Posted on 09/14/2020 7:20:48 PM PDT by Spirit of Liberty
First, he's a candidate for the US Senate.
Now, he's touted the actions of 'the Obama/Biden Administration and said 'this is just the beginning if we get re-elected'.
> One thing at the top of that list would be them making sure that no Republican ever has any chance of getting elected president again. Never ever again, and I’m not kidding. <
I absolutely agree with that. You know it, and I know it. But the GOP elite dining at their country clubs don’t know it. They still think it’s a teeter-totter. D’s are in for awhile, then R’s are in for awhile, then D’s, then R’s. Etc. forever.
Nope. Today’s Democrats are much more like Lenin than they are like JFK.
meanwhile, today’s news bulletins in Australia had Joe Biden attacks Trump as a “climate arsonist”, rather than Trump visits California.
meanwhile, BBC has Ian Bremmer/Eurasia Report:
-Ian Bremmer apologizes for tweet about President Trump and Biden
WaPo - May 27, 2019 - A prominent political commentator tweeted a made-up comment he said Trump made about Joe Biden and North Korea-
saying China prefers a Trump win! OMG:
14 Sept: BBC: World Business Report
Reporter: Ed Butler on US Election 11m to 22m
(paraphrasing:
Ian Bremmer, Eurasia Group. if there is an accident between US and China, it is much LESS likely to escalate unintentionally, if Biden is President.
BBC’s Butler: who does Xi Jinping want to see win in November? Bremmer: Xi has a slight preference for Trump. Trump alienates so many leaders around the world, it makes more space for the Chinese to play. Xi sees an opportunity there)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08rg4dm
BBC’s Butler’s guests also includes Daniel Russell:
Russian Arbitration Association: Daniel Russell, President and CEO, U.S.-Russia Business Council
Mr. Russell co-authored and co-led, together with the White House Senior Director for Russia, implementation of President Obama’s strategic policy “reset” with Russia in the Obama Administration’s first term. He also led the creation and oversaw the development of the U.S.-Russia Presidential Commission, with 20 working groups involving 60 U.S. and Russian government agencies.
https://arbitration.ru/en/events/conference/the-resolution-of-cis-related-business-disputes/speakers/daniel-russel/
Rachel Winter (segment:global energy system is likely to undergo a fundamental restructuring in order to decarbonise, says BP annual report.
Winter: this year, the BP report says - perhaps - peak oil happened last year and oil demand could fall from here, but that’s not bad for BP, because they are moving heavily into renewable power:
KILLIK & CO: Rachel Winter, Investment Management
She writes frequently for financial publications such as MoneyWeek and Investors Chronicle, and appears on live financial television shows such as CNBC and Bloomberg...
11 Sept: KILLIK & CO: BUILD BACK BETTER – JOE BIDEN’S ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN AND WHAT THIS MIGHT MEAN FOR THE US ENERGY INDUSTRY
by Mark Nelson
With less than two months before the US presidential election, Democratic candidate Joe Biden is leading in the polls. Criticism of current President Donald Trump’s handling of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, amongst other issues, appear, at the time of writing, to be supporting former Vice President Biden’s campaign.
One likely battleground between Trump and Biden is energy policy and the environment, where the candidates have positioned themselves on opposing sides when it comes to climate change and the use of fossil fuels as the primary energy source for the US economy. While President Trump withdrew the US from the Paris Agreement and has been supportive of the country’s oil & gas industry, Biden has, as part of his campaign, proposed an ambitious environmental policy that, if implemented, could have significant implications for a number of sectors of the US economy.
Joe Biden’s Build Back Better economic plan draws heavily from the Green New Deal put forward by left-wing members of the Democratic party, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders. The plan promises to put the US on an irreversible path to achieve net-zero emissions, economy-wide, by no later than 2050, creating millions of jobs in the process. To achieve this, Biden will make a $2tn investment in the first term of his potential presidency, with the funds targeted at a variety of areas, including infrastructure, the auto industry, public transport, the power sector, buildings, housing, innovation, agriculture and conservation, and environmental justice.
Amongst the most noteworthy aspects of the Build Back Better plan, is the target of creating a net-zero power sector by 2035. This target is more ambitious than any of the US States, which have often been ahead of the Federal Government in adopting environmental goals, and it is also five years earlier than the EU’s target as part of their own Green Deal.
The scale of the challenge in achieving this goal is significant. According to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), just 17.5% of electricity generated in 2019 came from renewables, while 62.7% came from fossil fuels, including 23.5% from coal. Of the 17.5% that came from renewables, approximately 7% came from hydropower, which is not expected to grow significantly going forward, in part due to the impact the building of dams can have on surrounding habitats. Nuclear power makes up approximately 20% of the energy mix and, while zero carbon, it is a power source that faces its own issues, not least a track record of cost overruns.
