First state in the nation! Texas lifts muzzle order and fully opens to commerce, Mississippi follows suit.
“Turning Rock into Gold“, Rare Earths Extracted from Scrap, Expected to Solve 50% of U.S. Rare Earth Needs and Get Rid of Chinese Communist Constraints! Three North American groups build rare earth supply chain.
Fighting back against Biden, Oklahoma proposes a total ban on Biden’s executive order, surpassing Texas and Florida.
Trying to make a disaster fortune, California energy company sued by Texas Attorney General. Following in the footsteps of California and New York governors, the dusty Michigan governor is also under investigation.
Anti-Trump hardcore Senator Romney is in trouble! Last weekend he fell in Boston and got a lot of stitches and passed out.
Texas lifts muzzle order and fully opens for business, another state follows suit
On Tuesday, March 2, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced the lifting of an eight-month statewide mandatory mask order and required the opening of all commercial facilities. On the same day, Mississippi announced that it would follow Texas’ lead and enact the same ordinance.
Texas Governor Greg Abbot is pictured here.
Texas Governor Abbott said in a speech to the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce at the Montelango Restaurant, “With medical advances in vaccines and antibody therapies, Texas now has the tools to protect Texans from the virus. Now we must restore livelihoods and normalcy for Texans by opening 100 percent of Texas businesses.”
He announced that as of March 3, passenger capacity will resume at all Texas places of business. And he said that all businesses and households have the right to determine for themselves the level of precautions they should take.
Abbott said, “Today’s announcement does not abandon the Epidemic preparedness practices that Texans have mastered over the past year. Rather, it is a reminder that each individual has a role to play in their own personal safety and the safety of others. With this executive order, we are ensuring that all businesses and families in Texas are free to determine their own Destiny.”
Abbott’s new order states that if any of the 22 hospital areas in Texas has a COVID-19 (Central Common Virus) hospitalization rate that exceeds 15 percent of the area’s bed capacity for seven consecutive days, the county judge may use a different strategy to address the situation. He said he does not think that threshold will be met.
The full economic opening decree comes after Texas experienced a rare snowstorm that left people with a power and water crisis and extreme weather that killed dozens of people. Last Friday (Feb. 26), President Joe Biden traveled to Texas to visit the disaster.
Following the Texas decree, Mississippi declared it would follow Texas’ lead and reopen all operations in the state and lift the mandatory mask requirement.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves tweeted, “Starting tomorrow, we will lift mandatory mask requirements in all of our counties and businesses will be able to operate at full capacity without the ban. Our hospitalizations and case counts have dropped dramatically and vaccines are being distributed rapidly. It’s Time!”
After the outbreak, Florida adopted a large degree of open business premises directive and took precautionary measures, and the U.S. industry noted that the outbreak curve in New York City and California, which adopted a strict lockdown regime, did not appear to be more under control compared to Florida’s outbreak data.
U.S. Senator Mitt Romney in coma after accidental fall, multiple stitches, bruises around eyes
Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a Utah congressman, fell in Boston over the weekend and said the fall left him with “a lot of stitches” and a bruised eye.
Romney said he was spending the weekend in Boston with his grandson when the accident occurred, and that he was injured and unconscious. He was later taken to the hospital and received stitches on his right eyebrow and lip.
Photo: U.S. Senator Mitt Romney
“I fell down. Fell unconscious. But I’m feeling better now,” Romney told the media Monday night (March 1).
“I had a very tough weekend,” Romney joked, “and I went to CPAC – that was a problem.”
Over the weekend, Romney did not attend the Conservative Political Action (CPAC) conference in Orlando, Florida, to which he was not invited. The event brought together a large number of political figures in the Republican Party who support Trump’s policies, and former President Trump released his first speech since leaving office on Feb. 28. Romney was one of only seven Republicans to vote for Trump in the Senate impeachment vote last month.
