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Today Putin wants Biden, must be the money hey!!!
How about Mr. George Stephanopoulos interviewing Nancy Mace. Asking her about her rape??? What is wrong with this man? Would any of you approach a woman even in private and ask them about their rape? Honestly on national T.V. this man is a Scum Bag bar none. He should be banned from opening his mouth any longer here. What an embarrassment he is taking a political stand over someone's personal life issues like a rape!!!! Really George that is how you operate here? Way to win the female votes George. Dope. Needs to get duct tape for Christmas or if his birthday comes sooner. Judge should order his mouth closed shut.
Both sides are fighting with U.S. tax dollars so sit back and watch the show as I have for over fifty years. Nothing new here, and this one does not care who wins or loses this piece of sand over there. Stopped listening this crap a few weeks ago too much over fifty years of BS, kind of like this board is.
And here I thought Putin wants Biden as President again because it helps his war machine moving along. Seems odd you would post a gross picture like this here using whatever gross program made this possible. To me it is a gross picture of a dirty canal.
Two things at once can be true as well.
Seems as though not only EV Charging Stations will overload our existing electrical grids now AI is going to add to that load here, good luck getting power for your homes any more folks. What a joke we have folks with zero brains inventing such great stuff that will end up costing those who do not partake in their madness their own power due to having to have these wasteless other junk products operate. Remember folks none of these loads either EV Electrical Charging Stations which are continuous loads and now AI power usage were NEVER ON THE GRID PRIOR. Now they are, look for brown outs and black outs in your areas, so if you wonder what went wrong there you have it dummies running the Country.
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ChatGPT uses 17,000 times the amount of electricity than the average US household does daily: report
Lakshmi Varanasi
ChatGPT is using up a lot more electricity than the average US household.LIONEL BONAVENTURE
• ChatGPT uses more than half a million kilowatt-hours of electricity daily, The New Yorker reported.
• In comparison, the average US household uses just 29 kilowatt-hours.
• Estimating how much electricity the booming AI industry consumes is tough to pin down.
AI is using up a ton of electricity.
OpenAI's buzzy chatbot, ChatGPT, is probably using up more than half a million kilowatt-hours of electricity to respond to some 200 million requests a day, according to The New Yorker.
The publication reported that the average US household uses around 29 kilowatt-hours daily. Dividing the amount of electricity that ChatGPT uses per day by the amount used by the average household shows that ChatGPT uses more than 17 thousand times the amount of electricity.
That's a lot. And if generative AI is further adopted, it could drain significantly more.
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For example, if Google integrated generative AI technology into every search, it would drain about 29 billion kilowatt-hours a year, according to calculations made by Alex de Vries, a data scientist for the Dutch National Bank, in a paper for the sustainable energy journal Joule. That's more electricity than countries like Kenya, Guatemala, and Croatia consume in a year, according to The New Yorker.
"AI is just very energy intensive," de Vries told Business Insider. "Every single of these AI servers can already consume as much power as more than a dozen UK households combined. So the numbers add up really quickly."
Still, estimating how much electricity the booming AI industry consumes is tough to pin down. There's considerable variability in how large AI models operate, and Big Tech companies — which have been driving the boom — haven't been exactly forthcoming about their energy use, according to The Verge.
In his paper, however, de Vries came up with a rough calculation based on numbers put out by Nvidia — which some have dubbed "the Cisco" of the AI boom. According to figures from New Street Research reported by CNBC, the chipmaker has about 95% of the market share for graphics processors.
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De Vries estimated in the paper that by 2027, the entire AI sector will consume between 85 to 134 terawatt-hours (a billion times a kilowatt-hour) annually.
"You're talking about AI electricity consumption potentially being half a percent of global electricity consumption by 2027," de Vries told The Verge. "I think that's a pretty significant number."
Some of the world's most high electricity use businesses pale in comparison. Samsung uses close to 23 terawatt-hours, while tech giants like Google use a little more than 12 terawatt-hours, and Microsoft uses a bit more than 10 terawatt-hours to run data centers, networks, and user devices, according to BI's calculations based on a report from Consumer Energy Solutions.
OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI.
On February 28, Axel Springer, Business Insider's parent company, joined 31 other media groups and filed a $2.3 billion suit against Google in Dutch court, alleging losses suffered due to the company's advertising practices.
Axel Springer, Business Insider's parent company, has a global deal to allow OpenAI to train its models on its media brands' reporting.
GOP wants to cut SS benefits and Medicare on retirees guess they did not earn those benefits during their lifetime of working for nothing now.
https://www.thinkadvisor.com/2024/01/18/house-panel-advances-bill-to-fast-track-social-security-cuts/
The House Budget Committee advanced Thursday by a 22-12 vote H.R. 5779, the Fiscal Commission Act of 2023, legislation that would set up a fiscal commission to address the nation’s national debt and make “fast track” changes to Social Security, according to critics, including possible cuts to the program.
The bill moves to the House floor.
“Republicans are plowing ahead with their closed-door commission designed to cut Social Security and Medicare,” Nancy Altman, president of Social Security Works, said Thursday after the vote. “Many of the Republicans tried to claim that was not their goal, but they tellingly voted down Democratic amendments to rule out cutting those programs and instead require billionaires to pay their fair share.”
