UN General Secretary Wants To Stop The “Relentless War On Nature” Or Something

By William Teach February 7, 2023 – 7:15 am

Hey, maybe the U.N. could start with ending all the massive amount of private fossil fueled flights from all over the world?

UN Secretary-General: ‘No more baby steps’ on climate change

United Nations officials on Monday called for urgent and immediate action to address global problems such as climate change, nuclear threats and human rights during the opening session of its general assembly in New York.

This must be “a year of game-changing climate action” on climate, pollution and water, said Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, during a speech on his 2023 priorities.

“We must end the merciless, relentless and senseless war on nature. It is putting our world at immediate risk of hurtling past the 1.5-degree temperature increase limit and now still moving toward a deadly 2.8 degrees.

“Meanwhile, humanity is taking a sledgehammer to our world’s rich biodiversity — with brutal and even irreversible consequences for people and planet,” he said. “Our ocean is choked by pollution, plastic and chemicals and vampiric overconsumption is draining the lifeblood of our planet — water.”

“We need disruption to end the destruction,” he added. “No more baby steps.”

Oh, you mean like the vast amounts of masks all over the landscape and the oceans and lakes and waterways, masks that did not do a damned thing? Masks that the UN recommended? Anyhow, the oceans are much cleaner than decades ago, but, we can do more, and do more for the environment. Which has nothing to do with the climate apocalypse.

Guterres invited government, business and civil society leaders across the world to a September climate summit with one condition: “Show us accelerated action in this decade and renewed ambitious net zero plans – or please don’t show up.”

Oh, good, thousands of people taking long fossil fueled flights.

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Instead Of Providing Evidence, Biden Military Heads Offer Word Salad On Spy Balloon

By William Teach February 7, 2023 – 7:00 am

Some people really need to be fired if they’re only figuring out now that spy balloons crossed into the U.S. without being noticed at the time

Let’s stay with CNN for a moment

Pentagon says it had an ‘awareness gap’ that led to failure to detect 3 Chinese balloons under Trump

The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental United States undetected under the Trump administration, the Pentagon general responsible for providing air and missile defense over North America said on Monday.

“Every day as a NORAD commander, it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command said when asked about the three other balloons.

So, how do you know they occurred? He failed to answer that question.

“And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out, but I don’t want to go into further detail.”

Word salad. He also yammered about “having additional fidelity at this time”. But, did not answer questions over 1. how NORAD allowed the balloon to cross the U.S. and 2. what proof he has that they did whole Trump was president.

VanHerck added that the intelligence community after the fact was able to gather intelligence “from additional means that made us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or transited North America.”

That’s convenient, eh? But, don’t ask what those means are, years after the events supposedly occurred.

Past surveillance balloons were discovered at the beginning of the Biden administration because President Joe Biden directed the intelligence community “to increase both our vigilance and the assets that we were deploying to be able to detect Chinese efforts to spy against the United States,” said national security adviser Jake Sullivan.

Oh, please. First, that sounds like pure mule fritters, second, how would this have picked up spy balloons, when they would have been looking for electronic? Seriously, they’re just making this crap up as the go.

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Good News: Greenie Weenies Look To Shut Down Mohave Solar, Bullet Train Projects

By William Teach February 6, 2023 – 3:00 pm

These are the same people who scream for green energy and forcing Everyone Else to take the train

Can bighorns, a bullet train and a huge solar farm coexist in the Mojave Desert?

To most travelers on Interstate 15 between Barstow and Las Vegas, the Mojave Desert’s jagged Soda Mountains rise above a seemingly lifeless wasteland of hellish sand dunes, lava flows and vast flatlands.

But scientists say the scorched terrain just half a mile north of the Mojave National Preserve’s aptly named Devil’s Playground is a deceptively delicate and vital ecosystem rich in wildlife: tortoises, foxes, badgers, bobcats and bighorn sheep.

Now, proposals to build a high-speed electric rail linking Southern California to Las Vegas and revive a long-dead solar project in the area have triggered a clash with conservationists over how best to ensure that bighorn sheep populations do not become genetically isolated — or wind up as roadkill.

