[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Claims that US airspace was shut down because of a party balloon have been popped by new video appearing to show a large, hovering UFO over El Paso, Texas.
An eyewitness driving near El Paso International Airport on Tuesday pulled over to record what they described as a mothership floating above the ground in the distance, which was releasing smaller objects from its underside.
The sighting, shared with crowdsourced UFO-reporting platform Enigma, occurred just hours before a large swath of US airspace was abruptly closed for 'special security reasons' at 11.30pm MT on February 10.
White House officials initially announced the US had taken down a Mexican cartel drone flying across the southern border, only to claim hours later that the object struck by a high-powered laser was a party balloon.
They explained that drones sent by Mexican cartels often breach US airspace in and around El Paso- calling it a 'regular occurrence.'
Although there is cartel drone activity along the entire border, much of the activity near El Paso is concentrated to the west of the city near Santa Teresa, New Mexico.
That area is a no-man's land and known as a smuggling corridor.
On the US side, the area is sparsely populated and is mostly vast, wide open desert.
Several agents assigned to the area tell Daily Mail that they commonly see drones flying above them as they were chasing illegal immigrants who are trying to sneak into the country.
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El Paso mayor sounds like a Democrat, more concerned with bashing Trump than security. If it's cartel activity, military options should be on the table.
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Makes me wonder how much plata is at stake for the El Paso mayor.
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One learns to spot patterns over time with conspiracy theorists.
Every single time it's a blurry, out of focus shot of a blob.
Going back to that famous photo of a hubcap in midair.
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Or perhaps you could do actual research and reading over a period of time, bot, and know the bias of different source/weigh them/before quoting them?
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[Regnum] In the Italian city of Torre Lapillo, a 57-year-old man mistakenly threw a box containing 20 gold bars worth approximately 130,000 euros (approximately 12 million rubles) into a street trash can. This was reported on February 12 by the newspaper La Repubblica. Easy come, easy go…
According to the publication, the incident occurred on February 3. A man who had invested his life's savings in gold inadvertently disposed of a tin box containing gold bars, mistaking it for trash. He realized his mistake only the following day and contacted the police for assistance.
At first, law enforcement officers were skeptical of his claims, but they checked the CCTV footage. The footage did indeed show the man throwing the box into a trash can. By that time, the trash had already been removed.
Police identified the company servicing the area and retraced the garbage truck's route. The waste was delivered to a landfill in a neighboring town, where the search began. After inspecting the trash with the help of municipal service employees, the box containing all 20 gold bars was recovered. The man was summoned back to the police station, and the gold was returned to him.
Talk about relying on the kindness of strangers! That’s going well above and beyond.
[JustTheNews] The new projects in Galveston and Port Arthur make Texas operations ground-zero for the revitalization of the American shipbuilding industry,” Abbott said.
Texas is again leading on border security, this time in the Arctic. New icebreakers are being built for the U.S. Coast Guard in Galveston and Port Arthur to support President Donald Trump’s planned border security operations in the Arctic.
The Coast Guard has been key to national security since its founding more than 235 years ago, including in the Arctic. During WWII, Cutter Storis, a legendary light icebreaker, patrolled for submarines, ran convoys and led the first American transit of the Northwest Passage. From 1948-2007, it conducted operations in Alaska.
Davie Defense America, backed by Davie Shipbuilding in Canada and Helsinki Shipyard in Finland, is expanding its shipbuilding capacity in Galveston and Port Arthur after announcing last fall its $1 billion plan to build Coast Guard icebreakers. Its Canadian parent company, Inocea Group, acquired the historic Gulf Copper shipyard in Galveston and Port Arthur last December. Gulf Copper has been constructing U.S. Navy destroyers and is restoring Battleship Texas, the legendary WWII vessel that fired the first shots on D-Day and earned 11 battle stars.
It says it's making a $750 million capital investment and the project is expected to create more than 2,400 new jobs. It also received a $22.7 million, taxpayer-funded Texas Enterprise Fund grant.
“With the best business climate in the nation, Texas is a magnet for complex, critical manufacturing,” Gov. Greg Abbott said in a statement. “This significant capital investment by Davie Defense will expand economic opportunity in Galveston and Port Arthur and create thousands of good-paying jobs and further bolster national defense by expanding capacity for the manufacture of icebreakers and other specialized vessels for the U.S. government and commercial customers. Texas is positioned to be a national hub for critical shipbuilding and, with our strong workforce, we will be for generations to come.”
