Author: Doug Santo

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You may ask yourself, why would the Chinese Communists pay Biden’s family millions of dollars?

Leaked Emails Show Biden Administration Protected China During Spy Balloon-gate.

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Judge decides to force Biden Administration to enforce existing laws. To some extent anyway…

Federal judge blocks Biden admin from releasing migrants without court dates as Title 42 expires

Here’s a group of illegal immigrants coming to our great country contrary to our laws and the Biden Administration simply lets them in. It is unbelievable. The garbage media has somehow convinced everybody to call them migrants instead of illegal aliens as if that somehow changes what they are.

Surprise!

Who could have known this would happen? Certainly not the liars in the Biden Administration.

Migrants Ditch Visas And Identification Papers In Sea Of Trash Just After Illegal Crossing

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Biden’s Failures at the Border on Full Display

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Biden’s border disaster…

BIDEN BORDER CRISIS TO SEE HUGE SURGE IN CROSSINGS THIS WEEK

CBP: 14,000 Illegals A Day

Biden DHS Signals Mexican Officials When To Let Illegal Immigrants Cross

 

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The best comments on the CNN Trump townhall…

https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/1656486700544143360

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Jordan Peterson…

Jordan Peterson Attacks Legacy Media ‘Scumrats’ for ‘Lying’ About Slavery

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The Democrat bureaucracy works hand in hand with the Democrat media…

DOJ Strategically Timed Santos’ Political Arrest To Coincide With Press Conference Detailing Evidence Of Biden Corruption

Nets Ignore New Hunter Biden Revelations, Hype Santos Charges

Obvious much? While Comer’s presser on, DoJ and media pull a Santos out of their hat

FBI doesn’t share document GOP subpoenaed alleging ‘criminal scheme’ involving Biden

 

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David Foster…

Evil

“…The Dutch government is buying out certain farmers, paying them above market value (it sounds like the implication is that if they don’t sell, they will eventually be expropriated)…with the proviso that they will be banned forever from doing the same kind of farming anywhere in the EU.

Economically destructive…destructive of the food supply and of individual choice…destructive of knowledge accumulated over centuries.

In what sense should the EU still be considered part of the Free World?…”

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Green political nonsense replaces solid engineering and science…

Electric Vehicle Illusions

“…No one can really say whether widespread adoption of EVs will cut carbon emissions…

…The rush to subsidize and mandate EVs is animated by a fatal conceit: the assumption that they will radically reduce CO2 emissions. That assumption is embedded orthodoxy not just among green pundits and administrators of the regulatory state but also among EV critics, who take issue with a forced transition mainly on grounds of lost freedoms, costs, and market distortions.

But the truth is, because of the nature of uncertainties in global industrial ecosystems, no one really knows how much widespread adoption of EVs could reduce emissions, or whether they might even increase them. (And no, this has nothing to do with the truth / joke that Teslas are coal-fired when fueled at night in many places.) While grid realities will indeed matter more than most realize, the relevant and surprising emissions wildcard comes from the gargantuan, energy-hungry processes needed to make EV batteries. This is one of those technical issues that tends to attract slogans, simplifications, and illusions of accuracy; a better understanding requires some patience.

EV emissions realities start with physics. To match the energy stored in one pound of oil requires 15 pounds of lithium battery, which in turn entails digging up about 7,000 pounds of rock and dirt to get the minerals needed—lithium, graphite, copper, nickel, aluminum, zinc, neodymium, manganese, and so on. Thus, fabricating a typical, single half-ton EV battery requires mining and processing about 250 tons of materials. (These figures hold roughly true for all lithium chemistries.) For the carbon-counters tracking such things, the global mining and minerals sector uses 40 percent of all industrial energy—dominated by oil, coal, and natural gas—and that’s before we take into consideration the massive expansion that would be required to supply all the battery factories planned for widespread EV adoption.