The vast majority of Democrats on the committee, Altman continued, “rightfully opposed the commission. Shame on the handful of exceptions,” she said. Reps. Scott Peters and Jimmy Panetta of California, as well as Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., voted for the bill.
The White House “has rightfully referred to the commission as a ‘death panel for Medicare and Social Security,’” Altman said.
Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pa., ranking member on the committee, said during his opening remarks at the markup hearing Thursday that “there are absolutely those who are getting ready to use a commission as a backdoor way to force through unpopular cuts that I completely oppose and will completely oppose.”
Boyle added: “We need, and I will forcefully argue, for us to have the courage to vote to increase the revenues into Social Security and Medicare. And if we do that, we can put both on firm footing [as the Chief Actuaries of the Social Security Administration and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have] verified. We can put both trust funds on the path to full solvency for the rest of this century. We don’t need a commission to do that.”
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Max Richtman, president and CEO, National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, added in another statement that a fiscal commission “is designed to give individual members of Congress political cover for cutting Americans’ earned benefits. Any changes to Social Security and Medicare should go through regular order and not be relegated to a commission unaccountable to the public and rushed through the Congress. This bill should be opposed by any member of Congress who cares about Social Security, Medicare, and their constituents who depend on them.”
The Fiscal Commission Act of 2024 was introduced by Reps. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., and Scott Peters, D-Calif., co-chairs of the Bipartisan Fiscal Forum. It would create a bipartisan fiscal commission “to address the unsustainable rise in the national debt as well as ailing federal trust funds,” according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., and Mitt Romney, R-Utah, have introduced a similar bill, the Fiscal Stability Act. The bills combined have the support of 17 Republicans, 15 Democrats and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz.
Debt Threat
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said Thursday in a statement that a bipartisan fiscal commission “would give the country’s dire fiscal situation the proper attention it deserves. In the last two decades, the national debt has tripled as a share of the economy, and modest surpluses at the start of the millennium have been replaced with $2 trillion annual deficits.”
Said MacGuineas: “We’re headed towards uncharted territory if we don’t do something soon. Interest on the debt is already the fastest-growing part of the budget and more than we spend on children or Medicaid. In three years, we’ll spend more on interest than national defense, and by mid-century, interest will be the largest line item in the entire federal budget.
“Meanwhile, the Social Security, Medicare Hospital Insurance, and Highway trust funds are all headed toward insolvency within a decade. Without changes, the average couple retiring in 2033 will receive a $17,400 cut in their Social Security benefits, regardless of need.”
While establishing a commission “won’t solve these problems,” MacGuineas added, “it will give policymakers the opportunity to at least discuss them seriously, and hopefully identify policy solutions that Congress can then enact into law. Commissions have worked in the past, and a new commission is probably our best current hope for curing our fiscal woes.”
https://www.factcheck.org/2024/03/factchecking-bidens-state-of-the-union/
Summary
In his final State of the Union address prior to the November general election, President Joe Biden focused on Ukraine, the Israel-Hamas war, the economy, reproductive rights, prescription drug costs and border security. Biden also criticized many of the policies of “my predecessor” — without naming former President Donald Trump. But he sometimes stretched the facts or left out important context.
• Biden boasted that under his leadership “wages keep going up.” But over the entirety of Biden’s presidency, wages are down when adjusted for inflation.
• Biden claimed that the more recent U.S. inflation rate of about 3% is the “lowest in the world!” But several nations reported lower rates than the U.S. in December.
• He again claimed to have “cut the federal deficit by over one trillion dollars” — although declining deficits have mostly been the result of expiring emergency pandemic spending.
• Biden said he had created a “record” 15 million new jobs. His 14.8 million new jobs is a record for any president in the first three years, but it’s not the highest job growth rate that any president has achieved in that period of time.
• He suggested that “many” of the new jobs in U.S. semiconductor factories will be “paying $100,000 a year and don’t require a college degree.” But an industry trade group previously reported that only workers with bachelor’s or graduate degrees make that much.
• Biden said that, “My policies have attracted $650 billion in private sector investment in clean energy [and] advanced manufacturing.” Those are announcements about intentions to invest, not actual investments.
• Biden highlighted recent decreases in murder and violent crime rates, but neglected to mention that they are still coming down from their pandemic peak.
• Biden omitted context of a Trump comment following an Iowa school shooting.
• The president said billionaires pay an average federal tax rate of only 8.2%, but that’s a White House calculation that includes earnings on unsold stock as income.
• Biden said that because of the Affordable Care Act, over 100 million people can no longer be denied health insurance due to preexisting conditions. But pre-ACA, employer plans covered many of those people and couldn’t deny policies.
• Biden said he was “cutting our carbon emissions in half by 2030.” That’s the U.S. goal, relative to 2005 emissions, but studies suggest current policies will not reduce emissions by that much.
Biden spoke to Congress on March 7.
Analysis
Wages
Biden boasted that “wages keep going up, inflation keeps coming down.” But over the entirety of Biden’s presidency, wages are down when adjusted for inflation.
