Volume 1684
Did you know……
- According to VOA News, U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday called on Congress to intervene to avert a potential rail strike that could occur as early as December 9, warning of a catastrophic economic impact if railroad service ground to a halt.
- Epoch reports that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted new rules on Nov. 25 that will prohibit the import or sale of Chinese communications equipment deemed to pose an unacceptable risk to national security. The new rules will bar equipment from Chinese telecom firms Huawei and ZTE from being imported into or sold in the United States, will also prohibit telecommunications equipment and video surveillance equipment produced by Hytera, Hikvision, and Dahua, as well as the companies’ subsidiaries or affiliates the company’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party mean that its products could be used to spy on Americans or interfere with the free flow of data worldwide.
- According to Epoch, almost 1 million acres off the coast of Alaska will be auctioned off by the Biden administration next month for oil and gas drilling. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will auction 958,202 acres off Alaska’s south-central coast in a lease sale scheduled for Dec. 30. The Department of the Interior has estimated that the area could produce nearly 200 million barrels of crude oil and 300 billion cubic feet of natural gas over the duration of the lease agreements.
- Epoch reports that, on Oct. 19, credit union Vancity announced that it will be “the first financial institution in Canada to offer its individual and business members a way to estimate the CO2 emissions that come from their purchases.” Vancity said its carbon counter is attached to Visa credit cards.
- According to Epoch, over 50 cleantech firms have outlined an ambitious five-year plan that they claim can cut emissions in Australia by 81 percent by 2030—a more ambitious target than the one set by the current Labor government. Global brands like Toshiba, Vestas, and Schneider Electric backed a new report from the Beyond Zero Emissions think tank claiming this target can be achieved with the accelerated rollout of six existing technologies: solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, electric vehicles, heat pumps, and electrolysers.
- Epoch reports that rare mass protests have broken out across China against COVID-19 lockdowns, ongoing for three to four months, following the horrific deaths of at least 10 people in Xinjiang’s capital city of Urumqi in north-western China. First responders were unable to reach an apartment fire that was left to burn for hours due to COVID-19 blockades and locks throughout the residential compound.
- Klaus Schwab, head of the World Economic Forum, recently spoke on Chinese state media where he proclaimed that the Chinese regime is a role model in the “systematic transformation of the world.” Meanwhile, massive protests are sweeping across China against the ruling communist regime’s “zero-COVID” policy. This happens as the regime is finishing construction of a massive detention camp allegedly to house people infected with COVID-19.
- Former Lieutenant Colonel Bradley Miller retired a few months before completing 20 years of service in the U.S. Army. He was relieved of command in October 2021 because he refused to take the COVID shot, after which he formally resigned, choosing to give up his material benefits to preserve his integrity intact, and his oath to the Constitution unbroken.
- According to The Edmonton Journal, following a weekend snowfall, Edmonton police reported nearly three dozen vehicle collisions over a 24-hour period. There were 34 collisions from 8 a.m. Sunday to 8 a.m. Monday, which include 22 hit and runs, 11 property damage collisions and one that led to injury.
- According to The New York Post, President Biden asked Congress to intervene and pass legislation immediately to adopt the tentative agreement between railroad workers and operators to prevent a potential rail strike that threatens an economic nightmare before Christmas. As many as 765,000 Americans could be put out of work in the first two weeks of a rail strike, and also parts of the country could lose access to chemicals that clean drinking water and feed for livestock. A nationwide stoppage could cost the US economy more than $2 billion in lost output per day.
- LifeSiteNews.com reports that the province of Alberta has banned mask mandates and school closures in province’s education system.
- According to LifeSiteNews, a recent investigative report revealed that hundreds of former military intelligence agents from “the notorious Israeli spying organization”, Unit 8200, have acquired positions of influence in several big tech corporations, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon. According to professional profiles on LinkedIn, the outlet reported that Google currently employs, at a minimum, 99 former Unit 8200 agents and Microsoft retains the services of 166 such veterans.
- VOA News reports that an expert has predicted a shortfall of 66 million tons of food staples such as wheat, corn and rice due to shortage and unaffordability of fertilizer.
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