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'Extreme and unlawful overreach': Biden admin unveils final plan to push climate agenda on America's power grid

Nick Pope
Daily Caller
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 09:37 UTC
Biden
© Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesUS President Joe Biden
The Biden administration issued its final regulations for power plants Thursday, setting steep emissions reductions mandates that some energy organizations and experts warn could cause severe problems for the country in the longer term.

The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) rules for coal and natural gas power plants are among the most aggressive regulations that the agency has promulgated under President Joe Biden. While the Biden administration claims that the rules are major actions to fight climate change that will not affect the grid's reliability, energy sector experts are warning that the rules could cause serious reliability issues that would harm the American economy.

The rules issued include a requirement for the country's coal plants and new natural gas plants to install carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology to capture 90% of their carbon emissions in order to continue operations past 2039, according to the agency. Other rules include a measure to tighten mercury emissions standards for existing coal-fired plants by 70% and reduce pollutants in the wastewater that coal-fired plants produce.

Comment: Lights out everyone! Biden is itching to flip the switch.

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Bizarro Earth

Georgia fight against US subversion and its implications worldwide

Brian Berletic
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 22 Apr 2024 00:00 UTC
street protest
© UnknownStreet protest in Georgia
Throughout the 21st century, the United States has invaded and occupied multiple nations, including Afghanistan in 2001, Iraq in 2003, and Syria in 2014. It has also led to military interventions rendering once prosperous nations into failed states, including Libya from 2011 onward.

Beyond this more destructive and direct approach, the US has also admittedly interfered in the internal political affairs of other nations, attempting to overthrow elected governments and install client regimes in their place.

In a 2004 Guardian article titled, "US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev," it admitted (emphasis added):
...the campaign is an American creation, a sophisticated and brilliantly conceived exercise in western branding and mass marketing that, in four countries in four years, has been used to try to salvage rigged elections and topple unsavoury regimes.

Funded and organised by the US government, deploying US consultancies, pollsters, diplomats, the two big American parties and US non-government organisations, the campaign was first used in Europe in Belgrade in 2000 to beat Slobodan Milosevic at the ballot box.

Richard Miles, the US ambassador in Belgrade, played a key role. And by last year, as US ambassador in Tbilisi, he repeated the trick in Georgia, coaching Mikhail Saakashvili in how to bring down Eduard Shevardnadze.

Ten months after the success in Belgrade, the US ambassador in Minsk, Michael Kozak, a veteran of similar operations in central America, notably in Nicaragua, organised a near identical campaign to try to defeat the Belarus hardman, Alexander Lukashenko.
This startling admission exposes the US government as deeply involved in interfering in and subverting the political independence of not one, but multiple, nations in Eastern Europe.

Comment: Predatory control is a closed loop. It requires no future.

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Biden's $61 billion and Kiev's conscription crackdown... Ukrainians are fleeing the NATO bloodbath, not Russia


Strategic Culture Foundation
Sat, 27 Apr 2024 17:29 UTC
Drug Addict
© Public Domain
This week saw U.S. President Joe Biden proclaiming the Congressional passing of $61 billion in additional military aid to Ukraine as "a good day for world peace". Biden's exaltation is ghoulish. The obscenity is that more Ukrainians will be sacrificed for Western imperialism and its brutal NeoNazi regime in Kiev.

The clueless, cynical Western media narrative is that a freedom-loving democratic Ukraine is bravely fighting against Russian aggression. Ukrainian men are, according to this fairytale, courageously battling to defend their country and to save the rest of Europe from Russian invasion.

That's why the United States Congress this week passed a bill to send $61 billion in more military aid to Ukraine. President Biden had been desperately appealing to Congress to take a stand with Ukraine to defeat Russian aggression. America's NATO allies have likewise reiterated the same nonsense mantra.

Most people who live outside the echo chamber of Western media know this depiction is total baloney, to use one of Biden's favorite catchphrases.

The conflict in Ukraine is a U.S.-led NATO proxy war to strategically defeat Russia. The grand scheme got going after the CIA-sponsored coup in Kiev in 2014. The Kiev regime, fronted by a conman Jewish puppet president Vladimir Zelensky, is a NeoNazi dictatorship. It's a corrupt junta where the elite like Zelensky have siphoned off billions of dollars and euros donated by Western governments courtesy of their unwitting taxpayers.

This week we saw proof of the Kiev rump reich in action when it announced that it would cut off consular services to all Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 who are currently residing abroad.
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Gavel

Russia's Deputy Defence Minister in court on corruption charges

Nataliya Vasilyeva
The Telegraph
Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:10 UTC
Timur Ivanov
© AFP Provided by The TelegraphDespite never having served in the Russian army, Mr Ivanov appeared at the court in Moscow in full military uniform -
A top Russian defence official known for his lavish holidays to St Tropez appeared in court on Wednesday after being arrested on corruption charges.

Timur Ivanov, 49, is the deputy and long-time ally of Sergei Shoigu, the Russian defence minister, and oversaw major military construction projects for over a decade, including lucrative contacts to rebuild Mariupol, the Ukrainian city destroyed by the Russian army.

Despite never having served in the Russian army, a bespectacled Mr Ivanov appeared at the court in Moscow in full military uniform.

In an unusual move, the court's press office did not alert journalists to the hearing and did not allow anyone into the room, except for its own photographer.