Average weekly earnings for rank-and-file workers went up 14.8% during Biden’s first three years in office, according to monthly figures compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But inflation ate up all that gain and more. “Real” weekly earnings, which are adjusted for inflation and measured in dollars valued at their average level in 1982-84, actually declined 3.1% since Biden took office.
The inflation-adjusted average weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory workers — who make up 81% of all employees in the private sector — and the inflation-adjusted average hourly earnings of all employees have both been on the rise for the last year and a half, with real weekly earnings rising 1.5% since hitting the low point under Biden in June 2022.
Inflation has also moderated greatly since hitting a peak increase of 9% for the 12 months ending in June 2022, the biggest such increase in over 40 years. The unadjusted Consumer Price Index rose 3.1% in the 12 months ending in January, the most recent figure available, and as Biden said, it has been trending down.
But looking at the entire three years of Biden’s presidency so far, the Consumer Price Index has risen a total of 18%.
Inflation
Biden claimed that inflation in the U.S. “has dropped from 9% to 3% – the lowest in the world!”
The year-over-year inflation rate was 3.1% in January, down from 9% in June 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But that’s still higher than the 1.4% rate when Biden took office.
Furthermore, the current U.S. inflation rate is not the lowest of any country.
President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address during a joint meeting of Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol on March 7 in Washington, D.C. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.
December data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development show that Italy — a member of the G7, a group of seven of the world’s most advanced economies — had a lower year-over-year inflation rate than the U.S. While the U.S. inflation rate was 3.3% for the 12 months ending that month, Italy’s was 0.6%.
Other countries with “advanced economies,” as defined by the International Monetary Fund, and millions of residents, including Denmark (0.7%), Lithuania (1.2%), Belgium (1.4%) and South Korea (3.2%), also had lower inflation rates than the U.S., as of December.
Even by the White House’s own calculations, which adjust for differences in how countries calculate inflation, Biden’s claim was inexact.
In a Jan. 11 post on the social media platform called X, the White House Council of Economic Advisers wrote that, as of November, the latest month with complete G7 data, “both core & headline U.S. inflation were among the lowest in the G7” — not the lowest.
That’s because Italy had a lower headline inflation rate than the U.S., according to the CEA’s post. Supporting documentation provided by the White House shows that Italy’s rate was 0.5% and the U.S. rate was almost 2.5%.
Headline inflation – unlike core inflation – factors in food and energy prices.
Deficits
Biden continues to misleadingly claim, as he did during his address, that’s he’s “already cut the federal deficit by over $1 trillion dollars.”
Budget deficits have declined from the record spending gap of $3.1 trillion in fiscal year 2020, the last full fiscal cycle before Biden took office. In FY 2021, the deficit was about $2.8 trillion; in FY 2022, it was almost $1.4 trillion; and in FY 2023, which ended Sept. 30, it was roughly $1.7 trillion.
But as we’ve explained several times, the primary reason that deficits went down by about $350 billion in Biden’s first year, and by another $1.3 trillion in his second, is because of emergency COVID-19 funding that expired in those years.
Budget experts said that if not for more pandemic and infrastructure spending championed by Biden, deficits would have been even lower than they were in fiscal 2021 and 2022.
As of February, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projected that under current law, the deficit would fall to $1.6 trillion in fiscal 2024, rise to $1.8 trillion in fiscal 2025, then return to $1.6 trillion in fiscal 2027. “Thereafter, deficits steadily mount, reaching $2.6 trillion in 2034,” the CBO said.
‘Record’ Jobs
As he has done in recent speeches, Biden boasted that he has created a “record” 15 million new jobs in his first three years in office. He frequently adds on the campaign trail that that’s more than any president had created in three years or in the first four-year term.
“Fifteen million new jobs in just three years – a record, a record!” he said on Thursday night, right after saying “our economy is literally the envy of the world.”
He’s right on the new jobs — to a point.
Since Biden took office, the U.S. economy added 14.8 million jobs (not quite 15 million) — which is a record number of jobs, at least since 1939, for any president in his first three or four years in office, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data that go back to January 1939.
But Biden isn’t accounting for population and job growth. Other presidents have seen a greater percentage increase.
The 14.8 million additional jobs under Biden represent a growth rate of 10.3%, as measured from January 2021, when Biden took office, through January 2024, the latest month for which data are available from the BLS. While impressive, the 10.3% growth rate isn’t as high as under some past presidents when there were fewer jobs.
In President Jimmy Carter’s only four years in office, from January 1977 to January 1981, the U.S. added 10.3 million jobs. That’s an increase of 12.8%. In Carter’s first three years, the U.S. added 10.1 million jobs, or 12.5%.
In President Lyndon Johnson’s only full term in office, from January 1965 to January 1969, the U.S. economy added 9.9 million jobs — a 16.5% job growth. In the first three years of that term, from January 1965 to January 1968, the U.S. added 7.2 million jobs, which was an increase of 12.1%.
