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The Telegraph Biden’s apocalyptic green fantasies will bankrupt us all Carla Sands 4 min read Nuclear war would be less bad than global warming above 1.5 degrees, says Joe Biden - AP At the G20 conference this month, President Biden stated that “the only existential threat humanity faces even more frightening than a – than a nuclear war is global warming going above 1.5 degrees in the next 20 – 10 years. We’re – that’d be real trouble.” This isn’t the first time President Biden has made this concerning comparison. However, the “real trouble” is the Biden Administration’s commitment to using this apocalyptic narrative to justify its ongoing war on American energy, which jeopardizes our national security. Cries of “existential threat” work to drown out dissenting voices, as these prophets of doom are beset by contradictions – both in their extreme premise and radical policy prescriptions. Take President Biden’s warning that, somewhere in the 10- to 20-year range, the world will be set to be obliterated in a manner worse than nuclear war. He followed with an assertion that those who don’t see “the light” on global warming are “lying, dog-faced pony soldiers.” Yet, despite pushing a rapid end to fossil fuels based on this narrative, President Biden himself acknowledged in February that America will “need oil for at least another decade … and beyond that.” Even the head of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, famous for its dire predictions, has admitted that “the world won’t end if it warms by more than 1.5 degrees.” However, “emergency” remains a convenient way to justify expansion of government control and policies that fail cost-benefit analysis. Unfortunately, climate myopia has produced policies so ill-considered that they fail to pass muster even if one fully accepts the apocalyptic premise. It is no wonder that former Biden Administration climate advisor Gina McCarthy hoped that tech companies would “jump in” to stifle all debate, decrying criticism of climate change policy prescriptions as “equally dangerous to denial because we have to move fast.” Take electric vehicles. Not content with limiting consumer choice with massive taxpayer subsidies and job-killing de facto EV mandates for civilians, the Biden Administration continues to push electrification for the US military. This follows President Biden’s pledge that the US will spend “billions of dollars” to ensure “every vehicle in the United States military” is “climate-friendly.” Meanwhile, the US Energy Secretary recently faced charging issues on a short trip in an EV from Charlotte to Memphis. Instead of prioritizing military readiness or market-driven innovation, billions of dollars fall into politically connected pockets as American families face inflation and increasing regulatory intrusions into their daily lives. Unfortunately, these intrusions now range from cars to water heaters – all while policies consistently fail to meet climate goals. One would laugh at the absurdity if our futures weren’t at stake. Or take energy leasing. Earlier this month, the Biden Administration announced the cancellation of all remaining oil and gas leases issued in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and moved to ban any new oil drilling on 10.6 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve. This comes as Russia pursues ambitious plans for drilling in the Arctic and OPEC+ promises production cuts. Now a barrel of oil heads toward $100, and Americans face gas prices nearing $4. And with policies discouraging US production, America is ill-positioned to respond. Today, our Nation remains well below projected production had it retained the last administration’s pro-energy policies. As prices rise and Putin lines his pockets, Americans and our allies are deprived of the economic benefits of American energy. Further, the Biden Administration’s promised transition to EVs and mineral-heavy renewables is pushing the US into further dependence on Chinese-dominated supply chains and accompanying human rights and environmental abuses. China’s greenhouse gas emissions exceed the developed world combined and continue to rise. Instead of real environmental progress, much less stopping the promised apocalypse, the war on American energy is driving reliance on foreign nations that refuse to adopt our commitment to self-inflicted energy wounds. We must end the war on American energy and make best use of our nation’s vast resources. We must enable all energy sources to compete on a level playing field, allowing the market to drive innovation. We have the blueprint for success: the pro-growth policies of the last administration built on the technological advances of the shale revolution, which made the US a net energy exporter while leading the world in carbon emission reductions. Abundant, affordable American energy can power a prosperous future, drive innovation and environmental progress, bolster our national security, and strengthen our allies. It’s time to ditch the apocalyptic posturing and embrace American energy as foundational to a brighter, more secure future for generations to come.

