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Ford expects 40% of global sales to be electric vehicles by 2030
By Chris Isidore, CNN Business
Updated 1:34 PM EDT, Wed May 26, 2021

New York(CNN Business)Ford is doubling down on electric vehicle development, announcing Wednesday it will invest $30 billion in electrification efforts by 2025. The automaker also pledged that 40% of its vehicles sold by 2030 will be electric.

Ford had previously announced plans to spend $22 billion on electrification efforts and had recently revealed plans to build two new battery factories in a joint venture with Korean battery maker SK innovation.

Last week, Ford also unveiled an all-electric version of the F-150 pickup, the best selling vehicle from any US automaker. The electric F-150 Lightning is due in showrooms in 2022. Ford said Wednesday that it received 70,000 customer reservations for the electric truck since it was unveiled a week ago. Ford has already started selling an electric SUV under its iconic Mustang name, the Mustang Mach-E

[Phil B.]

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He knows damn well it'll go to the same place his last payment went to.. his buddies in Hamas. I think the money could've been spent in a better place... like AMERICA!


Biden Admin Announces Major Aid Money and Controversial Consulate for Palestinians

Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Tuesday the Biden administration will give Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank more than $100 million in new aid and will also reopen a consulate that was downgraded by former President Donald Trump.
Blinken was in Israel on Tuesday, days after a ceasefire agreement was reached between the Israeli military and the terror group Hamas.
After nearly two weeks of fighting between the Israeli Defense Forces and Hamas militants, which saw the IDF strike at rocket launch sites and other military targets in Gaza, the State Department, according to Blinken, will offer the Palestinian people $112 million in aid, Fox NewsThe New York TimesTrump administration had previously cut aid to the Palestinian Authority, The Times of IsraelIsrael since last week.
Blinken further announced at the briefing the Biden administration would immediately reopen the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem, which was downgraded by the Trump administration in March 2019, according to the Los Angeles TimesReutersThe Associated PressBenjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, The Times of Israel reported. Blinken vowed to help Israel replenish its Iron Dome defense system following more than a week of Hamas rocket attacks that saw the system tested to its limit.
Hamas terrorists fired thousands of rockets into Israeli cities this month, leaving scores of people injured or killed.
In its response, Israel leveled buildings that housed terrorists and those sympathetic to Hamas across the Gaza Strip.

An official ceasefire was declared on Friday.


biden can declare where the money should go BUT once they have it in their hands THEY decide how the money is doled out, and with Hamas in control it'll be spent on more arms to use against Israel. STOP enabling the terrorists Joe.... AMERICA FIRST!

[Phil B.]

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Debacleexposedopen warrant related to an aggravated armed robbery. The Derek Chauvin trial was wrapping up around 10 miles away and the 82-year-old lawmaker incited the crowd, encouraging protestors to Last month Judicial Watch filed a complaintprotect commercial passenger flights

[Phil B.]

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There I told you so!


Biden State Dept. Official: US Could Be Aiding Hamas Terrorists, 'No Guarantee' Where Money Goes

Hamas recently rained more than 4,000 rockets upon Israel, inviting retaliation from the Jewish state that destroyed buildings and infrastructure in Gaza.
A ceasefire was declared last week, sparking the United States to begin passing the hat for aid to Gaza through the international community. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is visiting the region to begin the process.

The State Department provided a briefingGazaSo Joe IF you can't be sure of WHERE the funds are going to, WHY SEND THE MONEY AT ALL?

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Hmmmm. And all along Slim was under some delusion that it was people on the left that were the ones that resorted to attacks and insults to prove how little they actually knew.
I guess we all know different now.
Oh, and BTW, how does your God feel about you eating cookies from an LGBT member?

Once again you have proven my point that you are a hateful leftist.

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George Floyd family urges Biden to pass police reform bill as it stalls in Senate | George Floyd | The Guardian

[Copier Addict]

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Once again you have proven my point that you are a hateful leftist.

Oh? How exactly did I prove your point?

[Copier Addict]

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Once again you have proven my point that you are a hateful leftist.

Is this something a "hateful leftist" would say?

