[JustTheNews] Many Americans assume FEMA is only focused on helping respond to disaster, but they are wrong.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is taking fire for its increased focus on migrants, and diversity, equity and inclusion polices while its response to recent hurricanes is under scrutiny.
Many Americans assume FEMA is only focused on helping respond to disasters, but a closer look at FEMA’s recent internal documents, spending, and public actions shows that FEMA has broadened its focus to handling the flow of migrants into the U.S. and attempting to double down on DEI initiatives on gender, sexuality and race.
FEMA’s 2022-2026 strategic plan, an overarching document created by agencies to lay out their priorities, named its first goal not as disaster relief, but instead diversity, equity and inclusion.
In its first goal, the plan promised to “Instill equity as a foundation of emergency management.”
It’s second named priority is to “lead whole of Community in climate resilience.”
FEMA’s “readiness” comes in as the third goal in the plan.
“Diversity, equity, and inclusion cannot be optional; they must be core components of how the agency conducts itself internally and executes its mission,” the plan reads.
FEMA makes clear in its plan that equity, which includes racial identity, will be taken into consideration when distributing aid, highlighting that there should be “equitable and fair distribution of assistance to all those affected – especially those disproportionally impacted."
The “especially” signifies a belief in the DEI community that certain groups, including transgender people or minorities, suffer more from natural disasters.
FEMA has also hired Montage Marketing Group to “elevate diversity and engage employees in creating an inclusive workplace.”
Those efforts included kicking off an “Inclusive Diversity Council” and promoting Transgender Day of Remembrance.
FEMA’s drift in focus took center stage after U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told reporters during the agency's response to Hurricane Helene, which devastated portions of North Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia, that while FEMA had enough funds to respond to deadly Hurricane Milton, it may not have enough to finish this hurricane season.
“We are meeting the immediate needs with the money that we have,” Mayorkas told reporters at the time. “We are expecting another hurricane hitting. FEMA does not have the funds to make it through the season.”
His comments come after reporting showed that in April of this year, FEMA announced $640 million in new funding, $300 million of which was for helping immigrants settle in the U.S. The other $340 million of that funding was set aside to be awarded as grants to cities also for migrants.
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Then it doesn't need to have a job. Fire everyone, hire new leaders from things like the Cajun Navy and the other people who get SH** DONE. We need a new law, any government employee failing to do the job they are paid not only is fired, but a decade in prison and a $250,000,000 fine to recoup any money spent on them to boot. They are barred from ANY future employment by any government or government paid agency and forever loss of ALL Clearances.
[Washington Examiner] The Biden-Harris administration announced on Monday sweeping changes to Obamacare rules to require the coverage of over-the-counter contraceptives, an effort billed as part of a broader effort to back abortion rights, which have been a central focus of Democrats in the 2024 election cycle.
The proposed rule from the Department of Health and Human Services, along with the Treasury and Labor Departments, would require that health insurance providers completely cover the costs of all birth control methods, including condoms, spermicide, and emergency contraception. Now I'm buying your rubbers.
[NY Post] And Kamala still can't provide proof: coworkers, location, or W-2. Nicely done
Wearing an apron and a red tie, the former president served up some fries and political shade against his rival during a behind-the-counter stint at McDonald’s Sunday, which drew a monster crowd to the Feasterville-Trevose, Pa. fast food restaurant.
McDonald’s has long been one of Trump’s favorite chains, but his visit to the Golden Arches Sunday doubled as an effort to re-up his doubts over Vice President Kamala Harris’ claims that she worked there in the 1980s.
Well over a thousand MAGA-Donald’s faithful lined Street Road in Lower Southampton Township in an effort to meet Trump and say “hail to the chef” at the McDonald’s in critical Bucks County, outside Philadelphia.
Kamala Harris, 60, has repeatedly maintained that she worked at the fast food joint while studying for undergrad and used the tale to highlight her middle-class roots, seeking to juxtapose it with her billionaire foe.
Her campaign has specified that she worked the cash register, fry station and ice cream machine at a McDonald’s on Central Avenue in Alameda, California, in 1983, during the summer between her freshman and sophomore year at Howard University.
“Part of the reason I even talk about having worked at McDonald’s is because there are people who work at McDonald’s in our country who are trying to raise a family,” Harris told MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle last month. “I worked there as a student.”
“I think part of the difference between me and my opponent includes our perspective on the needs of the American people and what our responsibility, then, is to meet those needs.”
She has no idea how hard he worked for his father managing rental properties as a kid.
Trump and his allies have harped on how her 1987 resume made no mention of her purported stint at McDonald’s as well as the overall lack of proof that she did. Her campaign has shot back, accusing him of making a baseless allegation.
