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Anonymous ID: 84c56d Jan. 17, 2023, 3:28 p.m. No.18164184   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4192 >>4198 >>4383 >>4404 >>4504 >>4591 >>4644 >>4676

Biden’s DOJ Fights to Reinstate Mask Mandate For Air Travel

 

Biden’s Justice Department is fighting to reinstate a mask mandate for air travel.

 

Justice Department lawyers on Tuesday made the argument at the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals after a federal judge last April struck down the federal travel mask mandate.

 

“The Department continues to believe that the order requiring masking in the transportation corridor is a valid exercise of the authority Congress has given CDC to protect the public health. That is an important authority the Department will continue to work to preserve,” DOJ said in a statement last April.

 

A reporter asked Biden if people should continue to wear masks on planes after a Trump-appointed federal judge declared his mandate unlawful last spring.

 

“That’s up to them,” Biden said last year.

 

The DOJ is now fighting to reinstate the mask mandate even though Joe Biden previously said mask-wearing is a personal choice and declared the “pandemic is over.”

 

Fox News reported:

 

The Biden administration is fighting to maintain a federal mask mandate for air travel and other methods of transportation even after President Biden said months ago the pandemic is “over,” and despite calls from travel associations to end mask mandates.

 

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments on Tuesday from the Biden Justice Department on behalf of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to reinstate a mask mandate for air travel, after a federal judge in Florida struck down the mandate last April.

 

The Health Freedom Defense Fund (HDFD), a medical rights advocacy group that initially sued the Biden administration in July 2021, will make the argument in court Tuesday that the order requiring all travelers to wear masks “lacks not only any rooting in federal statutes, but it also violated existing federal law in how it was promulgated. The mandate also suffers from an inconsistent application of sound science.”

 

“The Biden administration is trying to paper over an illegal, sweeping mandate on Americans that is full of massive legal and scientific holes,” HFDF founder and President Leslie Manookian said in a press statement. “That a federal agency should be able to just usurp the power of Congress, and violate fundamental individual rights is not only at odds with the law – it defies basic common sense.”

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/bidens-doj-fights-reinstate-mask-mandate-air-travel/

Anonymous ID: 84c56d Jan. 17, 2023, 3:49 p.m. No.18164358   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4435

Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera says an AR-15 “is not a rifle” and ‘AR’ stands for “automatic rifle”

 

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1615489952338382852

Anonymous ID: 84c56d Jan. 17, 2023, 3:58 p.m. No.18164439   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4459 >>4504 >>4591 >>4644 >>4676

Greenpeace torches World Economic Forum for ‘hypocrisy’: ‘Rich and powerful flock to Davos in ultra-polluting, socially inequitable private jets to discuss climate’

 

Greenpeace torched the World Economic Forum’s annual summit in Davos, Switzerland, and its billionaire attendees for putting on a “distasteful masterclass in hypocrisy,” the New York Post reported.

 

Greenpeace official Klara Maria Schenk said in a Friday statement that the “rich and powerful” attend the event to discuss the battle on climate change, yet they hypocritically travel to the summit in carbon-emitting private jets.

 

“Europe is experiencing the warmest January days ever recorded and communities around the world are grappling with extreme weather events supercharged by the climate crisis,” Schenk claimed.

 

“Meanwhile, the rich and powerful flock to Davos in ultra-polluting, socially inequitable private jets to discuss climate and inequality behind closed doors,” Schenk added.

 

This year’s WEF summit in Davos kicked off on Monday and will continue through Friday.

 

According to a study commissioned by Greenpeace, last year’s summit generated carbon emissions equivalent to “about 350,000 average cars.”

 

During the week of the 2022 summit, 1,040 private jets arrive at airports around Davos. Of those flights, 53% were short-haul flights below 750 kilometers or approximately 466 miles. Another 38% were under 500 kilometers or about 310 miles.

 

Schenk stated, “Davos has a perfectly adequate railway station, still these people can’t even be bothered to take the train for a trip as short as 21 km. Do we really believe that these are the people to solve the problems the world faces?”

 

According to Greenpeace, the WEF’s actions contradict its climate change message. The group has been a vocal supporter of the 1.5°C Paris Climate target, which the WEF’s website states is necessary to “avoid catastrophe.”

 

“This annual private jet bonanza is a distasteful masterclass in hypocrisy,” Schenk said. “Private jets must be consigned to history if we are to have a green, just and safe future for all. It’s about time our political leaders start to lead by example instead of producing hot air in secret meetings with big business.”

 

Currently, the European Union does not regulate private jets. Greenpeace is calling for a ban on private jets and short-haul flights where there are train alternatives in the EU.

 

The WEF did not reply to a request for comment, the New York Post reported.

 

https://www.theblaze.com/news/greenpeace-torches-world-economic-forum-for-hypocrisy-rich-and-powerful-flock-to-davos-in-ultra-polluting-socially-inequitable-private-jets-to-discuss-climate

Anonymous ID: 84c56d Jan. 17, 2023, 4:07 p.m. No.18164515   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4591 >>4644 >>4676

The Secret Diary of a Prime Minister

 

A fee of $1,344 to process a Freedom of Information request for PM Anthony Albanese’s diary is “outrageous” says Rex Patrick.

 

When former senator and Transparency Warrior Rex Patrick made what he thought would be a routine transparency request for access to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s appointments diary in weekly view, he wasn’t expecting any big hurdles. After all, the new Labor Government had made much of its intention to lift the veils of secrecy that had shrouded the previous administration of Scott Morrison. But as the old saying goes, the more things change, the more they remain the same.

 

When the Opposition Senate Leader, Simon Birmingham stood up in the Senate at Question Time on December 1 and asked the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Penny Wong, whether or not Prime Minister Anthony Albanese would release his appointments diary under Freedom of Information laws, my ears pricked up.

 

I paid attention partly because I was listening to a member of Scott Morrison’s past cabinet calling for transparency, something that’s not without a measure of irony; but mostly because the issue of the public release of Ministerial diaries in Australia is settled in law.

In the public interest

 

Ministerial diaries should be released, albeit it is expected that on rare occasions some redactions might be necessary. Not only is the making of ministerial diaries public ‘of interest to the public’, more importantly it’s ‘in the public interest’.

 

Ministers work for you. Everything they do, they do for public purpose. It’s appropriate that members of the public can look at ministers’ diary to see what they are (or aren’t) doing, who they are (or aren’t) meeting with, how much time they are spending on the job and how much time they spend at their office versus out in the field versus overseas.

 

And of course, transparency around ministerial diaries has important anti-corruption benefits too.

 

In a 2015 matter related to a request for disclosure of Attorney-General George Brandis’ diary, then Federal Court Justice and now High Court Justice Jayne Jagot said,

 

“I consider that there is a significant public interest in knowing the outline of the daily activities of elected representatives, particularly a senior Minister in charge of such an important portfolio as the Attorney-General”

 

This principle has been embraced by the ACT Government which proactively releases all ministerial diaries. If you want to see what ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr and his Ministers have been doing, its all freely available on the internet.

No harm in disclosure

 

It’s really hard to argue that the disclosure of information in a minister’s diary could cause harm, and certainly not any level of harm that would in any way compete with the public interest associated with disclosure.

 

https://michaelwest.com.au/the-secret-diary-of-a-prime-minister-date-with-asio-or-billionaires-barbie-make-ministers-diaries-public/