In President Bill Clinton’s first term, from January 1993 through January 1997, the U.S. added 11.6 million jobs, an increase of 10.5%. That’s a slightly higher rate of job growth than in Biden’s first three years. But in Clinton’s first three years, the number of jobs increased by 7.8%, which is smaller.
However, the U.S. added a total of 22.9 million jobs in Clinton’s two terms, an increase of 20.9%, from 109.8 million jobs in January 1993 to 132.7 million in January 2001. It remains to be seen if job growth continues at such a pace under Biden in a second term, if he wins reelection.
Semiconductor Jobs
On multiple occasions, Biden has left the misleading impression that new jobs in U.S. semiconductor factories would pay above $100,000 annually for those without a college degree.
During his speech, he said: “Private companies are now investing billions of dollars to build new chip factories here in America, creating tens of thousands of jobs. Many of those jobs paying $100,000 a year and don’t require a college degree.”
In a 2021 report, the Semiconductor Industry Association, a trade group, and Oxford Economics found that 277,000 people worked in the industry with an average salary of $170,000 in 2020. While the report said industry workers “consistently earn more than the U.S. average at all education attainment levels,” it noted that “average wages vary based on educational attainment.”
But only those with a bachelor’s degree ($120,000) or a graduate degree (over $160,000) had wages that topped six figures. Workers with a high school education or less could expect to earn a little more than $40,000. Those with at least some college experience could make $60,000, while earning an associate’s degree could increase that to $70,000.
According to the report, only 20% of semiconductor workers at the time had not attended college. Conversely, 56% of workers had a bachelor’s or graduate degree.
Clean Energy/Advanced Manufacturing Jobs
Biden boasted that, “My policies have attracted $650 billion in private sector investment in clean energy, advanced manufacturing, creating tens of thousands of jobs here in America.” But those are announcements about intentions to invest, not actual investments.
The policies Biden is referring to are mainly the CHIPS Act, which includes $39 billion to fund manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and $11 billion for semiconductor research and development, the Inflation Reduction Act, which includes an estimated $369 billion to combat climate change while also investing in “energy security,” the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, and the bipartisan infrastructure law, which included $550 billion in new infrastructure spending.
The claim about the amount of private sector investment in clean energy and manufacturing that those policies have created is based on a White House tabulation of public announcements about investments, or as a White House press release puts it, “commitments to invest.”
“These are announced plans for investments,” Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the center-right American Action Forum, told us in a phone interview. “They may take years to happen, or they may not happen at all.”
“He makes it seem like the investments have happened already or that they are happening this year, and they are not,” Holtz-Eakin said. “They may not come to fruition. Market conditions change.”
And, he said, while $650 billion sounds like a lot of investment, with gross capital stock in the U.S. over $69 trillion, even if that amount were invested this year, “it wouldn’t exactly transform the economy.”
Crime
Biden highlighted the continued drop in murder and violent crime rates since he took office, but he left out some important context.
“Last year the murder rate showed the sharpest decrease in history,” Biden said. “Violent crime fell to one of its the lowest levels in more than 50 years.”
It’s true that there has been a sharp decline in murder and homicide rates recently.
The number of homicides was 10% lower in 2023 than in 2022, according to a January report from the Council on Criminal Justice, which gathered data from 32 participating cities.
And, as we’ve written before, a November report from the Major Cities Chiefs Association showed a 10.7% decline in the number of murders from Jan. 1 to Sept. 30, 2023, compared with the same time period in 2022, in 69 large U.S. cities.
Similarly, violent crime has also gone down, according to the most recent data released by the FBI, and the Council on Criminal Justice report found that there were “3% fewer reported aggravated assaults in 2023 than in 2022 and 7% fewer gun assaults in 11 reporting cities. Reported carjacking incidents fell by 5% in 10 reporting cities but robberies and domestic violence incidents each rose 2%.”
But in both cases, the homicide and violent crime rates are higher than they were in 2019 — the year before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out.
While it’s unclear exactly why, there was a sharp increase in homicide and violent crime during the pandemic that may have been broadly due to the wide availability of guns and the insecurity brought on by the pandemic, according to an analysis from the Brennan Center for Justice.
While Biden was correct in pointing out a recent decrease in murder and violent crime, he didn’t account for the preceding increase during the pandemic.
Trump’s ‘Get Over It’ Comment
While speaking about the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and other gun violence, Biden said, “Meanwhile, my predecessor told the NRA he’s proud he did nothing on guns when he was president. After another school shooting in Iowa recently, he said — when asked what to do about it — he said, ‘Just get over it.’”
But Biden omitted much of what Trump said after the Jan. 4 shooting at Perry High School in Iowa, where a 17-year-old student killed a sixth-grader and injured four other students and the principal.
The following day, at a campaign rally in Sioux Center, Iowa, Trump offered his “support and deepest sympathies” to the victims of the school shooting. “We’re really with you as much as anybody can be. It’s a very terrible thing that happened. It’s just terrible to see that happening,” Trump said. “That’s just horrible. It’s so surprising to see it here.”
He added, “But we have to get over it. We have to move forward. But to the relatives, and to all of the people who are devastated right now, to the point they can’t breathe, they can’t live, we are with you all the way.”
