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At a Washington Post webinar on Thursday, Romney spoke about the necessity of fighting climate change. In his view, the most useful tool would be a carbon tax, which would push the private sector to innovate towards clean energy. “The folks at MIT, as you probably know, built a model saying, 'Okay, what things that we do, will actually reduce emissions, reduce temperatures or hold temperatures from going up as fast as they have it. What can we do?' And the number one thing, and frankly, the only thing that had a major impact was having a price on carbon,...

- President Joe Biden on Thursday is announcing the infusion of nearly $36 billion to prevent severe cuts to the retirement incomes of more than 350,000 Teamster workers and retirees across the United States. - The money for the Central States Pension Fund is the largest amount of federal aid provided for a pension plan. - The funds come from the American Rescue Plan, a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package signed into law in 2021. - Biden traveled to Ohio in July to highlight the final rules for the pension relief program. Before Thursday, the program had awarded aid to...

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) has announced she has left the Democrats and is registering as an independent senator. Sinema made the announcement Friday morning by publishing an op-ed in the Arizona Republic. The senator blasted the increasingly partisan interests and radicalization of the Democratic Party as the reason for her departure. She suggested that she had felt under pressure to “demonize people” as a member of the Democrats. Sinema continued by explaining that such divisive tactics are causing lawmakers to become “distracted by political drama.” In her op-ed, Sinema explains that she decided to become an independent as her moderate...

This past year has seen a horrific flood that submerged one-third of Pakistan, one of the three costliest U.S. hurricanes on record, devastating droughts in Europe and China, a drought-triggered famine in Africa and deadly heat waves all over. Yet this wasn’t climate change at its worst. With all that death and destruction in 2022, climate-related disaster damages are down from 2021, according to insurance and catastrophe giant Swiss Re. That’s the state of climate change in the 2020s that $268 billion in global disaster costs is a 12% drop from the previous year, where damage passed $300 billion. The...

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry said it would "be great" if U.S. taxpayers would contribute financially to climate change but other countries will need to do their part to prevent cataclysmic consequences worldwide. During an event in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Kerry told Washington Post editor Sally Buzbee that the United States was already the biggest humanitarian donor in the world but that more needed to be done globally to combat climate change after Buzbee asked whether taxpayer money would be necessary. "It'd be great if there was some — I mean, the United States of America is probably the...

Kyrsten Sinema Says She Will Leave the Democratic Party The senator is registering as an independent, noting that she “never fit perfectly in either national party.” By Daniel Victor

Talk of stakeholder capitalism is now everywhere. It’s the theme of the Davos Manifesto 2020 announced last month by Klaus Schwab... It’s also the new mantra of the Business Round Table as announced in August 2019 and endorsed by almost 200 CEOs of the largest corporations. “The statement rejects the whole idea of ‘maximizing’ one value to the exclusion of all the others,” as Steve Pearlstein in the Washington Post notes. “Instead, it acknowledges the need for balance and compromise in serving all of a company’s stakeholders.” *snip* As the critique of MSV came to dominate the political conversation in...

Reports from the river stations note several deaths from exposure during the past forty-eight hours. HEADQUARTERS, Monday, Dec. 8. Large quantities of supplies are prevented from landing at Aquia and Potomac Creeks by low water and ice. The latter is fully two inches thick. Notwithstanding this, the army generally is provisioned for twelve days ahead. Credit is due to the army Quartermasters and Commissaries for their energy in overcoming great obstacles and massing the supplies now on hand. There have been no movements of importance today. Many regiments are industriously engaged in erecting huts, as if preparing to spend the...

Who successfully sought a “revolution” in Washington—a bunch of random dudes in Michigan or the most powerful law enforcement agency in the world? To hear the government tell it, a homeless guy who lived in the dilapidated basement of a vacuum repair shop with no running water is as much a danger to society as was Timothy McVeigh and the Tsarnaev brothers. Adam Fox, according to the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Michigan, should spend the rest of his life in prison for conspiring to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. After a jury could not reach...

