Podcasts about ZEVS

NEW CAR REGISTRATIONS MAY 2025New car registrations rose, year on year, 1.6% thanks to Fleet. BEV registrations rose to 21.8% of the market share, which is growth but still a long way off the mandated amount. The SMMT once again called on Government financial help to encourage more people to buy electric. Click this link here to read more from the SMMT. TFL TO INCREASE LONDON CONGESTION CHARGEFrom 2 January 2026, the rate of the Congestion Charge if being proposed to increase to £18 along with the exemption for zero emission vehicles (ZEV) ending. However, ZEVs will pay a reduced amount that will change over time. If you wish to learn more, click this electrive article link here. For the Autocar article, click here. PIRELLI CAUGHT UP IN ANTI-CHINESE CONNECTIVITY RULESThe US Department of Commerce has finalised their rules on connected vehicle technology and software. They are banning any from Russia and China. This has brought Pirelli's ‘Cyber Tyre' technology into the crosshairs as Sinochem, a Chinese company, has 37% of shares in the manufacturer. To read more, click this Carscoops article link here. BRAZIL SUES BYD OVER WORKER'S CONDITIONSBYD, the Chinese EV maker, is building a plant in Brazil, but has been raided by officials who state they released 220 workers from conditions they likened to slavery. Welfare and financial restrictions were found that contravened the local laws. For more on this story, click here to read a BBC News article. NORTH OF SCOTLAND EV CHARGING CONTRACT SIGNEDEasyGo, an EV charging network, has signed a 20 year contract to install and maintain electric charging points across the north of Scotland. On top of that they will take on the upkeep of 425 existing council charge points. Click this electrive article link here to read more. FASTNED TO OPEN NEW CHARGING HUB IN WEST SCOTLANDFastned will open its fifth charging hub in Scotland, this time at Greenock, which will house four ultra-rapid chargers that can add around 100 miles to a car's range in five minutes. If you wish to read more, click this Electric Drives article link here. MCDONALD'S EV CHARGING PROVISION INCREASESMcDonald's, in partnership with Instavolt, has EV charge points at 250 sites across the UK and Ireland. They do not plan on slowing down either. Fast charging for fast food. Click this Motoring Research article link here, to read more. TFL STUDY SHOWS ROAD INJURY AND DEATH REDUCTION A study by Transport for London (TfL) into rates of serious injury and death on roads with 20mph speed limits has shown a reduction in the numbers. This backs up what...

Under Governor Gavin Newsom, California has taken on an environmental policy that aims to reduce its carbon footprint, and that relies heavily on zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs). But California's pathway to going green may face its biggest obstacle in the coming Trump Administration. The President-Elect has vowed to cut federal tax breaks for ZEV purchases, and de-regulate federal environmental policies.   While Governor Newsom says he plans to bring back state-level incentives for ZEV purchases if those tax breaks are revoked, California is preparing for a fight with the new Trump Administration over its environmental future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this Automotive News Canada Podcast Replay from Sept. 6, 2024, Canadian Automobile Dealers Association CEO Tim Reuss breaks down a pair of new reports from the organization. He discusses the recent CADA Data Report and the National Workforce Study. He talks about dealership consolidation, wages, zero-emission vehicle sales, the gender gap and more.

One of the more contentious issues surrounding electric vehicles in Canada are so-called ZEV mandates, which sets target dates for EV sales. Several provinces have such mandates, including British Columbia and Quebec, but it is the federal government mandate that has really puts stakes in the ground.  As a reminder, Canada's zero emission vehicle mandate requires automakers ensure that 20 per cent in 2026, 60 per cent in 2030 and 100 per cent in 2035 of their vehicles sold in Canada are ZEVs. The PBO report set out to find if other words are these ZEV targets are realistic.  The short answer, according to the report findings, is they are not. To discuss this and other issues — including Chinese EVs — is Global Automakers of Canada president David Adams, an industry expert specializes in analyzing the disruption and evolution of both the automobile and the automotive industry in Canada. That includes zero emission vehicles and their adoption as well as the regulatory environment necessary to support the adoption of automated and connected vehicles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canadian Automobile Dealers Association CEO Tim Reuss breaks down a pair of new reports from the organization. He discusses the recent CADA Data Report and the National Workforce Study. He talks about dealership consolidation, wages, zero-emission vehicle sales, the gender gap and more.

In EcoNet News, Volume 26, Issue #7, Ted highlights two high-speed rail projects coming to Southern California: the California High-Speed Rail,  linking Los Angeles and San Francisco, and the Brightline West, linking Los Angeles to Las Vegas. He also highlights ZIPs (zero-emission vehicle implementation plans) and ZEVs (zero-emission vehicles), the climate-protection superstar hemp, South Australia nearing 100% net wind and solar, linear generators, San Francisco's hydrogen fueled ferry, Corryong in Victoria, Australia's community microgrid, thermal energy networks (TENs), sodium batteries, and renewable energy certificate (REC) arbitrage.

In this episode of the EV Life podcast, Susan Courty, a construction electrician and leader of the Edmonton chapter of Women in Renewable Energy (WiRE) joins us for a conversation on how construction sites can integrate zero-emission vehicles into their work sites. She discusses the benefits and challenges for companies to make the transition, and she also shares some information on WiRE and the work they're doing to foster a diverse and inclusive community in the renewable energy sector. More: Join the conversation in the EV Life group Learn more about WiRE

De la découverte du graffiti depuis la fenêtre de son immeuble, à la pratique intense dans les rues de Paris, en passant par sa participation à l'émergence du street art français à la fin des années 90, pour arriver à l'affinement de sa démarche artistique qui lui permet aujourd'hui de s'imposer dans les institutions, ZEVS partage avec nous son parcours unique. Quelques exemplaires du livre consacré à ZEVS: L'exécution d'une image " datant de 2014 sont disponibles dans notre boutique. Merci à Sit pour le mixage sonore. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fuzi/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fuzi/support

Årets andra Art is Alive. Känns som bara två dar sen det var säsongspremiär... kanske för att det var det. Som överraskning kommer ett avsnitt till så fort. Zeventine är med popsångaren Nick Albie i studion och pratar om hans comeback-singel HA DIG HÄR och hur sessionen att göra den var. Vi pratar även om hur vårt 2023 var, med morgonrutiner, att våga be om hjälp, Zevs borderline-diagnos, MTV-fester samt så spelar vi ett klipp av låten. Följ oss! Nick Albie: Instagram Facebook Spotify Zeventine: Instagram Facebook TikTok

On this day in legal history, November 22 marks a pivotal moment with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. While traveling through Dallas, Texas, Kennedy was fatally shot, an event that sent shockwaves across the nation and the world. His death not only marked a tragic loss but also ignited numerous conspiracy theories and debates about the circumstances surrounding the assassination.Prior to his assassination, President Kennedy had made notable comments about the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), expressing a desire to dismantle and reform the organization. He is famously quoted as having threatened to "tear the CIA apart and scatter it to the winds," reflecting his growing frustration with the agency's operations. This, and other unique facts and coincidences set the stage for as many conspiracy theories as there have been viewers of the Zapruder film of the assassination. In the wake of Kennedy's death, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was swiftly sworn in as the 36th President of the United States, symbolizing a rapid and solemn transition of power during a time of national crisis. The gravity of the situation led to an immediate demand for answers and the need to address widespread public speculation and concern.To this end, Chief Justice Earl Warren was appointed to head a special commission, later known as the Warren Commission, to thoroughly investigate the assassination. This commission was tasked with uncovering the facts and circumstances of Kennedy's death, and its formation underscored the legal and historical significance of the event.The Warren Commission conducted an extensive investigation, delving into various aspects of the assassination, including Lee Harvey Oswald's background, his actions on the day of the assassination, and any possible conspiracies. The commission's final report, presented to President Johnson on September 24, 1964, concluded that Oswald acted alone in assassinating Kennedy.The report, however, did not put an end to the controversy and speculation. Over the years, numerous theories and counter-arguments have emerged, questioning the commission's findings and suggesting alternative explanations. The Kennedy assassination remains a subject of fascination and debate, symbolizing a moment in history where legal, political, and social narratives intersected dramatically. The events of November 22, 1963, continue to resonate as a significant and somber chapter in American legal and political history.Binance Holdings Ltd. and its CEO, Changpeng Zhao, have pleaded guilty to anti-money laundering and US sanctions violations, settling a lengthy legal battle with the US. Under the settlement, Binance will pay a massive $4.3 billion fine, while Zhao will pay $50 million and step down as CEO. This resolution, involving the Justice Department, Treasury Department, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, concludes a years-long investigation into the cryptocurrency exchange's activities.The charges against Binance included transactions with terrorist groups such as Hamas, operating an unlicensed money transmitting business, and violating US sanctions. Zhao could face up to 10 years in prison, but is likely to receive no more than 18 months under his plea deal. This deal contrasts with harsher penalties faced by other crypto criminals.Binance's violations were extensive, involving failure to report suspicious transactions and allowing over a million transactions between US and Iran-based customers. Attorney General Merrick Garland emphasized the significant size of Binance's penalties, reflecting the severity of its legal breaches. The fines will be distributed among various US agencies.As part of the settlement, Zhao has stepped down as Binance CEO, succeeded by Richard Teng. Binance must also enhance its compliance program and appoint an independent monitor for three years. Despite admitting to lacking proper compliance controls, Binance maintains it did not misappropriate user funds or engage in market manipulation.The case highlighted Binance's deliberate avoidance of US laws to attract US users. The exchange facilitated US-based VIP customers to trade through offshore entities, with internal communications revealing strategies to evade US oversight. Zhao, aware of the presence of US customers, chose a risky approach, preferring to ask for forgiveness rather than permission.In court, Zhao accepted responsibility, agreeing to a $175 million bond for his release while awaiting sentencing. The resolution marks one of the largest penalties in the crypto industry, reflecting increasing scrutiny and legal actions against major players in this sector. The case against Binance underscores the growing regulatory focus on cryptocurrency exchanges and their compliance with international laws.Binance Pleads Guilty, Loses CZ, Pays Fines to End Legal WoesBinance's Zhao pleads guilty, steps down to settle US illicit finance probe | ReutersAccording to exclusive reporting by Riddhi Setty at Bloomberg Law, Macy's Inc. is facing scrutiny from America First Legal (AFL), a conservative legal group led by former Trump adviser Stephen Miller. AFL has accused Macy's of implementing a racially discriminatory diversity plan and has requested the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to investigate the retailer. Macy's 2019 five-point diversity plan, which aims for increased ethnic diversity in senior positions and leadership skill development for managers and directors of various ethnic backgrounds, is at the center of AFL's allegations.AFL asserts that Macy's diversity initiatives likely breach federal laws, particularly Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits race discrimination. This legal challenge is part of AFL's broader strategy, having targeted other high-profile employers like NASCAR, Major League Baseball, and Starbucks for their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.The group's increased activity follows the US Supreme Court decision limiting race-conscious policies in higher education. AFL has urged the EEOC commissioners to file a “commissioner charge” against Macy's, a relatively rare action within the agency, with a significant increase in such charges filed in the fiscal year 2022 compared to 2021.Additionally, AFL has written to Macy's board of directors and chairman, arguing that the retailer's diversity policies not only violate federal civil rights laws but also constitute a waste of company assets and a breach of fiduciary duty.Stephen Miller's Legal Group Targets Macy's Diversity PoliciesIn a significant legal victory, General Mills Inc., Kraft Heinz Co., Kellogg Co., and Nestle SA won a price-fixing lawsuit against the nation's largest egg producers. An Illinois federal jury found that Cal-Maine Foods Inc., Rose Acre Farms Inc., and two egg-industry trade groups conspired to restrict egg supply, leading these food companies to overpay for eggs for years. This decision, reached on November 21, 2023, by a jury of nine men and three women, marks a notable outcome in antitrust litigation.The jury's verdict, which is yet to be quantified in terms of damages, will be determined in a trial set to begin on November 29. Importantly, any awarded damages will be trebled by law, although the jury won't be informed of this statutory requirement. The defense, led by King & Spalding LLP partners, appeared stunned by the verdict, with the attorneys visibly shocked in the courtroom.This lawsuit began in 2011 when the food producers sued the egg producers and trade groups, alleging a conspiracy to reduce supply and artificially inflate egg prices. The jury agreed with the plaintiffs, finding evidence of the conspiracy from October 2004 to December 2008 through actions like reducing the hen population and increasing egg exports. However, the jury did not find that all egg producers associated with the industry groups were part of the conspiracy, nor did it agree that the food companies were injured by the alleged conspiracy from 2009 to 2012.The verdict in favor of the food companies could set a precedent and encourage other plaintiffs to pursue anticompetitive behavior cases against food producers. This case is seen as part of a broader scrutiny of antitrust practices in the food industry. The presiding judge, Steven Seeger, praised the quality of legal advocacy from both sides, even humorously distributing egg-containing brownies to the lawyers at the end of the arguments. The case, known as Kraft Foods Global, Inc. v. United Egg Producers, Inc., represents a critical moment in the ongoing legal battles over price-fixing and market manipulation in the food industry.Kellogg, Kraft Win Price-Fixing Suit Against Egg Companies (2)New Jersey has officially committed to phasing out new gasoline-powered cars by 2035, joining several other states in this environmental initiative. The state's Advanced Clean Cars II rule, set to be published on December 18, mandates that all new cars, pickup trucks, and SUVs sold in New Jersey must be zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) by 2035. This move aligns with standards first established by California in 2022, requiring manufacturers to gradually increase the percentage of ZEVs in their sales starting from the 2027 model year.The decision has been praised by environmentalists and lawmakers, including US Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.), who sees it as a crucial step in combating climate change and transforming the transportation sector. The Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council have also lauded New Jersey's commitment to cleaner air, improved public health, and climate change mitigation.However, the move has been met with criticism from industry groups. The New Jersey Coalition of Automotive Retailers views the rule as an extreme government mandate that restricts consumer choice and could lead to unintended consequences, such as consumers holding onto older, gas-powered vehicles longer. Dave Rible from the New Jersey Utility and Transportation Contractors Association also criticized the plan, citing the current state of infrastructure and economics as incompatible with such a transition.The rule allows other states to adopt California's stringent standards under the federal Clean Air Act, a path already chosen by several states including Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York. While New Jersey's rule doesn't directly restrict consumers or car dealers and offers some flexibility for manufacturers, the New Jersey Coalition of Automotive Retailers argues that the approach is heavy-handed and could negatively impact consumer behavior. Despite these concerns, New Jersey's commitment represents a significant step in the nationwide effort to transition towards cleaner, more sustainable transportation solutions.New Jersey Officially on Board to Phase Out Gas Cars by 2035 (1)A Florida judge has found "reasonable evidence" suggesting that Tesla CEO Elon Musk and other company executives were aware of defects in the automaker's Autopilot system but continued to allow the cars to be driven, posing safety risks. This ruling, by Judge Reid Scott of the Palm Beach County Circuit Court, is significant as it allows the plaintiff in a fatal crash lawsuit to pursue punitive damages against Tesla for intentional misconduct and gross negligence. The lawsuit stems from a 2019 incident where a Tesla Model 3, driven by Stephen Banner, crashed under a big rig truck, resulting in Banner's death.This ruling marks a setback for Tesla, which had previously won two product liability trials in California regarding its Autopilot system. The judge's summary of evidence highlights "alarming inconsistencies" between Tesla's internal knowledge and its external marketing claims about Autopilot's capabilities.Judge Scott's findings indicate that Tesla engaged in misleading marketing by portraying its products as autonomous, and Musk's public statements significantly influenced public perception of the technology. The judge also determined that Tesla's warnings in manuals and agreements were inadequate and highlighted the similarity of this accident to a 2016 fatal crash involving the Autopilot system's failure to detect crossing trucks.The judge cited a 2016 promotional video showing a Tesla driving autonomously as misleading, noting its lack of disclaimers about the technology's aspirational nature. This evidence, according to the judge, could lead to a public trial with potentially awkward revelations for Tesla and Musk, and potentially result in a verdict that includes punitive damages. Banner's attorney expressed pride in the results based on evidence of punitive conduct.Judge finds evidence that Tesla, Musk knew about Autopilot defect | ReutersOpenAI and Microsoft are embroiled in a lawsuit for allegedly misusing the work of nonfiction authors in training their AI models, such as ChatGPT. Author Julian Sancton, leading a proposed class action in Manhattan federal court, accuses OpenAI of copying thousands of nonfiction books without permission for this purpose. This lawsuit is part of a broader trend of similar legal challenges against OpenAI, involving notable authors like John Grisham and George R.R. Martin, which the companies have denied. Sancton's lawsuit is unique in that it also implicates Microsoft as a defendant due to its significant investments in OpenAI and integration of its AI systems.In a dramatic turn of events, Sam Altman, who was recently fired as CEO of OpenAI, has been reinstated, ending a tumultuous week that shook Silicon Valley. Altman's dismissal had caused shockwaves, with OpenAI's investors and approximately 770 employees rallying for his return. Under the new agreement, Altman will return as CEO but without a seat on the new board, which is undergoing a restructuring process. The new board will consist of notable figures like Bret Taylor, Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo, who was among those voting to oust Altman.Altman's firing, initially citing a lack of candor in board discussions, has exposed rifts within OpenAI over its control and future direction. Since its inception as a nonprofit, OpenAI has evolved under Altman's leadership, attracting significant investments and shifting towards consumer product development. This shift has raised concerns about the company veering away from its original mission of being a transparent alternative to Big Tech.Altman's return is seen as a stabilizing factor for OpenAI, bringing relief to investors, customers, and employees who feared the boardroom upheaval could lead to the company's collapse. This reinstatement is also beneficial for Microsoft, OpenAI's largest investor, which heavily relies on OpenAI's technology for its AI products. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has expressed support for the changes in OpenAI's board, looking forward to continuing their partnership and advancing AI technology. The resolution of this internal crisis at OpenAI holds significant implications for the broader AI industry and its competitive landscape.OpenAI, Microsoft hit with new author copyright lawsuit over AI training | ReutersSam Altman reinstated as OpenAI CEO with new board members Get full access to Minimum Competence - Daily Legal News Podcast at www.minimumcomp.com/subscribe