Taxes Paid by Billionaires
As he has said many times before, Biden claimed that billionaires pay an average federal tax rate of 8.2%, less than the rate paid by “a teacher, a sanitation worker, or a nurse.” But that’s not the average rate in the current tax system; it’s a White House calculation that factors in earnings on unsold stock as income.
When looking only at income, the top-earning taxpayers, on average, pay higher tax rates than those in the income groups below them, as we’ve explained. Biden’s point — which he doesn’t make clear — is that the current tax system does not tax earnings on assets, such as stock, until that asset is sold, at which point they are subject to capital gains taxes. Until stocks and assets are sold, any earnings are referred to as “unrealized” gains.
The president has used the 8% figure to argue that wealthy households, those worth over $100 million, should pay a 25% minimum tax, as calculated on both standard income and unrealized investment income combined.
The problem with the current system, the White House has said, is that unrealized gains could go untaxed forever if wealthy people hold on to them and pass them on to heirs when they die.
Under what’s called stepped-up basis, the value of an asset is adjusted to the fair market value at the time of the inheritance. This wipes out any taxes on the unrealized gains that accumulated from the time the investor bought the asset and the time it was inherited.
When we wrote about this last year, Erica York, a senior economist and research manager at the Tax Foundation, explained that wealthy households can also borrow money against the assets they own “to consume their wealth without paying tax.” After the family member passes away, the assets can go to heirs, who won’t have to pay taxes on the unrealized gains. York referred to the strategy as “buy, borrow, die.”
Biden’s brief talking point leaves the misleading impression that billionaires are only paying 8% on average in federal taxes under the current tax system.
Preexisting Conditions
Biden said that because of the Affordable Care Act, “over 100 million of you can no longer be denied health insurance because of preexisting conditions,” claiming that Trump wants to repeal the ACA and take away this protection.
The 100 million figure is an estimate of how many Americans not on Medicare or Medicaid have preexisting conditions. But if the ACA were eliminated, only those buying their own plans on the individual, or nongroup, market would immediately be at risk of being denied insurance.
The ACA instituted sweeping protections for those with preexisting conditions, prohibiting insurers in all markets from denying coverage or charging more based on health status. Those protections were most important for the individual market. Even before the ACA, employer plans couldn’t deny issuing a policy — and could only decline coverage for some preexisting conditions for a limited period if a new employee had a lapse in coverage.
We last wrote about this issue in December, when Biden said “over 100 million people” had protections for their preexisting conditions “only” because of the ACA, a figure he also used during the 2020 campaign.
Again, those with employer plans did have protections before the ACA. The law’s broad protections would benefit people who lost their jobs or retired early and found themselves seeking insurance on the individual market. As of 2022, 20 million people, or about 6.3% of the U.S. population, got coverage on the individual market.
As for Trump, he has said he wants to get rid of the law, posting on social media in November that Republicans “should never give up” on terminating the ACA. Trump said he was “seriously looking at alternatives,” but he hasn’t provided a plan. And he never released one while he was president, either.
Given what Trump has backed in the past, he may well support a plan that wouldn’t be as comprehensive as the ACA and would lead to an increase in the uninsured and fewer protections for those with health conditions. But Biden makes the assumption Trump wouldn’t replace the ACA with anything at all.
Carbon Emissions
In one of his few, short references to climate change in the speech, Biden said, “I’m cutting our carbon emissions in half by 2030.”
Biden is likely referring to the emissions target for heat-trapping greenhouse gases his administration set for the U.S. in April 2021 as part of rejoining the Paris Agreement, the international accord that ideally aims to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels — and from which Trump had officially withdrawn the country in 2019. The goal under Biden is to reduce American emissions by 50% to 52% from 2005 levels by 2030.
The Biden administration has made substantial progress in meeting the goal, most notably with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, Biden’s signature climate legislation that includes investments in clean energy. But as we’ve written, when the president has previously claimed the U.S. is “on track” to achieve its Paris goal, estimates suggest existing policies will not quite get the country all the way there.
“Based on Congressional action and currently finalized regulations, we are not on track to meet 50-52% below 2005 by 2030,” Jesse Jenkins, who leads the Princeton Zero carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, told us in an email last April. Jenkins said then it was possible “the gap could be closed” once certain rules are finalized and others are proposed. The Biden administration, however, has recently announced or is reportedly planning changes that some say would weaken rules related to vehicle and gas power plant emissions.
In a January update, the research firm Rhodium Group estimated that under current policy, the U.S. will cut emissions 29% to 42% below 2005 levels in 2030.
A recent analysis by Carbon Brief, a U.K.-based climate-focused website, similarly projected that if Biden were reelected, the U.S. would get to a 43% reduction. That’s much higher than a second term for Trump — who, assuming he would undo Biden’s policies, would cut emissions by just 28% — but also still not to the full halfway mark.
$460 billion they should be proud here right? Where is the billions they saved to help offset this spending on those useless programs from the past that have become useless and a waste of our tax dollars? Now that takes actual work snd thought neither of which folks have the guts or brains to do in D.C. means “Deficit Cash”. What me work now that’s funny they don’t pay me to work I am here to waste tax payer monies.
