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Jim Jordan to chair 'Weaponization of Government' Select Committee

Jan 9, 2023

 

This investigative panel will demand emails and correspondence between the Biden administration and big tech companies, and follows the massive revelations that came to light through the recent release of the Twitter Files.

 

The 118th House of Representatives will see the formation of a new select committee, headed by Jim Jordan, to dig into the abuse of power and the Weaponization of Government. This investigative panel will demand emails and correspondence between the Biden administration and big tech companies, and follows the massive revelations that came to light through the recent release of the Twitter Files.

 

Newly minted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who was elected to Speaker after a hard-fought, contentious battle on the House floor last week as power and priority struggles played out in his own party, was asked to form the committee as part of the negotiations that brought him to power, Axios reports. Jordan was one of the 15 members of Congress who nominated McCarthy for Speaker last week, just as many in his party nominated and voted for him.

 

"The probe into communications between tech giants and President Biden's aides will look for government pressure that could have resulted in censorship or harassment of conservatives — or squelching of debate on polarizing policies, including the CDC on COVID," Axios reports.

 

If government personnel and agencies do not comply, subpoenas are likely to be issued, per a GOP source. The GOP is committed to digging into "the politicization of the FBI," which not only includes the work done to discredit accurate reporting from the New York Post in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, but the allegations of Russian election interference in the lead-up to the 2016 election.

 

The use of Biden's Department of Justice to go after parents who spoke out angrily at school board meetings will be investigated as well. Ohio's Jordan was instrumental in the discovery that the letter requesting a DOJ investigation into these parents, issued by the National School Boards Association, was actually requested to be written by Merrick Garland's DOJ in the first place. The head of the NSBA was then given a plum post in the administration.

 

Biden's Covid czar Dr. Anthony Fauci will also be a focus of this new GOP investigation. The Twitter Files revealed that social media companies were pressured to toe the Democratic Party line on Covid and Covid treatments.

 

The concerns over parents speaking out began when a man attended a school board meeting in Loudon County, Virginia, to speak against the school board and school administrators that had covered up the rape of his daughter by another student in the school bathroom. That man was arrested, and his outburst used by the Biden administration to target parents who opposed mandatory masking in schools, pornographic and explicit content, as well as critical race and gender theory.

 

The Twitter Files showed unequivocally that the Biden administration, as well as those within the campaign leading up to the 2020 election and pro-Biden personnel in federal government, worked to suppress information that would have been detrimental to Biden. This suppression was undertaken by telling Twitter, and other tech companies, that so-called misinformation would be emerging that targeted Biden's youngest and only living son Hunter Biden.

 

Tech companies believed the federal employees in the FBI and law enforcement, and when the New York Post reported on allegations of influence peddling on the Biden name and shady business dealings benefiting the Biden family, Twitter censored it outright, as did Facebook.

 

While the GOP controls the House but not the Senate or the White House, they will be able to launch investigations to get to the bottom of just how much the Biden administration manipulated and lied to the American public, but will be unlikely to be able to make or pass laws, since they would not have the votes in the Senate.

 

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-jim-jordan-to-chair-weaponization-of-government-select-committee?utm_campaign=64483

Anonymous ID: 654000 Jan. 9, 2023, 10:20 a.m. No.18110820   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Drone PLI: Does it do enough to help India become a global hub by 2030?

Last Updated: Jan 04, 2023, 11:53 AM IST

 

The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) recently approved the Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for drones and drone components. It is a great boost to the government's goal of the Atmanirbhar Bharat, which was launched with the goal of positioning India as a significant player in the global market through self-created opportunities.

 

The initial goal of the PLI scheme was to increase India's manufacturing capacity, create more employment opportunities, lessen the nation's dependency on imports, and increase exports. The PLI scheme has so far been implemented in 14 significant industries, including aviation, automobile components, electronics technology, telecom, pharmaceuticals, textiles, white goods, and renewable energy, among others.

 

The functional use of this emerging techno product is being explored in various sectors of the economy like defence, healthcare, agriculture, logistic & transportation and sports. The rise in India’s drone industry will contribute towards technological advancement and marking its presence in the global market. The Drone Rules, a welcome regulatory breakthrough, envisages on:

 

-Government’s intent to allow the use of drones while at the same time ensuring security

-Improve the ease of doing business in the sector by reducing the number of clearances and compliance requirements for registration

-Aim to make India a drone hub by 2030

 

This much awaited PLI scheme is the outcome of liberalised Drone Rules, 2021 released by the Central Government in the year 2021. This Scheme will be of great financial support to start-up and small-scale entrepreneurs which is growing at a faster pace in the era of Make in India.