On its way to sustainable transportation, Europe has reached a critical stretch: More and more zero-emission vehicles are available, but there are still too few on the roads and in everyday use. The question is: What are the missing links and how can they be tackled? Martin Daum discusses this with Sigrid de Vries, Director General of the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA). More information and other podcast episodes: https://www.daimlertruck.com/en/newsroom/podcast More information: - https://www.daimlertruck.com/en/sustainability - https://www.acea.auto/ Listen now and subscribe to the podcast: - Daimler Truck Corporate Website: http://dth.ag/daimlertruck-devries - Apple: http://dth.ag/apple-devries - Deezer: http://dth.ag/deezer-devries - Google: http://dth.ag/google-devries - Spotify: http://dth.ag/spotify-devries - YouTube: https://youtu.be/AVV_NbWLwTg

Platonov dialog Simpozij je neskončna hvalnica ljubezni. Gostje, ki so se zbrali na skupnem obedu, so se dogovorili, da se bodo odpovedali pijančevanju, ki pogosto sledi gostiji – namesto tega so želeli s slavospevi počastiti Erosa, boga ljubezni. Med govorniki je nastopil tudi Aristofan, ki je razvijal idejo o ljubezni kot želji po enosti. Da pa bi laže pojasnil svojo misel, jo je predstavil v obliki prispodobe o izvorni naravi ljudi. »Sprva so bili namreč trije spoli, ne dva kot zdaj, moški in ženski, ampak je poleg njiju obstajal še tretji, ki je združeval oba,« je začel svojo pripoved. »Vsak človek je bil po obliki popolnoma zaobljen; imel je okrogel hrbet in tudi boke. Imel je štiri roke in prav toliko nog; imel je dva čisto podobna obraza na okroglem vratu in glavo, ki je bila podložena obema nasprotnima obrazoma; štiri ušesa in dva sramna dela.« S tem je hotel povedati, da so bili ljudje v začetku popolni, v sebi so združevali vse, kar so potrebovali za srečno življenje, in dve enoti sta bili združeni v harmonično celoto. Trije različni spoli pa so obstajali zato, »ker je bil moški spol v začetku potomec Sonca, ženski Zemlje, tisti, ki je bil udeležen v obeh, pa je bil potomec Lune, saj ima Luna delež v njiju.« Sonce je namreč vir svetlobe in ljubezni, Zemlja poraja iz tega občutka, Luna pa obliva to Zemljo s sončno svetlobo in je zato posrednik med njima. Ti prvotni ljudje so poznali svojo pravo naravo in najvišje resnice, prav zaradi tega svojega védenja pa so sčasoma postali domišljavi – prevzeli so se, se začeli istovetiti z bogovi in poskušali seči do nebes, da bi jim prevzeli mesto. Zato je Zevs, poglavar bogov, skupaj z drugimi božanstvi sklenil, da bodo ljudi kaznovali tako, da jih bodo razrezali na dvoje in jih tako ošibili. Ko je človeška narava začutila, da so jo ločili na dve polovici, je vsak del v obupu poskušal najti svojo manjkajočo polovico. Iz hrepenenja po izvorni enosti sta se objeli, se oklenili druga druge v želji, da bi se znova zarasli, a zaman – namesto tega je ena polovica »iskala drugo in se je je oklenila, najsi je naletela na polovico celotne ženske ali celotnega moškega. In tako so umirali.« Tako Aristofan zbranim pojasnjuje izvor našega hrepenenja po drugem človeku, po njegovi bližini, ob pomoči katere želimo vedno znova obujati spomin na prvotno popolnost. Čeprav se po njegovem mnenju to iskanje največkrat izjalovi, saj smo iz obupa pripravljeni v odnos nepremišljeno povabiti skoraj vsakogar, pa nas ta zgodba vendarle opogumlja, da je nekje zunaj nekdo, s katerim se bomo lahko zlili kot dva koščka iste sestavljanke.

Zdravo. Začnemo z "mi smo za, mi smo za proti" debato o tem, kdo je za in kdo je proti in kdo je dobil Nobelovo nagrado za mir in ali je vredna vsaj pol para dingovih ledvičk. V epizodi lahko slišite surovo moč našega asistenta zvočnega mojstra, ki popravi Aljotov štender. Tudi: vrnila se je rubrika Komad tedna. Ker pa kot delodajalci sočustvujemo z delodajalci, ki svoje zaposlene premalo plačujejo, ugotovimo, da za tem stoji veliki denar. Spomnimo se tudi na legendarne filme Die Hard in počasi začnemo z epizodo. Ford tokrat spozna urednika, ki je nov in ki mu pove, da se Galaksija spreminja in z njo tudi vodnik. Mi pa se spomnimo na računovodske konvencije, ne vemo če jih majo tudi FURS-ovke in FURS-ovci in študiramo, če obstaja kakšen računovodski / dacarski podkast, s katerim bi lahko združili moči. Seveda ne pozabimo na napad brisače na novega glavnega urednika in na osebno izkaznico, ki jo "dobi" Ford.

Alan Adler - Midwest Bureau Chief - FreightWaves - Anaheim, CA Given California's timetable for ZEVs, how difficult is it going to be to get charging stations in place by then?

Sandrah Eckel is an associate professor of population and public health sciences, and director of the PhD in Biostatistics program. Her latest research documents the actual impact of electric vehicle adoption in the first study to use real-world data to link electric cars, air pollution and health. Leveraging publicly available datasets, the researchers analyzed a “natural experiment” occurring in California as residents in the state rapidly transitioned to electric cars, or light-duty zero emissions vehicles (ZEVs).Learn more about this episode and others at pphs.usc.edu/podcastStay in the loop - subscribe to the Preventive Dose newsletter for monthly news straight to your inbox.Follow us on social - find us at @uscpphs Instagram TikTok Facebook LinkedIn Twitter YouTube

A proposed California Senate Bill, SB-525 Minimum wage: health care workers would mandate a minimum wage of $25 per hour for all California health care workers. Virtually everyone working in California health care, including support staff as well as health workers, would be covered by the legislation. Spotify has unveiled a new feature to help curate your music that is fueled by artificial intelligence. The company's new AI DJ, aptly named “DJ,” helps guide you through your listening experience by feeding you music it thinks you'll love along with computer-generated commentary on what makes those songs great. A team of researchers at the Keck School of Medicine documented the effect of adopting zero-emission vehicles in one of the first-ever studies in the field that reveals the association between ZEVs, air pollution and public health. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The number of people on the nation's terror watch list who have been arrested at the southern border has soared under the Biden administration, according to a new report. About 19% of all cars sold in California last year were zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs), accounting for 40% of all ZEV sales including hybrid vehicles in the United States, data showed.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode we are in Oceanside, California for the debut of the 2023 Audi Q4 e-tron and to talk to Spencer Reeder, Director of Government Affairs & Sustainability at Audi of America, who is responsible for leading the luxury manufacturer´s public policy voice on zero-emissions vehicles (ZEVs), alternate fuels technology and associated infrastructure.