Just information please use your own judgement whether it’s A.I. or real because I do not know. It was on the WWW. So anyone’s guess.
So sorry the date I incorrectly listed in my post should have been 2023, thank you for the correction here, my bad.
How many of you know about this little tidbit of news been going on since last November 2024.
Microsoft says Russian hackers stole source code after spying on its executives - The Verge
Russian spies keep hacking into Microsoft in ‘ongoing attack,’ company says | TechCrunch
On Friday, Microsoft said Russian government hackers continue to break into its systems using information obtained during a hack last year. This time, the Russian hackers dubbed Midnight Blizzard have targeted Microsoft’s source code and other internal systems, the company said.
“In recent weeks, we have seen evidence that Midnight Blizzard is using information initially exfiltrated from our corporate email systems to gain, or attempt to gain, unauthorized access. This has included access to some of the company’s source code repositories and internal systems,” Microsoft wrote in a blog post.
Microsoft also disclosed these new findings in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday.
This new intrusion comes after Microsoft revealed in January that Russian government hackers had broken into the company’s systems last November.
At the time, the Russian hackers broke into corporate email accounts of “senior leadership team and employees in our cybersecurity, legal, and other functions.” The goal of the operation, according to Microsoft, was to figure out what information Microsoft has on them.
The tech giant said in its latest blog post on Friday that Midnight Blizzard “is attempting to use secrets of different types it has found.”
The hacking group, also known as APT29 or Cozy Bear, found some of that secret information in emails shared between Microsoft and its customers. And the hackers have increased their attempts to brute force accounts — also known as “password spraying” — tenfold since its initial attacks, according to Microsoft.
The hackers’ activities show “a sustained, significant commitment” of their “resources, coordination, and focus,” according to the company.
“[Midnight Blizzard] may be using the information it has obtained to accumulate a picture of areas to attack and enhance its ability to do so,” Microsoft wrote.
Midnight Blizzard is believed to be a hacking group working for Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, known by its Russian initials, SVR. The spies have been one of the most prolific government-backed hacking groups in the last few years, compromising high-profile targets, such as the Democratic National Committee in 2016, SolarWinds in 2019 and many more.
Fani Willis and Nathan Wade still can learn something everyday of their life. They think they knew it all, they did not. No one going to come into Atlanta and tells us how to operate!!!! Well if you would put your noses down instead of up in the air you would realize there are things you all can learn every day in America. Like why is this a big deal just get two more Attorney's to take on the case here geez. This is not a competition between you and Letticia James in NYC. You lose Fani face it, Mr. Wade you lose, get over yourselves and move on. But no elitists do not realize when they are wrong and do wrong. So it goes total disgrace in Georgia. What foolish people these are. Like I said they are just like Trump in a lot of ways.
True enough and those two are pretty stable folks with common sense points of view as well which were sound then and now. They are also two that were not in the spotlight type of folks here like the orange man was and is. Always about him. They were not of that type character. Hopefully the Court will take all of these things into their consideration.
But if we change the names here and state simply that any President during this period of time if they believed fully that the United States was in some sort of danger and they ordered something to occur thinking they were doing the right thing but 50% or more of Americans were against it and it ends up was the wrong decision, does that mean that the President should have immunity to that regards, whatever the circumstances, if in their mind it was the right thing to do at that time? That is the question to me.
All good points here I agree. His followers had a willingness to be swayed and he really took advantage of that position. I would agree with that. We shall see where it goes as far as the immunity with SCOTUS I see a 5-4 vote here in favor of a President having immunity. But criminal behavior will not be condoned by the Court. Now they just need to determine if it was the person themselves believed in their position of the election being stolen in their mind, does that mean the President at that time is subject to such immunity. I am not sure where they will go with that. Its a tough decision to make here. I rather look at things as an American versus a Party association and that is how the Court should function as well. And for me I am not sure of this immunity for the President at the time. Tough one but I am sure they will handle it properly. Thanks.
WEBSTERS 1868 DICTIONARY MEANINGS OF BOTH WORDS. TO ME WHAT OCCURRED WAS SEDTION ON JANUARY 6. NOT INSURRECTION. JUST MY TWO CENTS IN VIEWING THE ACTUAL MEANINGS OF THESE WORDS, WHICH MATTER BY THE WAY. FOR THOSE HERE I DID NOT CHECK THE ELITIST LIBERAL DICTIONARY MEANINGS OF THESE WORDS FOR CLARITY HERE. Courts in those Select States cannot do what they have done here it very simple. Leave it up to Congress and we all know how quickly Congress works their magic, YEARS of doing nothing................... but spending our money here.
Insurrection
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INSURREC'TION, noun [Latin insurgo; in and surgo, to rise.]
1. A rising against civil or political authority; the open and active opposition of a number of persons to the execution of a law in a city or state. It is equivalent to sedition, except that sedition expresses a less extensive rising of citizens. It differs from rebellion, for the latter expresses a revolt, or an attempt to overthrow the government, to establish a different one or to place the country under another jurisdiction. It differs from mutiny, as it respects the civil or political government; whereas a mutiny is an open opposition to law in the army or navy. insurrection is however used with such latitude as to comprehend either sedition or rebellion.
