Lunch video-Biden's America-----Fed up with LA crime, neighbors take action into their own hands

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Hunter Biden business partner met with Joe Biden in the White House - TheBlaze

Hunter Biden business partner met with Joe Biden in the White House - TheBlaze: 

Rosemont Seneca was founded in 2009 by Hunter Biden, Christopher Heinz – stepson of former Secretary of State John Kerry, and Devon Archer – an American businessman who was classmates with Heinz at Yale University. Rosemont Seneca has conducted extensive business in China.

The New York Post reported, "Eric Schwerin met with Vice President Biden on November 17, 2010, in the West Wing, when he was the president of the since-dissolved investment fund Rosemont Seneca Partners."

Hmmm....

 

EVs, windmills and solar are NOT the answer!-----Study quantifies metal supplies needed to reach EU’s climate neutrality goal 21 seconds ago Charles Rotter No Comments Independent KU Leuven university study, commissioned by EU industry, echoes IEA warning of severe global competition for several metals needed in Europe’s energy transition away from fossil fuelsReports and Proceedings KU LEUVEN / EUROMETAUX Cover of the KU Leuven report: Metals for Clean Energy: Pathways to solving Europe’s raw materials challenge IMAGE: MEETING THE EUROPEAN UNION’S GREEN DEAL GOAL OF CLIMATE NEUTRALITY BY 2050 WILL REQUIRE 35 TIMES MORE LITHIUM AND 7 TO 26 TIMES THE AMOUNT OF INCREASINGLY SCARCE RARE EARTH METALS COMPARED TO EUROPE’S LIMITED USE TODAY, ACCORDING TO THIS STUDY FROM BELGIAN UNIVERSITY KU LEUVEN. view more CREDIT: KU LEUVEN Meeting the European Union’s Green Deal goal of climate neutrality by 2050 will require 35 times more lithium and 7 to 26 times the amount of increasingly scarce rare earth metals compared to Europe’s limited use today, according to a study from Belgian university KU Leuven. The energy transition will also require far greater annual supplies of aluminium (equivalent to 30% of what Europe already uses today), copper (35%), silicon (45%), nickel (100%), and cobalt (330%), all essential to Europe’s plans for producing the electric vehicles and batteries, renewable wind, solar and hydrogen energy technologies, and the grid infrastructure needed to achieve climate neutrality. The good news: By 2050, 40 to 75% of Europe’s clean energy metal needs could be met through local recycling if Europe invests heavily now and fixes bottlenecks, says KU Leuven’s “Metals for Clean Energy” study, commissioned by Eurometaux, Europe’s association of metal producers. But Europe faces critical shortfalls in the next 15 years without more mined and refined metals supplying the start of its clean energy system. Progressive steps will be needed to develop a long-term Circular Economy, which avoids a repeat of Europe’s current fossil fuel dependency. On March 8, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called for European independence from Russian oil, coal and gas, saying “we simply cannot rely on a supplier who explicitly threatens us. We need to act now to… accelerate the clean energy transition. The quicker we switch to renewables and hydrogen, combined with more energy efficiency, the quicker we will be truly independent and master our energy system.” The independent KU Leuven study is the first to offer EU-specific numbers related to the International Energy Agency’s warning in 2021 of looming supply challenges for the enabling metals needed to help end fossil fuels. The study says that by 2050, Europe’s plans for producing clean energy technologies will require annually: 4.5 million tonnes of aluminium (an increase of 33% compared to today’s use) 1.5 million tonnes of copper (35%) 800,000 tonnes of lithium (3,500%) 400,000 tonnes of nickel (100%) 300,000 tonnes of zinc (10-15%) 200,000 tonnes of silicon (45%) 60,000 tonnes of cobalt (330%) and 3,000 tonnes of the rare earths metals neodymium, dysprosium and praseodymium (700-2,600%) “Although the EU has committed to accelerate its energy transition and produce a great deal of its clean energy technologies domestically, it remains import dependent for much of the metal needed” the study says. “And there is growing concern about the security of supply.” Supply risks According to the study, Europe could face problems around 2030 from global supply shortages for five metals especially: lithium, cobalt, nickel, rare earths, and copper. EU primary metals demand will peak around 2040; thereafter, increased recycling will help the bloc towards greater self-sufficiency, assuming major investments are made in recycling infrastructure and legislative bottlenecks are addressed. Liesbet Gregoir, lead author at KU Leuven, commented: “Europe needs to decide urgently how it will bridge its looming supply gap for primary metals. Without a decisive strategy, it risks new dependencies on unsustainable suppliers”. Coal-powered Chinese and Indonesian metal production will dominate global refining capacity growth for battery metals and rare earths. Europe also relies on Russia for its current supply of aluminium, nickel and copper. The study recommends that Europe link with proven responsible suppliers managing their environmental and social risks, questioning why the bloc has not yet followed other global powers like China in investing into external mines to drive ESG standards directly. Local challenge “A paradigm shift is needed if Europe wants to develop new local supply sources with high environmental and social protections. Today we don’t see the community buy-in or the business conditions for the continent to build its own strong supply chains. The window is narrowing; projects really need to be taken forward in the next two years to be ready by 2030”. The study says there is theoretical potential for new domestic mines to cover between 5% and 55% of Europe’s 2030 needs, with largest project pipelines for lithium and rare earths. But most announced projects have an uncertain future despite Europe’s comparatively high environmental standards, struggling with local community opposition and permit challenges, or relying on untested processes. Europe would also need to open new refineries to transform mined ores and secondary raw materials into metals or chemicals. Europe’s energy crisis makes new refining investment challenging and skyrocketing power prices have already caused the temporary closure of nearly half the continent’s existing refining capacity for aluminium and zinc, while production has increased in other parts of the world. Global concerns Coal-powered Chinese and Indonesian metal production is projected to dominate global refining capacity growth for battery metals and rare earths in the next decade. In the spotlight after the Ukraine invasion, Europe also relies on Russia for much of its imported supply of aluminium, nickel and copper. The study recommends that Europe links with proven responsible suppliers managing their environmental and social risks, also questioning whether the bloc should support investments into external mines to drive ESG standards directly. The metals in scope today contribute around 3% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Metals and mining operations must manage their local biodiversity impacts, waste, and local pollution potential, while securing human rights. Recycling The study finds that by 2050, locally recycled metals could produce three quarters of Europe-made battery cathodes, all its plans for permanent magnets production, and significant volumes of aluminium and copper. “Recycling is Europe’s best chance to improve its long-term self-sufficiency. It’s a step-up that our clean energy system will be based on permanent metals which can be recycled indefinitely, compared with today’s constant burning of fossil fuels”. The bloc, however, “must act strongly now to raise recycling rates, invest in the necessary infrastructure, and overcome key economic bottlenecks.” The study notes that metals recycling, on average, saves between 35% and 95% of the CO2 compared with primary metals production. Recycling “will not provide a viable EU supply source to Europe’s electric vehicle batteries and renewable energy technologies until after 2040, however,” the study clarifies. “These applications and their metals are only just being put on the market and will not be available for recycling for the next 10-15 years.”. Technology developments and behavioural changes will also have an important influence on metals demand after 2030, but could not be assessed in the study due to a lack of scenarios. * * * * * About KU Leuven The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven is a research university in Leuven, Belgium. It conducts teaching, research, and services in computer science, engineering, natural sciences, theology, humanities, medicine, law, canon law, business, and social sciences. Eurometaux, the European Association of Metal Producers Based in Brussels, Eurometaux represents Europe’s non-ferrous metals producers and recyclers, promoting sustainable production, use and recycling of non-ferrous metals and a supportive business environment.

