Just to point out, we can make progress, slow and one step at a time.. and make it better..



The Biden administration’s final rule for LED bulbs, announced Friday, more than doubles the energy efficiency requirements for the bulbs, taking them from 45 lumens (the unit of measurement for brightness) per watt to over 120 lumens. The Energy Department has projected the rule will result in about $27 billion in total savings and prevent the release of 70 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions over a thirty-year period.



“LED lightbulbs, which are now the norm, will get more energy efficient and therefore use less electricity,” Andrew deLaski, executive director at the Appliance Standards Awareness Project, told The Hill in an interview.



Specifically, he said, Americans will save about a dollar per bulb under normal usage conditions, which comes out to a $50 annual savings in a typical household with about two dozen lightbulbs.



“It takes some time, and the reason it takes some time is LED lightbulbs last a long time,” he added. In many cases, he said, LED bulbs can last as long as 10 years before burning out, compared to the now phased-out incandescent bulbs, which typically lasted no more than a year.



“Small savings add up, is the moral of the story,” he said.



Read more at TheHill.com.

It is amazing how b****s in the U.S. cry for r********ns when they have the best standard of living in the world with the greatest chance to elevate their financial status. Many b****s have far more than a lot of W****s. I don't hear about r********ns in any other countries that had black s***es brought to their country. Has anyone heard of b****s in any Muslim country complaining about r********ns for the biggest s***e traders in the world?? Can anyone even explain why b****s gravitate to a religion that pushed the s***e trade to the max and to this day still have s***es? Can anyone explain why b****s can't seem to understand that the U.S. and Britain were 2 of the 1st countries to outlaw s***ery?? In fact the Brits had to force Nigeria to stop it's s***e trading ways. The insanity of r********ns is just that, insanity.

Preface: I have yet to read the bill so this is just a thread for people to use to do your due diligence on the bill and its implications.

Edward Snowden: ‘NSA Is Just Days Away from Taking Over the Internet’

Exiled American whistleblower Edward Snowden has warned that the United States National Security Agency (NSA) is close to seizing control of the Internet.

Snowden, a former NSA contractor who famously leaked highly classified information from the agency in 2013, issued the warning in a post on X.

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1779920066840055847?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1779920066840055847%7Ctwgr%5E8624c846b5db3b81de369cb78b16d5f06ef8e512%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fslaynews.com%2Fnews%2Fedward-snowden-nsa-days-away-taking-over-internet%2F

In his post, Snowden drew attention to a thread originally posted by Elizabeth Goitein.

https://twitter.com/LizaGoitein/status/1779885130447798680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1779885131873800582%7Ctwgr%5E8624c846b5db3b81de369cb78b16d5f06ef8e512%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fslaynews.com%2Fnews%2Fedward-snowden-nsa-days-away-taking-over-internet%2F

Goitein, the co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, warned of a new bill that could see the U.S. government surveillance powers amplified to new levels.

Snowden warns that the new powers will see the NSA “taking over the internet.”

“The NSA is just 𝗗𝗔𝗬𝗦 from taking over the internet, and it’s not on the front page of any newspaper–because no one has noticed,” he said in the post.

The bill in question reforms and extends a part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) known as Section 702.

Currently, the NSA can force internet service providers such as Google and Verizon to hand over sensitive data concerning NSA targets.

However, Goitein claims that through an “innocuous change” to the definition of “electronic communications surveillance provider” in the FISA 702 bill, the U.S. government could go far beyond its current scope.
Under the bill, Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration would be able to force nearly every company and individual that provides any internet-related service to assist with NSA surveillance.

“That sweeps in an enormous range of U.S. businesses that provide wifi to their customers and therefore have access to equipment on which communications t***sit,” Goitein warns.

“Barber shops, laundromats, fitness centers, hardware stores, dentist’s offices.”

Additionally, the people forced to hand over data would be unable to discuss the information provided due to hefty gag order penalties and conditions outlined in the bill, added Goitein.

The bill initially received heavy pushback from privacy-conscious Republicans but passed through the U.S. House of Representatives on April 13.

Part of the pushback saw the bill’s proposed spying powers time-frame cut from five years to two years.

It also includes minor amendments to the service providers under the surveillance measures.

However, the amendment did very little to reduce the scope of surveillance granted to the NSA, according to Goitein.

Goitein argues that the amendment could even see service providers such as cleaners, plumbers, and IT service providers that have access to laptops and routers inside people’s homes be forced to provide information and serve as “surrogate spies.”

The bill has seen strong pushback from both sides of the political aisle, however.

Several government representatives claim the bill violates citizen’s constitutional rights.

Democrat Senator Ron Wyden described the bill as “terrifying” and said he would do everything in his power to prevent it from being passed through the Senate.

https://twitter.com/RonWyden/status/1778864936573100445?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1778864936573100445%7Ctwgr%5E8624c846b5db3b81de369cb78b16d5f06ef8e512%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fslaynews.com%2Fnews%2Fedward-snowden-nsa-days-away-taking-over-internet%2F

“This bill represents one of the most dramatic and terrifying expansions of government surveillance authority in history,” Wyden said.

Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), who v**ed against the bill in the House of Representatives, said Section 702 was an “irresponsible extension” of the NSA’s powers.

Luna added that if Biden’s agencies wanted access to data, they must be forced to apply for a warrant.