It is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein. Ezra 4:19.
2. A rising in mass to oppose an enemy. [Little Used.]
Sedition
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SEDI'TION, noun. [Latin seditio. The sense of this word is the contrary of that which is naturally deducible from sedo, or sedeo, denoting a rising or raging, rather than an appeasing. But to set is really to throw down, to drive, and sedition may be a setting or rushing together.] A factious commotion of the people, a tumultuous assembly of men rising in opposition to law or the administration of justice, and in disturbance of the public peace. sedition is a rising or commotion of less extent than an insurrection, and both are less than rebellion; but some kinds of sedition in Great Britain, amount to high treason. In general, sedition is a local or limited insurrection in opposition to civil authority, as mutiny is to military.
Illinois even went as far as anyone who voted for this fool those votes would be suppressed. I thought Liberal's were against oppression?
Seems at odds with their mouths. And they claim Orange Man has said he will punish his detractors here if elected... hmm what do you think the Liberals are doing to him now? Same thing but its ok because he is a criminal right folks. Geez even Ivanka is staying away from this guy tells you most of what you need to know. His son's are the biggest ass kissers I have ever seen in public. This also tells one all you need to know here. RFK is going to the White House next.
GLTA here figuring out what to do at our border, close it or open it all the way for everyone to come in free with no documentation, oh wait they are doing that now.
Geez who would have ever thought that elitist Liberals cannot remove candidates for President from their ballots. Ah.... American laws just seem to always get in the way of progress. Except at the border those laws can be broken every day under Mr. Biden free ride Joey. So now I can vote for RFK in Colorado, thanks Liberal fools.
I dismiss no one here there’s is no blanket coverage here with me. That’s your territory. Go fix it then buddy!!
Tell you what Mr. Scholar prove they are!!!
As are many other cities unvaccinated illegal aliens abound by over 7 million in our Country now. Thank you Mr. Biden. Oh sorry that was a Liberal secret wasn’t it, so sorry Liberal ostriches.
The source of your supposed news comes from known morons in our world. I suggest finding another source here. Also Republican’s as Democrats to throw a blanket over them all as you do are not Doctors. And the fool you mention herein this stupid article snd that’s being nice graduated from the most Liberal amongst what they call higher education in our world today. So this guy has zero clue what he speaks about here snd does not speak for these parties as you have blanketed them all here assumedly so. Dumb is as dumb reads from such rag sheet news.
Marble mouthed Mitch is showing Biden the breadcrumbs to get out of his office before they both keel over dead.
One person a Democrat needless to say and a Judge who does not believe in Democracy in America in allowing the peoples votes to be counted here. I think he needs to find a job in Communist Red China or Communist Russia where these actions usually occur. Or they kill their opponents in those Countries. Oh well thousands of voters in Illinois now can sit home and watch the preprogrammed results on election night. Thanks Judge, appreciate you standing up for the People of your State. If you can’t beat them you remove them like woke foolishness does to business’s making them feel guilty about nothing. Just make it up as we go along and everything will be just fine. Just so you all know this is not a Party thing it is an American thing here no matter who is removed off of ballots. It is un-American and there you have where this Judge in coming from. No trial just remove him from the ballot. Nice.
Judge Orders Trump Removed From Illinois Primary Ballot - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Illinois judge removes Trump from ballot because of ‘insurrectionist ban’ | CNN Politics
Lock step just like the Nazi’s did. All fall into line here without a trial or conviction I am the decider of who gets on the Illinois ballot. Remind me to start action to remove Illinois as a State in our United States of America, why not one Judge is speaking for thousands of citizens here without a care about them. Hence let’s secede Illinois, Colorado, Maine and other dumb States who do not realize they are actually within the confines of the Unites States of America and remind them of this being a Country of laws not dictatorships as their rulings suggest here.
Guess I am now voting for RFK here. No worries, or Uncommitted perhaps. Maybe a potted plant.
He is going there now to reinstate finishing the wall and to put back Trumps decisions when he was in office, and Biden is accompanied to Texas by Stormy Daniels.
Ah the AOC card hey now there’s a great bastion of do as I say not as I do in action. How’s those jobs from Amazon doing in your district there AOC? Oh that’s right you did not want folks you dupport to earn money.
Thank you remind me to never hire this dope for my attorney if he had no knowledge until 2024 to apply for foreign agent status. But hey dumb lawyers abound among us too like some posters. Great he was in the business of being a lawyer. How many cases did he try in Court? Or was he always defending himself?
My Daddy is not the Vice-President or the President where I could get away with said crimes. Like he did. No one cares what I legally earn as wages in my life just the IRS which need to be abolished but that’s another story. He was the son of our feeble President. That makes it everyone’s business fool.
Ok wise one what business was Hunter in? Selling what? Buying what? Building what? Tell me oh great one what was his business? Should be simple enough? What is his corporate tax ID? Or LLC I’d? What state did he form his business in? These are very easy questions and common to ask. Republicans are so dumb they just assume he was licensed to do business in the first place!!! He was not! What was his business?
