(FREE) PAINE IN THE MORNING: What you need to know this Thursday – December 15, 2022

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Report: Over 7,500 Earmarks Totaling $16 Billion Being Negotiated for Spending Bill – There are over 7,500 earmarks totaling $16 billion lawmakers are trying to negotiate to be in a year-long “omnibus” spending bill that would expire at the end of the current fiscal year — September 2023.

As key lawmakers indicated late Tuesday, there is an omnibus framework agreement. Bloomberg Government reported earlier in the day that there are over 7,500 earmarks totaling $16 billion in 2023 appropriations bills released throughout the year that could make it in the overall package. – READ MORE

Visualizing The Amount Of US Taxpayer Dollars Flowing To Ukraine In 2022 – The below graphic illustrates in a two-minute video the total amount of US aid enacted or proposed for Ukraine in the year 2022, after the Russian invasion has surpassed ten months.

In the visual which over the last several days has been shared widely – each dot represents $100,000 in US taxpayer dollars, and is broken up according to type of support, with military aid (in red) being the largest expenditure by far… – READ MORE

The Dark Ages are back in Europe and the climate change lobby is loving the return to chaos and control – Politico Europe, a publication marinated in green politics, has named Russian President Vladimir Putin as one of its “power players of the year” — for, in the publication’s words, “advancing Europe’s green agenda.”

“By invading Ukraine and manipulating energy supplies to undermine European support for Kyiv, Putin has achieved something generations of green campaigners could not — clean energy is now a fundamental matter of European security,” the news outlet explained approvingly. – READ MORE

Climate-Change Lockdowns? Yup, They Are Actually Going There… – I suppose that we should have known that this was inevitable. After establishing a precedent during the pandemic, now the elite apparently intend to impose lockdowns for other reasons as well. What I have detailed in this article is extremely alarming, and I hope that you will share it with everyone that you can. Climate change lockdowns are here, and if people don’t respond very strongly to this it is likely that we will soon see similar measures implemented all over the western world. The elite have always promised to do “whatever it takes” to fight climate change, and now we are finding out that they weren’t kidding.

Over in the UK, residents of Oxfordshire will now need a special permit to go from one “zone” of the city to another. But even if you have the permit, you will still only be allowed to go from one zone to another “a maximum of 100 days per year”… – READ MORE

Banking giant vows to quit funding new oil and gas projects – The world’s eighth-largest bank HSBC said Wednesday that it would stop giving loans to fund new oil and gas fields in an attempt to help cut global carbon emissions.

HSBC will no longer finance fossil fuel fields that were approved in late 2021 as part of a broader plan to promote renewable energy and phase out oil and gas investing, according to a company news release. The banking giant said it will still fund oil and gas firms at the corporate level and will push them to fund green energy initiatives such as hydrogen and nuclear energy. – READ MORE

Study suggesting unvaccinated should pay higher car insurance premiums draws outrage – A new study published this month in The American Journal of Medicine claimed those unvaccinated from the COVID-19 virus were more likely to get in traffic accidents, drawing outrage on Twitter. The study’s authors suggested insurance companies should make changes to policies of unvaccinated individuals.

“The observed risks might also justify changes to driver insurance policies in the future,” the Canadian researchers advised. – READ MORE

Judicial Watch Releases New Information on the Moderna Vaccine – News has come out regarding the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, courtesy of Judicial Watch. The watchdog group announced yesterday that it had records it had obtained from a FOIA lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease. The entities had failed to respond to a FOIA request filed in June of 2021 regarding “the biodistribution studies and related data for the Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson& Johnson COVID vaccines.”- READ MORE

Experts Sound Alarms as Canada Expands Euthanasia to Cover Mental Illness –Canada’s impending expansion of assisted suicide to people suffering from mental illness is sounding alarms across the country and around the world, especially given the woefully inadequate funding for mental health in Canada’s public health care system.

“This country is on the verge of providing publicly funded euthanasia for people suffering from diseases for which there is little publicly funded care,” Canada’s Globe and Mail warned last week, becoming the latest critical voice to wonder if “Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID),” a euphemism for killing people by request, might start looking like an all-too-efficient way to balance the books. – READ MORE 

Sam Bankman-Fried Sobs, Blames Others for FTX Collapse in Prepared Testimony – Disgraced former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried whined about the loss of his net worth and blamed others for the collapse of FTX in prepared testimony Tuesday to the House Financial Services Committee. – READ MORE

Silver Lining: Bahamas Jail Housing Crypto Fraudster SBF Is a Rat-Infested Hellhole – Sam Bankman-Fried, the Democratic megadonor charged with what the Department of Justice called “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history,” is being held in a Bahamas prison that’s notorious for pest infestations, unsanitary conditions, and violence.

The former FTX CEO is detained at Fox Hill Prison, the only detention facility in the Bahamas, pending his possible extradition to the United States. Inmates at Fox Hill, Barbados Today reported in 2019, often sleep in packed cells on cardboard mats on top of puddles of feces, and the cells are infested with rats and maggots. – READ MORE