The bill is slated for a v**e in the U.S. Senate on April 19.

https://slaynews.com/news/edward-snowden-nsa-days-away-taking-over-internet/

Why Christianity Must Be Destroyed
And Why Liberalism Must Do It

Christians accept that we are all flawed. As part of our flawed status, we realize that at some point we will have to face judgment for our offenses. Those offenses range across the full spectrum of human sins, from taking the Lord’s name in vain to murder.

Progressives labor under no such illusion. They know that they are beyond reproach; their hearts are so good. Since Progressives have no flaws, they face no judgment and have nothing to answer for. They are entitled to reject our forgiving Christian God because they have no sins. They are their own gods & that entitles them to despise Christians.

It also entitles them to their intolerance, judgmentalism and self-righteousness. They have relied on satire and ridicule and their condescension turns to outrage when it is turned around on them. Hence their hatred of Donald J. Trump, Rush Limbaugh & Joseph McCarthy.

Joseph McCarthy investigated the extent of c*******t penetration of the American government. Extreme left-wingers and outright c*******ts had been shepherded into The Franklin D. Roosevelt administration throughout his twelve-year presidency. Joseph Stalin had wanted them in the administration to influence decisions and as sources of information. It wasn’t hysteria. There were c*******ts.

During World War II, it had become clear that there were many N**i sympathizers in the United States. There was concern that the same mistakes not happen again with the new Satan, c*******m. McCarthy became a point man for the new efforts. The American Left, realizing that the c*******ts were fellow ideologues in the movement to replace the worship of God with the worship of government, defended them and started the anti-McCarthy hysteria, just like what is going on today, with Donald J Trump.

In retrospect, it was kind of odd anyway. On the one hand, American progressives would say there’s nothing wrong with being a c*******t then rail at being called one or if one of their own was. William F. Buckley, Jr. once remarked that he never heard McCarthy say anything that matched in viciousness the things that liberals said about him. I have never heard of Trump saying anything that matched in viciousness the things his opponents say about him.

Rush Limbaugh was another example. The Left always thought that satire was its sole province. They relished subjecting religion and conservatives to their satire that was often mean & sacrilegious. Rush turned it around on them & they howled in furious indignation. They accused him of the h**e that they harbored, something the Left has always done. How dare anyone use their methods against them? Rush was never mean nor vicious but the liberals certainly were and as Buckley had said about McCarthy, Limbaugh never said anything that matched in viciousness the things that were said about him.

Bill Raspberry was a great liberal (in every sense of the word) columnist. He’d been saying the same things about Rush as other liberals when someone challenged him as to whether he ever had listened to him. He admitted that he hadn’t, and to his credit, he did. In a subsequent column he said that Rush didn’t satirize women and minorities; that he was an entertainer and that he satirized liberals. Then as now, liberals can give it but they can’t take it.

And now we have the case of Donald J. Trump. Whereas Ronald Reagan also espoused conservatism, he nevertheless believed in making nice with liberals. They did not care. They were constantly hostile to him & did everything they could to block his moves. The take home lesson is that you don’t make nice with liberals. Liberals do not reciprocate. Their agenda to direct society remains and anything is permissible to achieve that goal.

Donald J. Trump must have gotten that message somewhere along the line. He never even tried to get along with them. They are outraged. Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned and they’ve reacted. They tried to impeach him twice, once meaninglessly and was a complete waste of time.

They have now unleashed a barrage of legal actions against him without precedent & unjustified. What they don’t realize is that it can be turned around and used against their own, such as Joe Biden. These new precedents, if left unchecked, will likely result in permanent damage to the office of the presidency that will resonate to the detriment of the country & possibly lead to its destruction. It is that serious.

Understand, that the thought that we will eventually face judgment is a brake on our worst impulses. We know that we will be called to answer for our sins. By thinking there is no God, liberals get off that hook in their minds. Wh**ever system they foist on the public, they can just walk away and think there are no repercussions.

And that is what leads to their excesses. C*******m, F*****m & German National Socialism are ultimate progressivisms and all were & are atheistic. As Mussolini said, “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state,” and that included churches. Gulags, K*****g Fields, Auschwitz and the Cultural Revolution all targeted religion and churches. It is no accident that church attendance is much lower among progressives.

They can conceive of no power in the universe that is beyond their comprehension. They have no God but themselves; they are their own judges, juries and executioners and they have executed; 21 million under National Socialists Workers’ Germany, 20-40 million in the USSR, 65-75 million in China, 1.5 million in Cambodia. They were all atheistic, either officially or functionally.

And so it continues. Liberals have been the driving force in moving America to secularism, a very dangerous journey.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was the most prominent Soviet dissident. He’d published several books with the horrors of Soviet Socialism as a background but when he published The Gulag Archipelago in December 1973, he was stripped of his Soviet citizenship and forced into exile. It the emergence and horrors of the Soviet political prison system. He first went to Germany but came to the United States, Vermont, in 1978. Under Josip Stalin, he would likely have been executed but the Soviet government of the 1970s didn’t chance it. They knew it would cause an international uproar.

After the Soviet Union collapsed, Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia in May 1994, and said that he could not recommend American society because we had lost our spirituality. John Paul II said much the same thing. So do I.

Christianity has been our salve. Secular liberalism, whether f*****m, socialism or c*******m, needs the populace to replace Christianity with the worship of government. They need to destroy it. They are succeeding.