Building Coast Guard icebreakers “embodies the Trump administration’s priorities, including the Executive Order on American Maritime Dominance, the SHIPS for America Act, and the creation of the Office of shipbuilding,” Davie Defense said.
“Recapitalization of the nation’s icebreaker fleet and closing the shipbuilding gap with China are now clear national priorities,” Davie Defense CEO Kai Skvarla said when first announcing the $1 billion plan. “Our skills and capability are perfectly matched to address these imperatives and deliver the ships America needs to protect our vital interests in the polar regions.”
Of the Texas plan, Skvarla said, “Texas has one of the world’s most business-friendly environments and the scale to support complex shipbuilding — a capability we’re bringing back to Texas for the first time in generations. Our investment will serve American industry and the U.S. government for decades to come — starting with Davie’s globally recognized specialty: the polar-capable icebreakers critical to U.S. national security.”
The new projects in Galveston and Port Arthur make Texas operations “ground-zero for the revitalization of the American shipbuilding industry,” Abbott said, “advancing American economic and national security by adding much-needed capacity to the U.S. industrial base.”
It’s the second icebreaker project in the Gulf. In December, the Coast Guard announced it had signed contracts with a Finnish company and Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport, Louisiana, to build icebreakers.
“New Arctic Security Cutters will defend U.S. sovereignty, secure critical shipping lanes, protect energy and mineral resources, and counter our adversaries’ presence in the Arctic region. They will enable the Coast Guard to control, secure and defend U.S. Alaskan borders, facilitate maritime commerce vital to economic prosperity and strategic mobility, and respond to crises and contingencies in the region,” the Coast Guard said.
Under the Trump administration, the U.S. Coast Guard received an historic $25 billion to upgrade its fleet ahead of its 235th anniversary last year, The Center Square reported.
Funding is enabling the USCG to procure an estimated 17 new icebreakers, 21 new cutters, over 40 helicopters and six C-130J aircraft and modernize its shore infrastructure and maritime surveillance systems. It will also strengthen its ability to interdict maritime illegal border crossers and traffickers, strengthen search and rescue operations and enhance navigational safety and enable maritime trade, The Center Square reported.
Under the Biden administration, the Coast Guard told Congress it needed “eight to nine polar icebreakers to meet its operational requirements” but only got one. Under the Trump administration, it’s getting roughly double of what it previously requested.
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Definitely visit Battleship Texas if you're in the vicinity. The previous custodians let it rot in its berth so badly it nearly sank when they tried to tow it into Galveston. The AA guns had all been painted over and locked into place. Morons.
[Just The News] Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche says the Democrat-led House January 6 Select Committee did not properly form itself and therefore its subpoena to Bannon trying to compel testimony was unlawful.
In a stunning reversal, the Trump Justice Department on Monday asked the Supreme Court and a federal judge to dismiss the criminal contempt indictment and conviction of Steve Bannon for refusing to testify in the January 6 investigation by Congress, declaring such a request is in the "interests of justice" after years of politically weaponized lawfare by Democrats.
The move by DOJ is extremely rare -- but not unprecedented -- considering Bannon was already convicted and served time in prison.
"The government has determined in its prosecutorial discretion that dismissal of this criminal case is in the interests of justice," Solicitor General John Sauer wrote in a brief to the nine justices, who were reviewing an appeal from Bannon’s lawyers.
"The government has accordingly lodged a motion in the district court under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 48(a) to vacate the judgment and dismiss the indictment with prejudice," the motion also states.
The filing noted that the law "allows the government to seek dismissal even after a jury finds the defendant guilty and the district court enters judgment."
That’s awfully generous, considering some of the things Mr. Bannon wrote about the president that turned up in the latest Epstein files release. Assuming they are true rather than FBI forgeries, that is.
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^ Don't remember, but perhaps because (as usual) it had no evidentiary value? I'm not a Bannon fan, and wish he would just go away, but I know he's a fascination of yours
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If Bannon molested kids it will come out. The J6 subpoenas and committee were illegal. Dismissing the charges is accurate. The Dems did establish the standard for putting people in jail for contempt. That precedent ought to be followed.
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[BBC] South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said he will deploy the army to help the police fight criminal gangs and illegal mining in the country.
Gang violence is a major problem in South Africa, which has one of the world's highest murder rates.
"Organised crime is now the most immediate threat to our democracy, our society and our economic development," Ramaphosa said in his annual State of the Nation Address (Sona) on Thursday.