Study quantifies metal supplies needed to reach EU’s climate neutrality goal 21 seconds ago   link

• Independent KU Leuven university study, commissioned by EU industry, echoes IEA warning of severe global competition for several metals needed in Europe’s energy transition away from fossil fuels
  

"Meeting the European Union’s Green Deal goal of climate neutrality by 2050 will require 

• 35 times more lithium and 
• 7 to 26 times the amount of increasingly scarce rare earth metals compared to Europe’s limited use today, according to a study from Belgian university KU Leuven..."

The goal!

 

Don Surber: What the press got wrong on DeSantis and Disney: Everything

Don Surber: What the press got wrong on DeSantis and Disney: Everything  link

"NPR reported, "DeSantis wanted to punish Disney. Repealing its tax status may hurt taxpayers instead." The story said, "The bill will undercut Disney's autonomy, but it could impose a steep cost on Orange and Osceola counties, where the theme park is located. The two counties would inherit the Disney district's debts, which officials say would result in higher taxes."

• That's not true. The only entity to see a tax hike will be Disney because its tax break will disappear.
• As for the debts, Disney borrowed the money. Disney is on the hook, not Florida.
• And NPR's attribution to "officials" was wrong. Only one official did: Scott Randolph, a Democrat who is the Orange County tax collector...

The biggest thing the media got wrong was this was only spiteful retaliation...but the push began before that. 

The tax break was used to help Disney turn a swamp into a theme park. 

After 55 years, the break is well past the time for revocation.

• DeSantis wanted to end the privilege before Disney's misguided foray into sex education for pre-pubescent children..."

#1 This day 1961-----Del Shannon - Runaway (HQ STUDIO/1961)

Sri Lanka’s Failed Experiment with Modern Monetary Theory

Sri Lanka’s Failed Experiment with Modern Monetary Theory link

• No sensible person wants to copy the big-spending policies of failed welfare states such as Greece.
• Unfortunately, many politicians lack common sense (or, more accurately, they are motivated by short-run political ambition rather than what’s in the long-run best interest of their nations).

