Biden Admin Preparing ‘Toughest Ever’ Auto Emission Standards
Despite pretty much the entire country making it clear that EV mandates are hurting the industry (with major automakers like Ford and GM slashing investment), President Biden is forging forward with his “green agenda” even further.
This go-round, Biden is “preparing to roll out the toughest-ever” emissions restrictions, according to Bloomberg.
The report says that the Environmental Protection Agency is poised to implement emissions limits that (Biden thinks) could significantly boost electric vehicle sales, requiring EVs to constitute about two-thirds of new car and light truck sales by 2032, a sharp increase from less than 10% last year.
Unless, of course, people stop buying new cars.
Regardless, this regulation supposedly aims to cut down on pollution and carbon dioxide emissions, and marks a major action under President Joe Biden’s administration and a step toward meeting the US’s Paris Agreement goal of slashing its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
The transportation sector is currently the largest contributor to the US’s climate pollution, Bloomberg writes.
Manish Bapna, head of the Natural Resources Defense Action Fund commented: “Cars and light trucks on their own are roughly 20% of the carbon footprint.” Bapna says cutting that is “absolutely essential to real, concrete progress.”
Biden faces a challenge in balancing new emissions regulations with concerns from Michigan voters and autoworkers wary of a swift move to electric vehicles. U.S. carmakers have argued that the proposed EV targets are unattainable without more charging infrastructure. The costs have also weighed against rising labor costs for U.S. automakers.
John Bozzella, leader of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, emphasized to Bloomberg the crucial next few years for building out supply chains and charging networks.
To address these concerns, the EPA is expected to set less aggressive emissions reduction goals in the short term while still aiming for the same 2032 objectives.
David Cooke, a senior analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists noted: “The rule doesn’t meet the moment,” but still creates “some guarantees around movement toward zero-emission vehicles nationwide.”
“We will end up with more EVs on the road as a result of these rules than if we didn’t have them,” he added.
What can be said about such poor policy that flies in the face of economic common sense? We guess that’s just the miracle of Bidenomics, Jack.
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Putin Wins Russian Election With 87% Of The Vote
PVladimir Putin has won his fifth term as Russia’s president following an election victory with nearly 88% of the vote. Putin won 87.85%, according to an exit poll which was broadcast on state television late […]
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SpaceX Reportedly Building Spy Satellite Constellation in Low Earth Orbit
SpaceX’s Starshield program has been building a constellation of spy satellites under a classified contract with the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) since 2021, Reuters reported, citing five people familiar with the program.
The spy satellite network will consist of hundreds of low-Earth orbiting satellites with Earth-imaging capabilities that can operate as a sat-swarm. SpaceX’s contract with the NRO, signed in 2021, totals $1.8 billion.
According to Reuters, if Starshield is successful, it would “significantly advance the ability of the US government and military to quickly spot potential targets almost anywhere on the globe.”
The contract signals a strengthening relationship between Musk and national security agencies despite radical progressives in the White House who have weaponized federal agencies against SpaceX and other Musk-owned companies.
Reuters noted it “was unable to determine when the new network of satellites would come online and could not establish what other companies are part of the program with their own contracts.”
SpaceX describes Starshield as for “government use” only, while “Starlink is designed for consumer and commercial use.” It also explains that Starshield is a “secured satellite network for government entities” that “supports national security efforts.”
Starlink needs to be a civilian network, not a participant to combat.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 27, 2023
Starshield will be owned by the US government and controlled by DoD Space Force.
This is the right order of things.
Last fall, SpaceX received a contract for the Starshield network from the US Space Force.
The planned Starshield network is entirely separate from Starlink, which has an expanding commercial broadband constellation of 5,500 satellites in low earth orbit that provides internet to consumers, companies, and government agencies worldwide.
Biden officials must be absolutely furious about Musk’s expanding relationship with the Pentagon to strengthen the nation’s defenses.
Musk is uncancellable – no matter how many federal agencies the Biden administration directs at the billionaire.