Without quick action, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scoring frameworks will become hopelessly embedded in our daily lives, and the people who push ESG don’t give a hoot about our well-being. To those still unfamiliar with the ESG movement, it is, at its core, a mechanism by “which a cabal of ideologically aligned influential interests working through unelected supranational organizations are attempting to ‘reset’ the global financial system to their advantage.” Circumventing national sovereignty, free markets, and individual rights, global government organizations, the embedded bureaucrats staffing them, and the governments that fund and compose their membership are working with international...

Climate lockdowns incoming: only “three years” to flatten the emissions curve. The writing was on the wall as soon as the “experts” declared “two weeks to flatten the curve.” Some of us saw right through the scheme, while the less-astute did not. We recognized the move was one against freedom and prosperity rather than for our welfare, and knew it was not only for two weeks. We knew that if the ruling class was allowed to follow through with their “lockdown” agenda — the forced closure of private businesses, dictating who was “essential” and who was “non-essential” — then greater...

The reason why I'm asking is that I saw a picture of Sam Bankman-Fried, while being interviewed. He was asked about the shifting of FTX deposits and he made what can only be described as a demonically possessed face. The same kind of face that Peter Strozk made when he was being grilled in Congress. So it makes me wonder just how many Congressmen and Deep State operatives are demonically possessed, or at least influenced? I'd post the pic, but it's from Facebook and I can't find a copy of it on the internet in general. I'd be happy to...

Medics treating protesters in Iran said they were seeing a difference in the type of injuries inflicted on men and women by the security forces — with the female activists often being shot in their faces, breasts and genitals.. multiple doctors and nurses who have been surreptitiously caring for wounded demonstrators during months of unrest said it appeared that officers tasked with stopping the protests have been targeting specific body parts in women. One doctor from Isfahan province speaking to the outlet on condition of anonymity said he believed the authorities “wanted to destroy the beauty of these women.” Iran...

Arizona U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema said on Friday she had switched her political party affiliation to independent, leaving the Democratic Party just days after it won a U.S. Senate race in Georgia to secure 51 seats in the chamber. "I have joined the growing numbers of Arizonans who reject party politics by declaring my independence from the broken partisan system...

It appears @NBCNews made a MAJOR change to their Griner story WITHOUT an editorial note. It changes the context of the prisoner trade story and takes heat off of White House. Why the cover-up?

Iran was slapped with fresh sanctions Friday after carrying out its first execution over demonstrations that have shaken the regime for nearly three months, as activists called for fresh protests. Mohsen Shekari, 23, was hanged Thursday after being found guilty of "moharebeh", or "enmity against God", (except).. (excerpt)The judiciary said Shekari was arrested after blocking a Tehran street and striking a member of the Basij paramilitary force linked to the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps with a machete -- a wound that required 13 stitches

Chinese President Xi Jinping signed a raft of deals with Saudi officials during a three-day visit to Riyadh as Beijing seeks to shore up its Covid-hit economy and as the Saudis, long-term US allies, push to diversify their economic and political alliances. The two countries reaffirmed the significance of stability in global oil markets and the Saudi role in that, a joint statement said on Friday, the third day of Xi's visit to the Gulf kingdom. "The People's Republic of China welcomed the Kingdom’s role as a supporter of the balance and stability in the world oil markets, and as...

9 December 2022Friday of the 2nd week of Advent Mission San Diego de Alcala, CA Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Violet. Year: A(I).First readingIsaiah 48:17-19 ©If you had been alert to my commandments, your happiness would have been like a riverThus says the Lord, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:I, the Lord, your God, teach you what is good for you,I lead you in the way that you must go.If only you had been alert to my commandments,your happiness would have been like a river,your integrity like the waves of the sea.Your children would have been numbered like the sand,your...

Every extreme policy push in America of the last five years overlaps with the objectives and people of the World Economic Forum. In the 1870s, the term “robber baron” was first used to describe an exploitative class of industrialists who utilized their wealth to create monopolies of resources and amass control in the fledgling United States. The name describes an illegitimate aristocracy of unelected plutocrats. John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie; all American industrial royalty whose names line the streets of America and the pages of our history books. One hundred fifty years later, we face a new global...

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