[FoxNews] A federal judge on Friday reinstated a moratorium on coal leasing from federal lands that had been implemented during the Obama administration.
The ban was lifted under former President Donald Trump.
Friday's ruling from U.S. District Judge Brian Morris requires government officials to conduct a new environmental review prior to resuming coal sales from federal lands. The judge said the government's previous review of the program during the Trump administration had not adequately considered the climate damage from coal's greenhouse gas emissions, among other effects.
Almost half the nation’s annual coal production is mined by private companies from leases on federal land, mainly in Western states, including Wyoming, Montana and Colorado.
Coal combustion for electricity is one of the top sources of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions despite a number of power plants shutting down over the past decade over concerns about pollution and changing economic conditions.
According to government data, the coal program raked in about $400 million to federal and state coffers through royalties and other payments last year. The program is responsible for thousands of jobs and has the backing of industry representatives, GOP members of Congress and officials in coal-producing states.
President Joe Biden had suspended oil and gas lease sales in his first week in office, although such a move was later blocked by a federal judge. And environmental groups pressured him to take similar action against coal.
Last year, the Biden administration began a review of climate damage from coal mining on federal lands as it increased scrutiny of government fossil fuel sales that contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. However, no changes were announced because of that review.
"This decision gives the Biden administration the opportunity to make good on its commitment to seriously battle the climate crisis," Earthjustice attorney Jenny Harbine, who represented environmental groups and the Northern Cheyenne Tribe in the case, said of the ruling. "No progress has been made to reform the program or do what's needed to phase out existing leases."
But National Mining Association President Rich Nolan said the industry lobbying group would appeal the ruling.
"This is a deeply disappointing decision with energy-driven inflation, energy affordability and energy security top concerns for Americans," Nolan said. "Denying access to affordable, secure energy during an energy affordability crisis is deeply troubling."
[NYPost] A wild video shows a mob of teenagers trashing a Philadelphia restaurant, flipping tables, throwing chairs — and even tossing a bicycle — as violence soars in the city.
The caught-on-video rampage at Jamaican restaurant Zion Cuisine in the city’s Germantown neighborhood sent workers scrambling for cover behind a locked door and security glass shattered by a chair thrown by one of the assailants.
The viral video from Saturday made the rounds on social media showing a dozen or more teens enter the restaurant after some sort of confrontation.
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But "wilding" was proved to be a myth...
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bunch of those urban white supremacist kids going crazy again I'm sure.
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I'm sure even covering your head with your hands in a defensive posture risks an "assault" indictment from Soros DA Krasner's office.
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"I used to be 6'6", blond, and my name was Bob. Now I'm 5'3". bald, and my name is Herb."
[BBC] The US declared monkeypox a public health emergency late last week. It follows weeks of concern that more needs to be done to contain the virus. Don't share pork with strange men. That should do it.
On a private daily Zoom call, adult gay men who have contracted monkeypox compare notes. "Oot! Oot! Gree! Cheeeee!:
They share their frustrations over trying to get tested or treated but being turned away by healthcare professionals. "Eeeeew! Get away! Coooooties!"
They throw around tips on how to manage pain that gets worse with each new blister on your body and leaves you unable to do anything. "Drugs, man! Heavy duty drugs!"
And, to keep from going stir-crazy as they wait for the lesions to heal, they bond over a shared experience none of them asked for. "I play a lot of games. I never win."
The first US monkeypox case this year was detected on 18 May in the state of Massachusetts. Since then, more than 10,000 cases have been reported across the country, in every state except Wyoming. I know what they don't do in Wyoming.
Although anybody can contract the virus through direct contact with an infected person or surface, men in recent sexual contact with other men have accounted for the vast majority of cases. But just in case, wipe yer door handles. And wear a full-body rubber.
[MAIL] The man who was killed in a police shootout after attacking an FBI field office in Ohio was a Navy veteran who once had top-secret clearance, and had been under FBI investigation for months, according to new reports.
Ricky Walter Shiffer Jr, 42, died on Thursday after trying to breach the field office in Cincinnati with a nail gun and brandishing an AR-15-style rifle when police pursued and cornered him.
Shiffer's posts on Donald Trump's Truth Social platform suggest that he undertook the doomed attack in revenge for the FBI's raid and search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence earlier this week.