"or if you DON'T get it that just proves you are some sniveling liberal fuck that LOVES YouTube and has no fucking life... that has an avatar of some some faggy little little fuck in a puffy sleeve shirt or some fake ass black man that THINKS he is some queer African Prince".

[slimslob]

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He knows damn well it'll go to the same place his last payment went to.. his buddies in Hamas.

It reminds me of a news report I saw the day the ceasefire was announced. One of the Hamas leaders said "we fought until our very last rocket." When the rockets start flying again we will know who bought them for Hamas.

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Sonya Hightower-LaBosco

Every time I read that name it made me remember this

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Is this something a "hateful leftist" would say?

"or if you DON'T get it that just proves you are some sniveling liberal fuck that LOVES YouTube and has no fucking life... that has an avatar of some some faggy little little fuck in a puffy sleeve shirt or some fake ass black man that THINKS he is some queer African Prince".

Once again you have proven my point that you are a hateful leftist.

Come on Slim. Tell us all who would actually say what is above.

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In a trifecta of stunning wins today by global climate activists, Shell, Chevron and Exxon were all dealt setbacks in their future pursuits of oil and gas.

1. Shell was ordered to cut it's carbon emissions by 45% by 2030.
2. Two climate activists replaced two board members of Exxon with a possible 3rd person by Friday.
3. Chevron investors order company to cut carbon emissions.

Oil and gas companies have long argued that they have little control over how their products are used, but with rising investor pressure they are forced to find new ways to cut emissions and fall in line with global climate change pledges. U.S. President Joe Biden has pledged to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

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President Joe Biden has pledged to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

2050? Joe Biden will be dead by the end of the year, Allah willing.

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2050? Joe Biden will be dead by the end of the year, Allah willing.

... so will the ex President and several of the three Amigos on CTN.

The Democratic President at the time will carry on President Biden's excellent work.

In 2050, the Republican party will be eclipsed by a new independent party. US demographics will have changed so much that white males will no longer be in the majority of the nation.

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One last abortion clinic to shut down and then we need to trun our attention to the rest of the country. Abortion must be outlawed.




Can Mississippi’s Last Abortion Clinic Survive?
The Supreme Court’s decision on a law banning abortions after 15 weeks could have major consequences for the mostly poor Black women who come to the ‘Pink House.’





JACKSON, Miss. — Long before the funky restaurants and shops began to turn Fondren into Jackson’s trendiest district, the neighborhood’s landmark institution was a bright pink building, surrounded by a concrete and iron wall, 8 feet tall at its peak, that is Mississippi’s last abortion clinic.

Last week, the scene was more or less normal: The women seeking care would slowly turn into the parking lot, careful not to hit the protesters camped at the entrance who held signs preaching eternal damnation. Volunteers in rainbow-patterned vests ushered the women inside. Pop music blared from speakers to drown out the protesters, many of whom bring their own amplifiers.

The U.S. Supreme Court announced it would review the case known as Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which is the formal name of the “Pink House.” The case concerns Mississippi’s 2018 ban on all abortions after 15 weeks of gestation. The law was blocked on appeal as an unconstitutional violation of Roe v. Wade; the landmark decision that afforded women the right to an abortion prior to viability, which is considered 24 weeks. The possibility that the newly conservative Supreme Court would take up a case that could challenge a standard that had stood since 1973, possibly replacing one landmark case for another, was cause for celebration among the state’s mostly male and mostly white lawmakers who have vowed to make Mississippi, in the words of a former governor, “the safest place in America for an unborn child.”








“Obviously the court has changed over the last four years, but that’s not why the case is being heard. I think the case is being heard because the science has changed over the last 50 years when Roe was initially decided,” Gov. Tate Reeves said, referring to his belief that medicine has lowered the viability threshold. “For us to have the opportunity to present our argument and present the facts with respect to the improvements in technology and improvements in the science is just a very important step.”

The mood among those who have struggled to hold the line on abortion rights ranged from resigned acceptance to anger. They have watched for decades as Mississippi lawmakers have passed law after law that has whittled the number of abortion providers to a single outpost in the state’s majority Black capital city.