Comment: Imagine that: charging a corrupt official? Although there is at least one other world super power that consistently takes strong measures to discourage corrupting influences within its ranks: China sentences corrupt banking regulatory official to death

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Bullseye

NATO is responsible for Ukraine crisis - China


RT
Fri, 26 Apr 2024 16:00 UTC
Himar blast
© Armed Forces UkraineFILE: HIMARS fires at Russian targets in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Beijing has flatly rejected the US-led military bloc's claim that it is "fueling" the conflict.
NATO is directly responsible for the Ukraine conflict, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a press briefing on Friday, reacting to criticism raised by the US-led military bloc.

On Thursday, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg accused Beijing of supposedly supporting Russian weapons manufacturing through the export of dual-use components to the country.

"China says it wants good relations with the West. At the same time, Beijing continues to fuel the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War Two. They cannot have it both ways," the official warned.

Comment: NATO and its allies are responsible for even more than 'just' the war:

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UK troops could be sent into Gaza 'to help with aid deliveries'


Middle East Eye
Sat, 27 Apr 2024 15:37 UTC
uk gaza aid
© Said Khatib/AFPA truck carrying humanitarian aid from the UK that entered Gaza through the Kerem Shalom (Karm Abu Salem) crossing to Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on 17 February 2024. Suggestion comes after US announces none of its own troops would be sent to the enclave.
British troops could be deployed in Gaza to assist with aid deliveries, after the US said it would not be sending any of its own ground forces.

The US previously said a "third party" would be responsible for driving trucks along a floating causeway onto the beach, a role the BBC has learned could be filled by British forces.

The BBC on Saturday quoted Whitehall as saying no decision had yet been made and that the issue had not yet been raised with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

Comment: The brazen and sickening hypocrisy of the genocide facilitators in the US and UK claiming to be helping with aid aside, one wonders whether UK troop presence is purely intended for 'humanitarian' purposes: Rafah operation threatens to be a 'disaster for Israel' - Former IDF Major General

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Bad Guys

UK blocked Ukraine peace deal - Moscow


RT
Sat, 27 Apr 2024 11:11 UTC
Kremlin
© Getty Images / TomasSereda
Claims that Russia was to blame for the failure of negotiations are mere "speculation," the Kremlin has said.

Ukraine abandoned a draft peace treaty with Russia in 2022 under British pressure, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

The deal, which could have ended the Ukraine conflict weeks after it started, was approved by negotiators in Istanbul, but Kiev later pulled out of the talks.

The German newspaper Welt reported on Friday that Moscow had issued additional demands after a deal had already been outlined, such as making Russian the second official language in Ukraine, implying that this had ended any hopes of an agreement.

Peskov denied those claims on Saturday, citing remarks made by Ukrainian MP David Arakhamia, who led Kiev's delegation at the talks.

Comment: See also:

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War Whore

US considers 'mobile bases' for Pacific war


RT
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 11:00 UTC
Civilian oil platform model
© YouTube/@NavalNews
Civilian oil platforms could be modified into supply depots and missile launchers.

An American military contractor wants to repurpose unused oil rigs as mobile bases that would help resupply US Navy vessels in the Pacific and host missile launchers.

Gibbs & Cox, a naval architecture subsidiary of Leidos, presented the Mobile Defense/Depot Platform (MODEP) concept at the Sea Air Space 2024 exhibit in Washington, DC earlier this month.
"Our target here is to find a solution to help the challenging problem of having capacity issues in the Western Pacific. For not enough cells, not enough missiles, not enough of being able to keep those ships in the forward station," Dave Zook, a solutions architect and combat systems department manager at Gibbs & Cox, told Naval News.

Comment: See also:

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Bad Guys

Flashback Meet Lawyer Michael Dreeben: Architect of three major anti-Trump operations

Mollie Hemingway
The Federalist
Mon, 18 Dec 2023 19:38 UTC
Democrat operative Michael Dreeben anti trump operations
© Duke University School of Law/YouTubeDemocrat operative Michael Dreeben
Michael Dreeben helping Democrats with their 2024 lawfare strategy shows how much coordination is behind this Soviet-style attempt to imprison Biden's political opponents.

Eyebrows were raised last week when it was discovered that Special Counsel Jack Smith had added attorney Michael Dreeben to his legal team.

"An interesting detail: Michael Dreeben somehow snuck into Jack Smith's office. He was Mueller's appellate guy," enthused Marcy Wheeler, a proponent of the debunked conspiracy theory that Donald Trump stole the 2016 election by colluding with Russia.

Fellow Russia-collusion hoaxer Rachel Maddow of MSNBC ran an entire segment to announce the exciting news that Dreeben is "helming this part of the case," meaning Smith's request to the Supreme Court to look at whether American presidents may be prosecuted for actions taken while they are president. Left-wing legal activist (and, yes, another bitter clinger Russia-collusion hoaxer) Joyce Vance said her "friend" Dreeben had "framed this petition" before the Supreme Court.
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Bad Guys

NATO's Never-ending War: The 75-Year-Old Bully is Faltering

Ramzy Baroud
Counterpunch
Mon, 22 Apr 2024 18:36 UTC
NATO weapons
The western discourse on the circumstances behind the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 75 years ago, is hardly convincing.

Yet, that over-simplified discourse must be examined in order for the current decline of the organization to be appreciated beyond the self-serving politics of NATO's members.

The history records page of the US State Department speaks of the invention of NATO in a language suitable for a US high school history book.

"After the destruction of the Second World War, the nations of Europe struggled to rebuild their economies and ensure their security," it reads, which compelled the US to take action: "(integrating) Europe as vital to the prevention of communist expansion across the continent."

This is the typical logic of NATO's early doctrine. It can be gleaned from most of the statements made by Western countries that established and continue to dominate the organization.

Comment: See also:

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