recently explained.
Meanwhile, jobless claims are on the rise under the Biden government, and more Americans are being forced to break into their life savings.
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Houses in the United States are less affordable than at any time in the country's history, with the average monthly price of home payments increasing from $1,787 to $3,322 per month since Joe Biden became President in January 2021.
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