CURRENT EVENTS - Easter - April 25

“…In North Carolina, reimbursements of more than $60 million for debris removal and other operations are overdue, and $105 million from FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund has been frozen. The state is still awaiting over $1 billion in related Department of Agriculture funding that was due March 21. And North Carolina will be especially hard hit by the announced cancellation of FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, presumably because it relates to climate change. The state’s Emergency Management department estimates that all BRIC grants from 2020-23 will be cancelled, with a loss of $184 million, to say nothing of unmet needs going forward. …”



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nycfan said:
“…In North Carolina, reimbursements of more than $60 million for debris removal and other operations are overdue, and $105 million from FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund has been frozen. The state is still awaiting over $1 billion in related Department of Agriculture funding that was due March 21. And North Carolina will be especially hard hit by the announced cancellation of FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, presumably because it relates to climate change. The state’s Emergency Management department estimates that all BRIC grants from 2020-23 will be cancelled, with a loss of $184 million, to say nothing of unmet needs going forward. …”



Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article304796691.html#storylink=cpy
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Luckily we have cut income taxes over and over....so ---oh shit
 


“… SpaceX is arguing that current limits placed on satellite radio frequencies are “flawed and outdated assumptions” based on faulty data from the 1990s, which is causing inefficient signals sent between satellites. SpaceX said in its August petition that by amending previous regulations, the FCC “will unlock the full potential and benefits of non-geostationary orbit satellite systems to connect millions more Americans in all locations of the country with high-speed, low-latency broadband internet.”

… SpaceX’s increasingly powerful satellites have already been found to leak 30 timesmore radio interference than previous iterations, hindering ground-based radio telescopes measuring exoplanets, black holes, and other deep-space phenomena. One radio astronomer told Science that these satellites make their observation attempts akin to trying to spot a faint star in the sky right next to a full moon.

The FCC nevertheless appears amenable to SpaceX’s request, signaling it will initiate a rulemaking process that could provide SpaceX exactly what it wants.

… Musk’s growing satellite fleet is also cluttering up outer space. In a six-month period, satellites belonging to Starlink, a SpaceX subsidiary, were forced to swervemore than 25,000 times to avoid other spacecraft and space debris. Since its first satellite launch in 2019, the company’s satellites have been in more than 50,000 near-misses. Additionally, experts estimate that 40 percent of all out-of-service satellites that burn up in Earth’s atmosphere belong to Starlink.”
 
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