(FREE) PAINE IN THE MORNING: 10 things you need to know this Thursday– April 14, 2022

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Biden Admin Extends Transportation Mask Mandate Yet Again – It is becoming a mandate that just will not die: the requirement to wear masks while using public transportation.

In March, the Biden administration made the befuddling decision to extend the mask mandate for public transportation to April 18. – READ MORE

Biden’s Plan To Ease Gas Prices Will Save Drivers a Few Cents at Some Pumps…2 Months From Now – President Joe Biden’s latest gambit to combat high gas prices will save some drivers a few cents at the pump—two months from now. But consumers might not see much in the way of savings at all, since they’ll be buying dirtier, less efficient fuel that will require more frequent fill-ups.

Biden on Tuesday said he will direct the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue an emergency waiver allowing so-called “E15” gasoline to be sold between June 1 and September 15, when it is usually prohibited due to concerns about how the fuel contributes to air pollution. – READ MORE

Biden wants even to control your air conditioning – President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi want to regulate any gadget or appliance with an electric switch that turns on in your house or your driveway. New Department of Energy rules will dictate the amount of water that comes out of your showerhead, how much warm air comes out of your heater and how much cool air comes out of air conditioners. There is even talk about gadgets monitoring your home’s temperature in the winter and summer months.

How is any of this the government’s business?

The latest shower regulations are especially aggravating. The new water-efficient heads make you stand in the shower much longer to get wet and wash your hair because the water pressure is low. It’s a drip, drip, drip policy. – READ MORE

Report: Subway Station Cameras Were Not Working During NYC Attack – In the aftermath of Tuesday’s shooting in Brooklyn, reports are emerging that security cameras at the subway station where the shooter fled after opening fire in a subway car were not working.

According to ABC News, no cameras were operational at the 36th Street station. The glitch was blamed on a computer malfunction. – READ MORE

Feds had 20 ‘assets’ embedded in Jan. 6 riot, court document shows – The federal government had at least 20 “assets” embedded in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, according to a new report.

Those would be individuals in the pay of the federal government’s agencies who were there on scene. – READ MORE

LAPD Stunned by Number of Gangs Involved in Robberies on City’s Wealthiest – The Los Angeles Police Department reported 17 gangs were involved in robberies among the city’s wealthiest.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the gangs are allegedly “sending out crews in multiple cars to find, follow and rob people driving high-end vehicles or wearing expensive jewelry,” citing law enforcement. – READ MORE

Bill Gates said it’s ‘kind of weird’ that ‘crazy people’ are protesting vaccines outside his TED talk when he has helped save millions of lives – Bill Gates said “it’s somewhat ironic” that anti-vaccine protesters falsely accuse him of malice through his work on vaccine development when his organization has helped save millions of lives.

Gates addressed conspiracy theories and anti-vaccine activists on Tuesday at the TED2022 conference in Vancouver, Canada, where he gave a talk on how to prevent against the next pandemic. – READ MORE

Zuck Tax: Facebook Will Take a 50% Cut of Sales Within ‘Metaverse’ – Facebook reportedly plans to take an almost 50 percent cut of all virtual asset sales in its “Metaverse” digital universe. Mark Zuckerberg and the Masters of the Universe stand to make a fortune if trading NFTs takes off in what he touts as the future of the internet.

CNBC reports that Facebook (now known as Meta) plans to tax sales on its virtual reality platform Horizon Worlds by up to 47.5 percent. Facebook announced in a recent blog post that it is allowing a small number of Horizon Worlds creators to sell virtual assets within the worlds they develop. However, what Facebook failed to mention is how much of every sale creators will be forced to give up. – READ MORE

China Supremacy: TikTok’s Ad Revenue to Surpass Twitter and Snapchat *Combined* –Chinese-owned social media app TikTok is set to triple its ad revenue in 2022 to more than $11 billion, totaling more ad sales than Twitter and Snapchat combined.

Reuters reports that TikTok, owned by the Chinese firm ByteDance, is set to reach $11 billion in advertising revenue this year, more than Twitter and Snapchat’s advertising revenue combined. TikTok currently boasts more than 1 billion users and is one of the most popular social media apps in the world. – READ MORE

Globalist U.N. Turns to ‘Behavioral Design’ to Force Compliance with Climate Change Agenda – The globalist United Nations inserted into its International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on weather threats ways to manipulate people into fighting global warming with subliminal messaging or “behavioral design.”

The Fast Company website wrote about the misleadingly named “choice architecture” and noted that the details were “hidden” in the massive U.N. report. – READ MORE