China Ramps Up Tyranny as U.S. Follows Suit
A Chinese “on the spot” execution of a political dissident. December 23, 2020 By David Codrea
“Disturbing video out of Hong Kong shows family members of ‘political prisoners’ saying hysterical goodbyes after China rounded them up onto buses headed for reeducation camps in the mainland,” NewsWars reports. “The heartbreaking footage shows a group of desperate Hong Kongers banging on the barred windows of the buses as it drives away to the Chinese mainland.”
“Heartbreaking” is one word for it. Others also come to mind, including philosopher George Santayana’s warning that “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
December 23, 2020
More on the recent Princeton study looking at pathways to zero carbon by mid-century.
Now a mountainous body of scholarship and real life experience indicating we can do this, but time is short.
If the United States wants to get serious about tackling climate change, the country will need to build a staggering amount of new energy infrastructure in just the next 10 years, laying down steel and concrete at a pace barely being contemplated today.
That’s one conclusion from a major study released Tuesday by a team of energy experts at Princeton University, who set out several exhaustively detailed scenarios for how the country could slash its greenhouse gas emissions down to zero by 2050. That goal has been endorsed by President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., as well as numerous states and businesses, to help avoid the worst effects of global warming.
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Trump Demands Changes to Coronavirus Relief Bill, Calling It a ‘Disgrace’ Source: By Luke Broadwater and Alan Rappeport, New York Times • Posted: Wednesday, December 23, 2020
The president sought bigger checks for Americans and a bill that dealt more specifically with pandemic relief.
WASHINGTON President Trump on Tuesday evening threatened to derail months of bipartisan work in Congress to deliver $900 billion in coronavirus relief to a country battered by the pandemic, demanding checks to Americans that are more than three times as much as those in the bill, which he called a “disgrace.”
The president, who has been preoccupied with the baseless claim that the election was stolen from him, seized on congressional leaders’ decision to pass the relief bill by combining it with a broader spending plan to fund government operations and the military. That spending plan includes routine provisions like foreign aid a
arrow Audrey Strauss at a July 2020 press conference about Ghislaine Maxwell s arrest John Minchillo/AP/Shutterstock
After stepping into the role in an acting basis after her boss was pushed out, Audrey Strauss was formally named the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday.
The NY Times notes, [T]he judges of the Federal District Court in Manhattan, exercising a rarely used power, formally appointed her to the post, extending her tenure as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. While the court gave no reasons, the move clearly seemed intended to keep Ms. Strauss, 73, in her job until President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. takes office and can fill the post with his own candidate.