Opinion: You’ll never believe why RFK Jr. thinks he’s qualified to be commander in chief By: Peter Bergen Tue, September 26, 2023 at 6:49 AM CDT·11 min read You’ll never believe why RFK Jr. thinks he’s qualified to be commander in chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made a career out of challenging the status quo. For some of that work, like his time spent cleaning up the Hudson River as an environmental lawyer, he has received widespread praise. Peter Bergen - CNN But in recent years, he has taken increasingly unorthodox positions, promoting conspiracy theories without any reliable evidence. He has suggested, for instance, that antidepressants may be to blame for school shootings, that vaccines cause autism, that HIV may not cause AIDS and that Wi-Fi causes “leaky brain” and cancer. Kennedy also accepts little of the scientific consensus about the efficacy of Covid-19 vaccinations, and he caused widespread consternation when at a Washington, DC, rally in January 2022, he appeared to liken pandemic safety protocols to measures that Nazis put in place when they were in power in Germany. Much condemnation followed that statement — including even from his wife, actor Cheryl Hines — and Kennedy apologized. Months later, he said that he was simply misunderstood. He said he was making a broader point that surveillance technology today is so advanced that any government can surveil its citizens to an unprecedented degree, telling CNN host Michael Smerconish in April that “… in the future totalitarian systems would be able to surveil us and intrude and control our lives in ways that had never happened in the past.” Of course, the level of surveillance that exists in our world is surely worrying to anyone concerned about privacy. Now, Kennedy is running against President Joe Biden in the Democratic primaries. A CNN poll released this month had sobering news for Biden; two-thirds of likely Democratic voters say the party should nominate someone other than Biden, and about half of them said that Biden’s age was their biggest concern. For a candidate such as Kennedy — who at 69 is a full decade younger than Biden and whose campaign has released footage of him doing push-ups on social media — that provides something of an opportunity. Yet in a CNN New Hampshire poll last week, Biden got the support of 78% of likely Democratic primary voters in that early primary state, compared with 9% for Kennedy. Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addresses a Hispanic Heritage Month event on September 15 in Los Angeles. - Mario Tama/Getty Images I sat down with Kennedy for a lengthy interview in Manhattan at the end of last month for the Audible podcast “In the Room With Peter Bergen.” When he enters a room, Kennedy is a commanding presence, tall and tanned with piercing blue eyes, his bodyguards discreetly in the background. During our interview, he made several assertions that made it clear he isn’t qualified to be commander in chief. Among them: He disputes that Covid-19 vaccines saved many lives, he has doubts about the official explanation of the cause of the 9/11 attacks, he promises that he could settle the war in Ukraine by simply negotiating with Russian President Vladimir Putin and he thinks the media works for the pharmaceutical industry. To boot, he would be only the second president (the first being Donald Trump) who has neither held prior political office nor had any military experience. RFK Jr. and the media During the interview, he made sweeping statements about the need for strong skepticism: “People should not trust the government now. It’s untrustworthy.” He also asserted that “the media habitually lies. … I don’t think you can survive in the mainstream media unless you’re willing to become a propagandist.” For me, that triggered a question about CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, whom Kennedy had falsely and bizarrely accused of being on the payroll of the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. In his response to me, Kennedy broadened this charge, saying that “technically, the entire news industry is working for the pharmaceutical companies.” I’ve worked in the news business in some shape or form for almost four decades, and this was definitely news to me. I told Kennedy that I had never seen any evidence for this claim to which he asked, “Are you telling me that you could have this conversation with me on CNN?” I asked him, “They haven’t booked you?” He replied, “No, of course not.” I pointed out that he had, in fact, done an interview on CNN with Smerconish in April. He conceded that was true, adding, “That’s the exception.” Kennedy’s portrayal of the mainstream media as propagandists in the pocket of pharmaceutical companies is nonsensical. It’s part of his overall impulse to paint a picture of some kind of large-scale conspiracy to silence him when in fact, he has been the subject of significant coverage in a host of media outlets. 9/11 Kennedy questions who was behind 9/11, even though few events have been more exhaustively examined. The FBI conducted its largest criminal investigation in history, chasing down more than 500,000 leads and interviewing over 167,000 witnesses. The bipartisan 9/11 commission also produced an authoritative report after two years of hearings. Its conclusions that al Qaeda, led by Osama bin Laden, carried out the 9/11 attacks were based on overwhelming evidence. Yet Kennedy told me, “I don’t know what happened on 9/11. I mean, I understand what the official explanation is; I understand that there is dissent. I have not looked into it.” He added some “strange things that happened,” such as that one of the buildings in the World Trade Center complex, Building 7, collapsed even though a plane didn’t directly hit it. The government’s official report of how Building 7 collapsed was that it was hit with debris from the massive north tower of the World Trade Center after one of the hijacked passenger jets had crashed into it, creating a giant fireball. The debris from the north tower landed on Building 7, causing fires, which led to Building 7’s collapse. There’s nothing “strange” about it. War in Ukraine Kennedy is positioning himself as an alternative to Biden, in part, because he says he is worried that the president is moving the US closer to nuclear war with the Russians. Kennedy said the Biden administration shares much of the blame for the current situation in Ukraine, pointing to “the neocons within