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Newsom does something right. Issues 138 offshore well permits.

A southern shoreline just up the California coast from the latest oil spill. Photograph by Scott Thomas Anderson

Like a clock even the governor of California sometimes gets it right. Newsom issued 138 offshore well permits. “Governor Newsom has issued 138 permits for wells located offshore,” according to Kyle Ferrar, Western program coordinator for the FracTracker Alliance. “This includes five new drilling permits and 133 permits to perform work on existing offshore wells.

Onshore Newsom has issued over 9,000 permits. Knowing California has enough oil on and off shore, the governor needs to double what he’s already issued.

But California has two loon groups trying to send California back to the stone age.

Consumer Watchdog and FracTracker Alliance are among a coalition of groups calling on Newsom to issue a mandatory 2,500-foot setback between oil drilling operations and communities. Up to one mile would be preferable based on the evidence, they argue.

 

 

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Opinion Politics Reprints from others. The Courts

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit says stop killing the babies.

Abortion providers in Texas have been closely watching the legal fight over the procedure.Credit...Eric Gay/Associated Press

NY Times article can be found here.

HOUSTON — A federal appeals court panel reinstated Texas’ restrictive abortion law late Friday, temporarily restoring a ban on virtually all procedures that had been blocked by a lower court two days earlier in a case brought by the Biden administration.

The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in a terse two-page ruling granting an appeal by the state of Texas, had been expected by many abortion providers. While at least six clinics in Texas had begun conducting abortions beyond the limits of the new law this week, most of the state’s roughly two dozen providers had opted not to take that step as the case moved through the courts.

The law, which bans most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, went into effect at the start of September. Since then, it has altered the landscape for abortions in the nation’s second-most-populous state because of its unique structure, which bars state officials from enforcing its provisions, leaving that instead to private citizens.

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Tesla moving corporate out of California. Plant to stay. For now.

A man drives his Tesla past the SpaceX Starship SN8, in Boca Chica, Texas, on Dec. 4, 2020.Gene Blevins / Reuters file

Tesla is moving their corporate offices to Austin Texas. Their plants in California and Nevada will grow if all things work out. Let’s see if their loon governors intervene and add more taxes. This from NBC.

California levies some of the highest personal income taxes in the country on its wealthy residents, but Texas has no personal income tax.

Tesla is not the first company to its headquarters out of California to Texas. Oracle and Hewlett Packard are among the tech giants who decided to make that move last year, for example.

Musk said Thursday that Tesla is making great progress on the Austin-area factory, which the company has dubbed Giga Texas. The first vehicles are expected to roll out of the facility as early as this year, and the facility could bring more than 10,000 new jobs to Central Texas through 2022.

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Biden Pandemic Economy Opinion Politics

So President Trump added 7 trillion to the debt. The U.S. budget deficit is expected to reach $3 trillion again this year, according to the Congressional Budget Office, a 33% increase from its previous projection as it takes into account President Biden’s massive coronavirus stimulus plan.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – AUGUST 18: Joe Biden pauses as he delivers remarks on the COVID-19 response and the vaccination program in the East Room of the White House on August 18, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

So President Trump added 7 trillion to the debt. The U.S. budget deficit is expected to reach $3 trillion  this year, according to the Congressional Budget Office, a 33% increase from its previous projection as it takes into account President Biden’s massive coronavirus stimulus plan. And that’s not counting the 5 trillion if Bidens two plans pass. But what about the Trump 7 trillion?

Fact Check.org a liberal fact checker says that Trump inherited almost 600 billion from Obama. And they say that 2.7 trillion were the tax cuts. That means over 3 trillion went to cover the COVID Pandemic.  Pandemic spending that almost every single Democrat voted for.

When Obama added almost 10 trillion, there was no outcry from the left. Why was that? The deficit for the first half of the budget year, from October through March, was up from $743.5 billion in the year-ago period, to 1.7 trillion this year the Treasury Department said in April.

 

 

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Biden Pandemic Corruption How funny is this? How sick is this? Opinion Politics Uncategorized

Joe and the fake White House.

Joe just can't cut a break.

The man’s whole political life has been a lie, why would this be any different? Joe just can’t tell or show it how it really is.

This picture says it all. Fake News.

 

In addition to Biden, Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen have been photographed using the set alongside the president for events there.

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Typical hate from the left. Making White Plantationists proud. Bernie Sanders will not reprimand his base.

Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Bernie Sanders arrive in the Capitol for a vote in July 2020. Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images

So Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), tries to do something good and what happens? It’s rejected cause it condemns hatred from the left. This from Axios.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) withheld support for a joint statement condemning last weekend’s protests against Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) because it also wouldn’t include a rebuke of her political views, Axios’ Alayna Treene has learned.

Why it matters: The move is emblematic of the hostility between the progressive and moderate members, who have been sparring over the cost and scope of President Biden’s agenda. Sanders wanted the statement to urge Sinema to drop her opposition to prescription drug reform, as well as Biden’s $3.5 trillion social safety net expansion.

Driving the news: An email exchange between Senate Democratic leadership aides, obtained by Axios, reveals Sanders withheld his name from a joint statement declaring protesters who followed Sinema into a bathroom — and filmed her while using the restroom — as “plainly inappropriate and unacceptable.”

  • Sanders’ communications director Mike Casca asked that the statement be edited to include the preface, “While we hope Senator Sinema will change her position on prescription drug reform and support a major [budget] reconciliation bill, …”
  • An aide to Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), who organized the statement, said Booker would not accept the edits.
  • Casca later replied: “Sanders will not be signing, so please cut ‘Senate Democratic Leadership Team’ from headline.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Catherine Cortez-Masto (D-Nev.) all signed onto the statement in addition to Booker.