After U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves, no relation to Gov. Reeves, overturned the 15- week ban in 2018, his ruling was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in 2019. While waiting to see if the Supreme Court was going to take up the case, activists like Laurie Bertram Roberts, co-founder and executive director of the Mississippi Reproductive Fund, braced for the fallout.

“When they kept kicking it down the road, we were all like, ‘Yeah, this shit’s coming,’” Bertram Roberts said.
The question now is whether this case, brought by the state’s chief health officer Thomas Dobbs, will result in overturning Roe, which would automatically enforce Mississippi’s “trigger law” banning abortion in the first and second trimester. Five contiguous states in the South have similar trigger laws, potentially forcing women in Mississippi to travel hundreds of miles for treatment.
In Fondren, from the porch of a coffee shop with the clinic in view, a former Mississippian cursed the state’s leaders. Gaines Dobbins left for the West Coast four decades ago but frequently comes back to visit family and he still follows the state’s abortion fight. He and his wife regularly donate to Planned Parenthood, he said, because “I know how hard it can be.”
“If it wasn’t for the federal government and Roe v. Wade,” he said, “you wouldn't have an abortion clinic down here.”

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Beginning in 1991, Mississippi enacted a series of targeted restrictions on abortion providers, commonly referred to as “TRAP laws.”
That year, lawmakers required two appointments, with a 24-hour waiting period in between an initial counseling session and the procedure itself. In 1996, state law mandated women be given pamphlets with medical risks associated with abortion, including information that has been proven inaccurate. Structural requirements were also imposed on clinics in 1996, requiring that hallways be a certain width, ostensibly to accommodate a gurney. In 2007, the legislature passed a bill requiring minors to have a waiver from their parents. The bill also stated women must be given a copy of a sonogram or listen to a fetal heartbeat. In 2012, they tried to force doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals

The laws didn’t ban abortion, but they did have an effect.
In the late 1980s, Mississippi had five abortion clinics across the state. By 2008, only the “Pink House” remained. Five other states, including Missouri and Kentucky, have only one abortion provider.
In 2019, then-Gov. Phil Bryant signed the “heartbeat bill” into law, essentially banning abortions at six weeks gestation, before many women even know they’re pregnant. (Pregnancy weeks start on the last day of a woman’s last period, which is typically two weeks before conception. So, when a woman is six weeks pregnant, she may have just barely missed her period by a couple of days.) Just as had happened with the 15-week ban, a federal district court judge filed an injunction on that law and an appeals court upheld the decision.

Mississippi isn’t alone in its recent barrage of abortion bills. Since January 2021, there have been 546 abortion restrictions introduced across 47 states, according to the Guttmacher Institute. In many cases, the authors of the bills have expressed their desire to draft a bill that would attract the attention of the Supreme Court. Most of them don’t.
The bill that actually could impact a generation was written by Republican state Rep. Becky Currie, a nurse from a town with about 12,000 people located an hour south of Jackson. “Can you imagine how proud I am that my bill was picked, a nurse from Mississippi going to the Supreme Court?” Currie said last week. “It’s a huge deal.”
Currie describes the 15-week law as “common sense” legislation.
“After 15 weeks or four months of being pregnant, it’s just time to decide whether you're going to carry that baby or abort it,” she said. “I hope that mothers decide at that point to carry it because you can feel the baby move and can see its heartbeat and, with technology now, you even know what the sex is. I think it’s plenty of time to make that decision ... After four months, make up your mind.”
In Mississippi, in 2018, just over 99 percent of the state’s approximately 3,000 abortions were performed before 15 weeks, and three-quarters of them before nine weeks.
When the Jackson Women’s Health clinic first opened in 1995, it provided abortion services up through the end of 24 weeks, according to Izzy Pellegrine, Mississippi State University sociology doctoral student. With the changing of state laws so came changes in the clinic's services. Today, the clinic provide the abortion pill (nonmedical abortion) up to 11 weeks and surgical abortion up to 16 weeks, essentially complying with a law that is not actually in force. By state law, Medicaid funds can not pay for abortions in Mississippi.