the State Department and the White House. … They want a conflict with Russia.” Kennedy added, “Putin did not want to take over the country. He wants us back at the negotiating table. But we won’t help because we don’t want peace.” In fact, as is widely known, Putin brought the war on himself by unprovoked aggression, miscalculating that he would win a quick victory. Instead, the Ukrainians have resisted for a year and a half with help from the United States and other NATO countries. Kennedy said he is worried that “we’ve got Putin’s back to the wall. He’s already said that if it’s existential, he’s going to use a nuclear weapon. Once he uses it, we’re going to use all of ours, and that’s it.” He added that he had a plan to end the war in Ukraine and any chance of a nuclear exchange with Putin, asserting, “If I’m commander in chief, he’s not going to do that because he’s going to know he’s dealing with somebody who’s going to settle this war.” As for his assertion that Putin really wants to negotiate, it seems like wishful thinking, given the Russian leader’s long record of aggression. For instance: ordering the Russian invasion of Chechnya in 1999; invading Georgia in 2008; invading parts of eastern Ukraine in 2014; and sending considerable Russian air power to Syria in 2015 to prop up the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad, not to mention the indiscriminate attacks on Ukrainian civilian targets over the past year and half. Covid-19 It was Kennedy’s criticisms of the US government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic that fueled his rise as the leader of an unlikely coalition. His supporters come from across the political spectrum, and their common denominator appears to be a deep mistrust of corporate and government institutions. During the height of the pandemic in 2021, Kennedy published “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health,” a book that has sold more than 1 million copies, according to The New York Times. The audio version of the book is currently on the Times’ audio nonfiction bestseller list two years after it was first published. I asked Kennedy if he was surprised by how well the book had done, and he replied, “I was surprised in light of the fact that it was so heavily censored.” I asked, “If it sold a million copies, how was it censored?” Kennedy said: “There was no review in any mainstream paper. It was silenced.” As to his solution to preventing any future pandemics, Kennedy said: “I would begin (by) eliminating the most likely causes of epidemics, which is No. 1, ‘gain of function’ studies all over the world.” “Gain of function” research takes viruses and manipulates them. By tinkering with them, the result may be a pathogen that’s even more dangerous to humans. But on the plus side, vaccines can also be developed from this research. Kennedy, the son of a storied American political dynasty, is casting himself as an outsider running against the system. - Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images In his book about Dr. Anthony Fauci — the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who played a key role in managing the Covid-19 pandemic in the Trump and Biden administrations — Kennedy asserts that Fauci made “generous investments” in “gain of function” research and, as a result, “may have played a role in triggering the global contagion.” In 2021, Fauci told Yahoo News it was a “shame” that Kennedy’s book attacked his career and undermined confidence in the American public health system. “It’s very unfortunate because I don’t think he is inherently malicious,” Fauci said. “I just think he’s a very disturbed individual.” A recent unclassified US intelligence assessment of Covid-19’s origins released in June said that “almost all” of the US intelligence community assesses that the virus that causes Covid-19 “was not genetically engineered.” The same report also concluded that the virus originated either from a “natural exposure to an infected animal” or a “laboratory-associated” accidental leak. So, in short, there is no definitive answer about the origins of Covid-19. I asked Kennedy if he believed that Covid-19 vaccines killed more people than they saved. He said, “What I try to deal with is actual science and not speculation. What I would say to you is we cannot make that judgment.” Yet researchers at Brown and Harvard universities did make that judgment, finding that if Covid-19 vaccines had been available, between January 2021 and April 2022 they could have prevented at least 318,000 American deaths. And the notion that there is some real debate to be had around whether Covid-19 vaccines saved lives is preposterous. The independent Covid Crisis Group’s authoritative report released this year found that, during the Delta wave of Covid-19 in 2021 and the Omicron wave of 2022, “the vast majority of hospitalized patients were unvaccinated.” Ready to be commander in chief? I put it to Kennedy: “You would be the second American president with no political experience or military experience. The first was Donald Trump. So, what prepares you to be commander in chief?” Kennedy explained that he had been immersed in foreign policy and national security topics for more than five decades by writing about these issues, beginning with an article in The Atlantic on Chile in 1974 and more recently in Politico about the Syrian civil war. Writing some foreign policy articles seems like a flimsy rationale to be the next commander in chief. That said, during our interview, Kennedy came across as well-educated with an excellent command of American history and also of issues such as climate change, which is no surprise given his family background, his education at Harvard and his career as an environmental lawyer. Where he lost me was his skepticism about official explanations of much-investigated events such as 9/11 and his portrayal of the American media as handmaidens of the pharmaceutical industry. Of course, journalists get things wrong just as any other human beings do, but this doesn’t amount to a giant conspiracy to prop up Big Pharma, which is one of his key themes. This son of a storied American political dynasty is casting himself as an outsider running against the system, one that he believes he can lead. The key point that Kennedy wanted to make regarding his qualifications to be president appeared to be this: “I would say at this point in history, not being part of that system is actually probably a virtue.”