Intergovernmental organisation the International Energy Agency (IEA) in its 'Breakthrough Agenda Report 2022' says international collaboration will be critical to successfully transition to sustainability, given the global scale and fast pace of change that is required. "Action by governments and businesses individually is necessary, but not sufficient. Well-targeted international collaboration can make low-carbon transitions faster, less difficult and lower cost. “By aligning and coordinating actions internationally, countries and businesses can accelerate innovation, create stronger signals for investment and larger economies of scale, and establish level playing fields, where needed, to ensure that competition is a driver of the transition and not a brake," it says. "International assistance, finance and the sharing of best practice can support widespread adoption of effective policies and available technologies. International infrastructure can enable cross-border flows of clean energy. Without international collaboration, the transition to net-zero global emissions could be delayed by decades," the IEA emphasises. The IEA Breakthrough Agenda Report 2022 focuses on actions in five sectors – power, hydrogen, road transport, steel and agriculture, which account for more than 50% of global greenhouse-gas emissions, and for which the signatories have so far agreed on goals under the Breakthrough Agenda. "Clean technologies and sustainable solutions are not yet the most affordable or accessible options in these sectors, except in the power sector, and even in the power sector, this is not yet the case in all countries. "Meeting the Breakthrough Agenda goals in these sectors will require concerted action from governments, businesses and civil society, while doing so could enable all countries to make faster progress, greatly increasing the chances of avoiding more dangerous levels of climate change and meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals," the IEA says. SECTOR RECOMMENDATIONS The power sector accounts for about 13 Gt of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e), or 23%, of total emissions, which has risen by about 10% since 2010 and needs to fall by more than 50% by 2030. Investment will need to grow 25% each year, reaching $2-trillion a year by 2030. Hydrogen production and use, meanwhile, accounts for about 0.9 Gt of CO2e, or 1.5% of total emissions. Renewable and low-carbon hydrogen production currently accounts for less than 1% of total production. Targets and commitments to use low-carbon and renewable hydrogen are equivalent to 3% of current total hydrogen demand. Currently, 15% of ammonia and 28% of methanol is internationally traded, the IEA report indicates. "Governments and companies should coordinate internationally to increase commitments for the use of low-carbon and renewable hydrogen in sectors where hydrogen is currently used, supported by specific policies and purchase agreements to collectively send a strong demand signal and mobilise investment in production. "In new priority application sectors, countries should share learning to accelerate early deployment. This should be done in a manner that ensures a level playing field in international trade," the IEA recommends. Further, the road transport sector accounts for about 6 Gt of CO2e, or 10% of total emissions, which has risen by 13% since 2010 and needs to decrease by nearly 33% by 2030. "Public charging infrastructure needs to increase ten-fold by 2030. If major markets align their policies with zero-emissions vehicle (ZEV) sales by 2035, cost parity between ZEVs and internal combustion engine vehicles could be reached several years earlier. “Further, more than 60% of the vehicles added to the roads in Africa each year are imported used vehicles," the IEA report highlights. Meanwhile, the steel sector accounts for about 3 Gt of CO2e, or 5% of total emissions, which has risen by about 15% since 2010 and needs to fall by about 25% by 2030. Glob...

Intergovernmental organisation the International Energy Agency (IEA) in its 'Breakthrough Agenda Report 2022' says international collaboration will be critical to successfully transition to sustainability, given the global scale and fast pace of change that is required. "Action by governments and businesses individually is necessary, but not sufficient. Well-targeted international collaboration can make low-carbon transitions faster, less difficult and lower cost. “By aligning and coordinating actions internationally, countries and businesses can accelerate innovation, create stronger signals for investment and larger economies of scale, and establish level playing fields, where needed, to ensure that competition is a driver of the transition and not a brake," it says. "International assistance, finance and the sharing of best practice can support widespread adoption of effective policies and available technologies. International infrastructure can enable cross-border flows of clean energy. Without international collaboration, the transition to net-zero global emissions could be delayed by decades," the IEA emphasises. The IEA Breakthrough Agenda Report 2022 focuses on actions in five sectors – power, hydrogen, road transport, steel and agriculture, which account for more than 50% of global greenhouse-gas emissions, and for which the signatories have so far agreed on goals under the Breakthrough Agenda. "Clean technologies and sustainable solutions are not yet the most affordable or accessible options in these sectors, except in the power sector, and even in the power sector, this is not yet the case in all countries. "Meeting the Breakthrough Agenda goals in these sectors will require concerted action from governments, businesses and civil society, while doing so could enable all countries to make faster progress, greatly increasing the chances of avoiding more dangerous levels of climate change and meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals," the IEA says. SECTOR RECOMMENDATIONS The power sector accounts for about 13 Gt of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e), or 23%, of total emissions, which has risen by about 10% since 2010 and needs to fall by more than 50% by 2030. Investment will need to grow 25% each year, reaching $2-trillion a year by 2030. Hydrogen production and use, meanwhile, accounts for about 0.9 Gt of CO2e, or 1.5% of total emissions. Renewable and low-carbon hydrogen production currently accounts for less than 1% of total production. Targets and commitments to use low-carbon and renewable hydrogen are equivalent to 3% of current total hydrogen demand. Currently, 15% of ammonia and 28% of methanol is internationally traded, the IEA report indicates. "Governments and companies should coordinate internationally to increase commitments for the use of low-carbon and renewable hydrogen in sectors where hydrogen is currently used, supported by specific policies and purchase agreements to collectively send a strong demand signal and mobilise investment in production. "In new priority application sectors, countries should share learning to accelerate early deployment. This should be done in a manner that ensures a level playing field in international trade," the IEA recommends. Further, the road transport sector accounts for about 6 Gt of CO2e, or 10% of total emissions, which has risen by 13% since 2010 and needs to decrease by nearly 33% by 2030. "Public charging infrastructure needs to increase ten-fold by 2030. If major markets align their policies with zero-emissions vehicle (ZEV) sales by 2035, cost parity between ZEVs and internal combustion engine vehicles could be reached several years earlier. “Further, more than 60% of the vehicles added to the roads in Africa each year are imported used vehicles," the IEA report highlights. Meanwhile, the steel sector accounts for about 3 Gt of CO2e, or 5% of total emissions, which has risen by about 15% since 2010 and needs to fall by about 25% by 2030. Glob...