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Russian Forces Liberate Another Settlement in Zaporozhye Region
The Russian military has taken the village of Mirnoye in Zaporozhye Region from Ukrainian forces, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said.
The settlement was “liberated as a result of successful offensive actions” by the units of the Vostok (East) group of forces, the military said in a statement on Sunday.
Mirnoye, which translates into English as ‘peaceful,’ had a population of about 500 before the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
The village is located 14 kilometers southwest of the town of Guliaipole. and 77 kilometers southeast of the city of Zaporozhye. Both Guliaipole and Zaporozhye remain under Ukrainian control.
The ministry also said that several attempts by Ukrainian saboteurs and reconnaissance groups to enter Russian territory have been repelled in Belgorod Region over the past 24 hours.
Ukrainian troops have been trying to cross into Russia in the area on an almost a daily basis over the past week, but all of their attacks have been intercepted. Kiev has lost more than 1,500 troops and dozens of military vehicles in the process, including tanks and APCs, according to Moscow.
President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with national media on Wednesday that Russia’s forces have recently been “moving forward along the whole frontline” in the Ukraine conflict.
In February, the Russian military captured Avdeevka, a major Ukrainian stronghold in Russia’s People’s Republic of Donetsk, while also taking control of a number of smaller settlements in other locations.
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US Looks to Interfere in Russian Elections – Ex-CIA Officer
When it comes to Washington’s attempts to intervene in Russia’s domestic affairs, the country’s intelligence community is capable of duly tackling these challenges, Larry Johnson, a retired CIA intelligence officer and State Department official, told Sputnik.
Incumbent Vladimir Putin has won a landslide victory in the 2024 Russian presidential elections, praised by international observers as free and fair.
Western elites have always harbored personal animosity towards Putin due to a spate of factors, Larry Johnson, a retired CIA intelligence officer and State Department official, said in an interview with Sputnik.
“One, when Putin broke up the oligarchs, many of them were in bed economically with people in the West. Number two, Putin’s embrace of fundamental Christian values has been a source of anger directed at him. But what he’s done is he’s insisted upon trying to protect Russia and insist on Russia’s national rights being respected. That has earned him the animosity in the West. It’s really crazy,” Johnson noted.
In this vein, the ex-CIA agent commented on Russian Foreign Intelligence Chief Sergey Naryshkin’s statement that the US is looking to create a “fifth column” in Russia to meddle in the 2024 presidential elections and discredit the country’s leadership on social media.
Johnson stressed that “this notion of creating a fifth column has always been and will always be a pipe dream,” adding that America’s “ultimate goal of interfering in Russia’s domestic affairs is “trying to create a Russia that will be obedient to the US and make it submit to the will of the West.”
The West sees itself as the world leader in terms of moral, economic, and military clout, with Russia perceived as “a thorn in Western side, which must be compelled to submit,” the retired CIA intelligence officer pointed out.
Dwelling on the primary methods that US intelligence employs when meddling in other countries’ election processes, Johnson explained that it all “starts off with funding.”
“You identify an existing opposition group and provide it funding, or you create an opposition group and provide it funding. You create propaganda or put articles into what used to be newspapers and magazines, and then you created documentaries, movies and news items for television. And now, with the advent of social media, you use it to try to develop memes and develop ideas,” he said.
As for Facebook*, Twitter, and Instagram*, Johnson added, those social media companies “actually, in some cases, were created or at least helped out in their creation by the [Western] intelligence community and are used by them to try to influence elections.”
In this regard, the retired CIA intelligence officer pointed out that “the Russian intelligence capability is really good at identifying these [ US interference-related] threats and dealing with them.”
* Meta’s Facebook and Instagram are banned in Russia for extremism.
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MSM, Along With The Uusal Suspects, Lie About Trump’s ‘Bloodbath’ Remarks
The mainstream media should be ashamed… During a rally in Ohio on Saturday, Donald Trump said that if he is not reelected in November there would a “bloodbath” in the auto industry due to outsourcing. […]
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