#road to russia

[batboyblog]

Things the Biden-Harris Administration Did This Week #32

August 30-September 6 2024.

President Biden announced $7.3 billion in clean energy investment for rural communities. This marks the largest investment in rural electrification since the New Deal. The money will go to 16 rural electric cooperatives across 23 states Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. Together they will be able to generate 10 gigawatts of clean energy, enough to power 5 million households about 20% of America's rural population. This clean energy will reduce greenhouse emissions by 43.7 million tons a year, equivalent to removing more than 10 million cars off the road every year.

The Biden-Harris Administration announced a historic 10th offshore wind project. The latest project approved for the Atlantic coast of Maryland will generate 2,200 megawatts of clean, reliable renewable energy to power 770,000 homes. All together the 10 offshore wind projects approved by the Biden-Harris Administration will generation 15 gigawatts, enough to power 5.25 million homes. This is half way to the Administration's goal of 30 gigawatts of clean offshore wind power by 2030.

President Biden signed an Executive Order aimed at supporting and expanding unions. Called the "Good Jobs EO" the order will direct all federal agencies to take steps to recognize unions, to not interfere with the formation of unions and reach labor agreements on federally supported projects. It also directs agencies to prioritize equal pay and pay transparency, support projects that offer workers benefits like child care, health insurance, paid leave, and retirement benefits. It will also push workforce development and workplace safety.

The Department of Transportation announced $1 billion to make local roads safer. The money will go to 354 local communities across America to improve roadway safety and prevent deaths and serious injuries. This is part of the National Roadway Safety Strategy launched in 2022, since then traffic fatalities have decreased for 9 straight quarters. Since 2022 the program has supported projects in 1,400 communities effecting 75% of all Americans.

The Department of Energy announced $430 million to support America's aging hydropower. Hydropower currently accounts for nearly 27% of renewable electricity generation in the United States. However many of our dams were built during the New Deal for a national average of 79 years old. The money will go to 293 projects across 33 states. These updates will improve energy generation, workplace safety, and have a positive environmental impact on local fish and wildlife.

The EPA announced $300 million to help support tribal nations, and US territories cut climate pollution and boost green energy. The money will support projects by 33 tribes, and the Island of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. EPA Administer Michael S. Regan announced the funds along side Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland in Arizona to highlight one of the projects. A project that will bring electricity for the first time to 900 homes on the Hopi Reservation.

The Biden-Harris Administration is investing $179 million in literacy. This investment in the Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grant is the largest in history. Studies have shown that the 3rd grade is a key moment in a students literacy development, the CLSD is designed to help support states research, develop, and implement evidence-based literacy interventions to help students achieve key literacy milestones.

The US government secured the release of 135 political prisoners from Nicaragua. Nicaragua's dictator President Daniel Ortega has jailed large numbers of citizens since protests against his rule broke out in 2018. In February 2023 the US secured the release of over 200 political prisoners. Human rights orgs have documented torture and sexual abuse in Ortega's prisons.

The Justice Department announced the disruption of a major effort by Russia to interfere with the 2024 US Elections. Russian propaganda network, RT, deployed $10 million to Tenet Media to help spread Russian propaganda and help sway the election in favor of Trump and the Republicans as well as disrupting American society. Tenet Media employs many well known conservative on-line personalities such as Benny Johnson, Tim Pool, Lauren Southern, Dave Rubin, Tayler Hansen and Matt Christiansen.

Vice-President Harris outlined her plan for Small Businesses at a campaign stop in New Hampshire. Harris wants to expand from $5,000 to $50,000 tax incentives for startup expenses. This would help start 25 million new small business over four years.

[originalleftist]

So This Happened:

Confirming what was already pretty obvious, particularly in Tucker's case, but it is striking to see the head of government of arguably America's closest ally say under oath that both a major Canadian author and a major American broadcaster are paid agents of the Russian government.

Also, we see again that the Canadian Right is no different from the American one- treasonous scum employed by Russia to use "culture wars" to destabilize the country leading to a fascist state.

(Also, I am thinking of the years I spent working in a bookstore, and feeling disgust at the number of copies of Jordan Peterson's misogynist propaganda my job entailed selling over the years.)

[vestaignis]

Бирюзовый лед на Гоцатлинском водохранилище зимой.

Гоцатлинская гидроэлектростанция имени В.А. Минина — ГЭС на реке Аварское Койсу, у села Чалда Гергебильского района Дагестана. По пути из Махачкалы, в популярную туристическую точку Дагестана Карадахскую теснину, вдоль реки Аварское Койсу раскинулся бассейн водохранилища Гоцатлинской ГЭС.

Оно необыкновенно красиво в любое время года, но зимой когда все покрывается толстым слоем льда, это место очень напоминает Байкал, каждый год здесь образуется очень красивый лед! Возле самой плотины есть удобная остановка, с этой точки можно хорошо рассмотреть панораму водохранилища с живописными узорами на льду.

Turquoise ice on the Gotsatlinskoye reservoir in winter.

Gotsatlinskaya hydroelectric power station named after V.A. Minin is a hydroelectric power station on the Avarskoye Koysu River, near the village of Chalda in the Gergebilsky District of Dagestan. On the way from Makhachkala to the popular tourist spot of Dagestan, the Karadakh Gorge, along the Avarskoye Koysu River, the Gotsatlinskaya hydroelectric power station reservoir basin stretches.

It is unusually beautiful at any time of the year, but in winter, when everything is covered with a thick layer of ice, this place is very reminiscent of Lake Baikal, every year very beautiful ice forms here! There is a convenient stop near the dam itself, from this point you can clearly see the panorama of the reservoir with picturesque patterns on the ice.

Источник://t.me/roundtravel,//moya-planeta.ru/reports/view /gotsatlinskoe_vodokhranilische, //www.sputnik8.com/ru / makhachkala/sights/gocatlinskoe-ges/info, //m.vk.com/wall1237653 _25321, //vk.com/wall-32907729_1011239.

[sovietpostcards]

The Baikal route (road from Irkutsk to Listvyanka). Photos by Georg Oddner (1965).

[inkyami]

Some window gazing for all fellow city dwellers

[mim70]

Road to Devil's Finger Mountain

Altay, Siberia

[webdiggerxxx]

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[margocooper]

У всех весна разная, у меня снег и морозит. Мартовский лес. Everyone's spring is different, mine is snowing and freezing. March forest.

[sgbalance]

russia passenger survivor arc

[thedailydescent]

The Great was one of those shows that could have great but in the end resorted to being merely good.

[diemelusine]

Photograph of Alim Khan, Emir of Bukhara (1911) by Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky. Library of Congress.

[originalleftist]

BIDEN AUTHORIZES UKRAINE TO USE US MISSILES FOR LONG-RANGE STRIKES IN RUSSIA!

Finally.

Time to hit Vlad as hard as possible before P01135809's fascist regime cuts off aid to Ukraine. We have two months to make that motherfucker hurt.

Also, retaliation is owed for the Russian bomb threats against US polling places on Election Day.

[boxpvm]

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Russian bloody dictator is sending outdated T-62 tanks against advancing Ukrainian forces, Kursk, Russia, August 2024. Source: OSINTtechnical

P.S. The politically correct Western media, both ultra-left and right, are trying to hide how big of a cesspool Russia really is... Putin was able to build his regime thanks to political corruption and inaction in the West...

[mim70]

Turochak, Altay, Siberia