Biden Administration colluding with social media, Gov. Abbot of Texas bussing illegal immigrants to Chicago, Oregon tells California to hold its beer on electric cars… … and more on today’s CrossPolitic Daily News Brief. My name is Toby Sumpter and today is Friday, September 2, 2022. Blue Ridge Reformed Church, a potential CREC church plant in the Roanoke Valley, will begin worship services on Sunday September 4th at 6:00 p.m. They are located at 6032 Cloverdale Rd, Roanoke, VA 24019. For more information folks can check out our website blueridgereformed.org https://www.theepochtimes.com/over-50-biden-administration-employees-12-us-agencies-involved-in-social-media-censorship-push-documents_4704349.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport Over 50 Biden Administration Employees, 12 US Agencies Involved in Social Media Censorship Push: Documents Over 50 officials in President Joe Biden’s administration across a dozen agencies have been involved with efforts to pressure Big Techcompanies to crack down on alleged misinformation, according to documents released on Aug. 31. Senior officials in the U.S. government, including White House lawyer Dana Remus, deputy assistant to the president Rob Flaherty, and onetime White House senior COVID-19 adviser Andy Slavitt, have been in touch with one or more major social media companies to try to get the companies to tighten rules on allegedly false and misleading information on COVID-19, and take action against users who violate the rules, the documents show. In July 2021, for instance, after Biden said that Facebook was “killing people” by not combating misinformation effectively, an executive at Meta reached out to Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, a Biden appointee, to say that government and Meta teams met after the remarks “to better understand the scope of what the White House expects from us on misinformation going forward.” The same executive later wrote to Murthy saying, “I wanted to make sure you saw the steps we took just this past week to adjust policies on what we are removing with respect to misinformation, as well as steps taken to further address the ‘disinfo dozen,'” including removing pages linked to the group. The White House publicly pressured social media companies to take action against a group officials dubbed the “disinformation dozen,” which a nonprofit claimed were producing the bulk of “anti-vaccine misinformation” on the platforms. Also in July 2021, Murthy said Facebook had not done enough to combat misinformation. Rob Flaherty, director of digital strategy for the White House, told Slavitt and others in April 2021 that White House staff would be briefed by Twitter “on vaccine misinfo,” with the meeting including “ways the White House (and our COVID experts) can partner in product work,” according to one of the messages. In another exchange that year, a Department of Treasury official working on “mis, dis, and mal-information” told Meta workers that the deputy treasury secretary wanted to talk about “potential influence operations.” In a text in February 2021, meanwhile, U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly, wrote to another agency official that she was “trying to get us in a place where Fed can work with platforms to better understand the mis/dis trends so relevant agencies can try to prebunk/debunk as useful.” The documents were part of a preliminary production in a lawsuitlevied against the government by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, later joined by experts maligned by federal officials. “If there was ever any doubt the federal government was behind censorship of Americans who dared to dissent from official Covid messaging, that doubt has been erased,” Jenin Younes, a lawyer with the New Civil Liberties Alliance who is representing some of the plaintiffs in the case, said in a statement. “The shocking extent of the government’s involvement in silencing Americans, through coercing social-media companies, has now been revealed.” Club Membership Plug: Let’s stop and take a moment to talk about Fight Laugh Feast Club membership. By joining the Fight Laugh Feast Army, not only will you be aiding in our fight to take down secular & legacy media; but you’ll also get access to content placed in our Club Portal, such as past shows, all of our conference talks, and EXCLUSIVE content for club members that you won’t be able to find anywhere else. Lastly, you’ll also get discounts for our conferences… so if you’ve got $10 bucks a month to kick over our way, you can sign up now at flfnetwork.com https://www.theepochtimes.com/texas-gov-greg-abbott-begins-busing-illegal-immigrants-to-chicago_4703681.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Begins Busing Illegal Immigrants to Chicago Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday said that illegal aliens apprehended along the U.S.-Mexico border are now being bused to Chicago in addition to New York City and Washington. Abbott said his strategy to bus illegal immigrants from Texas to the Democrat-led sanctuary cities makes a strategic point about the impact of President Joe Biden’s “open border policies” on American communities. “President Biden’s inaction at our southern border continues putting the lives of Texans—and Americans—at risk and is overwhelming our communities,” the Republican governor said in a statement. “To continue providing much-needed relief to our small, overrun border towns, Chicago will join fellow sanctuary cities Washington, D.C. and New York City as an additional drop-off location.” Acknowledging Chicago’s sanctuary city policies, Abbott said Mayor Lori Lightfoot “loves to tout” that her city welcomes illegal immigrants as a matter of “responsibility.” “I look forward to seeing this responsibility in action as these migrants receive resources from a sanctuary city with the capacity to serve them,” Abbott said. Chicago Calls Busing Program ‘Racist’ The Chicago mayor’s office confirmed that around 60 illegal aliens arrived at Union Square from Texas on Wednesday night and were being provided with essential services while they “navigate the next steps of their journey.” “As a city we are doing everything we can to ensure these immigrants and their families receive shelter, food, and most importantly protection,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “This is not new; Chicago welcomes hundreds of migrants every year to our city and provides much-needed assistance.” The spokesperson also accused Abbott of having no “shame or humanity” and described the busing program as “racist practices.” The mayors of Washington and New York City, Muriel Bowser and Eric Adams, have also criticized the busing program, calling it a political stunt. But Abbott has said the illegal immigrants voluntarily chose to go to their cities where there is more capacity to serve them. The Texas governor first directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management in April to charter buses to transport illegal immigrants who claimed asylum when apprehended along the U.S.-Mexico border to Washington. New York City was added as a second drop-off location in August. Since then, more than 8,900 illegal aliens have been bused out of Texas to those cities, providing “much-needed relief to Texas’ overwhelmed border communities,” according to Abbott’s office. Overwhelmed with the influx of illegal aliens arriving from Texas, Bowser has twice asked the Biden administration to deploy National Guard personnel to help her city cope. Both requests were denied. Lightfoot signed Chicago’s “Welcoming City Ordinance” measure in February 2021 to strengthen the city’s sanctuary policies, which prevented local police from cooperating with federal immigration authorities. “Chicago has been a welcoming city and a city of immigrants since its very founding, and proudly so,” Lightfoot said at the time. Abbott’s office noted that under this policy Chicago doesn’t deny city services to individuals based on their immigration status. “With its ‘Welcoming City Ordinance’ making it a sanctuary city, Chicago will not deny city services to individuals based on their immigration status. The city also does not require local police to cooperate with federal immigration authorities,” Abbott’s office said. Abbott promised to keep busing illegal aliens to so-called sanctuary cities until the Biden administration “does its job” to secure the border. Redballoon Not so long ago, the American dream was alive and well. Employees who worked hard were rewarded, and employers looked for people who could do the job, not for people who had the right political views. RedBalloon.work is a job site designed to get us back to what made American businesses successful: free speech, hard work, and having fun. If you are a free speech employer who wants to hire employees who focus on their work and not identity politics, then post a job on RedBalloon. If you are an employee who is being censored at work or is being forced to comply with the current zeitgeist, post your resume on RedBalloon and look for a new job. redballoon.work, the job site where free speech is still alive! www.redballoon.work https://www.theepochtimes.com/oregon-to-join-california-in-move-to-ban-gas-powered-vehicle-sales_4704534.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport Oregon to Join California in Move to Ban Gas-Powered Vehicle Sales Oregon has joined a list of more than a dozen states vowing to follow California’s lead in banning the sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035. The move comes as California urges residents to not charge their electric vehicles during a heatwave to avoid straining the electrical grid. An Oregon Department of Environmental Quality advisory committee is now in the process of creating what it calls “Advanced Clean Cars II Rules,” which will guide the state toward that new goal. California announced on Aug. 24 that it would begin to phase out gas-powered vehicles beginning in 2026, when 35 percent of all passenger vehicles and light duty trucks sold in the state must be zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs). With an anticipated increase of nearly 8 percent annually, the state has vowed that 100 percent of all vehicles sold in California will be ZEVs by 2035. Oregon aims to follow suit. “The transportation sector accounts for more than 40 percent of Oregon’s greenhouse gas emissions,” the Oregon Department of Energy said in a statement. “Moving to cleaner, alternative fuel transportation options, like zero-emission vehicles, can reduce those harmful Green House Gases (GHGs) and help Oregon reach its climate goals.” Oregon had already been working toward a goal set by its legislature in 2019 to have 250,000 registered ZEVs in the state by 2025. As of April, there were approximately 50,000 ZEVs on Oregon roads, falling well short of the pace to meet that goal in the first three years. “We’re committed to getting more electric vehicles [EVs] on Oregon’s roads and 50,000 registered EVs is a major milestone,” said Amanda Pietz, administrator of the Oregon Department of Transportation’s Climate Office. “EVs make up about 8 percent of new cars, trucks, and SUVs sold in Oregon, and we’ll support that growing market through partnerships to build out EV charging stations along major roads and in Oregon’s communities.” The state will also “support” that market by banning gas-powered vehicles and using taxpayer-funded subsidies to prime the pump. Oregon offers as much as $7,500 in taxpayer-funded rebates on top of the federal tax credit of $7,500 toward the purchase of a ZEV. Utilities in the state are offering additional rebates of up to $1,500 for a vehicle purchase and up to $1,000 to install a residential home charger or workplace-commercial charging station. The Go Electric Oregon website encourages buyers to “stack” government incentives to obtain more than $16,500 to use for the purchase of a ZEV. According to Oregon Public Broadcasting, taxpayers have already subsidized the purchase of electric vehicles (at an average cost of $66,000) to the tune of $55 million. One 2018 estimate puts the average income of an electric vehicle driver at $150,000 compared to the U.S. average of $63,000. In May, the Oregon Department of Transportation committed to spending $100 million in federal and state funds over the next five years to expand Oregon’s EV charging infrastructure. The transition to ZEVs seems to overlook increasing concern over their environmental impact and national security implications. Making ZEV batteries requires the use of fossil fuels to process ore and extract minerals, including lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, and graphite. They also require steel, aluminum, plastic, and other materials. The extraction and processing of these minerals are dominated by China and the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to Bloomberg, China controls 80 percent of the market for EV batteries. The push to convert to ZEVs will also create challenges to the electrical grid. In a 2018 analysis, energy economists at the University of Texas found that if California drivers were to go fully electric overnight, the state would need about 47 percent more electricity than it currently consumes. All the states that follow California’s emission standards will face similar challenges. But California’s electrical grid is already strained and Oregon’s faces uncertainty. With a heatwave looming, California’s grid operator issued an alert on Aug. 31, urging residents to avoid using large appliances and charging electric vehicles between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. over the Labor Day weekend. “Lowering electricity use during that time will ease strain on the system, and prevent more drastic measures, including rotating power outages,” the alert reads. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has supported removing or breaching the Lower Snake River Dams to protect fish populations. Carbon-free hydropower from dams makes up 45 percent of the electricity used in Oregon. https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2022/08/31/report-20-mlb-teams-promote-fund-groups-perform-child-sex-change-operations/ Report: 20 MLB Teams ‘Promote or Fund’ Groups that Perform Child Sex Change Operations The magazine reviewed the causes and organizations to which these teams are handing out millions of dollars in donations and found that many support sex-change surgery, hormone treatments, and other dangerous procedures for “transitioning” teens and pre-teens. National Review found that almost every team in the league “promote or fund groups that encourage or provide sex-change procedures and gender-transition hormone treatment for minors as young as 12. Other organizations promote ‘social transitions’ — i.e., nonmedical changes in ‘gender expression,’ including the adoption of new names, pronouns, and clothing — for children as young as three.” Much of the support these teams are lending is organized under the rubric of the widespread LGBTQ “Pride Nights” that the league pushes. Along with the yearly events in the stadiums, the teams also donate money to a number of advocacy groups — usually local groups, but often national groups, as well. The Detroit Tigers, for instance, support the Ruth Ellis Center and Corktown Health in Detroit, the magazine noted. At the checkout page for tickets to the Pride Night game, the Tigers website offered ‘a chance to support a local Pride organization of your choice,’ with a drop-down menu that included LGBT-focused clinics such as the Ruth Ellis Center and Corktown Health, both of which perform medical gender transitions on minors. On top of masculinizing and feminizing drugs, at least one — the Ruth Ellis Center — included irreversible ‘gender affirming surgery’ in its suite of ‘transition care for transgender youth’ options. Another charity promoted by the Tigers, the Trans Sistas of Color Project, was actively funding groups such as ‘Trans Minors Rights,’ which ‘advocates for empowering transgender youth to make their own decisions regarding puberty blockers’ — i.e., ‘without requiring the consent of a parent.’ (The group’s tagline: ‘Unblock blockers.’) The magazine noted that the Tigers are only one example and that the MLB “Pride Resource Guide” promotes a long list of “social justice” groups that also push transgenderism on kids. The report found that five teams promoted groups that push dangerous surgeries on trans kids, including the Detroit Tigers, the Boston Red Sox, the Milwaukee Brewers, Tampa Bay Rays, and the Cleveland Guardians. Four teams partner with organizations that provide counseling and referrals to youths for such medical procedures. That list includes the L.A. Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Diego Padres, and the Oakland As. And another five teams promote groups that offer guides and promotion of the transgender lifestyle, including the Cincinnati Reds, Houston Astros, Arizona Diamondbacks, Philadelphia Phillies, and the Colorado Rockies. Finally, six teams support groups that have lobbyists for the trans cause and otherwise advocate for the transgender lifestyle. Those teams include the Chicago Cubs and White Sox, the L.A. Angels, Minnesota Twins, St. Louis Cardinals, and the Washington Nationals. “It’s a classic case of institutional capture by the Left,” the magazine concluded. It is up to the fans to speak out and urge the league to reverse course on this outrageous advocacy. Christ Church Events Coordinator Looking to move to Moscow? 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Biden Administration colluding with social media, Gov. Abbot of Texas bussing illegal immigrants to Chicago, Oregon tells California to hold its beer on electric cars… … and more on today’s CrossPolitic Daily News Brief. My name is Toby Sumpter and today is Friday, September 2, 2022. Blue Ridge Reformed Church, a potential CREC church plant in the Roanoke Valley, will begin worship services on Sunday September 4th at 6:00 p.m. They are located at 6032 Cloverdale Rd, Roanoke, VA 24019. For more information folks can check out our website blueridgereformed.org https://www.theepochtimes.com/over-50-biden-administration-employees-12-us-agencies-involved-in-social-media-censorship-push-documents_4704349.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport Over 50 Biden Administration Employees, 12 US Agencies Involved in Social Media Censorship Push: Documents Over 50 officials in President Joe Biden’s administration across a dozen agencies have been involved with efforts to pressure Big Techcompanies to crack down on alleged misinformation, according to documents released on Aug. 31. Senior officials in the U.S. government, including White House lawyer Dana Remus, deputy assistant to the president Rob Flaherty, and onetime White House senior COVID-19 adviser Andy Slavitt, have been in touch with one or more major social media companies to try to get the companies to tighten rules on allegedly false and misleading information on COVID-19, and take action against users who violate the rules, the documents show. In July 2021, for instance, after Biden said that Facebook was “killing people” by not combating misinformation effectively, an executive at Meta reached out to Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, a Biden appointee, to say that government and Meta teams met after the remarks “to better understand the scope of what the White House expects from us on misinformation going forward.” The same executive later wrote to Murthy saying, “I wanted to make sure you saw the steps we took just this past week to adjust policies on what we are removing with respect to misinformation, as well as steps taken to further address the ‘disinfo dozen,'” including removing pages linked to the group. The White House publicly pressured social media companies to take action against a group officials dubbed the “disinformation dozen,” which a nonprofit claimed were producing the bulk of “anti-vaccine misinformation” on the platforms. Also in July 2021, Murthy said Facebook had not done enough to combat misinformation. Rob Flaherty, director of digital strategy for the White House, told Slavitt and others in April 2021 that White House staff would be briefed by Twitter “on vaccine misinfo,” with the meeting including “ways the White House (and our COVID experts) can partner in product work,” according to one of the messages. In another exchange that year, a Department of Treasury official working on “mis, dis, and mal-information” told Meta workers that the deputy treasury secretary wanted to talk about “potential influence operations.” In a text in February 2021, meanwhile, U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly, wrote to another agency official that she was “trying to get us in a place where Fed can work with platforms to better understand the mis/dis trends so relevant agencies can try to prebunk/debunk as useful.” The documents were part of a preliminary production in a lawsuitlevied against the government by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, later joined by experts maligned by federal officials. “If there was ever any doubt the federal government was behind censorship of Americans who dared to dissent from official Covid messaging, that doubt has been erased,” Jenin Younes, a lawyer with the New Civil Liberties Alliance who is representing some of the plaintiffs in the case, said in a statement. “The shocking extent of the government’s involvement in silencing Americans, through coercing social-media companies, has now been revealed.” Club Membership Plug: Let’s stop and take a moment to talk about Fight Laugh Feast Club membership. By joining the Fight Laugh Feast Army, not only will you be aiding in our fight to take down secular & legacy media; but you’ll also get access to content placed in our Club Portal, such as past shows, all of our conference talks, and EXCLUSIVE content for club members that you won’t be able to find anywhere else. Lastly, you’ll also get discounts for our conferences… so if you’ve got $10 bucks a month to kick over our way, you can sign up now at flfnetwork.com https://www.theepochtimes.com/texas-gov-greg-abbott-begins-busing-illegal-immigrants-to-chicago_4703681.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Begins Busing Illegal Immigrants to Chicago Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday said that illegal aliens apprehended along the U.S.-Mexico border are now being bused to Chicago in addition to New York City and Washington. Abbott said his strategy to bus illegal immigrants from Texas to the Democrat-led sanctuary cities makes a strategic point about the impact of President Joe Biden’s “open border policies” on American communities. “President Biden’s inaction at our southern border continues putting the lives of Texans—and Americans—at risk and is overwhelming our communities,” the Republican governor said in a statement. “To continue providing much-needed relief to our small, overrun border towns, Chicago will join fellow sanctuary cities Washington, D.C. and New York City as an additional drop-off location.” Acknowledging Chicago’s sanctuary city policies, Abbott said Mayor Lori Lightfoot “loves to tout” that her city welcomes illegal immigrants as a matter of “responsibility.” “I look forward to seeing this responsibility in action as these migrants receive resources from a sanctuary city with the capacity to serve them,” Abbott said. Chicago Calls Busing Program ‘Racist’ The Chicago mayor’s office confirmed that around 60 illegal aliens arrived at Union Square from Texas on Wednesday night and were being provided with essential services while they “navigate the next steps of their journey.” “As a city we are doing everything we can to ensure these immigrants and their families receive shelter, food, and most importantly protection,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “This is not new; Chicago welcomes hundreds of migrants every year to our city and provides much-needed assistance.” The spokesperson also accused Abbott of having no “shame or humanity” and described the busing program as “racist practices.” The mayors of Washington and New York City, Muriel Bowser and Eric Adams, have also criticized the busing program, calling it a political stunt. But Abbott has said the illegal immigrants voluntarily chose to go to their cities where there is more capacity to serve them. The Texas governor first directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management in April to charter buses to transport illegal immigrants who claimed asylum when apprehended along the U.S.-Mexico border to Washington. New York City was added as a second drop-off location in August. Since then, more than 8,900 illegal aliens have been bused out of Texas to those cities, providing “much-needed relief to Texas’ overwhelmed border communities,” according to Abbott’s office. Overwhelmed with the influx of illegal aliens arriving from Texas, Bowser has twice asked the Biden administration to deploy National Guard personnel to help her city cope. Both requests were denied. Lightfoot signed Chicago’s “Welcoming City Ordinance” measure in February 2021 to strengthen the city’s sanctuary policies, which prevented local police from cooperating with federal immigration authorities. “Chicago has been a welcoming city and a city of immigrants since its very founding, and proudly so,” Lightfoot said at the time. Abbott’s office noted that under this policy Chicago doesn’t deny city services to individuals based on their immigration status. “With its ‘Welcoming City Ordinance’ making it a sanctuary city, Chicago will not deny city services to individuals based on their immigration status. The city also does not require local police to cooperate with federal immigration authorities,” Abbott’s office said. Abbott promised to keep busing illegal aliens to so-called sanctuary cities until the Biden administration “does its job” to secure the border. Redballoon Not so long ago, the American dream was alive and well. Employees who worked hard were rewarded, and employers looked for people who could do the job, not for people who had the right political views. RedBalloon.work is a job site designed to get us back to what made American businesses successful: free speech, hard work, and having fun. If you are a free speech employer who wants to hire employees who focus on their work and not identity politics, then post a job on RedBalloon. If you are an employee who is being censored at work or is being forced to comply with the current zeitgeist, post your resume on RedBalloon and look for a new job. redballoon.work, the job site where free speech is still alive! www.redballoon.work https://www.theepochtimes.com/oregon-to-join-california-in-move-to-ban-gas-powered-vehicle-sales_4704534.