So if they decide that they politically benefit by spending lots of other people’s money, they have to figure out how to finance that spending.
One option is to use the central bank. In other words, finance big government with the figurative printing press.
This is what’s know as Modern Monetary Theory.
From a theoretical perspective, it’s crazy. 

And if Sri Lanka is any indication, it’s also crazy based on real-world evidence.
In an article for The Print, based in India, Mihir Sharma looks at that government’s foolish monetary policy..."

And the media covered it all up!

 

Joe Rogan, Kristi Noem and axed CNN worker rip canceled streaming service - TheBlaze

Joe Rogan, Kristi Noem and axed CNN worker rip canceled streaming service - TheBlaze: 

Warner Bros. Discovery shuttered CNN+ last week – only three weeks after the failed streaming service launched. There were reports that CNN+ was only attracting 10,000 daily viewers despite the network having spent an estimated $300 million to launch the service and another $100 to $200 million to promote the doomed venture. Many reactions to the demise of CNN+ lampooned the network's disastrous streaming service.

No "candlelight vigils"? Not worth a riot for political gaing?------Spike among LA homeless deaths was not driven by COVID: Data | Fox News

Spike among LA homeless deaths was not driven by COVID: Data | Fox News
"There was a 56% spike in deaths among Los Angeles County homeless people during the first year of the pandemic, which was mostly driven by drug overdoses, not COVID-19, according to county data.
"The findings in this report reflect a true state of emergency," said First District Supervisor Hilda L. Solis said in a statement. 

"In a civil society, it is unacceptable for any of us to not be profoundly disturbed by the shocking needs documented in this year’s homeless mortality report."..."

AM Fruitcake

 

History for April 26

History for April 26 - On-This-Day.com

Anita Loos 1893 - Screenwriter, playwright, author

• 1607 - The British established an American colony at Cape Henry, Virginia. It was the first permanent English establishment in the Western Hemisphere.
• 1865 - John Wilkes Booth was killed by the U.S. Federal Cavalry.
• 1937 - German planes attacked Guernica, Spain, during the Spanish Civil War for the Spanish nationalist government. This raid is considered one of the first to be attacks on a civilian population by a modern air force.
• 1941 - An organ was played at a baseball stadium for the first time in Chicago, IL.
• 1954 - Grace Kelly was on the cover of "LIFE" magazine.
• 1968 - Students seized the administration building at Ohio State University.
• 1982 - The British announced that Argentina had surrendered on South Georgia.
• 1986 - The world’s worst nuclear disaster to date occurred at Chernobyl, in Kiev. Thirty-one people died in the incident and thousands more were exposed to radioactive material.

Veganism wanes in significance as Americans are eating more meat than five years ago - TheBlaze

Veganism wanes in significance as Americans are eating more meat than five years ago - TheBlaze: 

Despite popular culture pushing meat alternatives and legacy media insisting that Americans are “consuming less red meat,” Americans are eating more beef today than five years ago.

Americans are refusing to ditch red meat in defiance of fad diets and plant-based meat substitutes like the Impossible and Beyond lines of burgers taking over space on restaurant menus.

The New York Post reported that the average American consumed 58.6 pounds of red meat in 2021. In 2017, Americans recorded an all-time low by consuming an average of 54 pounds of red meat that year.

The way we were-----The 3 a.m. call and the 1979 NORAD Alert

Their plan for Americans-----MBA: Road Diet

Disgusting!-----"...the little boy literally strips for cash."

(17) Home / Twitter link to see video
Dr. Matt Walsh, Women’s Studies Scholar Retweeted
Tim Pool  @Timcast  ·7h
This is the little boy they got stripping at bars.

They try acting like its not stripping by calling it a "drag" show but the little boy literally strips for cash
 Dr. Matt Walsh, Women’s Studies Scholar @MattWalshBlog 
Disney isn’t grooming kids. That’s crazy. Why would you say such a thing.

Their goal? Your only option: government transportation.-----Watch: L.A.'s Transit System Is a Criminal Cesspool

Watch: L.A.'s Transit System Is a Criminal Cesspool  link

"There’s a reason why the Los Angeles Metro Transit poohbahs don’t want you to see this bloody and brutal video of crimes on trains, buses, and platforms (below). 

It’s because the woke bunch running the place doesn’t like armed cops and they don’t want them on their buses, trains, platforms, and stops even if it stops the blood and brutality.
The crime on the Metro system is the number-one issue with riders who depend on it, and that issue sits at the center of a big political fight..."