 

Companies that are registered in India are only eligible to take the benefit under this PLI scheme for manufacturing drones, drone components which are exclusively used for manufacturing drones and developers of drone-related software. The Project Management Agency (PMA) will be in charge of secretarial, management, and implementation of the scheme. The applications will be examined by a committee presided over by the Secretary of Civil Aviation, based on the recommendation of the PMA.

 

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/sme-sector/drone-pli-does-it-do-enough-to-help-india-become-a-global-hub-by-2030/articleshow/96729630.cms

Anonymous ID: 654000 Jan. 9, 2023, 10:55 a.m. No.18110993   🗄️.is đź”—kun

COMNAP, the Antarctic organisation based in New Zealand you've probably never heard of

Jan 09 2023

 

It’s one of our nearest neighbours and it’s larger than the United States, but how much do you really know about Antarctica? Reporter Lee Kenny looks at the countries that operate on the frozen continent, their weird and wonderful bases and exactly what they do there.

 

It's possible you've never heard of COMNAP – the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs – and yet it plays a major role in life on the ice.

 

It’s also headquartered in Christchurch and said to be a “jewel in the crown” of the city’s Antarctic Gateway status.

 

Thousands of people from across the globe visit Antarctica each year, and although countries operate independently – most in accordance with the 1959 Antarctic Treaty – it’s a place of great international cooperation.

 

This is in no small part thanks to COMNAP.

 

The need for an organisation to support and enhance collaboration in the Antarctic was identified in the mid-1980s.

 

With “growing interest in Antarctica”, COMNAP was formed in 1988, to “ensure effective and collaborative operations, logistics and science support”, among 22 national programmes.

 

Today, it has 32 members – including Antarctica New Zealand – and is open to countries engaged in Antarctic research, provided they are also signatories to the Antarctic Treaty and the Environmental Protocol.

 

“We are a council, that means that everyone sits around the table, has an equal voice and an equal vote,” said Michelle Rogan-Finnemore, COMNAP's executive secretary and director of the secretariat.

 

New Zealand won hosting rights for the COMNAP Secretariat during an international bidding process in 2008.

 

The organisation now lives within Gateway Antarctica at University of Canterbury (UC), having previously been based in the United States and then Australia.

 

Christchurch is one of five Antarctic Gateway Cities – as well as Hobart, Ushuaia, Punta Arenas and Cape Town – and also based in the Garden City is Antarctica New Zealand, whose chief executive Sarah Williamson sits on the COMNAP council.

 

Every year, the original 12 “Parties to the Treaty” and other eligible countries meet to make recommendations for ongoing activity in Antarctica.

 

The next meeting will be held in Helsinki, Finland, in May. COMNAP is one of three permanent observer organisations that can submit advice at the annual meetings.

 

“This is pretty important, and it allows us to put forward […] practical, technical and, really importantly, non-political advice,” said Rogan-Finnemore.

 

In addition to the 32 National Antarctic Programme Members, COMNAP includes five observer programmes: Colombia, Malaysia, Portugal, Switzerland and Venezuela.

 

“It's to help them to learn as they grow their programme into a full national Antarctic programme.”

 

COMNAP also runs a number of projects, such as its Covid-19 outbreak management response.

 

It recently launched an earthquake, tsunami and volcanic event awareness plan, as “currently in the Peninsula we are seeing a very high level of seismic activity”, says Rogan-Finnemore.

 

“Let's imagine you're someone from a country that never gets an earthquake, and then you travel to Antarctica, and you're involved in an earthquake, what do you need to do to protect yourself and your team?”

 

As well as heading COMNAP, US-born, Christchurch-based Rogan-Finnemore is a geologist and lawyer who helped start the Gateway Antarctica programme at UC.

 

She has spent two winters in Antarctica – including one at the South Pole where she took geodesy and seismology observations for the US Geological Survey – and has an Antarctic mountain named after her – the 2050m Finnemore Peak.

 

The strength of the national Antarctic programmes, she said, is that they “have the greatest firsthand experience of the Antarctic”.

 

“They have been sending people there since the 1960s, so they know Antarctica.”

 

Many of the people who sit around the table and make the laws and rules for the Antarctic haven’t actually been there, she said.

 

“They might be good policymakers in their own right, but COMNAP feels like we’re providing a reality check.”

 

https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/130352787/comnap-the-antarctic-organisation-based-in-new-zealand-youve-probably-never-heard-of