A pair of top incoming White House environmental aides has blamed “systemic racism” as a driver of climate change in an attempt to justify a government-led economic overhaul.
President-elect Joe Biden named progressive policy adviser Maggie Thomas as Office of Domestic Climate Policy chief of staff and climate advocate Cecilia Martinez as “senior director for environmental justice” on Thursday. Both Thomas and Martinez have cited racial inequality as perpetuating climate change, arguing that the Biden administration’s environmental policy must be centered on “racial and economic justice.”...Read all.
More than two-thirds of poll respondents said they believe democracy in the U.S. is "threatened," and 54% said "other people in America" are the "biggest threat to the American way of life," rather than economic factors, viruses, natural disasters, or foreign actors.
Will it be possible to unite our nation with statistics like that? On "The Glenn Beck Radio Program," Glenn and Stu discussed the poll numbers and what they mean for our future.
"...Owned and operated by the U.S. government, GPS is likely the least recognized, and least appreciated, part of our critical infrastructure.
Indeed, most of our critical infrastructure would cease to function without it.
The problem is that GPS signals are incredibly weak, due to the distance they have to travel from space, making them subject to interference and vulnerable to jamming and what is known as spoofing, in which another signal is passed off as the original.
And the satellites themselves could easily be taken out by hurtling space junk or the sun coughing up a fireball.
As intentional and unintentional GPS disruptions are on the rise, experts warn that our overreliance on the technology is courting disaster...
...If GPS was knocked out, he said, you’d notice.
Think widespread power outages,
financial markets seizing up and the
transportation system grinding to a halt.
Grocers would be unable to stock their shelves, and
Amazon would go dark.
Emergency responders wouldn’t be able to find you, and
Hundreds join Detroit car rally to show solidarity with farmers in India
"Hundreds of drivers made their way around downtown Detroit as snow fell heavily Sunday to show solidarity with farmers in India who are protesting laws they argue could devastate crop prices and reduce their earnings.
Thousands of Indian farmers have been demanding the government repeal the laws for more than two months.
"The Indian government is stubborn," said caravan organizer, Amandeep Jhajj, of Canton.
"With this we want to tell the Indian government, the power is the democracy and in the people so they have to listen to the Indian people and the Indian farmers."
...The situation escalated in November when tens of thousands of protesters marched to New Delhi, where they clashed with police...Read all.
Talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh's website on Thursday featured the headline "Hundreds dead so far from COVID-19 today due to President Biden's mishandling of the virus."
"Isn't that the way we report this stuff?" he told his national audience. "I mean, that's how they reported it with President Trump. Except they were a little bit more critical than I was. I mean, they had thousands of people dying every day because of Trump. I reduce my number to 100. Over 100 people have died so far from COVID-19 due to President Biden's mishandling of the virus."
The city of Harrisburg is Ground Zero for America's municipal debt crisis.
Pennsylvania's capital city has liabilities estimated at $610 million, which is nearly ten times its annual budget.
The city is so deep in the red that last year it attempted to file for bankruptcy.
Reckless spending did more than ruin Harrisburg's balance sheet; it crowded out private industry and distracted from the city's core functions.
Today, Harrisburg is a dangerous, poverty-stricken city, with failing schools and a shrinking population.
Harrisburg's fiscal nightmare may be a harbinger of things to come for American cities.
In the mid-90s, local governments embarked on a spending binge, bringing total municipal debt in the United States to more than $2.8 trillion.
Along with Harrisburg, Jefferson County, Alabama, Vallejo, California, and Central Falls, Rhode Island have filed for bankruptcy in the past few years.
Several more cities are on the brink of default, largely thanks to taxpayer-financed stadiums, museums, housing, commercial complexes, other misconceived economic development projects, and runaway public sector salaries, pensions, and benefit packages.
Is your hometown the next Harrisburg?
Shot, edited, written, and produced by Jim Epstein, who also narrates.--Approximately 7 minutes"
No speculation is needed. Those who wield power are demanding it. The only question is how much opposition they will encounter.
"...The last two weeks have ushered in a wave of new domestic police powers and rhetoric in the name of fighting “terrorism”...
....We have witnessed an orgy of censorship from Silicon Valley monopolies with calls for far more aggressive speech policing, a visibly militarized Washington, D.C. featuring a non-ironically named “Green Zone,” vows from the incoming president and his key allies for a new anti-domestic terrorism bill, and frequent accusations of “sedition,” “treason,” and “terrorism” against members of Congress and citizens.
...Underlying all of this are immediate insinuations that anyone questioning any of this must, by virtue of these doubts, harbor sympathy for the Terrorists and their neo-Nazi, white supremacist ideology...
...The second video features the amazing declaration from former Facebook security official Alex Stamos, talking to the very concerned CNN host Brian Stelter, about the need for social media companies to use the same tactics against U.S. citizens that they used to remove ISIS from the internet — “in collaboration with law enforcement” — and that those tactics should be directly aimed at what he calls extremist “conservative influencers.”...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, tasked with enforcing federal immigration law, are being instructed to free all detainees in their custody, as President Joe Biden’s administration halts deportations.
An internal January 21 ICE memo, independently reviewed by Breitbart News and first reported by Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, orders agents to “stop all removals,” including land and air deportations.
Frank Macchiarola, senior vice president of Policy, Economics and Regulatory Affairs at the American Petroleum Institute (API), said in an interview on SiriusXM’sBreitbart News Saturdaywith host Matt Boyle that if President Joe Biden puts a permanent ban on oil and gas development on federal waters and land, it could cost 1 million American jobs.
Boyle asked Macchiarola about the significance of Biden revoking the permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline and putting a 60-day pause on federal land leasing in his first days in office.