Biden to unveil stricter emissions
standards for vehicles, exceeding
Obama-era regulations
Posted By: Ribicon, 8/5/2021 11:01:39 AM
President Biden will unveil sweeping new regulations on cars and trucks on Thursday, returning America over the next five years to the strict standards that the Obama administration had imposed but former President Trump walked back. The proposed rules drafted by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation would tighten emissions standards to be more in line with aggressive measures established by California in 2019, but which Mr. Trump had blocked. On mileage rules, automakers also will be required to raise their average miles-per-gallon score of their fleets by 3.7% starting with the model year 2023, which would include cars sold next year.
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New York shattered its COVID cases record for the third day running, recording an enormous 44,431 new cases on Christmas Eve. The numbers were shared by State Governor Kathy Hochul at a Friday morning press conference. She blamed the huge spike on the Omicron variant, estimated to be behind 92% of new infections in the Empire State, and said: 'This is a very, very contagious variant.'(Snip)On Friday, Hochul also said that essential workers in New York now only have to isolate for five days after they test positive for COVID if they're vaccinated and have suffered a so-called breakthrough infection.
With Gateway Tunnel costs escalating,
would it have been cheaper to build the
ARC tunnel in 2010? 7 replies
would it have been cheaper to build the
ARC tunnel in 2010? 7 replies
A proposed Hudson River rail tunnel project that was canceled 11 years ago would have been done by now, giving NJ Transit commuters two new tunnels and a separate station in Manhattan, had it been built. The project known as the Access to the Region’s Core or ARC tunnel has its faults. It went to a deep cavern station under 34th Street, didn’t connect to Penn Station and scared state taxpayers, because federal officials estimated the $9 billion project could balloon to $14.7 billion.(Snip)With construction scheduled to start in 2023 and inflation adding $1 million a day to the price tag, would it have been cheaper
A CNN corresponded said Wednesday that Joe Biden 'seemed confused' in his ABC News interview earlier this week, when the president appeared to mix up COVID-19 at-home tests and antiviral pills.
Biden, 79, spoke to ABC's David Muir for 20 minutes in an interview that aired on Wednesday and defended his administration against criticism of its handling of the pandemic and readiness for the rapidly spreading Omicron variant, but also admitting that there were certain mistakes made.(Snip)'Repeatedly throughout this interview—President Biden seems confused and was confusing the half a billion tests that they've ordered with a half a billion pills,' said Jeff Zeleny, CNN's chief national
A fourth jab could now be rolled out early to millions of Britons after a new study showed protection against Omicron wanes within three months of a booster. People infected with the contagious variant are 70 per cent less likely to end up in hospital, an official analysis of real-world cases has confirmed. But the analysis from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) also reveals that immunity from boosters fades more quickly against Omicron compared to Delta. Those who received two AstraZeneca doses, plus a Pfizer or Moderna booster, have 60 per cent protection against Omicron for two to weeks after the third jab. But after ten weeks,
Democratic Socialist Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York has jumped onto a tweet sent by former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton that went viral earlier this week. In the tweet, Bratton—who worked under outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio—showed several homeless people sleeping on a subway train. 'You know why NY's 'recovery' isn't happening? This photo today on the E Train at 6:45am at 42nd & 8th says it all,' he wrote. 'Why should working people & tourists be subjected to this? How's it fair to those who need services? Imagine the cops' frustration with no support to deal with it!' Ocasio-Cortez joined many others on the left in slamming
Boston's Emerson College has instructed students living in halls of residence on campus to stay in their rooms apart from eating, collecting mail or to get tested for covid-19. The new rules come into force on January 3rd and apply to all students even if they have been fully vaccinated including receiving their booster shots.
The college hopes that the 'stay in room directive' will help curb the spread of the omicron variant of the coronavirus. 'The campus will operate in a 'stay in room directive' through January 18.(Snip)Students should avoid any large gatherings and not leave campus or their residence except for those situations listed above,'
Philadelphia doesn’t have much of an Afghan population. But it’s about to get one, fueled by the local resettlement of hundreds of evacuees from among the 50,000 now living on U.S. military bases.
The leaders of a new group, Afghans of Philadelphia (AOP), say they’re prepared—to help and to lead and, most of all, to seize this moment of change to forge a cohesive, vibrant and involved Afghan community. Already they’ve jumped in to assist, translating for Afghans arriving at Philadelphia International Airport—more than 28,000 people and counting—and collecting winter gear for the 11,000 evacuees housed at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in South Jersey.