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport Oregon to Join California in Move to Ban Gas-Powered Vehicle Sales Oregon has joined a list of more than a dozen states vowing to follow California’s lead in banning the sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035. The move comes as California urges residents to not charge their electric vehicles during a heatwave to avoid straining the electrical grid. An Oregon Department of Environmental Quality advisory committee is now in the process of creating what it calls “Advanced Clean Cars II Rules,” which will guide the state toward that new goal. California announced on Aug. 24 that it would begin to phase out gas-powered vehicles beginning in 2026, when 35 percent of all passenger vehicles and light duty trucks sold in the state must be zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs). With an anticipated increase of nearly 8 percent annually, the state has vowed that 100 percent of all vehicles sold in California will be ZEVs by 2035. Oregon aims to follow suit. “The transportation sector accounts for more than 40 percent of Oregon’s greenhouse gas emissions,” the Oregon Department of Energy said in a statement. “Moving to cleaner, alternative fuel transportation options, like zero-emission vehicles, can reduce those harmful Green House Gases (GHGs) and help Oregon reach its climate goals.” Oregon had already been working toward a goal set by its legislature in 2019 to have 250,000 registered ZEVs in the state by 2025. As of April, there were approximately 50,000 ZEVs on Oregon roads, falling well short of the pace to meet that goal in the first three years. “We’re committed to getting more electric vehicles [EVs] on Oregon’s roads and 50,000 registered EVs is a major milestone,” said Amanda Pietz, administrator of the Oregon Department of Transportation’s Climate Office. “EVs make up about 8 percent of new cars, trucks, and SUVs sold in Oregon, and we’ll support that growing market through partnerships to build out EV charging stations along major roads and in Oregon’s communities.” The state will also “support” that market by banning gas-powered vehicles and using taxpayer-funded subsidies to prime the pump. Oregon offers as much as $7,500 in taxpayer-funded rebates on top of the federal tax credit of $7,500 toward the purchase of a ZEV. Utilities in the state are offering additional rebates of up to $1,500 for a vehicle purchase and up to $1,000 to install a residential home charger or workplace-commercial charging station. The Go Electric Oregon website encourages buyers to “stack” government incentives to obtain more than $16,500 to use for the purchase of a ZEV. According to Oregon Public Broadcasting, taxpayers have already subsidized the purchase of electric vehicles (at an average cost of $66,000) to the tune of $55 million. One 2018 estimate puts the average income of an electric vehicle driver at $150,000 compared to the U.S. average of $63,000. In May, the Oregon Department of Transportation committed to spending $100 million in federal and state funds over the next five years to expand Oregon’s EV charging infrastructure. The transition to ZEVs seems to overlook increasing concern over their environmental impact and national security implications. Making ZEV batteries requires the use of fossil fuels to process ore and extract minerals, including lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, and graphite. They also require steel, aluminum, plastic, and other materials. The extraction and processing of these minerals are dominated by China and the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to Bloomberg, China controls 80 percent of the market for EV batteries. The push to convert to ZEVs will also create challenges to the electrical grid. In a 2018 analysis, energy economists at the University of Texas found that if California drivers were to go fully electric overnight, the state would need about 47 percent more electricity than it currently consumes. All the states that follow California’s emission standards will face similar challenges. But California’s electrical grid is already strained and Oregon’s faces uncertainty. With a heatwave looming, California’s grid operator issued an alert on Aug. 31, urging residents to avoid using large appliances and charging electric vehicles between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. over the Labor Day weekend. “Lowering electricity use during that time will ease strain on the system, and prevent more drastic measures, including rotating power outages,” the alert reads. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has supported removing or breaching the Lower Snake River Dams to protect fish populations. Carbon-free hydropower from dams makes up 45 percent of the electricity used in Oregon. https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2022/08/31/report-20-mlb-teams-promote-fund-groups-perform-child-sex-change-operations/ Report: 20 MLB Teams ‘Promote or Fund’ Groups that Perform Child Sex Change Operations The magazine reviewed the causes and organizations to which these teams are handing out millions of dollars in donations and found that many support sex-change surgery, hormone treatments, and other dangerous procedures for “transitioning” teens and pre-teens. National Review found that almost every team in the league “promote or fund groups that encourage or provide sex-change procedures and gender-transition hormone treatment for minors as young as 12. Other organizations promote ‘social transitions’ — i.e., nonmedical changes in ‘gender expression,’ including the adoption of new names, pronouns, and clothing — for children as young as three.” Much of the support these teams are lending is organized under the rubric of the widespread LGBTQ “Pride Nights” that the league pushes. Along with the yearly events in the stadiums, the teams also donate money to a number of advocacy groups — usually local groups, but often national groups, as well. The Detroit Tigers, for instance, support the Ruth Ellis Center and Corktown Health in Detroit, the magazine noted. At the checkout page for tickets to the Pride Night game, the Tigers website offered ‘a chance to support a local Pride organization of your choice,’ with a drop-down menu that included LGBT-focused clinics such as the Ruth Ellis Center and Corktown Health, both of which perform medical gender transitions on minors. On top of masculinizing and feminizing drugs, at least one — the Ruth Ellis Center — included irreversible ‘gender affirming surgery’ in its suite of ‘transition care for transgender youth’ options. Another charity promoted by the Tigers, the Trans Sistas of Color Project, was actively funding groups such as ‘Trans Minors Rights,’ which ‘advocates for empowering transgender youth to make their own decisions regarding puberty blockers’ — i.e., ‘without requiring the consent of a parent.’ (The group’s tagline: ‘Unblock blockers.’) The magazine noted that the Tigers are only one example and that the MLB “Pride Resource Guide” promotes a long list of “social justice” groups that also push transgenderism on kids. The report found that five teams promoted groups that push dangerous surgeries on trans kids, including the Detroit Tigers, the Boston Red Sox, the Milwaukee Brewers, Tampa Bay Rays, and the Cleveland Guardians. Four teams partner with organizations that provide counseling and referrals to youths for such medical procedures. That list includes the L.A. Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Diego Padres, and the Oakland As. And another five teams promote groups that offer guides and promotion of the transgender lifestyle, including the Cincinnati Reds, Houston Astros, Arizona Diamondbacks, Philadelphia Phillies, and the Colorado Rockies. Finally, six teams support groups that have lobbyists for the trans cause and otherwise advocate for the transgender lifestyle. Those teams include the Chicago Cubs and White Sox, the L.A. Angels, Minnesota Twins, St. Louis Cardinals, and the Washington Nationals. “It’s a classic case of institutional capture by the Left,” the magazine concluded. It is up to the fans to speak out and urge the league to reverse course on this outrageous advocacy. Christ Church Events Coordinator Looking to move to Moscow? Christ Church is hiring a full-time events coordinator to plan and manage all events for our various ministries. Coordinators have to understand what it takes to make sure the logistics work out for our growing ministries, keep everything within the allocated budget and ensure that the event itself is carried out smoothly. For more information, Please contact Carson Sensing at csensing@christkirk.com if you are interested in applying Psalm of the Day: Fight Laugh Feast Theme Song: To the Word sea shanty To the Testimony and Law, To the Word, to Word we go; If they don’t speak this word, they have no light at all; Bend, break, burn, and blow. 0:00-1:07 Amen! This is Toby Sumpter with CrossPolitic News. Remember you can always find the links to our news stories and these psalms at crosspolitic dot com – just click on the daily news brief and follow the links. Or find them on our App: just search “Fight Laugh Feast” in your favorite app store and never miss a show. 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Biden Administration colluding with social media, Gov. Abbot of Texas bussing illegal immigrants to Chicago, Oregon tells California to hold its beer on electric cars… … and more on today’s CrossPolitic Daily News Brief. My name is Toby Sumpter and today is Friday, September 2, 2022. Blue Ridge Reformed Church, a potential CREC church plant in the Roanoke Valley, will begin worship services on Sunday September 4th at 6:00 p.m. They are located at 6032 Cloverdale Rd, Roanoke, VA 24019. For more information folks can check out our website blueridgereformed.org https://www.theepochtimes.com/over-50-biden-administration-employees-12-us-agencies-involved-in-social-media-censorship-push-documents_4704349.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport Over 50 Biden Administration Employees, 12 US Agencies Involved in Social Media Censorship Push: Documents Over 50 officials in President Joe Biden’s administration across a dozen agencies have been involved with efforts to pressure Big Techcompanies to crack down on alleged misinformation, according to documents released on Aug. 31. Senior officials in the U.S. government, including White House lawyer Dana Remus, deputy assistant to the president Rob Flaherty, and onetime White House senior COVID-19 adviser Andy Slavitt, have been in touch with one or more major social media companies to try to get the companies to tighten rules on allegedly false and misleading information on COVID-19, and take action against users who violate the rules, the documents show. In July 2021, for instance, after Biden said that Facebook was “killing people” by not combating misinformation effectively, an executive at Meta reached out to Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, a Biden appointee, to say that government and Meta teams met after the remarks “to better understand the scope of what the White House expects from us on misinformation going forward.” The same executive later wrote to Murthy saying, “I wanted to make sure you saw the steps we took just this past week to adjust policies on what we are removing with respect to misinformation, as well as steps taken to further address the ‘disinfo dozen,'” including removing pages linked to the group. The White House publicly pressured social media companies to take action against a group officials dubbed the “disinformation dozen,” which a nonprofit claimed were producing the bulk of “anti-vaccine misinformation” on the platforms. Also in July 2021, Murthy said Facebook had not done enough to combat misinformation. Rob Flaherty, director of digital strategy for the White House, told Slavitt and others in April 2021 that White House staff would be briefed by Twitter “on vaccine misinfo,” with the meeting including “ways the White House (and our COVID experts) can partner in product work,” according to one of the messages. In another exchange that year, a Department of Treasury official working on “mis, dis, and mal-information” told Meta workers that the deputy treasury secretary wanted to talk about “potential influence operations.” In a text in February 2021, meanwhile, U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly, wrote to another agency official that she was “trying to get us in a place where Fed can work with platforms to better understand the mis/dis trends so relevant agencies can try to prebunk/debunk as useful.” The documents were part of a preliminary production in a lawsuitlevied against the government by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, later joined by experts maligned by federal officials. “If there was ever any doubt the federal government was behind censorship of Americans who dared to dissent from official Covid messaging, that doubt has been erased,” Jenin Younes, a lawyer with the New Civil Liberties Alliance who is representing some of the plaintiffs in the case, said in a statement. “The shocking extent of the government’s involvement in silencing Americans, through coercing social-media companies, has now been revealed.” Club Membership Plug: Let’s stop and take a moment to talk about Fight Laugh Feast Club membership. By joining the Fight Laugh Feast Army, not only will you be aiding in our fight to take down secular & legacy media; but you’ll also get access to content placed in our Club Portal, such as past shows, all of our conference talks, and EXCLUSIVE content for club members that you won’t be able to find anywhere else. Lastly, you’ll also get discounts for our conferences… so if you’ve got $10 bucks a month to kick over our way, you can sign up now at flfnetwork.com https://www.theepochtimes.com/texas-gov-greg-abbott-begins-busing-illegal-immigrants-to-chicago_4703681.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Begins Busing Illegal Immigrants to Chicago Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday said that illegal aliens apprehended along the U.S.-Mexico border are now being bused to Chicago in addition to New York City and Washington. Abbott said his strategy to bus illegal immigrants from Texas to the Democrat-led sanctuary cities makes a strategic point about the impact of President Joe Biden’s “open border policies” on American communities. “President Biden’s inaction at our southern border continues putting the lives of Texans—and Americans—at risk and is overwhelming our communities,” the Republican governor said in a statement. “To continue providing much-needed relief to our small, overrun border towns, Chicago will join fellow sanctuary cities Washington, D.C. and New York City as an additional drop-off location.” Acknowledging Chicago’s sanctuary city policies, Abbott said Mayor Lori Lightfoot “loves to tout” that her city welcomes illegal immigrants as a matter of “responsibility.” “I look forward to seeing this responsibility in action as these migrants receive resources from a sanctuary city with the capacity to serve them,” Abbott said. Chicago Calls Busing Program ‘Racist’ The Chicago mayor’s office confirmed that around 60 illegal aliens arrived at Union Square from Texas on Wednesday night and were being provided with essential services while they “navigate the next steps of their journey.” “As a city we are doing everything we can to ensure these immigrants and their families receive shelter, food, and most importantly protection,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “This is not new; Chicago welcomes hundreds of migrants every year to our city and provides much-needed assistance.” The spokesperson also accused Abbott of having no “shame or humanity” and described the busing program as “racist practices.” The mayors of Washington and New York City, Muriel Bowser and Eric Adams, have also criticized the busing program, calling it a political stunt. But Abbott has said the illegal immigrants voluntarily chose to go to their cities where there is more capacity to serve them. The Texas governor first directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management in April to charter buses to transport illegal immigrants who claimed asylum when apprehended along the U.S.-Mexico border to Washington. New York City was added as a second drop-off location in August. Since then, more than 8,900 illegal aliens have been bused out of Texas to those cities, providing “much-needed relief to Texas’ overwhelmed border communities,” according to Abbott’s office. Overwhelmed with the influx of illegal aliens arriving from Texas, Bowser has twice asked the Biden administration to deploy National Guard personnel to help her city cope. Both requests were denied. Lightfoot signed Chicago’s “Welcoming City Ordinance” measure in February 2021 to strengthen the city’s sanctuary policies, which prevented local police from cooperating with federal immigration authorities. “Chicago has been a welcoming city and a city of immigrants since its very founding, and proudly so,” Lightfoot said at the time. Abbott’s office noted that under this policy Chicago doesn’t deny city services to individuals based on their immigration status. “With its ‘Welcoming City Ordinance’ making it a sanctuary city, Chicago will not deny city services to individuals based on their immigration status. The city also does not require local police to cooperate with federal immigration authorities,” Abbott’s office said. Abbott promised to keep busing illegal aliens to so-called sanctuary cities until the Biden administration “does its job” to secure the border. Redballoon Not so long ago, the American dream was alive and well. Employees who worked hard were rewarded, and employers looked for people who could do the job, not for people who had the right political views. RedBalloon.work is a job site designed to get us back to what made American businesses successful: free speech, hard work, and having fun. If you are a free speech employer who wants to hire employees who focus on their work and not identity politics, then post a job on RedBalloon. If you are an employee who is being censored at work or is being forced to comply with the current zeitgeist, post your resume on RedBalloon and look for a new job. redballoon.work, the job site where free speech is still alive! www.redballoon.work https://www.theepochtimes.com/oregon-to-join-california-in-move-to-ban-gas-powered-vehicle-sales_4704534.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=BonginoReport Oregon to Join California in Move to Ban Gas-Powered Vehicle Sales Oregon has joined a list of more than a dozen states vowing to follow California’s lead in banning the sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035. The move comes as California urges residents to not charge their electric vehicles during a heatwave to avoid straining the electrical grid. An Oregon Department of Environmental Quality advisory committee is now in the process of creating what it calls “Advanced Clean Cars II Rules,” which will guide the state toward that new goal. California announced on Aug. 24 that it would begin to phase out gas-powered vehicles beginning in 2026, when 35 percent of all passenger vehicles and light duty trucks sold in the state must be zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs). With an anticipated increase of nearly 8 percent annually, the state has vowed that 100 percent of all vehicles sold in California will be ZEVs by 2035. Oregon aims to follow suit. “The transportation sector accounts for more than 40 percent of Oregon’s greenhouse gas emissions,” the Oregon Department of Energy said in a statement. “Moving to cleaner, alternative fuel transportation options, like zero-emission vehicles, can reduce those harmful Green House Gases (GHGs) and help Oregon reach its climate goals.” Oregon had already been working toward a goal set by its legislature in 2019 to have 250,000 registered ZEVs in the state by 2025. As of April, there were approximately 50,000 ZEVs on Oregon roads, falling well short of the pace to meet that goal in the first three years. “We’re committed to getting more electric vehicles [EVs] on Oregon’s roads and 50,000 registered EVs is a major milestone,” said Amanda Pietz, administrator of the Oregon Department of Transportation’s Climate Office. “EVs make up about 8 percent of new cars, trucks, and SUVs sold in Oregon, and we’ll support that growing market through partnerships to build out EV charging stations along major roads and in Oregon’s communities.” The state will also “support” that market by banning gas-powered vehicles and using taxpayer-funded subsidies to prime the pump. Oregon offers as much as $7,500 in taxpayer-funded rebates on top of the federal tax credit of $7,500 toward the purchase of a ZEV. Utilities in the state are offering additional rebates of up to $1,500 for a vehicle purchase and up to $1,000 to install a residential home charger or workplace-commercial charging station. The Go Electric Oregon website encourages buyers to “stack” government incentives to obtain more than $16,500 to use for the purchase of a ZEV. According to Oregon Public Broadcasting, taxpayers have already subsidized the purchase of electric vehicles (at an average cost of $66,000) to the tune of $55 million. One 2018 estimate puts the average income of an electric vehicle driver at $150,000 compared to the U.S. average of $63,000. In May, the Oregon Department of Transportation committed to spending $100 million in federal and state funds over the next five years to expand Oregon’s EV charging infrastructure. The transition to ZEVs seems to overlook increasing concern over their environmental impact and national security implications. Making ZEV batteries requires the use of fossil fuels to process ore and extract minerals, including lithium, cobalt, nickel, copper, and graphite. They also require steel, aluminum, plastic, and other materials. The extraction and processing of these minerals are dominated by China and the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to Bloomberg, China controls 80 percent of the market for EV batteries. The push to convert to ZEVs will also create challenges to the electrical grid. In a 2018 analysis, energy economists at the University of Texas found that if California drivers were to go fully electric overnight, the state would need about 47 percent more electricity than it currently consumes. All the states that follow California’s emission standards will face similar challenges. But California’s electrical grid is already strained and Oregon’s faces uncertainty. With a heatwave looming, California’s grid operator issued an alert on Aug. 31, urging residents to avoid using large appliances and charging electric vehicles between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. over the Labor Day weekend. “Lowering electricity use during that time will ease strain on the system, and prevent more drastic measures, including rotating power outages,” the alert reads. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has supported removing or breaching the Lower Snake River Dams to protect fish populations. Carbon-free hydropower from dams makes up 45 percent of the electricity used in Oregon. https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2022/08/31/report-20-mlb-teams-promote-fund-groups-perform-child-sex-change-operations/ Report: 20 MLB Teams ‘Promote or Fund’ Groups that Perform Child Sex Change Operations The magazine reviewed the causes and organizations to which these teams are handing out millions of dollars in donations and found that many support sex-change surgery, hormone treatments, and other dangerous procedures for “transitioning” teens and pre-teens. National Review found that almost every team in the league “promote or fund groups that encourage or provide sex-change procedures and gender-transition hormone treatment for minors as young as 12. Other organizations promote ‘social transitions’ — i.e., nonmedical changes in ‘gender expression,’ including the adoption of new names, pronouns, and clothing — for children as young as three.” Much of the support these teams are lending is organized under the rubric of the widespread LGBTQ “Pride Nights” that the league pushes. Along with the yearly events in the stadiums, the teams also donate money to a number of advocacy groups — usually local groups, but often national groups, as well. The Detroit Tigers, for instance, support the Ruth Ellis Center and Corktown Health in Detroit, the magazine noted. At the checkout page for tickets to the Pride Night game, the Tigers website offered ‘a chance to support a local Pride organization of your choice,’ with a drop-down menu that included LGBT-focused clinics such as the Ruth Ellis Center and Corktown Health, both of which perform medical gender transitions on minors. On top of masculinizing and feminizing drugs, at least one — the Ruth Ellis Center — included irreversible ‘gender affirming surgery’ in its suite of ‘transition care for transgender youth’ options. Another charity promoted by the Tigers, the Trans Sistas of Color Project, was actively funding groups such as ‘Trans Minors Rights,’ which ‘advocates for empowering transgender youth to make their own decisions regarding puberty blockers’ — i.e., ‘without requiring the consent of a parent.’ (The group’s tagline: ‘Unblock blockers.’) The magazine noted that the Tigers are only one example and that the MLB “Pride Resource Guide” promotes a long list of “social justice” groups that also push transgenderism on kids. The report found that five teams promoted groups that push dangerous surgeries on trans kids, including the Detroit Tigers, the Boston Red Sox, the Milwaukee Brewers, Tampa Bay Rays, and the Cleveland Guardians. Four teams partner with organizations that provide counseling and referrals to youths for such medical procedures. That list includes the L.A. Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, San Diego Padres, and the Oakland As. And another five teams promote groups that offer guides and promotion of the transgender lifestyle, including the Cincinnati Reds, Houston Astros, Arizona Diamondbacks, Philadelphia Phillies, and the Colorado Rockies. Finally, six teams support groups that have lobbyists for the trans cause and otherwise advocate for the transgender lifestyle. Those teams include the Chicago Cubs and White Sox, the L.A. Angels, Minnesota Twins, St. Louis Cardinals, and the Washington Nationals. “It’s a classic case of institutional capture by the Left,” the magazine concluded. It is up to the fans to speak out and urge the league to reverse course on this outrageous advocacy. Christ Church Events Coordinator Looking to move to Moscow? Christ Church is hiring a full-time events coordinator to plan and manage all events for our various ministries. Coordinators have to understand what it takes to make sure the logistics work out for our growing ministries, keep everything within the allocated budget and ensure that the event itself is carried out smoothly. For more information, Please contact Carson Sensing at csensing@christkirk.com if you are interested in applying Psalm of the Day: Fight Laugh Feast Theme Song: To the Word sea shanty To the Testimony and Law, To the Word, to Word we go; If they don’t speak this word, they have no light at all; Bend, break, burn, and blow. 0:00-1:07 Amen! This is Toby Sumpter with CrossPolitic News. Remember you can always find the links to our news stories and these psalms at crosspolitic dot com – just click on the daily news brief and follow the links. Or find them on our App: just search “Fight Laugh Feast” in your favorite app store and never miss a show. We are now doing a daily show, with daily backstage content for Fight Laugh Feast Club Member. Join today and get access as well as a $100 discount at the Fight Laugh Feast conference in Knoxville, TN Oct. 6-8, and have a great day.