Ok wise one what business was Hunter in? Selling what? Buying what? Building what? Tell me oh great one what was his business? Should be simple enough? What is his corporate tax ID? Or LLC I’d? What state did he form his business in? These are very easy questions and common to ask. Republicans are so dumb they just assume he was licensed to do business in the first place!!! He was not! What was his business?
This tells me oh I need an actual license to do business overseas ok let’s do it now that I am done with it yeah that’s legal right? By the way this just registered him as a Foreign Agent not in any legal business yet to find he is named on any legal business in the U.S. or anywhere, yet he was in business you know folks, just have to believe he did it only unlike all other legitimate business’s do it, he does it after the fact as in this instance. So this is how smart this cookie is, NOT.
Law firm registers as foreign agent for Hunter Biden-linked company 8 years later - POLITICO
And this gem here, I did not involve my father in my Business. Well dear Hunter what business is it that you are in? Are you the owner, are you licensed to do business as what? What do you sell or make or buy? A business usually has to submit a business plan to get approval and a name to be in any legal business in the United States so what business are you in exactly? These are easy questions for any CEO of any business in the United States, legal business’s that is.
Hunter Biden: I did not involve my father in my business (telegraph.co.uk)
Maybe he is a part of a group I hate in the United States, Lobbyists. Oh well its perfect for a criminal to want to be a Lobbyist, free money and all take it in give it to our politicians on both sides of the aisle this way you have friends and parties no matter where you show up.
Hunter Biden founded a lobbying firm banking on his father’s power - Washington Examiner
There is a news story I have yet to find that actually has a member or Owner of CEFC of Commie Red China set up a fentanyl shop in Mexico to make the pills from the drug they would send to them and then ship them into the USA. Killing thousands of children and adults in America. That would be a good story to find now wouldn’t it. Not sure it exists on the internet as the only news on here is what we can all see and read, not the real stuff.
U.S. and China to hold high-level talks aimed at curbing the fentanyl crisis (nbcnews.com)
I wonder why some many Commie Red Chinese have flown via Turkey to get to Tiajuana Mexico to walk across the San Diego border here in the U.S.? So does this mean no Country has passport controls for these loose people just running about from Country to Country?
Again news one finds on the internet is totally suspect prior to and especially now with A.I. now writing stories we can all enjoy like the one below.
Just type into your search engine A.I. creating nude pictures of teenagers. You will see these folks working in A.I. all have good intentions like you all told me before, do not worry only good people work in the A.I. business’s.
Google now under the gun with their Gemini program whereas a person involved is a white racist hater and created images to represent false images of Historic nature, they found multiple posts by this person who totally believes in white supremacy and white hatred for their oppression of someone?
Google responds to AI image generation criticism with Gemini pause | Calgary Herald
Who knew, I did, but this board told me do not worry myself because all these folks are good folks working in the A.I. world, I believed you all, sorry I did that should have stuck with my gut on this one. It will only get worse from here so do not worry yourselves at all now. But thanks for trying to convince me of A.I.’s greatness. If we do not get rid of it don’t worry it will get rid of us and someone I am sure is working on that piece as I write this to you all. Sleep tight.
Again I impose nothing on anyone as you suggest. I as you have an opinion on this issue. Too bad you cannot seem to deal with it. Now I fully understand why this board spends so much time infatuated with Orange Man. You cannot fathom that’ others on earth hold differing opinions than you all do. Closet ridden. Need to get out more and quit watching any news.
Yes I do have an opinion it is not shared by a lot of people. I can understand that because I realize there are two sides or more to each issue.
Rapists sorry for my typo there.
I am sorry for you here. Are you actually attempting to compare Mr. Mandela to gang members, killers and Taoist’s and drug thugs here!!!! I think you need to rethink that. You go to the opposite extreme as who is being shipped to our Country here. Comparing those types of thugs to Nelson Mandela is even beneath you.
Sorry to disappoint you but I grew up being against abortions since I can remember. More than likely between 10-12 years old I’d say. No one entity persuaded me of anything here on this subject. Just because others shove it peoples faces everyday it has become more of an issue. Those who perform these I’ll be kind and say operations versus killings, are living a lie in their heads snd mothers although some are relieved due to their medical issues are feeling guilty over their decisions. Make no mistake it IS only their decision.
I simply disagree and do not understand how one could go that far to destroy another person. Those folks if born could have been sent here to save our world. No one will ever know, or destroy it for that matter, but humanity is doing a great job at doing that already.
Should be none if responsible Americans controlled their guns and thugs who shoot into homes under dark of night and never get captured or arrested there would be none.
So prisoners released by these countries to come to America are now asylum seekers to you? Now that’s a stretch.
You are correct I would not tell others what to fo with their lives. It is my opinion among millions of others that refuse to kill other humans via abortion process. You believe as you will but you cannot sit out other side opinions. They simply exist and you denying them does not make them go away.
Climate change comment alone tells me all I need to know here. No I will not get used to illegal folks taking my Country over, never.
So once again no other opinions are accepted here. This proves my thoughts here. Thank you for your opinion it’s just not mine.