  • Excerpts of the leaked exchange are shown below. Axios has confirmed the contents of the full exchange with other Senate offices.
  • Casca, Sanders’ communications director, declined comment. Sinema’s spokesman also declined comment.

State of play: The statement has not been published. It’s currently unclear whether it will run.

Between the lines: The move comes as those in Sinema’s orbit have privately vented frustration that her fellow Democratic senators and the White House haven’t more forcefully spoken out.

  • She described the incident at Arizona State University as “not legitimate protest,” and “wholly inappropriate.”
  • On Monday, Biden told reporters he didn’t think the protesters’ tactics were “appropriate,” then added, “but it happens to everybody.”
  • The president went on to say, “The only people it doesn’t happen to are people who have Secret Service standing around them. So, it’s part of the process.”

Keep reading.

Screenshot excerpts of the email exchange, obtained by Axios:

Screenshotted excerpts of an email exchange, obtained by Axios
Screenshot excerpts of the email exchange, obtained by Axios
Screenshotted excerpts of an email exchange, obtained by Axios
Screenshot excerpts of the email exchange, obtained by Axios
Screenshotted excerpts of an email exchange, obtained by Axios
Screenshot excerpts of the email exchange, obtained by Axios.

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Biden Pandemic Education How sick is this? Opinion Politics

Extremist hate group forces Senator to lock herself in the bathroom.

Leftist Protesters Stalk, Harass Sen. Kyrsten Sinema in a Restroom. AP Photo/Chris Carlson

Extremist hate group forces Senator to lock herself in the bathroom. A noted group of leftists called LUCHA attempted to force a sitting United States Senator to go along with their terrorist views.

In the video posted by LUCHA Arizona, a group of students is seen attempting to stop Sinema outside her classroom at Arizona State University to ask her questions about the Build Back Better Agenda on Sunday morning. The group of students then follows Sinema into the bathroom. One student, Blanca, is seen talking to Sinema about the SB1070 law, which is Arizona’s immigration law. Every state should adopt similar laws.

Your Grandparents got deported cause they broke the law. And if the person who was harassing the Senator is undocumented, she should also be deported.

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Biden Pandemic Corruption Crime Opinion Polls

Thank Joe Biden and the left. Crime surge nationwide. Especially in the cities.

Joe's responsible for what's wrong with this country. Giphy News.

Thank Joe Biden and the left. Crime surge nationwide. Especially in the cities. 2020 was the year of the BLM and Antifa race wars. Wars against Police and Capitalism. Well since Joe came into office, it hasn’t let up. If you don’t believe me, even CNN gets it for once.

The number of homicides continues to rise in major American cities following a year that saw a record increase in homicides across the country, according to a report published Thursday by the Council on Criminal Justice.

A study of homicides during the first six months of this year in 22 cities showed that the number of murders increased by 16% compared to the same period in 2020 and by 42% compared to the first six months of 2019.

 

 

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Economy Food How sick is this? Opinion Politics

More than half of immigrants on welfare.

More than half of immigrants on welfareBrandon Bell/Getty Images

More than half of immigrants on welfare. Tell me if this doesn’t turn your stomach? That’s one reason so many of the undocumented are coming here.

More than half of the nation’s non-citizen population — including legal immigrants, foreign visa workers, and illegal aliens — use American taxpayer-funded welfare after arriving in the United States, a new analysis reveals.

Research by Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research Steven Camarota finds that about 55 percent of non-citizen households in the U.S. use at least one form of welfare compared to just 32 percent of households headed by native-born Americans.

The center’s report is based on 2012 data from the Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation. It includes immigrants who have become naturalized citizens, legal permanent residents, those on short-term visas and undocumented immigrants.

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Donald Trump told you not to sell your house. You should have listened. Lordstown Motors who bought auto plant from GM for 20 million sells it for 230 million.

Donald Trump told you not to sell your house. You should have listened. Lordstown Motors who bought auto plant from GM for 20 million sells it for 230 million.

Donald Trump told you not to sell your house. You should have listened. Lordstown Motors who bought auto plant from GM for 20 million sells it for 230 million. This auto plant at one time had 15,000 employees. After the Obama years they were down to 3,000. But before Obama left GM announced that 1,500 more were losing their jobs. When Trump came into office they announced that they were closing. Trump said don’t panic. 500 retired and about 500 transferred to other plants. The 500 who stayed are mostly glad they did.

During the Trump years almost 2,500 jobs were added. Another 2,000 or so will come within the next 6-8 months. Now Lordstown motors. They bought the plant that has 6.2 million square feet for 20 million. Sold it for 230 million. Plus the buyer invested 50 million in Lordstown motors stock. Buyer is Hon Hai Precision Industry Co.  They also will be manufacturing other electronic products in this plant.

They also own Foxconn. Foxconn who makes the Apple I phone for Apple. They will be manufacturing the Endurance for Lordstown motors.

One of the projects Foxconn will build at the Lordstown plant is Fisker Inc.’s Project Pear, which stands for Personal Electric Automotive Revolution, company CEO Henrik Fisker said in an interview. That model is scheduled to start production in the first quarter of 2024 with minimum planned production of 150,000 vehicles a year — and eventually 250,000 annually, he said.

Fisker’s CEO said he doesn’t want to reveal too much about the design of his company’s Project Pear except to say that it will target young urban dwellers and sell at a starting price under $30,000.

Fisker Pear

Lordstown Endurance

In April, Foxconn drastically scaled back a planned $10 billion factory in Wisconsin, a project former U.S. President Donald Trump once called “the eighth wonder of the world.”

Foxconn reduced its planned investment to $672 million from $10 billion and cut the number of new jobs to 1,454 from 13,000. It had proposed a 20-million-square-foot manufacturing campus in Wisconsin that would have been the largest investment in U.S. history for a new location by a foreign-based company.