"I will be deploying the South African National Defence Force to support the police," he added.
[Breitbart] Official Argentine government sources told the newspapers Clarín and La Nación that the summit will take place on Miami, Florida. In addition to Milei, the sources said that President Trump also invited Paraguay’s Santiago Peña, Bolivia’s Rodrigo Paz, El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele, Ecuador’s Daniel Noboa, and Honduras’s recently-inaugurated President Nasry Asfura to join him on the March 7 event — all of whom lead governments with friendly ties with the United States.
According to Infobae, the summit’s objective is to “break Xi Jinping’s plan to control natural resources, food production, and major trade routes in Latin America.”
“From this perspective, the White House will attempt, with its Latin American allies, to block all contracts favorable to China that involve increasing its reserves of critical minerals, strengthening its food security, facilitating its military intelligence capabilities, and developing infrastructure that facilitates its international trade,” Infobae reported.
Rubio will lead the US delegation at the first major global event since President Donald Trump threatened Danish sovereignty with a pledge to annex Greenland.
French President Emmanuel Macron has insisted Europe must prepare for independence from the US, while Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte has stressed that transatlantic bonds are as close and important as ever.
The war in Ukraine, tensions with China and a potential nuclear deal between Iran and the US are also on the agenda as the security conference gets under way.
"The world is changing very fast right in front of us," Rubio told reporters, when asked if his message to Europeans would be more conciliatory than a year ago.
"We live in a new era in geopolitics, and it's going to require all of us to sort of re-examine what that looks like and what our role is going to be".
[Reuters] The outline of the deal reached last month included Taiwan's pledge that its companies would invest $250 billion to boost production of semiconductors, energy and artificial intelligence in the United States.
Incidentally moving their latest developments out of reach of China, should Xi get rambunctious after all.
That figure included $100 billion already committed by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp (2330.TW) the world's main producer of advanced chips powering the trend towards AI.
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There's no deal but a handshake, they're going to reneg.
Why would they want to put their own people out of business?
All of Trump's great deals have no legal standing and they're just going to delay, delay delay until he's out of office and go right back to the status quo ante.
[Breitbart] Japanese authorities seized a Chinese fishing boat on Thursday and arrested its captain after they caught the vessel illegally fishing inside its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
Tokyo-based broadcaster NHK reports Japan’s Fisheries Agency patrol vessels spotted the intruder inside Japan’s EEZ roughly 165 kilometers southwest of the Island of Meshima, in Goto, Nagasaki.
The Chinese vessel reportedly defied an order to stop, leading to its capture.
Kyodo News reportedly identified the ship’s captain as 47 year-old Chinese national Zheng Nianli.
The vessel was reportedly described by Japanese authorities and media as a high-capacity. “tiger net fishing boat” capable of catching large quantities of fish such as mackerel and horse mackerel. 11 people were onboard the vessel at the time of its capture, including its captain. The incident marks Japan’s first seizure of a foreign fishing vessel in 2026 and the first Chinese fishing boat seized since 2022.
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[REGNUM] The high-profile reshuffles in China's security apparatus and the arrests of senior military officials, which have made international headlines, are more than just the arrests of individual bribe-takers. For over twelve years, China has been undergoing a complete overhaul of its entire state and military apparatus, a true tectonic shift.
To a Russian observer, recent events may seem like a series of isolated scandals or yet another media campaign. However, this is misleading; this is not a one-time event.
The anti-corruption campaign in China under the leadership of Xi Jinping, which began immediately after the landmark 18th CPC Congress in 2012, has long since evolved from a surgical operation to eliminate competitors into a permanent mode of operation for the system.
The first devastating blows to those who enjoyed immunity under Jiang Zemin in the 1990s and Hu Jintao in the 2000s occurred in the mid-2010s, when former vice chairmen of the Central Military Commission Xu Caihou and Guo Boxiong came under investigation. These men had controlled the military's career ladder for decades, and their fall signaled that there were no longer positions in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) that guaranteed immunity.
Why does the military always remain the number one priority in this process? The answer lies in the very nature of modern Chinese government.
The PLA is not simply a state armed force in the traditional Russian or European sense. The PLA's key principle was formulated by Mao Zedong himself during the revolutionary years : "Power comes from the rifle." This means that the army is led by the Party.
Formally, the highest military body is the Central Military Commission, but in reality, it is a direct extension of the party structure. Therefore, for Beijing, any pocket of corruption in the military is not an economic crime, but a factor that erodes political loyalty. If a general takes bribes, his loyalty to the center can be called into question, which is absolutely unacceptable in the context of the global confrontation with the West.