Gromble+Dribble4342 gives us a links to ABC News’ take on the story, which drones on rather about how President Trump provides no evidence for his misinformed claims, and The Hill, which is skeptical of the political stunt.
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You miss the point, as was once said here, "Trump isn't our candidate, he's our murder weapon" People are tired of the government being a bunch of idiots pissing on us and saying we should be grateful for the rain.
No, more like you go to war with the army you have. Trump is about the only candidate that the people were given who wasn't a member of the UniParty. Need a public reading of the Declaration of Independence cause we're long beyond the point those authors were willing to put up with.
[JustTheNews] The Biden-Harris administration laid out a clean hydrogen roadmap in June 2023, which included $9.5 billion in funding from the 2021 infrastructure law. Critics say it's another example of taxpayer dollars wasted on the administration's failed climate agenda.
So much for the Green New Deal.
Proponents of a transition away from fossil fuels have pinned their hopes on green hydrogen to address the challenge of “clean” energy for industry, but critics have long argued the staggering costs would make the plan go up in smoke. With projects here in the U.S. and across the globe failing, and research confirming the costs are too high, critics’ predictions are turning out to be true.
“You tell people it can’t work. You write about it. And then two years later, it fails. And then people act surprised,” energy analyst David Blackmon, who publishes his work on his “Energy Absurdities” Substack, told Just the News.
The Biden-Harris administration laid out a clean hydrogen roadmap in June 2023, which included $9.5 billion in funding from the 2021 infrastructure law. “Given its potential to help address the climate crisis, enhance energy security and resilience, and create economic value, interest in producing and using clean hydrogen is intensifying both in the United States and abroad,” the roadmap declared.
"GREEN HYDROGEN"
While wind and solar can at certain times produce electricity, that’s only about 20% of the energy people consume. Industry and transportation make up the rest. Using wind and solar to power heavy industries — such as steel, ammonia and concrete — is a challenge. The energy demand is enormous. Steel production, for example, requires temperatures in excess of 2,900 degrees Fahrenheit.
Proponents of net zero hoped to address the challenge with hydrogen-based technologies. Hydrogen can be produced in a number of ways, but it’s not an energy source. It’s an energy carrier, meaning you have to use energy to make the product, which can then be converted back into energy. And you lose about 50% to 80% of the energy used in the process.
Almost all hydrogen production today comes from processes using natural gas. "Green hydrogen," however, splits water into hydrogen and oxygen using a process called electrolysis powered by electricity that’s most often produced with wind and solar.
Water use is one of the big challenges of green hydrogen. On his Substack, energy expert Robert Bryce reported on a project in Texas that plans to suck 433,000 gallons of water per day — enough to fill more than four Olympic-size swimming pools each week — from an aquifer. A local group is fighting to stop it.
In “Green Breakdown,” energy researcher Steve Goreham explains there are other challenges. The gas degrades metal through a process called hydrogen embrittlement, which means transporting the gas by pipeline risks explosions.
The other problem is the amount of electricity that would be needed. Citing figures from the International Energy Agency, Goreham estimates that producing all the requisite primary chemicals would require between 12,000 and 17,500 terawatt hours of renewable electricity. This is between three and more than four times the total amount of electricity produced in 2023 by all wind and solar farms across the globe.
Even if that much wind and solar could be used to produce enough hydrogen to replace fossil fuels in industry, the cost would be prohibitive, according to a Harvard study published in Joule last week.
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Forget that the thermodynamics and chemistry of splitting water to H2 and O consumes more energy than it produces and focus on how the process makes you feel about yourself.
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Carter Lake and others here us hyro electric process to make electricy then use electric pumps to pump water back into the lake and begin the process over.
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Thirty years ago, Scientific American investigated the hydrogen energy 'source' and concluded the only way it was practicable was if you use cheap nuclear power to make it.
I guess the clowns in DC now were too young to read then.
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10/21/2024 8:25 Comments ||
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^ They can read?
Posted by: Frank G ||
10/21/2024 8:28 Comments ||
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The real life version of hydrogen production cracks methane (CH4), trapping the resultant H2, leaving whole lotta carbon to be dealt with. Also, they burn a bunch of methane to power the whole thing.
Don't let them tell you hydrogen tech is clean.
It's just dirty somewhere else.
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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.
[Washington Examiner] The Biden-Harris administration announced on Monday sweeping changes to Obamacare rules to require the coverage of over-the-counter contraceptives, an effort billed as part of a broader effort to back abortion rights, which have been a central focus of Democrats in the 2024 election cycle. .jpg)
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