Tuesday, July 12, 2022
Did Biden Break Campaign Promise On Fracking? No—And Here’s Why
Fury of orthodox leaders as Israeli courts allow secular weddings in Israel for the first time
Monday, July 11, 2022
No, Joe Biden didn't just ban fracking
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/27/business/fracking-ban-biden-federal-leasing/index.html"
Biden Fracking Ban At A Standstill Amid Global Energy Crisis
https://earth.org/bidens-fracking-ban/
Posts mislead on US energy independence
https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.326T98W
Despite claims of Trump-era 'energy independence,' the US never stopped importing foreign oil
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/15/politics/energy-independence-fact-check/index.html
"Gas is high because they shut down production in the U.S.” under the Biden administration. - false
Gas prices soared to an average $4.173 per gallon on March 8, according to AAA, breaking a 2008 record.
Trump and Boebert’s Oil Spin
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/08/trump-and-boeberts-oil-spin/
The average gross exports so far during the Biden administration are higher than the average during the Trump administration, Samantha Gross, director of the Energy Security and Climate Initiative at the Brookings Institution and the director of the Department of Energy’s Office of International Climate and Clean Energy under Obama, told us in an email.
“But the real issue here is way beyond anything either administration did – it’s about global oil prices,” Gross said. “Presidents can’t do much to control those, they are set in the global marketplace, although politicians suffer when gasoline prices rise. As the swing producers, OPEC decisions make a difference here and that’s why presidents often jawbone OPEC to produce more to bring oil prices down. It’s not because we are any more dependent on the Middle East than we were last year.”
Freshly lost suitcases said thrown out amid airport chaos, as hundreds more pile up
With hundreds of lost suitcases piling up amid recent travel snafus at Ben Gurion Airport, some luggage that became separated from travelers flying abroad has been thrown into the garbage, Channel 12 news reported Sunday.
Some members of the airport staff were said to have first rummaged through the contents of the bags that were tossed, looking for valuables.
Trump Avoids Word 'Vaccine' at Alaska Rally After Boos Over It in Alabama
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-avoids-word-vaccine-alaska-rally-after-boos-over-it-alabama-1723229
Putin Ally Lukashenko Faces Revolt From Officers Against Ukraine War
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-ally-lukashenko-faces-revolt-officers-against-ukraine-war-1723224
4 days in January: Trump push for Capitol coda to 2020 vote
Baruch Lebovits, convicted child abuser whose case shed light on Hasidic justice system, dies at 71
Both Lebovits and Kellner are household names, according to a source in the Hasidic community in Brooklyn — Lebovits as a serial sex offender, and Kellner as an example of what can happen to those who go outside the community’s legal system to civil authorities.