The inherent uncertainties about calculating real-world EV emissions arise from myriad “known unknowns” about mining and refining activities. Those all happen elsewhere, upstream, before assembly at a battery or EV factory—that is, before the first mile driven on a grid-supplied kilowatt-hour. Of course, a conventional car also has upstream emissions, though these derive mainly from steel and iron, which account for 85 percent of its weight. For conventional cars, those upstream emissions are a minor factor; burning gasoline dominates the CO2 footprint. But the need for far more materials, and different types, dominates an EV’s total footprint. Production of those metals, such as copper, nickel, and aluminum, uses on average three to ten times more energy per pound than does steel production. All the other EV minerals are similarly energy-intense.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) flagged these realities in a 2021 report. While that report focused on the inadequacy of the supplies of “energy minerals” (something that has since, finally, become widely known), the researchers noted that upstream CO2 emissions from fabricating an EV can “vary considerably across companies and regions.” Indeed. Changing the source of copper or nickel, for example, can lead to doubling or more than tripling those metals’ emissions intensities, depending on a facility’s age, process types, and locations. Building an EV requires several hundred more pounds of copper than building an internal-combustion car. Assumptions about aluminum matter too, because EVs also typically require several hundred pounds more of that material, and two-thirds of global aluminum production comes from coal-fired grids in China, Russia, and India. (The U.S. produces just 2 percent.) In general, refineries in China, which account for 50 percent to 80 percent of global “energy minerals” supply, have emissions 1.5 times greater than those in the European Union or U.S.

A review of dozens of studies of upstream emissions revealed that the bottom-line estimates of EV lifecycle emissions varied by fivefold. It gets worse. That same review found that, across those studies, the median size of the battery assumed for the analyses was 30 kilowatt-hours. But the overwhelming majority of U.S. EVs bought last year sported batteries two to three times bigger. Tripling battery size triples the upstream emissions.

None of these variabilities appears in government forecasts for “zero emissions” cars. In fact, the range of upstream emissions is so wide that it renders meaningless any use of an average number to calculate an EV’s overall carbon footprint. But that’s what analysts do, whether at the IEA or EPA…”

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This is the biggest political bribery scandal in American history

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Biden’s border erupts in gunfire. It’s like a war zone.

Yesterday the Biden Administration liars told the nation they had the border under control and the current problem was everybody’s fault but their own. They are terrible.

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White House tries to ban journalist (real journalist)…

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Biden Administration message to Americans. Immigrants are more important than citizens.

Mayorkas: Americans’ Priorities Are Subordinate to ‘Nation of Immigrants’

“…President Joe Biden’s border chief Alejandro Mayorkas was asked Wednesday if his huge and growing inflow of economic migrants is good for Americans’ wages and rents, and he replied that this is a “Nation of Immigrants.”

The Cuban-born, pro-migration border chief took a few procedural questions from picked journalists when he presented part of his new plans to import more migrants into Americans’ workplaces and neighborhoods. “Our president has led the largest expansion of legal pathways ever,” Mayorkas said to a mostly empty press room.

But Breitbart News asked about the fairness of Mayorkas’s maximum-migration policies for ordinary Americans at a time of sliding wages, rising rents, and expanding civic chaos:

BBN: How do Americans gain from the immigration paths you are opening, sir? No [journalists] ever asks, “Do Americans gain from all the immigrants who you bring in — [even though] wages get pushed down, rents get pushed up.”

Mayorkas: Sir, we are a nation of immigrants. And we are a nation of laws. Individuals who qualify for relief under our laws have a basis to remain in the United States. The contributions of immigrants to this country is quite clear.

The Biden migration has added at least six million people — including four million workers — to the nation’s population. That inflow is roughly three migrants for every four American births. Millions more are expected after Mayorkas lifts the Title 42 border barrier on May 11…”

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If you believe the E. Jean Carroll verdict, I’ve got a #MeToo to sell you…

Doug Santo