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Florida authorities issue warning to Tesla owners after Hurricane Idalia: ‘It is crucial to relocate’ Jeremiah Budin Mon, September 25, 2023 at 12:00 AM CDT·2 min read Firefighters in Palm Harbor, Florida, issued a warning to Tesla owners, as well as owners of other electric vehicles in the area, that the EVs were in danger of catching on fire in the aftermath of Hurricane Idalia. Two Teslas reportedly caught on fire as the saltwater from the intense flooding that resulted from the hurricane caused a reaction with the EVs’ lithium-ion batteries. “If you own a hybrid or electric vehicle that has come into contact with saltwater due to recent flooding within the last 24 hours, it is crucial to relocate the vehicle from your garage without delay,” Palm Harbor Fire Rescue wrote in a Facebook post. “Saltwater exposure can trigger combustion in lithium-ion batteries. If possible, transfer your vehicle to higher ground.” Car blog Jalopnik explained the science a bit further, writing, “When saltwater evaporates, the residual salt left in the battery can create bridges between the cells in the lithium-ion battery pack and spark an inferno … It is important to note that the electric car can seem fine but burst into flames weeks after being exposed to saltwater.” It is a common misconception that EVs catch on fire more frequently than traditional gas-powered vehicles, according to a recent study out of Sweden. While fires involving gasoline-powered cars may not get as much news coverage, they were still found to be more common than EV fires, even when accounting for the higher number of gasoline cars in the country. But the main issue with EV fires is that they burn much hotter than gas-car fires and are more difficult to put out. It often takes tens of thousands of gallons of water for firefighters to put out EV fires — and most firefighters have not been adequately trained to deal with these incidents. “The Fire Service has had 100 years to train and to understand how to deal with internal combustion engine fires,” a spokesperson for the National Fire Protection Association, which offers EV classes for firefighters, told Vox. “With electric vehicles, they don’t have as much training and knowledge. They really need to be trained.” All of this equates to some unfortunate bad press for the EV industry. Still, with time and new technological developments — like this firetruck specifically designed to put out EV fires using around the same amount of water used to fill up a bathtub — firefighters will become more equipped to put out these blazes faster.

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Biden has gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine and the annual flu shot, the White House says Associated Press Updated Sat, September 23, 2023 at 1:34 PM CDT·1 min read 469 1 / 2 Biden Covid Vaccine FILE - President Joe Biden speaks about the government's COVID-19 response, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington, Jan. 13, 2022. President Joe Biden has gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine and annual flu shot, the White House said Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) ASSOCIATED PRESS More WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine and annual flu shot, the White House said Saturday. The White House physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, said in a memo that Biden received both shots on Friday. O'Connor said Biden, 80, also was vaccinated several weeks ago against the respiratory illness known as RSV. “As we enter the cold and flu season, the President encourages all Americans to follow his example and to check with their healthcare provider or pharmacist to assure that they are fully vaccinated,” O'Connor wrote. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this month endorsed the new COVID-19 shot for everyone 6 months and older. The severity of the COVID-19 pandemic has faded, but there are still thousands of hospitalizations and hundreds of deaths in the United States each week. Experts worry that immunity from previous vaccinations and infections is fading in many people, and a new shot would save many lives. First lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this month but experienced only mild symptoms. The CDC recommends that people who have COVID-19 and are in isolation should wait to get vaccinated until there symptoms are gone and isolation guidelines have been met. Children and adults who have multisystem inflammatory syndrome should wait to get vaccinated until recovering from being sick and 90 days have passed since the diagnosis, according to the CDC. Biden tested positive for COVID-19 in July 2022 and a second time slightly more than three days after he was cleared to exit coronavirus isolation. The second incident was a rare case of “rebound” infection following treatment with an anti-viral drug.

