The first thing is, that’s factually inaccurate," Knittel said. "Gas prices actually started rising in November of the previous year. That’s just data, so you can graph gas prices and you’ll see them starting to trend up in November of 2020."
Saturday, March 12, 2022
GOP attacks on Biden for high gas prices don't add up, expert says
On Wednesday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy delivered a speech in which he asserted that Russia's invasion of Ukraine was not the reason for high gas prices — Biden's energy policies were. To back up his claim, McCarthy asserted that gas prices "started rising the day President Biden took office.""
Republicans cheer Russian oil ban and jeer Biden for rising gas prices
Biden said Tuesday it's "simply not true" that his policies are holding back domestic energy production, noting that the U.S. companies "pumped more oil" in his first year than in the first year of the Trump administration and that the U.S. is nearing "record levels of oil and gas" production.
He added that oil and gas companies have millions of acres leased and 9,000 approved permits that aren’t being used to drill for oil.
‘Cynical, craven’ Republicans out to bash Biden, not Putin, over gas prices
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/12/republicans-joe-biden-russia-gas-prices
Factcheckers have pointed out that the main cause of increasing gas prices over the past year is disruptions to global supply and demand following the coronavirus pandemic. Only a 10th of the Keystone XL pipeline was complete when Biden cancelled it and it was not likely to become operational until 2023 at the earliest.
Friday, March 11, 2022
Revisiting The Blame For High Gas Prices
Note when oil and gasoline prices began to rise. That rise started in May 2020. Between the first week of May 2020 and the last week of December 2020, oil prices had tripled. Was President Trump to blame for this?
No, the reason oil and gasoline prices rose is that the economy started to open back up from the Covid-19 shutdowns. Those shutdowns had negatively impacted a couple of million barrels of U.S. oil supplies, and those supplies were slow to bounce back once the economy opened back up. That’s why we have soaring oil and gasoline prices.
Keep in mind that the entire world has experienced this. Do people honestly believe that cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline drove up gasoline prices in Tokyo? Further, this price rise has taken place across most commodities. We have seen soaring lumber prices, base metals prices, cotton, oats, sugar — all primarily associated with the Covid-19 impacts on the economy.
2 more polio cases detected in Jerusalem
Two new polio infections were detected in Jerusalem, said the Israeli Ministry of Health on Thursday, four days after it reported the first case since 1989.
One of the new cases was a close contact of the first infected 4-year-old child who had not been vaccinated against the virus, and the other one was found via a blind survey in Jerusalem.
The ministry called on the public to fulfill routine vaccinations at the recommended times and for those unvaccinated to complete them as soon as possible.
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Amalek
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalek
The commandment to kill Amalekites is not practised by contemporary Jews, based on the argument that Sennacherib deported and mixed the nations, so it is no longer possible to determine who is an Amalekite. For example, Rabbi Hayim Palaggi stated:
We can rely on the maxim that in ancient times, Sennacherib confused the lineage of many nations.[43]
In addition, many rabbinic authorities ruled that the commandment only applies to a Jewish king or an organized community, and cannot be performed by an individual.[44] According to Haggahot Maimuniyyot, the commandment applies only in the future messianic era and not in present times; this limitation is almost a consensus among medieval authorities.[45]
Maimonides explains that the commandment to destroy the nation of Amalek requires the Jewish people to peacefully request that they accept upon themselves the Seven Laws of Noah and pay a tax to the Jewish kingdom. Only if they refuse must they be physically killed.[46]
In addition, the Amalekites, as a physical nation, have been extinct since the time of Hezekiah's reign, according to the Hebrew Bible.[47]
A few authorities have ruled that the command never included killing Amalekites. R' Samson Raphael Hirsch said that the command was to destroy "the remembrance of Amalek" rather than actual Amalekites;[48] the Sfat Emet said that the command was to fully hate Amalek rather than performing any action;[49] and the Chofetz Chaim said that God would perform the elimination of Amalek, and Jews are commanded only to remember what Amalek did to them.[50]
US House approves $1 billion for Israel’s Iron Dome after months-long delay
Despite that fraught debate, the House overwhelmingly approved the standalone $1 billion for additional Iron Dome spending in September. The Senate was also set to push it through, when a single senator — a Republican this time, Rand Paul of Kentucky — used his prerogative to hold up the bill.
Ready to Die? Why Most People Flunk the Zelenskyy Test.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/03/10/zelenskyy-ukraine-courage-00015972
Even the most interventionist voices are not urging the United States or NATO countries to directly join the war to save Ukraine. But, in what now promises to be a long and costly conflict in a multitude of ways, it’s becoming impossible to avoid the Zelenskyy test: What are you willing to sacrifice in the name of your ideals?
Fact check: The various flavors of dishonesty that GOP candidates used to promote 2020 election lies this month
Numerous Republican candidates running in 2022 primaries across the country continue to baselessly cast doubt on the integrity of the 2020 election.
Some of these candidates are just plain lying that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump or was rife with massive fraud. Others are professing to be merely asking questions. Still others are walking an evasive tightrope, trying to avoid angering Trump and his devotees while also not saying anything explicitly inaccurate.
All of that is dishonesty.
The GOP wants you to think of Joe Biden when you fill your tank
In the race to politically exploit the high cost of gas, Republicans are banking on voters not caring that they’re lying through their teeth about how much of this is Biden’s fault. The president does not, as they would have you believe, have a dial in the Oval Office that he uses to set gas prices. Meanwhile, suggested fixes the GOP has offered up would do nothing to shrink Americans’ costs, which suits them just fine for now.
America can’t solve its gas price problem (or its Russia problem) with drilling
https://www.vox.com/22959903/russia-ukraine-oil-gas-price-europe-us-exports-climate-change
The four myths Republicans have been spreading about oil and gas prices, explained.
Russia, Out to Contain NATO, Instead Reignites the Alliance
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-ukraine-war-nato-military-11646843371
The invasion of Ukraine has given the group renewed focus after decades of seeking a purpose in the post-Cold War world
Ukraine and the Jews
https://aish.com/ukraine-and-the-jews-12-facts/
Poland’s invitation for immigrants to come attracted Jews who were fleeing massacres in central Europe in the wake of the Crusades and the Black Death. Jews settled throughout Poland, including in territories that form present-day Ukraine, most notably the region of Volhynia, which lies at the intersection of Poland, Belarus and Ukraine. By the 1400s, up to 30,000 Jews were thought to be living in 60 different communities across Ukraine, including in the present day capital city, Kiev.
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