The latest round of this endless struggle was revealed by a publication in the PLA's official newspaper, Jiefangjunbao, which came out in early February. It went almost unnoticed in the international press, which was preoccupied with other headlines, but for those who follow the Chinese political system, this is anything but a routine signal.
Jiefangjunbao is not a forum for debate or a space for journalistic interpretation. It is an institutional channel through which the leadership's will is conveyed to the army corps and the entire system.
When a programmatic text about “political hardening” appears in such a body, it means that a decision at the very top has not only been made – it has been put into action.
PERSONAL CONNECTIONS WON'T SAVE YOU
The formula voiced in the newspaper's text is extremely strict: there can be no safe havens for corrupt officials in the army. But the subsequent caveat is far more important: the "corruption residue" has not been completely eliminated. This is an official admission that, despite a decade of purges, corrupt mechanisms still persist.
The names behind this "remnant" are impressive - we are talking about people at the level of the high military command, such as Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli.
The first figure is particularly noteworthy. Few people know that Zhang Youxia and Xi Jinping had long-standing, almost familial ties. Their fathers were party comrades, true comrades in arms. It was precisely because of this that Zhang, although implicated in some matters, like many of the PLA generals of the 1990s and 2000s, enjoyed long-standing special favor with Chairman Xi and successfully survived the early stages of the purges.
In 2023, when Defense Minister Li Shangfu resigned amid scandal, Zhang retained his post. It appears that Xi chose to ignore certain corruption cases involving Zhang, effectively giving him a huge vote of confidence.
However, in China, the credit of trust is not an infinite thing.
Nor anywhere, really. Which is as it should be.
A month ago, the arrests of Zhang and Liu were announced, and Western media immediately began their usual story: Zhang allegedly had ties to foreign intelligence agencies and was passing them secrets. The disgraced minister, Li Shangfu, had previously been accused using exactly the same cliche.
But the reality, as is often the case, is more prosaic. Many established Chinese political scientists, in "private WeChat conversations," are leaning toward the theory that Li's blunder was due to carelessness. His son, who has business interests in the United States, was under CIA surveillance, and important information could have leaked through ordinary conversations in places where the Americans had installed wiretaps.
Zhang Yuxia's situation is different. This veteran military man had no contacts with the West. He was caught in corruption schemes. Perhaps national character also played a role: anyone caught for financial dishonesty at least once must pay the price, even if initially forgiven. In China, punishment for a breach of trust is inevitable, even if it is postponed for a while.
There are also rumors of a coup attempt by Zhang, but they are unsubstantiated. One thing is clear: he has been arrested, and any attempts at destabilization have been thwarted by officers from the Central Security Bureau of the CPC Central Committee—the "personal guard" of the top leadership.
REFLASHING THE SYSTEM
Why did Beijing decide to talk about the “corruption residue” now?
There are no casual words in Chinese political rhetoric. This term acknowledges that the problem lies not in isolated "bad apples," but in the accumulated layers of informal connections that have been built over decades.
But even more significant is the term "political reorganization." To the uninitiated, it may sound like a bureaucratic procedure, but in reality, it represents a complete overhaul of the system.
It implies, firstly, the priority of loyalty over professionalism. In Xi Jinping's eyes, even the most talented general, well-versed in hypersonic technology, is useless and dangerous if he is politically unreliable. PLA modernization is considered secondary to ideological discipline.
Secondly, a purge of the environment itself. Reorganization means rethinking the personnel ladder. While previously personal loyalty to a superior was sufficient for promotion (which gave rise to corrupt clans), now end-to-end control mechanisms are being introduced.
And thirdly, the elimination of "gray zones." Military governance is being reformatted toward a more rigid, centralized, and ideologically aligned model. The system projects confidence. The increasing number of cases is presented not as a sign of weakness, but as proof that control is penetrating ever deeper.
Chinese political practice rarely addresses a problem publicly without the intention of bringing the process to a conclusion. In this context, new investigations appear less sensational than a logical continuation of the current course. The CPC leadership, led by Xi Jinping, is building an army that must be ready for a new "Long March," and in such battles, the home front must be crystal clear.
THE OUTER CIRCUIT AND RUSSIA
It's important to emphasize that the anti-corruption campaign in the PLA is becoming a long-term policy, integrated into the strategy of building a "strong army." In China's political system, short-term media coverage is not as important as the gradual reduction of gray areas and strengthening of disciplinary control.