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Biden’s mad green energy and electric vehicle plans are falling apart David Blackmon The Biden administration have invested vast sums to facilitate the green energy transition - Kevin Lamarque /Reuters Beset by a United Auto Workers (UAW) strike that threatens to expand in the coming days, the US auto industry finds itself in a crisis – much of it dictated by the policies of the Biden administration. The Ford Motor Company CEO Jim Farley admitted the industry’s conundrum in considering the union’s demands when asked by reporters last week. “There’s a fine line here that we won’t go past, which is we want everyone to participate in our success,” Farley said, as quoted by Fox Business. “But if it prevents us from investing in this transition to EVs and in future products like the ones we have now, like the new F-150, best-selling vehicle in the world – in the US, then everyone’s job is at risk if we don’t invest.” Let’s be honest: it’s unlikely Ford would be committing to the levels of investment running into the billons in new plant, equipment and supply chains for electric vehicles were it not for the Biden policies that subsidise such investments, while simultaneously forcing traditional internal combustion (ICE) cars off the market with stricter fleet mileage standards and tailpipe emissions restrictions. ICE cars are Ford’s hugely profitable bread and butter. Meanwhile, Farley admitted to investors on his Q2 2023 earnings call that the company’s EV division is expected to lose $4.5 billion even accounting for all the federal subsidies. Ford is far from alone. The entire US auto industry finds itself in the same boat, cranking out new electric models while projecting far more robust production next year, even as car dealership lots overflow with electric cars that consumers have proven reluctant to buy. This uncertainty makes the labour union’s demands even more difficult to comply with: they’re seeking a piece of the pie that Biden and his regulators have already gobbled up. The US offshore wind industry finds itself in a crisis of its own. The recent federal lease sale targeting the Western Gulf of Mexico, off Texas and Louisiana, was a miserable failure. Louisiana waters attracted just a single bid totalling just over $5 million, and the seas off the Texas coast drew no bids at all. Wind developers that had been expected to bid cited exploding costs for their projects as the major impediment, and pointed to the absence of any state subsidy programs being offered by Texas as the reason for the lack of interest. Louisiana does have a subsidy in place in the form of an arbitrary offshore wind target, but it was deemed insufficient by most operators. At the same time, offshore wind developers in the Northeast face the same cost challenges, and are now also beset by allegations that the increased ship traffic and seismic surveys associated with their projects are responsible for the uptick in whale deaths in the area. The Marine Mammal Commission has stressed that there is no known link between offshore wind development and whale deaths. Since last fall, more than 60 whale carcasses, many of them endangered species, have washed up onto the shores of adjacent states like New Jersey, New York and Massachusetts. The commercial fishing industry is also pressing the federal and state governments to recognise the deleterious impacts the networks of massive wind towers and subsea infrastructure of the projects will have on their operations. Offshore wind developers, supported by an administration dedicated to ensuring their success by any means necessary, simply deny any impacts despite an expanding body of evidence. At the same time, the Big Wind operators demand more subsidies from the feds and higher guaranteed payments from state utilities for the electricity their projects will provide, threatening to cancel their projects unless the eager public officials obsessed with the ability to virtue signal about being “green” accommodate them. Like the auto industry, the offshore wind industry in the US is teetering on the edge of disaster, thanks in no small part to the short-sighted lunacy of the Biden administration. We haven’t even gotten to the biggest looming crisis for the chosen industries of this ill-conceived energy transition: the need for critical energy materials like lithium, cobalt, copper, and nickel in the production of EVs and stationary batteries. Even transition boosters like the International Energy Agency admit that supplying these minerals in volumes needed for the simultaneous rapid growth of chosen industries will require the most prolific expansion of the global mining industry in world history. With supply chains for these minerals already discombobulated and dominated by one country, China, this inevitable next phase of the crisis is only beginning to present itself. If you think things for these insatiable rent-seeking industries are tough now, just sit back and wait. As Bachman Turner Overdrive once sang, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