On the latest episode of the podcast, we're joined by Jen Weiss, Senior Advisor for Climate Change Policy at the NC Department of Transportation. With the transportation sector emerging as the largest emitter in the state, NC DOT has been tasked with developing a Clean Transportation Plan by April 2023. In our conversation, we cover NC's goal of deploying 1.25 million ZEVs on the road by 2030, synergies that exist between decarbonizing the power and transportation sectors, and the importance of stakeholder engagement to usher in an inclusive and comprehensive clean energy future. Additional resources from today's episode: NC's Offshore Wind Lease Auction: https://bit.ly/3LSnFx8 NCSEA's Carbon Plan Analysis: https://bit.ly/3GqMFKT NC Clean Transportation Plan & Survey: https://bit.ly/38mkVL1 Presented by NC Sustainable Energy Association. Hosted and produced by Matt Abele (Twitter: @MattAbele) Be sure to follow us on Instagram at @squeakycleanpodcast.

Hydrogen Rising co-hosts David Wochner, partner at K&L Gates, and Sandra Safro, Associate General Counsel at the Edison Electric Institute, speak with the co-founders of Kaizen Clean Energy [link:  www.kaizencleanenergy.com], Eric Smith and Robert Meaney, about Kaizen's role in the energy transition, challenges facing broader deployment of ZEVs in the United States, and how Kaizen's technology can use methanol to more efficiently and economically advance the hydrogen economy.  

I dag kan vi se idrettsutøvere ofre alt for sporten sin. Men visste du at OL en gang i tiden handlet om noe helt annet enn å vinne gull? Med Sigmund Loland ved Norsk Idrettshøyskole.

On episode 63, we're taking a comprehensive look at Governor Cooper's Executive Order 246. We play some clips from the signing event at NC A&T State University, then chat with Adam Wagner of the News & Observer and Ward Lenz of NCSEA about what the EO means for North Carolina, and where we go next. Additional resources from today's episode: Charlotte Business Journal Competitive Procurement Story: https://bit.ly/3A5UHpw Department of Energy's Clean Energy Corps: https://bit.ly/3tBjrED Governor Cooper's Executive Order 246: https://bit.ly/3GCVyjL Adam's N&O Story on EO246: https://bit.ly/3KdX2mZ Presented by NC Sustainable Energy Association. Hosted and produced by Matt Abele (Twitter: @MattAbele) Be sure to follow us on Instagram at @squeakycleanpodcast.

Eventyr ifra det gamle Romerriket om hvordan bien fikk seg brodd. Her hører vi en historie om romerske gudene Jupiter og Juno, som er de samme gudene som Zevs og Hera ifra gresk mytologi. Passer best for 3 år og eldre.

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as soon as they're available. Stories we discuss in this episode (with links): Tesla angers certified shops after it tries to recruit techs they paid to train on Tesla cars Tesla produces 1 millionth battery pack at Gigafactory Nevada Tesla starts suing former customers for defamation in China Genesis GV60 electric SUV comes with great specs and fake engine noises 28 companies worth $1T to automakers: These are the ZEVs we want right now https://youtu.be/r_vgcOs_kBk Subscribe to the Electrek Daily Channel on Youtube so you never miss a day of news Follow Mikey: Twitter @Mikey_Electric Listen & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Spotify TuneIn Share your thoughts! Drop us a line at tips@electrek.co. You can also rate us in Apple Podcasts or recommend us in Overcast to help more people discover the show!