Of particular concern was a recent announcement that the California Department of Fish and Wildlife is reviewing a revised version of the controversial Soda Mountain Solar Project that includes requests for permits to “take,” or fatally injure, desert tortoises, and alter desert washes during construction.

“We can’t let this solar project happen,” said Chris Clarke of the nonprofit National Parks Conservation Assn.

“The value of this landscape and its habitat,” he said, “far outweighs the value of energy the proposed project would generate.”

Solar, wind, geothermal, hydrothermal, trains, etc, the climate cultists all say we should have them, but, that’s only theoretical. As soon as you try and actually do the projects, they look to shut them down.

State wildlife authorities will evaluate the project’s environmental impacts, as required by the California Environmental Quality Act.

“Let’s all take a deep breath,” said Chuck Bonham, director of state Fish and Wildlife. “The desert is an invaluable landscape, and any proposed solar project has got to go through a public process.

If these ever happen, it will take 20+ years, so, why bother?

Meanwhile

Green Fail: Dozens of Scottish Wind Turbines Powered by Diesel Generators, Pour Hydraulic Oil Into Countryside

Scotland’s green-obsessed left-separatist government has been left with egg on its face by revelations that dozens of gigantic onshore wind turbines are having to be hooked up to diesel generators, leaking thousands of litres of hydraulic oil into the countryside.

Scottish Power — led by a Spaniard, Ignacio Galan, and actually a subsidiary of Spanish firm Iberdrola — conceded that some 71 of its turbines had to be hooked up to diesel generators to keep them warm in December, according to the Sunday Mail, with a whistleblower telling the left-leaning newspaper that problems with the turbines are deep-seated.

Oops.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 6, 2023 – 10:30 am

…is an area flooded from carbon pollution Bad Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post noting that crazy people are dangerous.

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Biden Admin Quietly Releases Al Qaeda Terrorist From Gitmo During Spy Balloon Incident

By William Teach February 6, 2023 – 10:30 am

I won’t say the Credentialed Media didn’t cover this, they just did it quietly, in stories that were buried deep in the paper/web editions, that people probably didn’t notice

Biden quietly releases al Qaeda terrorist Majid Khan to Belize after 16 years in CIA custody in Guantanamo Bay as US was focused on Chinese spy balloon: Terrorist who was radicalized by 9/11 says: ‘I promise I’ve changed’

While Americans were focused on a Chinese spy balloon making its way across the country, the Biden administration quietly released an al Qaeda terrorist radicalized by the September 11 attacks from Guantanamo Bay.

The Pentagon announced on Thursday that Majid Khan, 42, was moved to Belize after spending 16 years in CIA custody.

Authorities have maintained he was a close personal ally of al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who helped deliver money and transport other senior terrorists. And under Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s plans, Khan would have attacked US gas stations and water reservoirs.

Khan, the only United States legal resident being held at Guantanamo, now says he has changed as an individual and promises to be a law-abiding citizen in Belize.

His release comes just one week before a United Nations visits the detention center in Cuba, as United States officials work to free two other al Qaeda terrorists.

Khan, who graduated from a Maryland high school before joining the terrorist organization, started his new life in Belize on Thursday, after completing his 10-year sentence in March 2022.

The Biden admin has apparently been working on this for months, as negotiations started with Belize in September. And what a perfect time to release him, when something big was going on. They didn’t let a Chinese spy balloon cross the entire U.S. in order to create a distraction, did they? In fairness

He pleaded guilty in 2012 to conspiracy to commit murder, spying and ‘providing material support for terrorism.’

Khan was then sentenced to 10 years confinement with ‘credit for the three years he spent cooperating with US personnel.’

That sentence ended March 1, 2022, but authorities had to find a country willing to take him before he could be released. Though he has family in the United States, federal law does not allow Guantanamo Bay detainees to be resettled in the country.

So, he had to be released, but, it was done quietly. Should have sent him to Rehoboth, Delaware. I’m sure they could have found space.