Shiffer had been an enlisted sailor who served aboard the USS Columbia attack submarine - a job that requires top-secret clearance - and also served as an infantryman in the Florida National Guard, the Wall Street Journal reported.
As well, the FBI confirmed that it had been investigating Shiffer for months in connection with the US Capitol riot and another matter, but the Bureau said that it was not aware of a 'specific and credible threat'.
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Mad magazine used to run this special four-connections-between thingy where they'd establish a link between two totally unrelated things. Like say between Trudeau and Idi Amin.
Trudeau likes to play dress up, is probably a fairy, and a bastard of...Castro! ➡️ Who was a die hard communist and revolutionary, before he got fat and started smoking... cigars. ➡️ Which are bad for your health, as bad as they were for Clinton's presidency. ➡️ Which to some is a great calling, but some see it as licence for... cannibalism! ➡️ As did the erstwhile Ugandan president and necrophilic playboy, Idi Amin!
This stretchy connection between nuclear subs and nuclear codes and Trump seems a lot reminiscent of that ridiculous thing.
Something about the nose. Maybe if Justin grew beard...
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the Bureau said that it was not aware of a 'specific and credible threat'
They never are. Maybe the spend too much time persecuting opposition party members.
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No video of the attack. Prob never will be.
Every day I read consenters here write “why doesn’t someone do something?!” Now a guy does and you rip him as a fool and believe the FBI story.
Shiffer worked as an electrician, according to one of his social media profiles. He was a registered Republican who voted in the 2020 primary from Columbus, Ohio, and in the 2020 general election from Tulsa, Oklahoma, according to public records.
An aerial view of former US president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate is pictured, Wednesday, August 10, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Court records show the Ohio Department of Taxation filed suit against him in June, seeking a $553 tax lien judgment, according to court records listing him at an address in St. Petersburg, Florida. He also previously lived at several addresses in Columbus and in Omaha, Nebraska.
He graduated from high school in central Pennsylvania in 1998 and enlisted in the Navy that same year, later serving on the USS Columbia submarine until 2003, according to military records. He was an infantry soldier in the Florida Army National Guard from 2008 to 2011, when he was honorably discharged.
“I know he was way into World War II and the military,” said Lori Frady, a classmate at West Perry High School in Elliottsburg, who had not seen Shiffer since graduation. “He didn’t have a lot of friends, but the friends he did have were big into history and military history.”
[SCMP] As nationalist sentiment runs high amid cross-strait tensions, Beijing has rolled out a People’s Liberation Army recruitment programme that relaxes age limits and gives priority to university students majoring in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.In the second phase of this year’s recruitment programme, starting this month, the age limit for postgraduate students has been lifted from 24 to 26, according to the PLA’s Eastern Theatre Command, which oversees operations around Taiwan.
It also said priority would be given to recruiting students in universities’ science and technology schools and those with skills necessary for fighting in a war.
The Global Times reported on Monday that such STEM skills include those related to the internet, communication, engineering, surveying and drone operation.
Yu Qi, from Zhejiang province, told Chinese state broadcaster CCTV on Tuesday that he wished to "serve the motherland with his righteous ardour".
"The recent situation in the Taiwan Strait has worried every one of us, and it has also shown that peace can only be attained by a country’s power," he said. "I am willing to serve the motherland and make the title ’soldier’ my lifelong glory."
Yu, in his early 20s, was among 110,000 people in Zhejiang who recently applied to join the PLA, with nearly 70 per cent holding university degrees, CCTV reported.
The latest Taiwan crisis was sparked by a visit to Taipei by Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... , speaker of the US House of Representatives. Pelosi met pro-independence Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and other senior politicians as well as human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... activists, before flying on to South Korea last week.
Pelosi, second in line for the United States presidency, was the highest-ranking American official to visit Taiwan in 25 years. Beijing was enraged by her visit, and condemned the trip as a breach of Washington’s one-China policy.
Soon after Pelosi left, the PLA announced a series of live-fire drills encircling the island. It fired 11 ballistic missiles directly over Taiwan, sent warplanes and vessels across the median line that divides the strait, flew drones over Taiwanese airspace and deployed at least one aircraft carrier and a nuclear submarine in a simulated blockade.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... an officer responsible for recruiting new soldiers in Hubei province said the Taiwan crisis was not expected to spur a major boost in people’s willingness to join the PLA because people mostly joined up for personal reasons.