Epost: Laernorsknaa@gmail.com Teksten til episoden: https://laernorsknaa.com/75-de-olympiske-leker-sommer Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/laernorsknaa Twitter: https://twitter.com/MariusStangela1 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxdRJ5lW2QlUNRfff-ZoE-A/videos De olympiske leker, ofte forkorta til OL, er den største sportsbegivenheten i verden. Før vi snakker om OL: Dere kan støtte podkasten på Patreon. Det setter jeg veldig pris på. Teksten til episoden finner dere på nettstedet. Dere kan kontakte med via epost. All informasjon finner dere i deskripsjonen. La oss begynne! OL, de olympiske leker, er det største idrettsstevne i verden. Den inneholder mange forskjellige idretter og har milliarder av seere fra hele verden. Konseptet OL er basert på antikken. I antikke Hellas feira de OL helt fra 776 f.Kr. og hold på i over 1200år. I antikke Hellas samla OL utøvere fra bystater rundt omkring i hele Hellas. Disse utøverne konkurrerte i flere forskjellige idretter som løping, diskos, kulekast, høydehopp og bryting. I antikke Hellas var OL en religiøs og atletisk festival med Zevs og Herakles som noen av de viktigste gudene. De antikke OL blei offisielt avslutta i 393 e.Kr. da keiseren av Romerriket, Teodosius I, gjorde all form for hedenske kulter og feiringer forbudt. I denne tida hadde Romerriket blitt et kristent imperium. Da Romerriket offisielt blei kristent blei romerske og greske religiøse skikker og feiringer gradvis fjerna. Dette var grunnen til at de slutta med OL i år 393. I dagens OL har vi glemt de tidligere religiøse konnotasjonene til arrangementet. I dag feirer vi ikke OL for å hylle og tilbe de greske gudene. Nå er OL bare et idrettsarrangement. De moderne OL blei oppretta av franskmannen Pierre de Coubertin som oppretta IOC, den internasjonale olympiske komité. Han ønska at OL skulle avholdes hvert fjerde år og at man skulle rotere på arrangører. Han ville altså at flere land skulle få mulighet til å arrangere OL. I tillegg foreslo han å holde det første OL i Athen i 1896. Dermed blei det første moderne OL holdt i samme land som de originale antikke lekene hadde blitt holdt. I det aller første OL deltok 241 sportsdeltagere fra 14 land. Alle de 241 deltagerne var menn. Av de 14 landene som deltok var 11 av dem europeiske land. Både Sverige og Danmark deltok, men ikke Norge. Norge var i en union med Sverige i 1896 og sendte ingen utøvere til det første OL. En av ideene bak opprettelsen av OL var å samle nasjoner i vennskapelig konkurranse i ulike idretter. Det moderne OL var ment som en måte å samle ulike land. I et historisk perspektiv kan vi knytte opprettelsen av det moderne OL til flere pan-europeiske og internasjonale bevegelser på 1800-tallet. For eksempel blei den første verdensutstillingen holdt i 1851 i London i Crystal Palace. Verdensutstillingene var også en måte for land å vise fram teknologiske innovasjoner. Det blei gjort med klare ideologiske og nasjonalistiske undertoner. I tillegg blei det holdt flere fredskonferanser på 1800-tallet for å hindre krig i framtida. I 1887 prøvde Zamenhof å lage et nytt internasjonalt språk som skulle gjøre det lettere å kommunisere med hverandre. Dette språket blei Esperanto. Vi kan plassere opprettelsen av OL i dette større bildet. Det skjedde altså ikke i isolasjon, men var påvirka av andre slike prosesser i Europa og verden.

This week join us at NSTA: The Bus Stop for an engaging conversation about student transportation, as NSTA Executive Director Curt Macysyn invites Jim Crowcroft, North American Dealer Sales & Service Manager, at Thomas Built Buses onto the podcast. Jim recounts his background in student transportation, and how he became immersed in the industry. The duo also talk about Thomas Built Buses' relationship with NSTA and preview the OEM Panel at the 2021 NSTA Annual Meeting and Convention. Jim highlights the role of electric school buses (ZEVs) and in future of school transportation. Jim and Curt also discuss new safety features that Thomas Built Buses has been in the forefront of. School transportation professionals rely on NSTA: The Bus Stop for their information. Add it to your library of podcasts today!Support the show (http://www.yellowbuses.org/membership/)

This week at NSTA: The Bus Stop - Richard Wolfington Jr, President of Wolfington Body Co. joins NSTA Executive Director, Curt Macysyn. On the podcast, Richard talks about the rich history of Wolfington from its inception as a carriage manufacturer, and its evolution since that time. The duo recap the recent NSTA team visit to Wolfington Headquarters, and Richard talks about Wolfington's relationship with IC Bus/Navistar, as well their comprehensive parts sales and distribution department. Finally, Curt and Richard discuss the future of the industry, and the role of ZEVs and electric school buses may play. Pupil transportation's first industry podcast, and it comes to you directly each week at NSTA: The Bus Stop. Subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts!Support the show (http://www.yellowbuses.org/membership/)

Next week on 24 May 2021, the government of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) is set to introduce a raft of incentives for the purchase of new and used zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs). Shane Rattenbury MLA is the Attorney-General of the ACT, and holds a number of ministerial portfolios, including Minister for Water, Energy, and Emissions Reduction. The Minister joins me on EV Brief Podcast this week to discuss the ACT's Transition to Zero-Emissions Vehicles Plan, climate change strategy, renewable energy, how the Territory can be EV ready, and more. For more information on the Attorney-General: Legislative Assembly for the ACT For more information on the ACT's climate change strategy: ACT Climate Change Strategy Links also below: ACT Government Transition to Zero-Emissions Vehicles Plan: https://www.environment.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0012/1188498/2018-21-ACTs-transition-to-zero-emissions-vehicles-Action-Plan-ACCESS.pdf ACT Government ZEV Incentives: https://www.environment.act.gov.au/cc/zero-emissions-vehicles Shane Rattenbury MLA - Legislative Assembly for the ACT: https://www.parliament.act.gov.au/members/tenth-assembly-members/kurrajong/rattenbury-shane ACT Government Climate Change Strategy: https://www.environment.act.gov.au/cc/act-climate-change-strategy Recorded 20/5/21. -- Timecodes: 00:00 - Introduction 00:18 - ACT's 100% renewable electricity reality 01:18 - Energy storage in the ACT 02:43 - Gas-free government buildings and the transition away from fossil fuels 04:45 - How do Australian states and territories work effectively with a federal government when they have differing energy and climate policy objectives? 07:15 - Will the ACT roll out renewables resources within its borders? 08:58 - Benefits of a just transition to clean energy , and interest-free loans 09:58 - Energy inequality 10:29 - The future of energy storage 11:42 - The ACT's incentives to encourage EV uptake 15:30 - Transitioning government fleets to zero-emission vehicles 16:15 - Trialing Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles (FCVs) in the territory 18:45 - Why trial FCVs in the ACT? 20:12 - Tackling transport emissions from heavy and commercial vehicles 21:32 - Public transport is key to reducing emissions and congestion 23:39 - Challenges associated with transitioning government fleets to ZEVs 25:20 - Outlining policy and regulation around EV charging infrastructure in the Territory 28:08- Rolling out a DC fast-charging network in the ACT 29:29 - What motivates and inspires the Minister in his environmental advocacy? -- Thanks for tuning in! Get in touch with any questions and comments by heading over to our website evbrief.com and please subscribe to ensure you don't miss next week's episode! If you enjoyed the content, please leave a review if you have time! It really helps the show's exposure.

Kevin Mest, senior vice president and general manager of passenger services at Zonar, talks the future of bus technology and shares strategies for successful implementation in light of newly available COVID-19 stimulus funding. Casey Foster, director of transportation for Birmingham City Schools in Alabama, discusses COVID-19’s impact on his drivers and operations as well as new and innovative uses for technology during the pandemic. Read more at stnonline.com/technology.

Wanna split £100? You get £50 free AND save money on 100% green electricity by moving to Octopus Energy. Plus I get £50 to support this podcast but ONLY if you do it by using my unique referral code. I moved to Octopus recently and had been putting it off for ages,  but I kicked myself for not doing it sooner, as it’s literally a 5 minute job to give them your details.   Click here: https://share.octopus.energy/free-puma-452   On today’s podcast: Aptera Closes $4M Series A Round and Takes a Quarter-Billion in Orders Ultium Cells Celebrates Completion of Steel Building Structure Peugeot Beats Renault In France Virginia to become the next zero-emission vehicle state VW ID.4 At US Dealers In March   Show #999   Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily for Saturday 20th February. It’s Martyn Lee here and I go through every EV story so you don't have to.   Thank you to MYEV.com for helping make this show, they’ve built the first marketplace specifically for Electric Vehicles. It’s a totally free marketplace that simplifies the buying and selling process, and help you learn about EVs along the way too.   APTERA CLOSES $4M SERIES A ROUND AND TAKES A QUARTER-BILLION IN ORDERS Aptera Motors announces it has closed its round of Series A funding, accepting a total of over $4 million. Aptera’s continued momentum has now garnered it over 7,000 vehicle reservations in just over two months totaling a quarter-billion in orders. The Solar Electric Vehicle (SEV) company is backed by crowdfunders, private investors and automotive leaders such as Sandy Munro of Munro & Associates, Inc. Earlier this month, Aptera moved into a new production design facility in the Sorrento Valley area of San Diego. Part of a 60,500 square foot campus, the facility will be home to Aptera’s three completed vehicles and a team of development engineers. Areas of focus will be advanced 3D printing, composites, UI/UX development, and battery technologies development. As the company expands, Aptera will be evaluating additional locations for production facilities in San Diego and around the world.   https://www.aptera.us/post/aptera-closes-4m-series-a-round-and-takes-a-quarter-billion-in-orders   ULTIUM CELLS CELEBRATES COMPLETION OF STEEL BUILDING STRUCTURE "Ultium Cells, the battery joint venture between General Motors and LG Chem's LG Energy Solution in Lordstown, Ohio, celebrates the completion of the steel building structure after 10-months and 500,000 construction build hours. About 85 members of Ironworkers gathered to sign the final beam of the structure, which in the near future will turn into a 2.8-million-square-foot plant." according to InsideEVs: "The site will be completed by mid-2022 and be able to produce 30 GWh of lithium-ion battery cells annually (with an option to expand), employing more than 1,100 people. GM and LG Chem agreed to jointly invest $2.3 billion in the venture to secure lithium-ion cell supply for the entire range of new electric vehicles."   https://insideevs.com/news/489446/ultium-cells-celebrates-construction-milestone/   https://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/news.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2021/feb/0219-ultium.html   PEUGEOT BEATS RENAULT IN FRANCE "Looking at January best sellers, the Peugeot e-208 has beaten the Renault Zoe for the first time since last April, and adding insult to injury, it wasn’t the only Peugeot model to beat the Renault model!" says Clean TEchnica: "The crossover Peugeot 3008 PHEV became the first plugin hybrid to win the monthly best seller trophy in France, by beating both the Zoe and its e-208 sibling. That was thanks to a record 1,410 registrations. The result also meant a historic one-two win for Peugeot at home, relegating the Renault EV to the 3rd spot for the first time in 8 years! But one shouldn’t read too much into these numbers, as they had more to do with allocation issues than actual demand. After all, in January, the Renault Zoe’s deliveries were exhausted by the “all hands on deck” effort of December, as Renault did everything to keep the Zoe on the top of last year’s European leadership scoreboard. "   https://cleantechnica.com/2021/02/19/peugeot-beats-renault-in-france-ev-sales-report/   http://ev-sales.blogspot.com/   VIRGINIA TO BECOME THE NEXT ZERO-EMISSION VEHICLE STATE "The Virginia Senate has passed a bill that would establish California-style clean car standards in the state. The bill, HB 1965, creates low-emission vehicle (LEV) and zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) programs. It will strengthen regulations on tailpipe emissions, and require automakers to sell a certain number of ZEVs in Virginia." according to Charged EVs Magazine: "Governor Ralph Northam is expected to sign the bill into law. Once he does, Virginia will join 12 other states and Washington DC in adopting LEV and ZEV rules. Minnesota, New Mexico and Nevada are in the process of implementing clean car programs."   https://chargedevs.com/newswire/virginia-to-become-the-next-zero-emission-vehicle-state/   https://environmentamerica.org/news/ame/statement-virginia-state-senate-passes-vital-clean-cars-rule   VW ID.4 AT US DEALERS IN MARCH "Just got a call from my dealership’s EV specialist. He said my 1st Edition ID.4 would be at the dealer by the end of March and the display models would be there a few days before. I’m still 90% sure the ID.4 is what I want. Drove the Model Y and loved the speed and handling but the frameless glass (breaks easily) and no CarPlay or other streaming services or XM, PLUS the notorious build quality and much higher price unless they get the tax credit back put me off. Also got an insurance quote on the ID and it’s lower than my Mazda3 by a bit. Tesla’s are very expensive"   https://www.vwidtalk.com/threads/just-got-a-call-from-my-dealership%E2%80%99s-ev-specialist.989/   NEW QUESTION OF THE WEEK With my 1000th podcast around the corner, what kind of media coverage do you want in 2021?   Send me your answer: hello@evnewsdaily.com     You can listen to all 998 previous episodes of this this for free, where you get your podcasts from, plus the blog https://www.evnewsdaily.com/ – remember to subscribe, which means you don’t have to think about downloading the show each day, plus you get it first and free and automatically.   It would mean a lot if you could take 2mins to leave a quick review on whichever platform you download the podcast.   And  if you have an Amazon Echo, download our Alexa Skill, search for EV News Daily and add it as a flash briefing.   Come and say hi on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter just search EV News Daily, have a wonderful day, I’ll catch you tomorrow and remember…there’s no such thing as a self-charging hybrid.     PHIL ROBERTS / ELECTRIC FUTURE (PREMIUM PARTNER) BRAD CROSBY (PREMIUM PARTNER) PORSCHE OF THE VILLAGE CINCINNATI (PREMIUM PARTNER) AUDI CINCINNATI EAST (PREMIUM PARTNER) VOLVO CARS CINCINNATI EAST (PREMIUM PARTNER) NATIONALCARCHARGING.COM and ALOHACHARGE.COM  (PREMIUM PARTNER) DEREK REILLY FROM THE EV REVIEW IRELAND YOUTUBE CHANNEL (PREMIUM PARTNER) RICHARD AT RSEV.CO.UK – FOR BUYING AND SELLING EVS IN THE UK (PREMIUM PARTNER)   DAVID AND LISA ALLEN (PARTNER) GARETH HAMER (PARTNER) eMOBILITY NORWAY HTTPS://WWW.EMOBILITYNORWAY.COM/  (PARTNER) BOB BOOTHBY – MILLBROOK COTTAGES AND ELOPEMENT WEDDING VENUE (PARTNER) DARIN MCLESKEY FROM DENOVO REAL ESTATE (PARTNER) JUKKA KUKONEN FROM WWW.SHIFT2ELECTRIC.COM RAJEEV NARAYAN (PARTNER) IAIN SEAR (PARTNER)   ADRIAN BOND (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) ALAN SHEDD (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) ALEX BANAHENE (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) ALEXANDER FRANK @ https://www.youtube.com/c/alexsuniverse42 ANDERS HOVE (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) ANDREA JEFFERSON (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) ANDREW GREEN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) ANDY NANCARROW AND LILIAN KASS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) ASEER KHALID (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) BÅRD FJUKSTAD (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) BLUNDERBUSS JONES (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER BRIAN THOMPSON (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) BRUCE BOHANNAN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) CHARLES HALL (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) CHRIS HOPKINS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) CHRISTOPHER BARTH (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) COLIN HENNESSY AND CAMBSEV (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) CRAIG ROGERS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) DAMIEN DAVIS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) DAVID FINCH (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) DAVID MOORE (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) DAVID PARTINGTON (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) DAVID PRESCOTT (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) DON MCALLISTER / SCREENCASTSONLINE.COM (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) ED CORTREEN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) ERIC HANSEN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) ERU KYEYUNE-NYOMBI (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) FREDRIK ROVIK (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) GENE RUBIN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) HEDLEY WRIGHT (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) HEINRICH LIESNER (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) IAN GRIFFITHS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) IAN (WATTIE) WATKINS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) JACK OAKLEY (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) JAMES STORR (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) JAVIER CARMELO DÍAZ PÉREZ (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) JIM MORRIS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) JOHN SCHROEDER (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) JON AKA BEARDY MCBEARDFACE FROM KENT EVS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) JON MANCHAK (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) JUAN GONZALEZ (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) KEVIN MEYERSON (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) LAURENCE D ALLEN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) LEE BROWN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) LUKE CULLEY (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) MARCEL WARD (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) MARTY YOUNG  (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) MIA OPPELSTRUP (PARTNER) MIKE WINTER (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) NATHAN GORE-BROWN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) NATHANIEL FREEDMAN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) NEIL E ROBERTS FROM SUSSEX EVS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) OHAD ASTON (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) PAUL STEPHENSON (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) PETE GLASS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) PETE GORTON (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) PETER & DEE ROBERTS FROM OXON EVS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) PHIL MOUCHET (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) PHILIP TRAUTMAN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) RAYMOND ROWLEDGE (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) RENE KEEMIK (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) RENÉ SCHNEIDER (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) ROB HERMANS (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) ROB FROM THE RSTHINKS EV CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) ROBERT GRACE (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) RUPERT MITCHELL (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) SEIKI PAYNE (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) STEPHEN PENN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) STEVE JOHN (EXECUTIVE PRODUCER) THOMAS J. 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After mastering logistics and delivery as a bike messenger in New York City, Steven Moelk blazed his own trail and found himself in a place he never imagined: as the guy responsible for bringing electric vehicle, zero-emissions delivery to IKEA.