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We’re Saved: US Ski Team To Wear Climate Crisis (scam) Themed Suits At World Championships

By William Teach February 6, 2023 – 7:00 am

This is after taking a long, fossil fueled trip to France. And then they’ll probably dispose of the suits made with fossil fuels, creating waste

US skiers to don climate change-themed race suits at worlds

Looking cool is just the tip of the iceberg for Mikaela Shiffrin, Travis Ganong and the rest of the U.S. ski team when they debut new race suits at the world championships.

Even more, they want everyone thinking about climate change.

The team’s predominantly blue-and-white suits depict an image of ice chunks floating in the ocean. It’s a concept based on a satellite photo of icebergs breaking due to high temperatures. The suit was designed in collaboration with Kappa, the team’s technical apparel sponsor, and the nonprofit organization Protect Our Winters (POW).

The Americans will wear the suits throughout the world championships in Courchevel and Meribel, France, which start Monday with a women’s Alpine combined race and end Feb. 19.

“Although a race suit is not solving climate change, it is a move to continue the conversation and show that U.S Ski & Snowboard and its athletes are committed to being a part of the future,” said Sophie Goldschmidt, the president and CEO of U.S. Ski & Snowboard.

Oh, good, a conversation. One would think that after spreading awareness has been going on for over 30 years, the Warmists would simply practice what they preach instead of making little demonstrations, but, nope, they do not want to reduce their own 21st Century, big carbon footprint lives and be inconvenienced.

BTW, interestingly, the team has failed to show any of the women skiers in this suit. Rather sexist.

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NY Times Analyzes Spy Balloon Incident, Calls It Pure Gall (And Forgets To Mention Biden)

By William Teach February 6, 2023 – 6:45 am

It’s amazing: a web top of the front page analysis, and the word “Biden” appears nowhere in the piece. It’s like there’s no president (you can see the piece reproduced here, to avoid the paywall)

Balloon Incident Reveals More Than Spying as Competition With China Intensifies

It may be months before American intelligence agencies can compare the audacious flight of a Chinese surveillance balloon across the country to other intrusions on America’s national security systems, to determine how it ranks.

After all, there is plenty of competition.

There was the theft of the designs of the F-35, enabling the Chinese air force to develop its own look-alike stealth fighter, with Chinese characteristics. There was the case of China’s premier hacking team lifting the security clearance files for 22 million Americans from the barely secured computers of the Office of Personnel Management. That, combined with stolen medical files from Anthem and travel records from Marriott hotels, has presumably helped the Chinese create a detailed blueprint of America’s national security infrastructure.

But for pure gall, there was something different about the balloon. It became the subject of public fascination as it floated over nuclear silos of Montana, then was spotted near Kansas City and met its cinematic end when a Sidewinder missile took it down over shallow waters off the coast of South Carolina. Not surprisingly, now it is coveted by military and intelligence officials who desperately want to reverse-engineer whatever remains the Coast Guard and the Navy can recover.

It was basically China saying “we triple dog dare you to do something about it”, and Biden chickened out. He just let it roam.

“We don’t know what the intelligence yield was for the Chinese,” Evan Medeiros, a Georgetown professor who advised President Barack Obama on China and Asia with the National Security Council. “But there is no doubt it was a gross violation of sovereignty,” something the Chinese object to vociferously when the United States flies over and sails through the islands China has built from sandbars in the South China Sea.

“And this made visceral the China challenge,” Mr. Medeiros said, “to look up when you are out walking your dog, and you see a Chinese spy balloon in the sky.”

Good job, Joe. Way to protect the U.S.

As it turns out, it was hardly the first time. Hours before the giant balloon met its deflated end, the Pentagon said there was another one in flight, over South America. And it noted a long history of Chinese balloons flying over the United States (which the Pentagon, somehow, never wanted to talk about before, until this incident forced it to).

News outlets keep running this, but, they aren’t able to provide a shred of substantiation. At one point, reporters would have demanded extraordinary proof for extraordinary claims. Now, if it helps to protect a Democrat, they’ll just run with it. Anyhow, nations spy on each other all the time

Few experts doubt that had the situation been reversed, China would have used force — it has threatened to do that when it believed outsiders were entering disputed waters, much less established Chinese territory.

But, when a nation gets caught, there are consequences. Does anyone think China wouldn’t have shot it down immediately?