The PLA is today a key instrument of Beijing's foreign policy amid growing tensions around Taiwan and in the South China Sea. China's political leadership has a vested interest in ensuring that this instrument is fully manageable, monolithic, and free of internal fissures through which external forces could exert influence.
The fight against the "remnant" is preparation for the great challenges of the future, where any unauthorized activity within the command could be fatal.
For us, there's one fundamentally important point in this whole story of purges and arrests of China's top generals. The Chinese leadership, led by Xi Jinping, no matter what transformations it may undergo, remains firmly committed to strategic cooperation and building constructive relations with Russia.
For Beijing, the stability of its northern neighbor is as much a guarantee of security as the integrity of its own army ranks.
[Breitbart] Chinese dictator Xi Jinping sent a video holiday greeting to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on Wednesday. In the course of wishing his forces a happy Lunar New Year, he casually confirmed the existence of a Chinese cyberwarfare facility on Fiery Cross Reef in the disputed Spratly Islands of the South China Sea.
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.2 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in January, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 2.4 percent before seasonal adjustment.
The index for shelter rose 0.2 percent in January and was the largest factor in the all items monthly increase. The food index increased 0.2 percent over the month as did the food at home index, while the food away from home index rose 0.1 percent. These increases were partially offset by the index for energy, which fell 1.5 percent in January.
The index for all items less food and energy rose 0.3 percent in January. Indexes that increased over the month include airline fares, personal care, recreation, medical care, and communication. The indexes for used cars and trucks, household furnishings and operations, and motor vehicle insurance were among the major indexes that decreased in January.
The all items index rose 2.4 percent for the 12 months ending January, after rising 2.7 percent for the 12 months ending December. The all items less food and energy index rose 2.5 percent over the last 12 months. The energy index decreased 0.1 percent for the 12 months ending January. The food index increased 2.9 percent over the last year.
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[RMX] Germany is increasingly rebelling against multi-billion-euro data centers, reflecting a trend seen in other Western countries. This time, Groß-Gerau, a town outside of the mega internet hub of Frankfurt, is the latest to reject the construction of a major data center over fears of rising power costs, diminished water and environmental resources, ugly aesthetics, and skepticism over job creation.
Major U.S. investors were behind the push to build the 174-megawatt data center, but local residents and politicians have successfully stopped construction of the five-building complex, which represented €2.5 billion in investment.
The city parliament of the southern Hessian district town officially stopped the construction of the project by Vantage Data Centers. According to German media reports, the assembly rejected the proposal in an 18 to 14 vote, according to Welt newspaper.
[IsraelTimes] Watchdog finds Jesse Van Rootselaar ‘regularly shared antisemitic and racist content and material glorifying previous mass killers,’ profile picture included neo-Nazi symbol
The shooter who killed eight people and maimed dozens more in one of Canada’s deadliest mass shootings on Tuesday allegedly tweeted antisemitic content two days before the attack.
"I need to hate jews because the zionists want me to hate jews. This benefits them, somehow," Jesse Van Rootselaar, the alleged Tumbler Ridge school shooter, tweeted on Sunday, according to research by the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism.
Authorities in British Columbia have identified Van Rootselaar, 18, as the shooter who killed six people at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School and two family members at home before also dying, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
According to the ADL, Van Rootselar had a "troubling pattern of online radicalization" that included using WatchPeopleDie, a platform that glorifies violence and has been linked to several mass violence events.
The ADL also found what it believes to be Van Rootselar’s X account, which it says "regularly shared antisemitic and racist content and material glorifying previous mass killers, including the 2022 Buffalo supermarket shooter and the 2019 Christchurch mosque shooter."
Additionally, the ADL said, "The Tumbler Ridge shooter’s X profile photo also featured an image of the Christchurch shooter superimposed over a Sonnenrad, a neo-Nazi ...adherents of a philosophy that was seen even at the time as pure evil, which makes them either consciously purely evil, or attention-seeking ratbags. Pick one, or both.... symbol, and a transgender pride flag."
Other recent mass shooters have been WatchPeopleDie users. In August, alleged Minneapolis shooter Robin Westman entered a Catholic mass at an elementary school and allegedly used a gun featuring antisemitic and anti-Israel writing to kill two children and injure another 17 people before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The gun also included writing with the name of the man convicted of the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history, the 2018 mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue.