'I ejected': Pilot of crashed F-35 jet in South Carolina pleads for help in phone call Kayla Jimenez and Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY Thu, September 21, 2023 at 8:15 PM CDT·3 min read 757 Emerging details from a four-minute phone call made by a military pilot to an emergency dispatcher show he was pleading for medical help after he ejected from an F-35 fighter jet and into a South Carolina resident's backyard. The resident of the home, in North Charleston, first tells the dispatcher: “We got a pilot in the house, and I guess he landed in my backyard, and we’re trying to see if we could get an ambulance to the house, please." The pilot then gets on the call to say: “Ma’am, a military jet crashed. I’m the pilot. We need to get rescue rolling. I’m not sure where the airplane is. It would have crash-landed somewhere. I ejected.” (FILES) A US Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II, a short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) version of the Joint Strike Fighter aircraft, flies past during a preview of the Singapore Airshow in Singapore on February 13, 2022. A stealth-capable US fighter jet vanished on September 17, 2023 -- not from prying eyes but rather from the American military, prompting an unusual call to the public to help locate the missing multimillion-dollar plane. After what authorities labeled a "mishap," a pilot flying an F-35 in the southern state of South Carolina on Sunday afternoon ejected from the craft. The pilot survived, but the military was left with an expensive problem: it couldn't find the jet, leading Joint Base Charleston to ask for help from local residents. (Photo by Roslan RAHMAN / AFP) (Photo by ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images)More The pilot's account comes the same day that a federal accountability office released a 96-page report urging the Department of Defense and the military services to "reassess the future sustainment strategy" of the aircraft model as it plans to spend $1.7 trillion on 2,500 F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jets. Over the weekend, a $100 million military aircraft went missing and flew without its pilot for 60 miles before crashing north of the Joint Base Charleston in South Carolina. Pilot ejected after 'mishap': Missing F-35 jet flew for 60 miles without a pilot Debris from the jet was located Monday in Indiantown, South Carolina, 80 miles north of the base after a malfunction caused the pilot to eject from the aircraft and land in a residential backyard about one mile north of the Charleston International Airport on Sunday. Little is known about what caused the jet to go untraced because the U.S. Marine Corps hasn't released much information on how the "most expensive" aircraft went missing and crashed. The Marine Corps has said the plane was flying at an altitude of about 1,000 feet and it has a flight control software that could explain how it continued to fly without a pilot, the Associated Press reported. “This is designed to save our pilots if they are incapacitated or lose situational awareness," the Marine Corps said in a statement, according to the AP. There is an investigation into the case. The F-35 that crashed in South Carolina is one of about 450 owned by the DOD, the report says. The Government Accountability Office laid out several concerns in a new report released Thursday, including several about the maintenance costs of the aircraft model. Of the $1.7 trillion the DOD plans to invest in the F-35 planes, $1.3 trillion is "associated with operating and sustaining the aircraft." Missing jet located: Missing F-35 jet flew for 60 miles without a pilot, who ejected into backyard after 'mishap' Government Accountability Office: F-35 aircraft performing 'far below program goals' What did they find? A summary of the report says the Government Accountability Office found the aircrafts were performing "far below program goals." "The F-35 fleet mission capable rate—the percentage of time the aircraft can perform one of its tasked missions—was about 55 percent in March 2023... in part to challenges with depot and organizational maintenance," the summary reads. The office also details further maintenance concerns. "At the same time, organizational-level maintenance has been affected by a number of issues, including a lack of technical data and training," the document continues. It arrived at its conclusion by reviewing "F-35 program documentation, reviewed readiness and performance data, visited two F-35 depots and three operational installations, conducted a survey of all 15 F-35 installations, and interviewed officials," the summary reads. What do they recommend? The Government Accountability Office is recommending the Department of Defense work on: "Reassessing F-35 sustainment elements to determine government and contractor responsibility and any required technical data," and; "Making final decisions on changes to F-35 sustainment to address performance and affordability." The Department of Defense has reviewed and concurred with all of the recommendations, said Jeff Jurgenson, a spokesperson for the department.

