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© REUTERS/Rebecca NadenCars queue up at a petrol and diesel filling station, Begelly, Pembrokeshire, Wales, Britain, September 24, 2021.
The policy is a key pillar of the EU's plans to tackle rising transport emissions and speed the shift to electric vehicles, as the bloc strives to cut economy-wide net greenhouse gas emissions 55% by 2030, from 1990 levels.
The car emissions proposal, made by the European Commission last year, would require a 100% reduction in CO2 emissions from new cars by 2035, making it impossible to sell fossil fuel-powered vehicles in the EU from that date.
Edward B. Foley
The article was written by NBC News analyst Edward B. Foley, who argued that Congress should weaponize Section 3 of the 14th Amendment against Trump to prevent him from running again.
"If the goal of prosecuting former President Donald Trump is to protect American democracy from a Trump comeback in 2024, there is a better way to go about it than filing criminal charges," Foley wrote.
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- Dems plot to prosecute Trump over January 6 to prevent him running in 2024
- NH Poll: DeSantis 39 percent, Trump 37 percent
- Biden wants to get out more, seething that his standing is now worse than Trump's
- Reporter says Democrats in Congress told her 'nobody gives a bleep about Jan. 6'
- It doesn't matter that voters hate Joe Biden if Democrats can rig elections
- Will there be a 2024 Presidential election?
- Snoozefest! 'Top' Democrats' 2024 presidential election list revealed if Biden doesn't run
© Mikhail Voskresensky / SputnikA Russian Su-34 bomber.
Russian aircraft have struck a zinc factory in Donbass, killing dozens of Polish fighters, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.
"Up to 80 Polish mercenaries" were killed, and 20 armored vehicles and eight Grad multiple rocket launchers were destroyed in the town of Konstantinovka, Defense Ministry spokesman, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, said during his daily briefing.
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- German spies believe Russia could soon seize Donbass - media
- Zelensky feeling the heat as Ukraine's unity crumbles amid serious military losses in the Donbass
- Operation Z is the beginning of the end for Kiev's eight-year war against Donbass, US volunteer says
- How and why Russia's civil society is helping Donbass fighters in their battle against Ukraine
- 'This is just a lie': How Jeff Bezos' Washington Post twisted a report about Donbass refugees to fit its narrative
- Head of humanitarian association says Europe is turning into a dictatorship after France confiscates charity funds for children of Donbass
- Ukraine is winning the battle on Twitter, but in the real world Kiev is losing the fight for Donbass
- The West has misled the public on Russia's war strategy, and the results are starting to show in Donbass
© Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesDr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, speaks in Washington on June 16, 2022.
"We strongly urge you to revise the CDC's COVID-19 guidelines with regards to testing, isolation, and vaccine recommendations for children to ensure that public health policies are not doing more harm than good," the group, Urgency of Normal, wrote in a June 21 open letter to Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House's COVID-19 response coordinator, and Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The CDC's guidelines say that people, including children, who are exposed to COVID-19 should quarantine for at least five days, and encourage widespread COVID-19 testing.
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- New Lancet study destroys the CDC's justification for school mask mandates
- Medical expert says CDC panel is a 'kangaroo court', approves vaccines based on 'marketing'
- Fauci decrees that CDC should be above authority of courts re: masks on planes
- CDC removes 24 percent of child COVID-19 deaths, thousands of others
- The CDC isn't publishing large portions of the Covid data it collects
- CDC admits natural immunity more protective than vax, yet hypes ICU, other perils for unvaxxed kids
© Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
The shortage of baby formula currently gripping the US started during the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2021, there were reports that families across the country were struggling to find key baby products like diapers, wipes and formula. The shortage was mainly blamed on supply-chain issues - however, some experts pointed out that panic buying was aggravating the situation, too. During the pandemic, it was hardly a surprise that people were stocking up on products they deemed essential.
According to Datasembly, a real-time product data provider, for the first seven months of 2021, the out-of-stock percentages "were relatively stable" and fluctuated by between 2% and 8%. Then the situation started to worsen and, in January 2022, baby formula shortages hit 23%.
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- More than 70,000 pounds of formula arrives in US, shipment will not be heading to store shelves
- More American children face hospitalization as infant formula shortage continues
- Slap in the face for motherhood as World Breastfeeding Week prioritizes trans women's 'chestfeeding' over the safety of young moms
- Academics call breastfeeding 'ethically problematic' because it endorses 'gender roles'
- 'Alarmin' proteins in breast milk are as good as gold
- Objective:Health - Breast is Best! Mother's Milk Much More Than Just a Meal
© AlamyThe spy action thriller, Operation Fortune, which was filmed in 2020, was set to come out this spring but disappeared from schedules
The spy action thriller, which was filmed in 2020, was set to come out this spring but disappeared from schedules. I'm told that the nationality of the gangsters has now been edited out.
A trailer, which can still be seen on YouTube, shows Statham, as spy-for-hire Orson Fortune, realising that a deadly weapon has been bought by a Ukrainian crime syndicate.
© Sergei Supinsky/Getty ImagesUkraine-based Azov Battalion
Despite the surrender of the Azov regiment at the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works during the fighting in Mariupol, last month, the legend of this unit has turned out to be enduring. The Ukrainian command has already announced that new Azov special operations forces will be created in Kharkov and Kiev.
At the same time, a partial rebranding has been carried out. A medieval heraldic symbol - a trident (the coat of arms of Ukraine) consisting of three swords - is now depicted on the chevron of the 'new' Azov in place of the stylized Wolfsangel ('wolf's hook') that has attracted so much criticism from not only Russia, but also the West and fellow Ukrainians. This condemnation is for good reason, as the symbol was used on the lapels of the SS's Das Reich and Landstorm Nederland divisions, as well the logo of the Dutch Nazi Party.
© Jennie Taer/The Daily Caller FoundationCrossing the border
Yuma Mayor Douglas Nicholls told The Daily Caller News Foundation:
"Eventually, the emergency is going to overtake some of our resources. And we're going to need a dedicated facility to make sure people aren't dying in the streets because literally we're entering the hardest part here, easily 110, 120 during the day."The Biden administration hasn't stepped in to secure the border to keep Yuma safe, Yuma County Sheriff Leon Wilmot told TheDCNF.
"We have plenty of people in our communities that need help. And they're not able to get that because now a lot of local resources are being taken away from the local communities to handle the fact that the administration is not doing their job."
Zelensky advisor, Alexey Arestovich
In the 21st century, with the proliferation of social media and other mass forms of communication, it has become easier to bastardize certain causes that may in some form be noble in order to pursue one's own political or geopolitical purposes.
We have seen it before with the weaponization of women's rights during the US military campaigns in the Middle East. Also, with the weaponization of concepts like "freedom" and "democracy" in the West's propaganda wars concerning Venezuela, Russia, Cuba, Bolivia, and others. One of the issues that has also been weaponized against countries not accepting US or Western hegemony is rights for lesbians and gay men. This theme has been used to demonize states and sweeten the taste for war against them amongst the Western public.
Comment: Ultra-conservative attitudes towards this community have always simmered under the surface in Ukraine.
- U.S.-supported radicals in Ukraine are anti-gay: LGBT parade ends in violence
- Ultra right-wing on the move: Ukrainian city bans 'deviant' LGBT marches
- Spreading 'human rights' at the tip of a bayonet: the LGBT agenda has now become a tool in Western foreign policy across the globe
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