The alleged shooter behind the January 2025 Antioch High School shooting, Solomon Henderson, was found to have extensive online documents that praised Adolf Hitler ...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days, sometimes every few hour if it's an election year, as a politician somebody doesn't like... and included links to "groyper" content.
Authorities in British Columbia say they cannot speculate on the motive of Van Rootselaar, who they said dropped out of school in Tumbler Ridge, a town of about 2,500, about four years ago. The dead included a 39-year-old teacher; five students, ages 12 to 13; and Van Rootselar’s mother and 11-year-old stepbrother.
Tuesday’s attack was the deadliest mass shooting in Canada since a 2020 attack in Portapique, Nova Scotia, left 23 people dead, including the shooter. A gun buyback program was implemented days after that shooting, but has proven both logistically challenging and unpopular.
I thought it was neo-Nazi, not ACTUAL Nazi!
Here it is so you know what it looks like. It's the round jaggy looking thing, the half a lightning bolt is the Wolfsangel, another Nazi symbol.
[NYP] WASHINGTON — President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin unveiled what they called the biggest red tape removal in US history Thursday, axing a sweeping Obama-era anti-greenhouse gas policy and predicting it could save $1.3 trillion, or about $3,823.50 per US resident.
"Today, the Trump EPA has finalized the single largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States of America," Zeldin said alongside Trump in the White House Roosevelt Room.
"Referred to by some as the holy grail of federal regulatory overreach, the 2009 Obama EPA endangerment finding is now eliminated."
The repeal ends a policy allowing the feds to regulate fossil fuels by declaring them dangerous to public health.
The so-called "endangerment finding" allowed the EPA to measure and constrain the output of six greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act — including emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide by vehicles amd power plants.
Trump called the finding "a disastrous Obama-era policy that severely damaged the American auto industry and massively drove up prices for American consumers," predicting they would save "trillions of dollars" as a result of Thursday’s action. A detailed savings breakdown was not released.
The president added that his administration was "terminating all additional green emission standards imposed unnecessarily on vehicle models and engines between 2012 and 2027 and beyond."
Zeldin said the changes could lower car costs by an average of about $2,400.
"As I traveled across all 50 states this past year, I heard from countless Americans who not only dislike the (motor-vehicle) start-stop feature but passionately advocated for this mechanism to be a thing of the past," Zeldin said of the major recission made Thursday.
"Not only do many people find start-stop annoying, but it kills the battery of your car without any significant benefit to the environment. The Trump EPA is proudly fixing this stupid feature at Trump Speed."
Zeldin said automakers shouldn’t be forced to adopt or be rewarded for using technologies that represent a "climate participation trophy" with no meaningful reduction in actual pollution.
The former New York lawmaker said consumer choice is a priority for his agency, and that his office will continue to advocate for "commonsense rules."
However, the climate change field appears eager to litigate the new rule, as the nonprofit green-focused law firm Earthjustice signaled as much to PBS.
"The Trump administration is abandoning its core responsibility to keep us safe from extreme weather and accelerating climate change," Earthjustic president Abigail Dillen told the outlet.
"There is no way to reconcile EPA's decision with the law, the science and the reality of disasters that are hitting us harder every year. Earthjustice and our partners will see the Trump administration in court."
Fabulous. You spend the funds that accumulated when the government was handing money out with a shovel, fertilizing the economy, and then you won’t have funds for further mischief. Everybody wins!.
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It is a bigger savings than that. Their goal was to remove the ability of the middleclass or below to own and drive an affordable car and thereby collect us into slums.
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[Reuters] SINGAPORE, Feb 13 (Reuters) - GE Aerospace (GE.N), opens new tab technician Suresh Sinnaiyan has spent more than a decade repairing jet‑engine compressor blades by guiding them across a sanding belt with practised precision.
Now, at the aerospace giant's new automation lab in Singapore, he is teaching a robot to do the same job.
The switch is part of GE's push to prepare the next wave of industrial development and ease one of aviation's biggest bottlenecks: overloaded repair shops and scarce parts.
Unexpected wear and tear in the latest generation of jet engines across the industry has idled many jets and led airlines to keep older jets flying longer, stretching maintenance lines into months as engines wait their turn in repair queues.
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"That was quite the ride," said Commander Jessica Meir in her first comments after lift-off. "We have left the Earth but the Earth has not left us."
The astronaut observed how looking at the Earth's oceans and landmasses served as a reminder for how "utterly unique" the planet is.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days, sometimes every few hour if it's an election year, as a politician somebody doesn't like...