Bionic silkworms with spider genes spin fibers 6x tougher than Kevlar By Bronwyn Thompson September 20, 2023 Transgenic silkworms have produced fibers that have both high strength and toughness Junpeng Mi VIEW 1 IMAGES For the first time, scientists have successfully produced full-length spider silk fibers using genetically modified silkworms. With high strength and toughness, this silk has the potential to provide a scalable, sustainable and better-quality alternative to current synthetic fibers like nylon. “Silkworm silk is presently the only animal silk fiber commercialized on a large scale, with well-established rearing techniques,” said first author Junpeng Mi, researcher at the College of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Donghua University, China. “Consequently, employing genetically modified silkworms to produce spider silk fiber enables low-cost, large-scale commercialization.” The fibers that silkworms build their cocoons with has been cultivated for thousands of years, but while plentiful it’s famously brittle. Spiders, meanwhile, produce enviably tough and strong silk, however, cultivating it on any sort of scale has been out of reach. The “cannibalistic nature of spiders,” note the researchers, makes it impossible to house spiders together without a fight to the death of nearly all animals. This latest study could be the best of both worlds, and a game-changer in the quest for sustainable production of this elusive natural material. Scientists have been trying to perfect this bionic 'recipe' for more than a decade. To engineer silkworm with unique spidey senses, Mi and colleagues focused on a small silk protein from Araneus ventricosus, an orb-weaving spider found in East Asia. Using CRISPR-Cas9, the MiSp protein was inserted into the silkworm’s DNA, in place of the gene that codes for the silkworm’s primary silk protein. The scientists were able to also achieve "localization,” with the gene successfully activated in the silkworm’s DNA, without it interfering with any other aspects of the animal's natural silk production. “This concept of ‘localization,’ introduced in this thesis, along with the proposed minimal structural model, represents a significant departure from previous research,” says Mi. “We are confident that large-scale commercialization is on the horizon.” The resulting fibers exceeded researchers’ expectations, combing high tensile strength (1,299 MPa) and toughness (319 MJ/m3). Not only that, the fibers were far more flexible than expected; the MiSp protein is better known for producing silk that’s strong but not stretchy. “Spider silk stands as a strategic resource in urgent need of exploration,” said Mi. “The exceptionally high mechanical performance of the fibers produced in this study holds significant promise in this field. This type of fiber can be utilized as surgical sutures, addressing a global demand exceeding 300 million procedures annually.” The new fibers have broad commercial potential, including in smart materials for the military, aerospace technology, biomedical engineering and garments. The silk produced is six times tougher than the Kevlar used in bulletproof vests. The researchers now plan to develop genetically modified silkworms that produce spider silk fibers from natural and engineered amino acids. “The introduction of over one hundred engineered amino acids holds boundless potential for engineered spider silk fibers,” said Mi. The research was published in the journal Matter.

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Oh, lol, never recalled seeing him with short hair..sorry.

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Biden claims he was ‘raised’ in synagogues, adding to ever-growing list of exaggerated background claims Jessica Chasmar, Brandon Gillespie Tue, September 19, 2023 at 4:00 AM CDT·5 min read President Biden’s latest claim about being "raised in the synagogues" of Delaware follows a long history of the octogenarian president exaggerating his cultural background in an attempt to connect with people he's speaking to. "I, you might say, was raised in the synagogues of my state. You think I’m kidding, I’m not," Biden told a group of rabbis during a call Thursday ahead of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year holiday that began Friday. The president, who calls himself a devout Catholic, has made the claim before, though there’s little evidence to support it. "I probably went to shul more than many of you did," Biden said last year during a speech marking Rosh Hashanah. "You all think I’m kidding … I’m not. I’m not." BIDEN’S HISTORY OF CONTROVERSIAL RACIAL COMMENTS President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. Biden said at the time, "I received my education" at the Congregation Beth Shalom in Wilmington, Delaware. But neither of Biden’s memoirs make any mention of Beth Shalom or attending synagogue, the New York Post previously reported. Biden also told the rabbis Thursday that he "got involved with the civil rights movement" before becoming a senator – a claim that Biden himself acknowledged wasn’t true during his 1988 presidential bid that was derailed over plagiarism allegations. "During the '60s, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement," then-presidential candidate Biden said in 1987. "I was not an activist. I worked at an all-Black swimming pool in the east side of Wilmington, Delaware. I was involved in what they were thinking, in what they were feeling." "But I was not out marching, I was not down in Selma," he continued. "I was not anywhere else." Biden has also frequently claimed to have attended a Black church as a teenager despite longtime congregants insisting that they never saw him. "Let's lay one thing to rest. I may be a practicing Catholic, but used to go to 7:30 Mass every morning in high school and then in college before I went to the Black church," Biden said. "Not a joke." In February 2015, Biden raised eyebrows after he claimed he had "an awful lot" of Somali friends who drove taxis. President Joe Biden takes questions from children during an event marking Take Your Child To Work Day April 27, 2023 in