1,347 words, 25 paragraphs, and not one mention of the President of the United States, like he wasn’t involved in this at all. But, since he blew out for Delaware Friday, then took another long fossil fueled trip on Saturday to Syracuse and then to Camp David, well, perhaps he isn’t.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 5, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Weasel Zippers, with a post on Fetterman giving Dementia Joe a run for his money.

Making it easy, it’s bikinis week. Just finished Gates Of Victory, kind of a slow reading week, started on The Secret Base Saturday.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach February 5, 2023 – 9:51 am

Patriotic Pinup

Happy Sunday! Another fine day in the Once And Future Nation Of America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the NJ Devils head out of the all star break with the 4th best points total, while still have a few games up on the leaders. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Powerline discusses climate scam predictions vs measurements
  2. The Feral Irishman has video of the spy balloon being knocked down
  3. The First Street Journal wonders if the spy balloon’s mission was to make Biden look bad
  4. The Gateway Pundit highlights how dangerous parts of Chicago are
  5. The Last Refuge covers the governing class vs the governed
  6. The Lid discusses why Omar was kicked off the Foreign Relations committee
  7. The O.K. Corral notes that the economy is getting worse
  8. The Other McCain covers MSNBC never letting go of J6
  9. Victory Girls Blog discusses NPR scolding KC Chiefs fans
  10. Weasel Zippers notes that the Brandon admin is still coming after gas stoves
  11. Moonbattery covers an anti-cop LA city councilor getting extra cop protection
  12. Legal Insurrection notes that the Brandon admin actually knew about the spy balloon on January 28th
  13. Jihad Watch discusses a mother suing a UK school for forcing her son to participate in LGBT madness
  14. IOTW Report says to view the trans movement as a suicide cult and it makes sense
  15. And last, but, not least, Geller Report notes that COVID aid fraud could be $4 trillion

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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Good News: CIA Director Says China Prepared To Invade Taiwan By 2027

By William Teach February 5, 2023 – 7:00 am

And China is certainly thrilled that Biden did absolutely nothing to stop the spy balloon

China’s Xi has ordered military to be ready for Taiwan invasion by 2027, CIA Director Burns says

CIA Director William Burns has revealed that Chinese President Xi Jinping has instructed his country’s army “to be ready by 2027 to conduct a successful invasion” of Taiwan.

Burns made the remark Thursday during an event at Georgetown University, where he also said he believes that Xi has been closely watching Russian President Vladimir Putin’s prolonged and costly invasion of Ukraine. Beijing has been engaged in a tense territorial dispute with the island, which it claims is part of China.

“On Taiwan, I guess I would say our assessment at CIA is that I wouldn’t underestimate President Xi’s ambitions with regard to Taiwan. He has been pretty clear about that over the years,” Burns said. “I think he has watched very carefully – it seems to us – Putin’s experience in Ukraine and been a little bit unsettled and sobered by that as well.

“We know as a matter of intelligence he has instructed the People’s Liberation Army to be ready by 2027 to conduct a successful invasion,” Burns continued.

China has obviously had designs on Taiwan for pretty much as long as it’s been Taiwan, but, now Xi sees the weakness in Biden and the Woke U.S. military. He’s watched the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, along with the how that weakness led to Putin going into Ukraine and showing no signs of leaving.

“Now, that does not mean that he’s decided to conduct an invasion in 2027, or any other year, but it’s a reminder of the seriousness of his focus and his ambition,” Burns added.

“Therefore, I think it’s very much in our interest as a policy matter in the United States to make clear our commitment to the status quo, to make clear we are not interested as a country in changing that status quo, that we are deeply opposed to anyone trying to change that unilaterally, especially by the use of force,” the CIA director also said.

And what, exactly, is the Biden admin doing to discourage Xi? A few years ago, under President Trump, the news was about jobs, better trade deals, folks cheering jobs coming back to their town, and Americans First. Now the news is about war machines, war, death, peoples lives destroyed by war, and the doomsday clock closing in on 12 midnight. I sure miss President Trump and America First policies of peace and prosperity. Does anyone think the Woke and going Woker military scares Xi?

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