“It’s Philly’s time,”
The oldest teenager charged with the carjacking of Democrat Representative Mary Gay Scanlon was out on bond at the time of the crime on Wednesday from stealing another car. Josiah Brown, 19, is facing federal charges for the carjacking in Philadelphia. He already has a string of other arrests. Along with Brown, four other teens were involved in the carjacking raning from ages 13-16–all of whom were released back to their parents.(Snip)Both women supported police reform policies last year following ignition of the Black Lives Matter movement. Scanlon and Lightford also co-sponsored bills in their respective offices to allow mental health specialists
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was forced to defend her boss Joe Biden on Thursday amid questions over the timing of his COVID-19 test expansion and accusations that he acted too late to stop massive delays in testing and results just two days before Christmas. Hours later a report emerged in Vanity Fair that the Biden administration had reject a roadmap to getting at-home rapid COVID tests to every American to avoid the holiday surge currently wreaking havoc on people's Christmas plans. The ambitious blueprint called for 732 million monthly COVID tests—far more than what Biden promised would come in January.
Before Daunte Wright was shot and killed by Minnesota police officer Kim Potter, he terrorized his local neighborhood for several years, leaving victims and their families with a lifetime's worth of trauma and suffering. Through court records and interviews with the victims, DailyMail.com can exclusively report that Wright had led a life of crime and violence before his death, having been involved in the shooting of two of his school friends, a home burglary, and had previously assaulted and robbed a young woman at gunpoint.(Snip)'He's an evil human being. Worse than a monster, a waste of space on earth,' Jennifer LeMay told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview.
A mom who thought her toddler loved meeting a mall Santa discovered he was signaling for help after looking at a snap of his encounter.
Kerry Spencer had taught her kids to baby sign before they could speak so they could communicate while they were infants. But she never expected 1-year-old son, Samuel, to use his skill to send out an SOS while sitting on Santa’s lap. Terrified, the toddler resorted to using his baby version of ASL to sign “Help” to his mom while the photographer at the Provo Town Center Mall in Provo, Utah, snapped a picture. Kerry told Today parents: “I was standing to the side
Minnesota has drafted in the National Guard to save the state's desperate nursing homes, crippled by staffing shortages and facing new pressures amid the rapid spread of the Omicron Covid variant.
Some 400 troops without any prior nursing experience are going through rapid-fire training at community colleges before being sent to long-term care facilities. Hospitals swamped by soaring Covid infections are in desperate need of functioning nursing homes to send patients who require long-term care—but the pandemic has put such pressure on staff that many carers have decided to quit.(Snip)Among their duties, the troops have been collecting bedpans, clipping toenails and feeding residents.
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Not everyone who gives birth is a “mother,” this transgender man would like medical workers to know.
In Oct. 2020, Los Angeles resident Bennett Kaspar-Williams, 37, gave birth via caesarean to a healthy baby boy with his husband, Malik.
But in the process of having little Hudson, Kaspar-Williams was troubled by the constant misgendering of him by hospital staff who insisted on calling him a “mom,” the Daily Mail reported.
RFK Jr.: Reporter Found Monument to Dead
Orphans Tortured and Killed by Monster
Fauci (VIDEO) 48 replies
Orphans Tortured and Killed by Monster
Fauci (VIDEO) 48 replies
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. joined The High Wire recently to discuss his best-selling book on monster Dr. Tony Fauci.
During the discussion, RFK Jr. revealed that reporter Cecelia Farber went to the cemetery in New York state where the tortured orphan children were buried. These victims were Fauci’s experimental patients.(snip)In 2004 Dr. Fauci’s NIH was also caught funding experiments on AIDS orphans at a New York City hospital. The Gateway Pundit reported on this dark Fauci chapter in October.
The Fauci NIH approved experiments on hundreds of New York City orphans. Government agencies and pharmaceutical companies used the orphans in deadly AIDS drug trials.
Amid low approval ratings and continued press attention on her role, Vice President Kamala Harris has turned to another powerful woman who clashed with critics, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for guidance. And she has concluded she would get better treatment in the media if she were white and male like all of her predecessors, telling her allies as much. Harris has contended with departing aides and gripes about her leadership style, amid complaints from within her circle about that difficult tasks she has been assigned, including dealing with 'root causes' of the border crisis.
Joe Biden's junior staff are reportedly burnt out and demoralized, with the team lacking any camaraderie and isolated from their colleagues.White House employees told Politico that morale is low, echoing months of complaints made by staff working for Vice President Kamala Harris.Harris has had four senior members of her team resign in recent weeks.Biden's staff told the site on Wednesday that they too were unhappy, blaming the lack of team spirit and poor management in the midst of the pandemic.They were particularly hurt by being excluded, they said, from holiday traditions like the pardon of the Thanksgiving turkey and tours of the White House Christmas decorations.