Fighting back against Biden, another red state carries the flag after Texas and Florida
The Oklahoma House of Representatives has passed a bill in the Oklahoma Legislature that is designed to counter Biden’s executive order. Since taking office, Biden has signed executive orders on many far-left issues.
The bill, code-named HB 1236, allows the state legislature to review each of Biden’s executive orders and decide whether to refer Biden’s executive orders to the state attorney general. Under the bill, the state attorney general would be able to determine whether the Biden executive order violates the federal constitution.
If the state attorney general finds that the Biden executive order is unconstitutional, then the state attorney general will file a lawsuit in court asking the court to invalidate Biden’s order.
If the state attorney general does not act, the state legislature could, by majority vote, find the Biden executive order unconstitutional.
What would happen in such a case? We don’t know. Perhaps the state attorney general would have to take action to prosecute Biden’s executive order, or perhaps the state would simply ignore Biden’s executive order and pretend it doesn’t exist. The ball would then be kicked back to the federal government, which would file a lawsuit in court to have the Oklahoma government enforce the president’s executive order.
Oklahoma State Capitol
The bill passed by the House of Representatives of the Oklahoma State Legislature states that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, no state, county, or other political body, or publicly funded body, may take any action that restricts the rights of the people, or that is found unconstitutional by the Attorney General of the state, or that is found unconstitutional by a majority of the state legislature.
The state legislature’s official website makes it clear that the bill is to review presidential executive orders and other actions of the federal government.
Executive orders are not laws, after all, and if they are federal laws, then they have to be enforced first. But, ultimately, the only one who has the authority to interpret the Constitution is the judiciary. And neither the state Attorney General nor the state legislature is a judicial body.
Therefore, Oklahoma’s bill is only a stopgap measure, under this bill, the final decision must be made by the judiciary, the Oklahoma government can temporarily shelve Biden’s executive order. But better than nothing, something is better than nothing.
What we can be sure of is that all of Biden’s orders will be reviewed in Oklahoma, and many of them will face judicial battles. Either Oklahoma will sue the feds, or the feds will sue Oklahoma.
Photo: Oklahoma Senate floor
In the Oklahoma State Senate, there are 38 Republicans and 9 Democrats. So it was only logical that the bill would pass the state Senate and eventually be signed into state law by the governor.
Following in the footsteps of California and New York governors, Michigan’s governor is also under investigation
Recently, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is facing impeachment and investigation in the wake of a nursing Home death and sex scandal, and California’s “Recall (Governor) Newsom 2020” campaign has collected more than 1.5 million signatures. Since then, another Democratic governor has been thrust into the spotlight: Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who is facing an investigation.
The picture shows Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who was recently investigated.
On Tuesday, March 2, the Michigan Republican Party issued a statement calling on Democratic Governor Whitmer and her former health Department director Robert Gordon to “release all information” about their “secret dealings,” according to FoxNews.com. “.
The statement comes after Whitmer’s office agreed to pay Gordon $155,506 after he abruptly resigned in January, and the details of his departure remain confidential. Republicans want Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel to “launch an immediate investigation” into the matter.
They also called on the state legislature to “issue subpoenas and hold hearings to answer the very simple question: Why did Whitmer pay a former government employee in the midst of a global virus pandemic?
The confidentiality agreement just adds a new dimension to the issue,” said Sen. Jim Runestad (D-Mich.). The government has yet to provide data or information about its COVID (Chinese Communist Virus) policy. We have more than enough reason to investigate the Whitmer administration’s COVID policy.”
Republican lawmakers have also called for an investigation into Whitmer’s handling of nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic.
Trying to Make a Disaster Fortune, Energy Company Sued by Texas Attorney General
An energy company lured customers with a deceptive advertising campaign and sent them expensive bills as Texas was plunged into a power outage crisis by a blizzard in February. In response, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday (March 1) that the Justice Department will sue the energy company.
Photo: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
The energy company that tried to make a disaster fortune is called Griddy LLC, and it is based in California.