The heavy lifting in achieving the decarbonisation target is expected to come from wind and solar, which last year accounted for only 7.3% and 1.8% of the electricity mix respectively. Therefore, the growth in installed capacity in these two renewable energy technologies will be significant if Biden is successful in his presidential bid and if he delivers on the promises of his environmental plan. This growth represents a substantial opportunity for companies operating in this space. Orsted, the Danish offshore wind developer, has already secured projects off the East Coast of the United States and is well placed to compete for future capacity. Other European renewables players, including Iberdrola, Enel and EDPR also have a presence in the US.
However, none of these companies are perhaps as uniquely positioned as NextEra Energy, one of the largest electric power and energy infrastructure companies in North America and a leader in the renewable energy industry. Through its NextEra Energy Resources (NEER) subsidiary, the company is the largest developer of wind and solar projects in the world, with approximately 17GW of installed renewables capacity and a 14.4GW backlog of projects as at the end of June. We believe that NEER’s experience, financial strength and its longstanding commercial relationships provide it with a competitive advantage that makes it well-positioned to benefit from the Build Back Better plan. Additionally, the company’s two rate-regulated utility businesses Florida Power & Light and Gulf Power stand to benefit from infrastructure investment, specifically from the need to upgrade electricity transmission and distribution networks. Beyond renewables, other technologies that are to be invested in as part of Biden’s plan are battery storage and green hydrogen, both of which are seen as crucial in fully decarbonising the power sector.
Whether Biden is able to implement his Build Back Better plan remains to be seen. Doing so may require not just a victory in November’s election but one which sees him taking control of Congress. If he can do so, then America’s energy policy looks set for significant change with renewables increasingly replacing fossil fuels in the country’s power mix, providing opportunity for companies and shareholders alike.
https://www.killik.com/the-edit/industry-insight-us-energy-industry/
BBC’s Butler says he reached out to Trump’s Commerce Dept., but no-one was available to speak to the Beeb.
Ummmm....I’m old enough to know EXACTLY what you’re talking about! ROFL
They’re pulling from the Bolshevik playbook with a little Mau-Mau thrown in for good measure. The R’s like Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell think they have a future in politics, they don’t. Their days are numbered if they don’t wise up and fight what they’re up against right now.
Maybe PBS can name drop all of the cool musicians that they will have play the White House every week once a Democrat returns to holding the office.
40 years campaigning on his dead wife’s corpse. he used to claim (falsely) that she was killed by a drunk driver.
I guess he needs to bring up the first wife now that his current wife’s ex-husband has revealed that Joe’s relationship started as an adulterous affair.
I am always amazed the comments on YouTube run about 1,000 to 1 AGAINST Biden.
Speaking of musicians, I hope you saw that horrible video with Stephen Stills that featured that trans black guy during the appalling (Virtual) Democrat National Convention. I sort of doubt if Stills had any idea how his footage strumming his guitar was going to be used.
I don’t see what a song written about the Sunset Strip riots when long hair 15 and 16 year olds were banned by curfew from hanging out at bars, strip joints, and coffee houses, has to do with the 2020 election.
Well, it Will be Obama’s 3rd term.
Of course, it had NOTHING to do with the 2020 election, but they obviously used it to fire up the old hippies and make the dumb white kids feel like they were “part of the ‘movement’”. Whatever that is.
CBS News put a 13 minute clip from Biden’s wildfire/climate speech today. It has 667 up votes to 1.6K down votes!! Can't imagine that many Republicans hunting down clips on CBS’s YouTube channel to down vote a video.
It’s “deep” because it retroactively has been transformed by use in movie soundtracks into a song about JFK or RFK or MLK or Vietnam or integration marches or something even though it was written (1966) between the deaths of JFK and the other two and had nothing to do with any of these things.
And now for something completely different...
Far Out Underground Acid Rock Feet of Harry Zonk - For What It’s Worth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VT3nWPmTN8
Thats a real good point.....b/c you have to wonder why a clearly diminished Biden allows himself to be the subject of ridicule.......
Did Obama threaten to release damaging info on hunter unless joe appears to run........and lets Obama run the show?
I guess we are lucky they didn’t bring out the tape of Louis Armstrong singing Give Peace A Chance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3zyjLctLC4
Freudian slip. Obama is going to be calling the shots if Joe is elected so to Joe this is just an extension of the administration before President Trump was elected.
Dems ruin everyone’s lives. Even their own.
There’s something to be said about reliving your glory days, I guess.
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