What Do We Do with the FBI Now?
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The events of the past five or six years have demonstrated to America that the FBI is no longer the unbiased law enforcement agency it once was. (snip) There are only two options: rehabilitate the FBI, or eliminate it. The current state is unacceptable in a functioning constitutional republic.(snip) The DoJ has not only failed to provide course correction to the FBI, it has arguably contributed to the problems. The rebuilding of the FBI should be overseen by a board chartered with the mission of rehabilitation, and staffed with people who care about integrity and understand what a well-functioning police organization should look like.
Donald Trump said Wednesday that people unvaccinated against coronavirus are the ones getting 'very sick' as he pushed back against conservative Candace Owens by claiming all Americans should get the jab while he again took credit for its creation.
'I came up with a vaccine–with three vaccines,' Trump told the Daily Wire host, referring to the development of the Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson vaccines while he was still president. 'All are very, very good. Came up with three of them in less than nine months. It was supposed to take five to 12 years.' Owens interjected: 'Yet more people have died under COVID this year, by the way,
White House Has Dancing Nurses Perform
“Christmas Amid a Winter of Death”
in The East Room 31 replies
“Christmas Amid a Winter of Death”
in The East Room 31 replies
Leftism is driven by committee advice; it’s how the echo-chambering communal groupthink works. After the White House COVID “Winter of Death” messaging was ridiculed and ignored by almost everyone in the general public, the communications team quickly went back to the drawing board. You can almost hear Ron Klain instructing the team to find ways to avoid the ‘Grinch team‘ labeling. However, the ordinary emotional disposition of leftists and Democrats, writ large, is depressing, angry and negative, the result from a lifetime of blame casting.
A fourth jab could now be rolled out early to millions of Britons after a new study showed protection against Omicron wanes within three months of a booster. People infected with the contagious variant are 70 per cent less likely to end up in hospital, an official analysis of real-world cases has confirmed. But the analysis from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) also reveals that immunity from boosters fades more quickly against Omicron compared to Delta. Those who received two AstraZeneca doses, plus a Pfizer or Moderna booster, have 60 per cent protection against Omicron for two to weeks after the third jab. But after ten weeks,
Boom – Senator Sinema Stops Biden’s
Plan To Nationalize Federal Election Laws;
Angering Fellow Dems 29 replies
Plan To Nationalize Federal Election Laws;
Angering Fellow Dems 29 replies
As 2022 approaches, Democrats are privately and publicly expressing their frustration with two of their U.S. Senators who continue to back crucial legislation from passing. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) recently wrecked President Biden’s hopes of destroying federal election integrity laws by not supporting HR1 or ending the Senate filibuster. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) just crushed Biden’s hope of getting his Build Back Better (BBB) massive spending bill passed. Biden has been pushing to radically federalize elections, in spite of the Constitution.
Joe Biden has promised to deliver 500 million Covid tests but hasn't even signed a contract to buy them or set up a website so that people can place orders.
'That's not a plan - it's a hope,' Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told The New York Time.
'If those tests came in January and February, that could have an impact, but if they are spread out over 10 to 12 months, I'm not sure what kind of impact it is going to have.'
It is not even known how many tests will be immediately available
American corporate media love catchphrases that they all repeat in unison, across network and cable television and through social media. One recent example is “viral blizzard” (snip) Another similar phrase made the rounds this past summer, “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” attributed to CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky. (snip) It is clear that today’s version of the COVID pandemic is among the vaccinated (snip) This current “pandemic of the vaccinated” may be more akin to a cold rather than the nasty respiratory virus sending thousands to the ICU last year
Democratic Socialist Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York has jumped onto a tweet sent by former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton that went viral earlier this week. In the tweet, Bratton—who worked under outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio—showed several homeless people sleeping on a subway train. 'You know why NY's 'recovery' isn't happening? This photo today on the E Train at 6:45am at 42nd & 8th says it all,' he wrote. 'Why should working people & tourists be subjected to this? How's it fair to those who need services? Imagine the cops' frustration with no support to deal with it!' Ocasio-Cortez joined many others on the left in slamming
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Bet your bottom dollar that the US Congress knew this was coming and adjusted their investment portfolios accordingly; that's what they do, and why. Meanwhile, we could increase MPG and reduce smog simply by removing ethanol from the gasoline, while also making gasoline prices drop, but President Dubya the Compassionate needed to do a favor for Archer Daniels Midland, so that's off the table. It's incredible what presidents to to hamper our lives.