In a statement, Paxton said, “Griddy misled Texans and contracted with them for service. It has cost every Texan thousands of dollars during this time of crisis. It is completely outrageous that Grid is still taking advantage of Texans in the midst of the hardships Texas is facing in this winter storm.”
Grid boasts to Texans that it offers “wholesale” prices and therefore offers more affordable alternatives than traditional energy providers. The company also touted that it could pass on savings to customers in times of low electricity demand.
The lawsuit says the company’s service would expose customers to significant risk from market fluctuations during periods of unstable demand. Paxton’s office claims that Grid has consistently underestimated the nature and extent of those risks.
During last month’s winter storm, Grid’s customers were charged “excessive prices. The company’s automated billing system left many customers, many of whom were elderly residents, with overdrawn bank accounts.
The lawsuit says, “Grid’s use of automated billing devices has left these consumers particularly helpless by withdrawing hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars from their checking accounts over the course of a few days. These large daily withdrawals also resulted in some Texas consumers being charged bank overdraft fees by their banks.”
The lawsuit also suggests that this isn’t the first time Grid has charged customers exorbitant prices; in August 2019, during a heat wave that hit Texas, the company also passed on increased energy costs to customers due to higher demands on the grid. “As a result, in 2019, consumers were surprised and outraged to receive bills of up to $1,200 in just three days. This is highly inconsistent with the advertising that enticed them to call themselves Grid customers.”
The lawsuit also says the company’s response to its consumers being harmed in 2019 was dismissive.
The Justice Department noted that Grid violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, so the department will seek an injunction against the company to force it to be more honest about its energy services in the future.
3 North American Groups Build Rare-Earth Supply Chain as They “Turn Stone into Gold” and Get Rid of Communist China
The Financial Times reports that three North American companies are working together to create a rare earth supply chain to reduce their dependence on China. The report said that Canada‘s Neo Performance Materials and the U.S. company “Energy Fuels” (Energy Fuels) successfully produced rare earths from radioactive phosphorus cerium lanthanum ore (monazite, also known as monazite), the ore is a mining by-product, will be the U.S. chemical The ore is a mining by-product and will be supplied by Chemours, a major U.S. chemical manufacturer.
China holds 80% of the rare earths supply and is considering imposing export controls on rare earths, raising suspicions that it will hold both military and commercial advantages. The Biden Administration has prioritized a strategy to diversify into rare earths outside of China, including more mining and processing in its home and partner countries, and President Biden ordered a vulnerability review of the key supply chain, including rare earths, last month.
The report said that most Western rare earth companies have avoided the phosphorus-cerium-lanthanum ore that results from mining zirconium, titanium and other minerals because of its high radiation content. However, Energy Fuels, which is engaged in uranium processing, has developed a method to extract radioactive components from lanthanum phosphate ore for use in nuclear fuel, turning this waste into gold.
This is an important step in creating an integrated rare earth supply chain in Europe and the United States,” said Mark Chalmers, president and chief executive officer of Energy Fuels.
The report said the phosphate cerium lanthanum ore contains 50% rare earths, much higher than other ores, as well as 0.2% to 0.3% natural uranium, and contains 15 of the 17 rare earths.
From March or April, Energy Fuels will ship de-radiated mixed carbonate rare earths to the Silmet separation plant in Estonia, the only rare earth processing plant in Europe. neo will produce separated rare earths for use in permanent magnets and other advanced materials needed for electric vehicles. The Congressional Research Service reports that each Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jet contains 417 kilograms of rare earths, and a nuclear submarine requires more than four tons of rare earths.
Comu will supply Energy Fuels with at least 2,500 tons of phosphorus-cerium-lanthanum ore per year and will ship 840 tons of rare earths to Estonia. The ultimate goal for Energy Fuels is to process 15,000 tons of lanthanum phosphate per year, which would be half the size of the U.S. rare earth requirements.
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