"Young Chinese people join the army mainly for three reasons: one is personal affection towards the army because of influences from relatives and friends; the second is viewing joining the army as getting employed; and the third is aimed at becoming a civil servant when leaving the military as a promoted soldier," the officer said, requesting anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media.
Another officer, surnamed Tian, who is in charge of veterans affairs in a city in Hubei, echoed the view. "China’s soldier recruitment rolls out routinely, so this year’s recruitment won’t be affected by the Taiwan crisis, which erupted only recently," she said.
But Tian said she had observed an unusual phenomenon.
"I found that the number of soldiers leaving the Chinese navy has decreased remarkably in the past two years," she said. "It might be a sign that the Chinese navy is expanding and preparing for contingencies in the Taiwan Strait."
The PLA has the largest navy in the world by number of warships, and the launch of a third aircraft carrier in June took it closer to its goal of building a blue-water navy with at least six aircraft carrier battle groups by 2035.\
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Good job, Pelosi!
Being in the army in China is a low-paid job and they have to do a lot of stupid shit. But now Pelosi is raising the profile and making it fashionable! Really good fucking idea going to Taiwan.
Oh wait she wanted to start a war, and this is making progress towards that goal.
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There is a reason its called a young mans war so often. Mother nature doesn't care what your mobilization plans are, older and sedentary bodies don't 'get in shape' in short order. I'm sure they're finding out in the Ukraine, they make great cannon fodder.
[NBC] Social Security recipients struggling with higher inflation are likely to get a major boost in their monthly benefits starting next year.
Thanks to the high inflation reading for July, beneficiaries could receive as much as $159 extra per month in 2023, according to a new estimate from the Senior Citizens League, a nonprofit advocacy group.
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SUGGESTION: Rescind the recent 21+ % Congressional Pay Raise and issue them the same COLA citizens get each year here after.
NN2N1, are you looking for being perpetually audited for even suggesting such an egregious affront to our betters?
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#4 M.R.^
Read somewhere that older Gray Wolves, being of advance age, have developed processes to address each threat with a well planned survival response.
But will risk life and limb for their Family Wolf Pack.
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[REGNUM] Estonia and Finland intend to integrate into a single national coastal defense system. This was announced by Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur in an interview with the Finnish newspaper Iltalehti.
He noted as an important fact that the range of Estonian and Finnish missiles exceeds the width of the Gulf of Finland. The integration of systems will take place after the final entry of the Finns into NATO.
“This means that we will unite our missile defense and share all information with each other,” Pevkur said. He noted that the decision to allow the Gulf of Finland to be closed to Russian warships: “The Baltic Sea will become a NATO inland sea when Finland and Sweden join NATO. The situation will change."
In 2021, Estonia decided to buy Israeli Blue Spear missiles. Their firing range is 290 kilometers. The range of MTO 85M missiles of the Finnish Navy is more than 100 kilometers. Pevkur praised the Finns' decision to buy American F-35 fighters.
“Finnish airspace cannot be protected if Estonian airspace is not protected at the same time, and vice versa. Fighters cross the 80-kilometer Gulf of Finland in a matter of minutes,” he added.
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[IZ] As a result of shooting in the Montenegrin city of Cetinje, 11 people were killed and six more were injured. This was reported on August 12 by local television with reference to law enforcement agencies.
“In the area of Cetinje Medovina, 11 people were killed, six were injured, among them a police officer, the police department confirmed to us. The tragedy was preceded by a family quarrel, after which the attacker fired at random passers-by and the police, was killed in a shootout, ”the RTCG channel reports .
Children are reported to be among the dead.
The shooting happened earlier that day. An unknown man opened fire on passers-by, and after the police arrived, he wounded one of the employees in the head.
[DW] Three large mining projects based in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s "Lithium Valley" aim to recover lithium with minimal environmental impacts. They have the potential to simplify the global lithium supply chain.
About 200 miles (321 kilometers) east of Los Angeles lies the Salton Sea, California's largest lake by area. It was once a recreation destination and home to a highly productive fishery, but in recent decades the lake has begun to dry up. Now the region has become famous for its most valuable mineral resource — lithium.
Until a decade ago, lithium was mainly used for glass and ceramic production. Now, roughly 70% of lithium is used for batteries. As electric vehicles continue to gain popularity, global lithium demand is skyrocketing.
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Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
