[FoxNews] Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. is urging Americans to 'be very proud of their military'.
That’s nice. But how is strength here defined in this case, sir, and the question unanswered is whether we are currently prepared for this specific threat.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff responded to mounting concerns that China poses a serious threat to U.S. security, while also arguing NATO is "stronger than it's ever been."
"The first thing I'd tell them is they ought to be very proud of their military, if we're ready for whatever comes our way," Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. told Fox News' Shannon Bream on "Fox News Sunday" at the Ragan National Defense Forum.
So the Army has enough bullets and equipment to fight an actual war, the Navy no longer crashes ships, and the Marines are no longer forced to attend lectures on the 57 genders and how to accommodate them instead of developing fighting skills?
"At the same time, we want to be so ready that we don't have a conflict," Brown added. "And you know, as we're here, it says ‘peace through strength.' Our strength that we demonstrate as a military will bring that peace."
Brown was responding to a Ronald Reagan Institute poll that found 51% of Americans see China as the nation posing the greatest threat to the U.S., up from the 43% of Americans who reported the same at this time last year.
The poll also found a majority of Americans believe that over the next 10 years, China will outpace the U.S. both from a military standpoint and economically. Brown explained that he is focused on "accelerating change" in order to keep up.
Well, my real role here and job is to actually make sure that… on the military side that doesn't occur, which is why I'm so focused on accelerating change," he said.
China is focussed on actual fighting skills and learning how to keep aircraft carriers functional. They don’t do pronouns or any genders except the male and female that people were born with, which saves a hellacious amount of time and money.
"It's why I'm focused on the collaboration we do, particularly having gotten out here the past couple years, not only here to Reagan, but also out to Silicon Valley, and looking at how we work together on our national defense and how that helps us economically," he went on.
As war continues to rage between Russia and Ukraine – as well as between Hamas and Israel – concern has mounted among Americans that a conflict could spill over into a NATO nation as opposed to the U.S. getting directly involved in war. Brown quelled such fears, arguing that NATO "is stronger than it's ever been."
"What I see right now is, if you think about what [Russian President Vladimir Putin] attempted to do from the very start, and the territory he gained and the territory he lost in Ukraine, things have not gone according to his plan," Brown said. "One of the key reasons that I think that because of what happened in Ukraine, NATO is stronger than it's ever been. In fact, it's larger now with Finland and Sweden… and because of that strength in the dialogue with many of our NATO partners, we're all committed to ensure this does not expand into NATO and go broader."
Anybody other than Poland over there spending their treaty-required 2% of the national economy on their military yet? Donating to Ukraine is nice, but it doesn’t count toward making NATO actually effective as a fighting military.
[Epoch Times] John Kerry, special presidential envoy on climate matters, announced Saturday that the United States has "proudly" committed to not to build any new coal plants and to get rid of existing ones entirely.
"To meet our goal of 100 percent carbon pollution-free electricity by 2035, we need to phase out unabated coal," Mr. Kerry said in a Dec. 2 statement, in which he announced that the United States had officially joined a coalition of 56 other countries who all plan to ditch coal in the name of climate change. Wasn't Germany going to re-start coal plants?
"We will be working to accelerate unabated coal phase-out across the world, building stronger economies and more resilient communities," Mr. Kerry said in his statement. "The first step is to stop making the problem worse: stop building new unabated coal power plants." "Unabated"? Like without 'carbon credits'? Does Kerry know how to distinguish 'unabated’ coal?
The 1.5°C threshold, first established in the Paris Agreement in 2015, aims to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5°C by 2100. How much progress have we made, John, toward that lofty goal?
In 2022, coal-fired plants generated 36 percent of global electricity, outstripping all other sources. Over half of this output was in China, which is building new coal plants at a fast pace, undeterred by various climate pledges and goals that the country's leadership has paid lip service to. The next three largest contributors to global coal-fired electricity are India, the United States, and Japan, which jointly account for around 25 percent of the total.
Meanwhile, a recent report by Global Energy Monitor (GEM) found that roughly a million coal jobs could be lost by 2050 as mines retire—even without any climate policies being implemented.
The vast majority of job losses would be in Asia, with China and India taking the brunt. Power-plant coal hauled by the railroads has been declining for 15-20 years.
As for the United States, the GEM report estimates more than 15,000 jobs in the coal sector will be lost per decade in the 2030s and 40s, and less than 15,000 jobs to be lost in the 2050s. Learn to code, or write for the Dead Tree Media.
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When everyone finally realizes what a scam this is, maybe Lurch can be done with coal chunks.
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Sorry, Jawn, I've been hearing about fusion for decades and it ain't happened yet. But if you would just shut your mouth that'd reduce a thousand coal mine's worth of carbon emissions overnight.
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[MSN] Officials intend to ban polluting delivery vehicles within a newly-created zone in downtown Portland, KGW8 reports. Need something delivered today? Fugedaboutit
The project has been made possible by a $2 million federal grant supported by the Biden administration’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, KGW8 says. Grant my ass. Paid for by taxpayers.
The new rule applies to a 16-block area that includes the Portland Building, the Federal Building, and the County Courthouse. Within this zone, gas- and diesel-powered vehicles will not be allowed to make deliveries or pickups of any kind.
The program will take effect in early 2024, KGW8 reports. Once it does, any vehicles that violate the "zero-emission delivery zone" will receive parking citations.
Businesses and government buildings in the area will still need to have materials delivered, so Portland is also establishing new "distribution hubs" outside the zone, according to KGW8. "distribution hubs" another word for looting centers.
Larger delivery vehicles will be able to drop off their cargo, which will be transferred to EVs, including e-bikes and trikes, for final delivery. Portland has plans to partner with local business B-line Sustainable Urban Delivery to provide this service.
The new zone will offer several benefits for Portland residents, KGW8 reports. It should help reduce traffic by taking delivery vehicles off the streets and will lead to cleaner air in the most crowded area of the city.
It’s also a win for the environment. Transportation accounted for 35% of Oregon’s heat-trapping air pollution in 2021. The more residents and businesses switch to non-polluting solutions like EVs, the less they’ll contribute to the Earth’s rising temperature. Charging these EV's takes a lot of money.
The project got attention on the r/electricvehicles subreddit, where commenters were enthusiastic about the change. One Redditor, who said they were born and raised in Portland, commented, "This isn’t surprising at all. We have a long-standing hatred of cars here. Yes, I know it includes EVs. But if we were given the opportunity to outlaw cars, we would."
Another user proposed an expansion. "There are lots of parts of lots of cities where cargo bikes are easier to deal with for everyone," they said.
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[FoxNews] Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. is urging Americans to 'be very proud of their military'.
"To meet our goal of 100 percent carbon pollution-free electricity by 2035, we need to phase out unabated coal," Mr. Kerry said in a Dec. 2 statement, in which he announced that the United States had officially joined a coalition of 56 other countries who all plan to ditch coal in the name of climate change.
[MSN] Officials intend to ban polluting delivery vehicles within a newly-created zone in downtown 
