Ukraine hits Russian ship, Dems pushing stimulus for gas, and more…
>By Team DML
Today is March 24 and I am Dennis Michael Lynch. Below are my opinions on the stories grabbing headlines this morning. I hope you share this briefing as doing so will make you the smartest person in the room, in my opinion.
1 – Russian tank-landing ship sunk, port burns in southern Ukraine
The Washington Examiner reports: A Russian-controlled port in southern Ukraine, the capture of which was heralded as a “milestone event” in the war by Vladimir Putin’s military, is now burning, and a tank-landing ship docked at the port has been sunk, according to the Ukrainian Navy.
Videos on social media purportedly showed the Port of Berdyansk in flames on Thursday morning. The Ukrainian Navy says the Orsk Russian tank-landing ship was destroyed at the port, and media reports indicate that two other ships are “smoking heavily and trying to escape.” A warehouse with ammunition and fuel was reportedly destroyed at the port as well.
“In Berdyansk, a large landing ship of the Russian army ‘Orsk’ was destroyed,” The Ukrainian Navy said on Thursday.
The Ukrainian armed forces shared a video of an explosion at the port and a massive inferno with the caption, “Berdyansk !!! The [Russian] occupiers are burning well!”
DML: Ukrainians are tough and don’t give up!
2 – Only one country voted with Russia on their UN resolution about Ukraine
Fox News reports: China was the only country to join Russia in the UN Security Council, voting for a Russian draft resolution declaring a humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.
Russia and China were the only two countries to vote in favor of the Russian-led effort, with the 13 other countries abstaining from the vote.
The draft resolution faced criticism because it did not mention Russia’s involvement in the humanitarian situation in Ukraine.
DML: What? Russia CAUSED it!
3 – Democrats push for monthly stimulus checks to help Americans struggling to pay for sky-high gas prices as a gallon soars past $6 in LA and 73% of voters say they back tax breaks
The Daily Mail reports: With the price of gas rising across the U.S., lawmakers are developing a string of proposals to help motorists – from $400 rebates for all taxpayers in California to imposing windfall taxes on oil companies or a sliding scale of payments that could net families as much as $300 every month.
The average cost of a gallon has raced past $4 a gallon amid domestic inflation and the impact of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.
This week, the average price of a gallon of regular gas in Los Angeles hit a record $6.011, even as the national average continued to decline slightly from the all-time high earlier this month, according to the AAA Gas Price Index.
A new bill proposed by three Democrats – Reps. Mike Thompson of California, John Larson of Connecticut and Lauren Underwood of Illinois – could be worth $300 each month to some families if the price of a gallon stays above $4.
Their plan follows the model of COVID economic impact payments – offering $100 for single filers earning less than $75,000, plus $100 for each dependent.
‘Americans are feeling the impact at the pump of Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, and right now we must work together on commonsense policy solutions to ease the financial burden that my constituents are feeling,’ Thompson said in a news release.
They’re also supporters of AOC’s Green New Deal.
DML: Dems want to yank away your steak, then dangle a carrot in front of you. Under Trump, we were energy independent, and could pay for our own gas! Here’s what Herschel Walker had to say about it recently:
4 – NYPD revives ‘broken windows’ policies as Adams fumes over bloody weekend shootings
The New York Post reports: Mayor Eric Adams called police brass on the carpet over the two dozen shooting incidents that took place this past weekend — sparking the NYPD to scramble to get more cops on the streets in a revival of some “broken windows” policies, The Post has learned.
Adams summoned Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell and Chief of Department Kenneth Corey to City Hall on Tuesday to answer for the surge in bloodshed that left 29 people wounded ahead of his planned news conference on the NYPD’s new anti-gun units, law-enforcement sources said Wednesday.
During Monday’s event, Adams and Sewell touted the seizures of 10 guns over six days, with Hizzoner proclaiming that his fledgling administration was “moving in the right direction” to crack down on shootings. But behind closed doors, Adams — a former NYPD captain — fumed that the department wasn’t doing enough to justify his remarks, sources said.
Immediately afterward, Corey convened an emergency conference call with top-ranking officers from the NYPD’s eight borough commands, 77 precincts, 12 transit districts, nine Housing Bureau service areas and the Detective Bureau, sources said. During the meeting, Corey spoke with a sense of urgency in his voice as he ordered to the 100-plus supervisors to stop the bleeding by putting extra cops on patrol, sources said.
DML: “Stop the bleeding by putting extra cops on patrol…” Imagine that! Dems found out “defund the police” doesn’t work!
5 – How The Left Is Quietly Pushing Green New Deal Reforms Without Congress
The Daily Caller reports: Democrats, banks, regulators and activists have increasingly set their sights on the financial sector and legal system, not Congress, for pushing their aggressive climate agenda.
Employing so-called environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives, financial institutions and government agencies have quietly implemented policies prioritizing a focus on factors unrelated to a company’s bottom line, experts said. The ESG movement has swept across the corporate world, leading to individual pledges from companies promising to become more sustainable and improve internal diversity.
In the latest example of the ESG and sustainable investing movement, the Democratic-majority U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a sweeping set of rules Monday that would require publicly-traded companies to disclose their carbon emissions and how they were planning to transition away from fossil fuel reliance. Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Pat Toomey was one of many lawmakers to immediately slam the proposal, saying it “hijacks the democratic process and disrespects the limited scope of authority that Congress gave to the SEC.”
“Congress is really unwilling to impose much in the way of costs and to address climate change,” David Kreutzer, the senior economist at the Institute for Energy Research, told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an interview. “Frustrated by that, people in Washington want to use non-legislative ways to impose these costs and raise the price of energy-intensive goods and energy in general.”
“One of the ways that they’re doing it — it’s like an all fronts attack — is under the guise of environmental, social and governance investments,” he added.
DML: Notice the Squad has been rather quiet lately? Don’t think it means they’re not working behind the scenes to push their agenda.