The Biden administration has ambitious plans for stimulus checks and ZEVs, both of which spell good news for the school bus industry. Zonar COO Michael Gould previews his STN EXPO Virtual talk next week that will provide three opportunities for successful student transportation in the new year. COVID-19 has heavily impacted staff and operations at Robertson County Schools in Tennessee. Transportation Supervisor Joshua Hinerman talks leadership, daily operations, budget and more. Read more at stnonline.com

Ahh yes, Tesla makes a profit. Technically. Five quarters in a row, now. I said they sold their cars at a loss, which they do. Back in July Tesla hit the milestone of four quarters of consecutive profit, which allowed it to join the S&P 500. But Tesla cannot post a profit from the sales of its cars. If Tesla just made money selling cars, Tesla would be routinely losing money. Save thousands on any new car (Australia-only): https://autoexpert.com.au/contact AutoExpert discount roadside assistance package: https://247roadservices.com.au/autoexpert/ Did you like this report? You can help support the channel, securely via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=DSL9A3MWEMNBW&source=url Tesla is only profitable because it sells hundreds of millions of dollars of artificial regulatory clean air credits to other carmakers. Tesla cars get sold at a loss. Tesla turns that around by selling totally artificial bullshit green financial derivatives. June quarter of 2020 (that’s the fourth consecutive profit one, which allowed it to join the S&P): Tesla made US$428-million selling bullshit regulatory credits. That’s about four times the $104 million in net profit they declared that quarter. In other words, without selling these fake clean air credits to other carmakers, they would have been roughly $300 million in the red. And that’s a typical recent result for them. These bullshit regulatory credits are the most high performance financial product Tesla sells. And it works like this: In California, and at least 13 other US states (so, roughly a quarter of the union) carmakers which want to sell cars into those states must sell a certain number of notionally ‘green’ vehicles - EVs, hybrids, like that. Or they face big fines. If they sell more notionally zero emission vehicles than their quota, they get these fake credits. And the only way to sidestep the fines for failing to sell sufficient green vehicles is to buy bullshit zero-emission vehicle credits from a carmaker which is exceeding its quotas for ZEVs. Since Tesla sells only EVs, it’s got fake credits to burn, so it sells them to carmakers that need them, for less than the fines they would otherwise pay. Kerr-friggin’ ching. There’s the Tesla profit centre. It’s completely artificial. Selling these credits to other carmakers is the only reason Tesla is profitable, five quarters in a row. And demand for those credits will increase in 2021, until major competition steps in. Without the revenue from the sale of bullshit enviro-credits, Tesla remains wholly unprofitable. Ergo, Tesla cars get sold at a loss. This is very basic.

In this episodl we spoke with Cheri Chastain, who Chair of the Chico Climate Action Commission and with Molly Marcussen associate planner for the City of Chico. They told us about recent proposals/recommendations of the Commission, which include the Chico Bicycle Master Plan, improving ZEV (zero emission vehicle) infrastructure to allow for a 25% shift from combustion vehicles to ZEVs by 2030, working with waste haulers and other stakeholders to meet the goals of SB 1383 and divert 75% of organic waste from the landfill through an expansion of composting services and edible food waste diversion and expanding the tree canopy by 700 trees by 2022 and 4,500 trees by 2030 to sequester carbon, decrease temperatures, save energy, and improve air quality within Chico. Read more about their work at https://chico.ca.us/climate-action-commission

Volkswagen Canada CEO Pierre Boutin talks about what the all-electric ID4 means for the brand, how the pandemic and more electrification at the automaker might affect dealers, and the need to attract more consumers to the brand in Canada.

Welcome back! :) The pronouns in this episode is: jeg, du, han, hun (I, you, he, she) vi, dere, de (we, you(plural), they) And the dialogues: - Hei, jeg heter Prometeus. Hva heter du? - Jeg heter Pandora. Hva heter han? - Han heter Epimetues. Og hun? - Hun heter Atene. - Hyggelig! - Unnskyld, vi heter Orpheus og Evredike. Hva heter de? - De heter Pandora og Epimeteus. Hvor kommer dere fra? - Vi kommer fra Hellas. Og du? - Jeg kommer også fra Hellas. unnskyld = excuse me også = also bor = lives - Hei! Vi heter Orpheus og Evredike. Vi kommer fra Hellas. Hva heter du? - Jeg heter Zevs. Jeg kommer også fra Hellas. Hvor bor dere? - Vi bor i Hades. Og du? - Jeg bor på Olympus fjellet. - Hyggelig! .. Great work - and thanks for listening!! :D

This week, we’re going to look at one of the most revolutionary ideas to improve our planet. It’s called the zero emission vehicle – better known as ZEV – and it may be able to reduce our contribution to air pollution and possibly climate change. Most people may know the name Tesla, which is one of the first truly zero emission vehicles on the market. It runs on batteries like many others that are in the pipeline. But there are other types that exist including an engine that runs on hydrogen. Our first guest takes us on a guided tour of the hydrogen engine and why it may represent the real future of ZEVs. His name is Xianguo Li and he is a Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering Professor at the University of Waterloo. While ZEVs may seem like an excellent purchase, the reality is that there isn’t much of a demand for them. However, when people are asked about their perception of these vehicles, they are quite high. This is known as latent demand and our next guest reveals to us how we may be able to turn that interest into actual sales. She is Zoe Long and she is the Research Manager for the Sustainable Transport Action Research Team at Simon Fraser University. In our SASS Class, we learn about how governments and people who like ZEVs can improve sales. Our guest teacher is Scott Hardman and he is a professional researcher in the Plug-in Hybrid & Electric Vehicle Research Center, in the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California Davis. We learn about the different types of government incentives that exist and which country happens to have the greatest success in getting people to adopt ZEVs. We also find out that governments can only do so much and that word of mouth may still be the best way to increase purchases. If you enjoy The Super Awesome Science Show, please take a minute to rate it on Apple Podcasts and be sure to tell a friend about the show. Thanks to you, we won the Canadian Podcast Award for Outstanding Science and Medicine Series. Let’s keep the awesome momentum going together!  Twitter: @JATetro Email: thegermguy@gmail.com Guests: XianGuo Li Web: https://uwaterloo.ca/mechanical-mechatronics-engineering/profile/x6li Zoe Long Web: https://sustainabletransport.ca/our-team/ Scott Hardman Web: https://its.ucdavis.edu/people/scott-hardman/ Twitter: @scottiehardman

To menn fra to vidt forskjellige klasser i samfunnet får besøk av mannen ovenpå, og i et sedvanlig nyansert eventyr får vi virkelig se hva disse to mennene er lagd av, rent moralsk, når de får sine ønsker oppfylt. Ellers snakker vi om apehånda, kritiserer den greske guden Zevs, Julie introduserer en sterkt polariserende figur for Odd og Krister, og vi oppdager Odds hemmelige navn. Har du ris, ros, eller noe annet på hjertet kan du nå oss på trolletstilstand@gmail.com, Facebook og Instagram. Lydeffekter (Freesound.org): "Door opening and closing 1" av JakLocke. "Horse.wav" av stomachache. "Thuds on Window" av zerolagtime. "Pop sound" av deraj.

Predsednik je održao reč, ali nam se obratio u obličju Siniše Malog: kao što je Zevs mogao da se, kad mu ustreba, preobrati u nekog drugog, u zlatnu kišu, labuda, tako je naš Zevs u doktorskom liku ministra finansija obznanio koliko su večiti rivali koštali državu u minuloj petoljetki, a to je oko četiri i ... DaljeRETROVIZOR Rampa za razbikuće

I samarbete med Halogen. Angie är tillbaka på podden efter ett halvår och idag har hon släppt den nya singeln Step. Vi pratar om låten, hennes photoshoot, Zevs ryggproblem och vi har gått med i Halogen som deras nya kändisprofiler tillsammans med Laura Marano, Logan Henderson, Eben, Why Don't We, Tana Mongeau och många fler. Step: https://open.spotify.com/track/0rgKE3dyRgggudpFEmKxM2?si=aLZxXPyeTIiB7yKOK-F_YQ Halogen: https://link.halogen.tv/share/post/SK23ZQsoewyDTgjz49oiQw Följ oss på Instagram och Spotify! @zeventine @angie.waw  Följ oss på Halogen: @Zeventine @AngieMusic

In this episode we look at the concept of Hubris and Nemesis in the Greek Myth, and link the events from Europa and Zevs on Crete, to the Labyrinth of Daedalus, and the story of his son Icarus who flew too close to the sun. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Hurra! Vi feirer episode nr 50 av Attack of the Killer Kast med en skikkelig kult-kalkun. Før han var The Terminator, før han var Conan så var han Hercules, sønn av Zevs. Vi snakker selvfølgelig om Arnold Schwarzenegger! Bli med oss på eventyret av en film, som er «Hercules in New York». Så ha saltkringlene klare og len deg tilbake og kos deg med denne udødelige episoden av Norges beste trash-horror/kult-podcast! I studio: Chris og Kurt

Europa var en gudinne, og så uimotståelig at Zevs, utkledd som en okse, bortførte henne. I dag mottar EU fredsprisen. Hvor og når ble ideen om Europa til?