Maher: Young People Have Anxiety Problems Because They've 'Been Indoctrinated' on COVID

Maher: Young People Have Anxiety Problems Because They've 'Been Indoctrinated' on COVID: 

He later added that when he was out last week, “[W]hat was really sad…the only people wearing masks were like 20. That’s who is wearing the masks, the people least likely to die from it. I feel like they have been indoctrinated in a way that –. … When I saw the kids with the masks all I could think of is anxiety. And then, right on cue, I’m reading…about why we have [these] levels of anxiety among teenagers that [are] just off the charts. Now, — this is what I read — 44% of high school students said they felt sad or hopeless. Now, little perspective, all my year 17, I was sad and hopeless. Because I got dumped. And when you’re a kid, you don’t see anything coming and everything is the worst thing that could ever — so, some of that is that. When you’re a teenager, you’re going to be sad and hopeless all the time. But it also said a 40% increase in such feelings in the last ten years.

Learning from China

Wimpifying America!-----To cope with finals, college students offered oxygen bar, Legos, ice cream | The College Fix

To cope with finals, college students offered oxygen bar, Legos, ice cream | The College Fix

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"Gone are the days when college students simply crammed for finals with caffeine-fueled all-nighters.
Colleges and universities now offer a wide variety of de-stressing opportunities. 

The weeks leading up to spring 2022 final exams are no exception.

• At Illinois Central College, for example, its “Destress Week” begins May 2 with “massage chairs, oxygen bars, and some arcade games,” its website states.
• “Stressless Week in the Library” at the University of Minnesota Duluth includes a note to students: “As we approach the end of the semester, you may be experiencing feelings of anxiety, stress, and frustration.” 
• To help address that, the library in April offers a coloring table, Origami, puzzles and a “Post-it Positivity Board.” Starting this week, it will also offer yoga, silent meditation and button making, according to its website.
• This week at the University of Houston, its “Stress Free Finals” programming includes Lego building. Also on tap: ice cream, its website states.
• Monroe County Community College recently provided therapy dogs to its campus community. Many campuses also provide massages ahead of exams, including at Wilkes University, which invites students to relieve their “end-of-semester stress and relax before finals.”..."

Lunch video-----DeSantis responds to critics after signing bill ending Disney autonomy

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UK to Ban Health Supplies from China's Slave Labour Xinjiang Region

UK to Ban Health Supplies from China's Slave Labour Xinjiang Region: 

The British parliament is set to ban the country’s socialised healthcare system from purchasing supplies and medical equipment from the concentration camp Chinese region of Xinjiang.

In an amendment tabled by the government to the upcoming Health and Social Care Bill, the National Health Service (NHS) will be barred from buying materials produced by or involving the use of modern slavery, as has been credibly and frequently alleged of the Xinjiang region of Communist China.

Situational "ethics".

 

Teachers Report Increasing Abuse at the Hands of Students - Intellectual Takeout

Teachers Report Increasing Abuse at the Hands of Students - Intellectual Takeout

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"...One quarter of teachers report being the objects of student violence and abuse according to a recent survey out of the UK.
...Unfortunately, it seems the toxic school climate is only getting worse. 

As one teacher reports:
‘Having taught for almost 40 years I have witnessed a demonstrable and seemingly unstoppable deterioration in pupil behaviour,’ one said. ‘Moreover, teachers are, it seems, now expected to tolerate verbal abuse and threats as par for the course and, quite literally, an occupational hazard.’
...Many American schools offer similar chaotic environments, putting teachers at risk and making them “feel powerless to discipline” the students in their charge.
...One answer is the culture of disrespect present in our school system..."

# 1 Movie this week 1972-----The Godfather (1972) - Trailer

China-Owned Food Co Closes US Plants, Putting America's Meat Supply Under Threat | Neon Nettle

China-Owned Food Co Closes US Plants, Putting America's Meat Supply Under Threat | Neon Nettle link

• A China-owned food company has started closing down slaughterhouses and processing plants across the United States, putting America's meat supply in jeopardy.

"The U.S. meat supply is now under threat due to workers at facilities being diagnosed with COVID-19, leading to closures across the country.
The impact of such closures is complex and could have far-reaching consequences across the food supply chain.
America’s livestock farmers could likely come under threat of going under as wholesale prices take a dive.

• Perhaps the most alarming fact to emerge from the news is that the largest provider of pork in the U.S. is owned by a corporation based in China.

...“Our country is blessed with abundant livestock supplies, but our processing facilities are the bottleneck of our food chain.”
In an April 12 release on the Sioux Falls closure, Sullivan wrote, “The closure of this facility, combined with a growing list of other protein plants that have shuttered across our industry, is pushing our country perilously close to the edge in terms of our meat supply..."

#1 This day 1958-- HITS ARCHIVE: Witch Doctor - David Seville (a #1 record)