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State senators unveiled a suite of concrete climate change regulations tallying more than $250 million Thursday that they consider vital for ensuring Massachusetts achieves net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, including incentives to bolster the transition to electric vehicles and all-electric building construction. The bill calls for the creation of a $100 million Clean Energy Investment Fund to spur infrastructure developments. There’s also a proposed $100 million Electric Vehicle Adoption Incentive Trust Fund in the bill, plus $3,500 rebates — an increase of $1,000 from the current provision — for zero-emission cars and light-duty trucks. Rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft...

Online users claimed Lt. Gen. Roger Cloutier, an American NATO officer, was recently captured in Ukraine. That’s false. He hasn’t been in Ukraine since July 2021. It has been nearly six weeks since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale attack on Ukraine. As of April 3, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has recorded 1,417 Ukrainians killed and 2,038 injured across the country. Gruesome images from Bucha and stories of deadly attacks in Mariupol have dominated news reports around the world. On April 7, Ukraine appealed to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)...

Last weekend saw Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin signal a complete reversal of policy direction, saying that a “new security environment” in Europe brought on by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine means the country has to rethink its long-standing policy of neutrality toward the NATO bloc. “Russia is not the neighbor we thought it was,” she said of Moscow’s ongoing assault on Ukraine, calling it a “flagrant violation”. “In this new situation and changed security environment, we’ll have to evaluate all means to guarantee the safety of Finland and Finns,” Marin said. “We’ll have to seriously mull over our own stance...

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On Wednesday news broke that triple-vaccinated Speaker Pelosi tested positive for coronavirus. On Tuesday Pelosi embraced and kissed Joe Biden during a White House Obamacare event. There’s video. The White House and specifically Jen Psaki announced on Thursday that the embrace and kiss was “not close contact.” This is the type of BS you’d expect from a totalitarian regime. FOX News reported: White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki claimed Thursday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has tested positive for the coronavirus, kissing President Biden on the cheek and holding his hand did not meet the White House’s definition of...

TRIBUTES have been paid to a young student who died suddenly earlier this week. Popular Michael 'Mikey' Hynes, 22, passed away on Tuesday. His death notice reads: "The death has occurred of Michael (Mikey), age 22, at his home, predeceased by his grandparents J.J. Hynes, Larry and Annie Kerrigan (Belmullet, Co. Mayo). "Deeply missed by his heartbroken, loving family, parents Declan and Annette, sisters Katie, Alison and Corinna, his granny Teresa (Hynes), aunts, uncles, cousins, relatives and his beautiful bunch of friends. "Mikey will repose at the family home in Whitegate (V94 KH5X) on Saturday April 9th, from 12 noon...

TRIBUTES have poured in for a "beautiful" Scots teen who passed away suddenly this week. Friends and family of Megan Reid from Livingston, West Lothian, have been paying their respects online to the 17-year-old following her tragic death on Tuesday. The 17-year-old's friends are planning to erupt into applause for Megan during the 17th minute of their fixture against St Johnstone at Celtic Park tomorrow. A GoFundMe which was set up to help with funeral costs has already raised over £2,300 in two days. Loved ones have now taken to social media to share pictures and messages in tribute to...

Dear friends, digital currency by the end of this year? As global societies move and grow at EXPONENTIAL rates daily, via the high tech world of our day, it is not a fantasy any more now but a total coming global reality! Jan Markell hosts Pastors Mark Henry and Brandon Holthaus as they discuss the coming digital currency expected within a year. It will be programmable money, dictating what you can spend it on, replacing cash. This is a global effort. Biden signed onto it March 9. They also discuss the forthcoming food shortages. This info is not conspiratorial but...

Can The Federal Reserve ACTUALLY tighten monetary policy? Let’s look at the facts. Under Biden, we have seen inflation rise from 1.4% to 7.9% (the latest inflation numbers will be out Monday). And we have seen Treasury public debt rise from $27.8 trillion to $30,346 trillion (actually, $30,371 trillion in real-time). Meanwhile, REAL average hourly earnings are declining. Well done, Washington DC! You deserve the Washington Redskins Commanders. With real GDP growth less than 1%, a war raging in Ukraine, and 20% flexible price growth, the US economy is in a shambles, relying on The Federal government and The Federal...