Washington, DC. "Somalis have made my city of Wilmington, Delaware, [their home] on a smaller scale. There is a large, very identifiable Somali community," he said. "I might add if you ever come to the train station with me you’ll notice I have great relationships with them, because there’s an awful lot driving cabs and are friends of mine. For real. I’m not being solicitous. I’m being serious." The Washington Post’s fact-checker, Glenn Kessler, called the claim a "whopper" and argued that the vast majority of refugees who settled in the area hailed from West African countries like Liberia and Sierra Leone, not Somalia. In February, Twitter users piled on Biden after he boasted about growing up in a Polish community while visiting the country. At the time, Biden met with Polish President Andrzej Duda regarding the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine entering its second year. While speaking to the media, the president recalled his own connections to Poland, saying that his childhood home was in a Polish community. Joe Biden smiles from the front seat of his Corvette Stingray in a 2020 campaign video push to revitalize the American auto industry. "I was, as a young man, I was born in a coal town of Scranton, Pennsylvania, northeastern Pennsylvania, in an Irish-Catholic neighborhood. Then when coal died, we moved down to Delaware, to a town called Claymont, Delaware, which was a working-class town, but everybody in town was either Polish or Italian. I grew up feeling self-conscious my name didn’t end in an S-K-I or an O," Biden said. He continued, "But all kidding aside, the connection between — I was telling the president, the pride, the overwhelming, demonstrable pride that Polish Americans feel about Poland and the role you are playing now, we were talking about it, it is extreme. It is. You would be — if you haven’t seen it, you should come and see it." Several social media users have also pointed out that Biden has frequently claimed to have grown up in various communities, depending on his location, most notably the Puerto Rican community. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at Prince George's Community College on September 14, 2023 in Largo, Maryland. In October 2022, President Biden visited Puerto Rico on Monday in an effort to express support for the island following the impacts of Hurricane Fiona, saying he was raised in the Puerto Rican community on the U.S mainland in a political context. "We have a very… large Puerto Rican population in Delaware," he said. "I was sort of raised in the Puerto Rican community at home, politically. We came here for a long time as part of both business and pleasure. I'm committed to this island." Additionally, Biden insisted during Greek Independence Day 2009, "I’m an honorary Greek — not only today but every day!" He also stated on another occasion, "We haven’t had a Greek in the White House, but now we have Joe Bidenopoulos."

Kansas mom, 2 sons found dead in a camper at a motocross competition Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY Updated Tue, September 19, 2023 at 12:58 PM CDT·3 min read 1 A mother and her two sons were found dead Saturday in a camper at a motocross event in Kansas, according to law enforcement and multiple reports. Authorities have not confirmed what caused their deaths, but family friends shared on a GoFundMe page that the woman and two children died as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning. In the post, the woman was identified as Felecia Richey, while family have told multiple local media outlets that the boys' names were Tysin and Bentley. A mother and her two sons were found dead in a camper Saturday at a motocross event in Kansas. Family have identified them as Felecia Richey and her children Tysin and Bentley. The McPherson County Sheriff's Office, which is leading the investigation into their deaths, has not officially named the victims. Felicia Richey was pregnant at the time of her death, according to the GoFundMe page, which had raised more than $41,000 as of Tuesday morning. "We are asking for your help with removing the stress from the family on the cost of arranging their three funerals and time away from work to grieve," the post read. "If you can not support financially, please keep this family in your prayers and share with others." What do we know about what happened? The bodies of the three victims were reportedly discovered Saturday in a camper at a race track in Inman, a city located a little more than 50 miles north of Wichita, the McPherson County Sheriff's Office said in a media release. The sheriff's office said it is investigating the deaths with the help of the Inman Police Department, but released few other details, including the names of the victims or how they died. Inman Motocross, the organization that was hosting the Kansas Motocross Championship Series, postponed the competition for a day as a result of the deaths. Today we hug our loved ones extra tight and say I love you an extra time," Inman Motocross said in a Facebook post. "Our heart goes out the family as they work through this time." The series resumed the next day, with Inman Motocross indicating in a Facebook post that grief counselors were available on site. What is carbon monoxide poisoning? Because it is both odorless and colorless, carbon monoxide is commonly referred to as a silent killer. More than 400 American die each year from unintentional carbon monoxide poisoning not linked to fire, while more than 100,000 visit emergency rooms for treatment, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The lethal gas is found in the fumes produced by the burning fuel of vehicles and other engines, as well as gas stoves, lanterns and furnaces, the CDC says. In vehicles, carbon monoxide poisoning is often caused by leaks in the exhaust system. The poisonous fumes can quickly build up to fatal levels indoors, poisoning people and animals who breathe it in, according to the CDC. Symptoms often appear flu-like in nature and include headaches, dizziness, weakness, upset stomach, chest pain and confusion.

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