Calling all Californians! Dig up your library card to check out a free state park pass from your local library. Starting this week, California State Library Parks Passes will be distributed to public libraries across the state for checkout by library patrons. The new pass will allow free vehicle day use entry at more than 200 participating state parks, California State Parks and the California State Library announced. As part of a three-year pilot program starting in April, each library jurisdiction will receive at least three pass hangtags per branch for checkout by library patrons, including mobile libraries. Park passes...

[NOTE: Rio Tinto Group is the world's second-largest metals and mining corporation] LONDON, April 8 (Reuters) - Rio Tinto on Friday said climate change was central to its new strategy at its first in-person annual general meeting (AGM) in two years in London, after shareholders demanded the miner set clear targets to cut indirect emissions. Chief Executive Jakob Stausholm said the company had committed to increasing research spending to develop technologies enabling its customers to decarbonise, and highlighted its investments in renewable power. "Climate change... is the defining issue for our age, and is at the heart of our new...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich (WOOD)--A federal jury continued its deliberations Friday in the trial of four men accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer over handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. The jury said Friday morning that it has come to a decision on some counts but was so far locked on others. The jury asked the judge how it should proceeed. U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker asked the jury to keep deliberating...

Too many American Jews have partially internalized all the hostility toward Israel and proudly consider themselves anti-Zionists. ISRAELI POLICE officers carry the coffin of comrade Amir Khoury during his funeral service in Nazareth last Thursday, after he was killed in a terrorist shooting in Bnei Brak. (photo credit: David Cohen/Flash90) Dear Fagie and David, Your supportive emails expressing “deep profound grief” moved me, as we in Israel dug eleven new graves for innocent terror victims. If Star Trek invented the Vulcan Mind Meld, you epitomize the Jew-Fuse: our souls are interconnected, our nerve endings are intertwined. Our pain is your...

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has vetoed a bill that would prohibit boys from competing in girls’ sports, arguing in part that the measure was unnecessary in light of scholastic sports standards. The Democrat governor vetoed Senate Bill 83 on Wednesday, saying in a veto message that he believed the standards of the Kentucky High School Athletic Association were sufficient. These standards, according to Beshear, require student-athletes to participate in the sports that corresponded with the sex listed on their birth certificate, with some exceptions given to students who have purportedly undergone "sex reassignment after puberty" by taking cross-sex hormones. The...

On March 16, a man named Oscar Alejandro Hernandez and his dog King went for a hike and never came back. The two had disappeared into Los Angeles’ popular Griffith Park, a 4,200-acre swath of manzanita and oak-covered hills and canyons networked by trails. They were last seen on the trail near the merry-go-round located at the park. Family members put up signs, posted online bulletins and organized searches. “We are appealing to the general public to kindly help us find our missing family member,” one poster read. “He was last seen in Griffith Park, near the Merry-Go-Round hiking trails....

"NOW CONFIRMED: U.S Major General Roger L. Cloutier was captured by Russia while trying to flee Mariupol after giving military direction to Ukrainian and mercenary forces."

If you thought the news about Woke Disney World couldn’t get worse, hang onto your hats because this latest development is going to shock even those of us who cannot be shocked anymore. (For those of you keeping track of the slippery slope, the bottom is nowhere in sight, unfortunately.) A new Disney Zoom video has been leaked by City Journal’s Christopher Rufo, who is truly doing God’s work letting parents know what the Mouse is up to—and it’s worse than you can imagine. Rufo tweeted, “Disney has adopted a benefits program to assist employees and their minor children with...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The fast-spreading Omicron variant stoked U.S. interest in better masks for children to ward off COVID-19, and that is adding fuel to an effort that could set the stage for domestic oversight of their quality. While many U.S. states and schools have since stopped requiring mask-wearing for COVID, disease experts say children will still need high-quality masks for everything from current and future pandemics to seasonal flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) that can cause serious illness and death. "Every year there are opportunities for masks to make a difference - whether it's in the classroom...

Judge Jackson and the Great Posthumanist Reset Joe Biden and the Democrats pitched her as a Black woman. But that is a canard. Ketanji Brown Jackson is a Trojan horse for anti-humanism. During the nomination hearings for the Biden administration’s Supreme Court Justice nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, Senate Judiciary Committee member Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn) asked Judge Jackson what should have been an easy question.On Tuesday, March 22, after Judge Jackson had deflected two of the Senator’s previous questions relating to a ruling by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the “enduring” significance of differences between the two sexes,...

VIDEOIn both physical appearance and global megalomania they are identical. World Economic Forum? Just say "SPECTRE." It's all the same. And you MUST comply! Why? Because you vill own nothing and you VILL be happy!