Italy To Require Companies To Buy Climate Scam Insurance

By William Teach December 3, 2024 – 3:03 pm

And they wouldn’t even consider passing the costs on to consumers, right?

From the link

Starting Jan. 1, every company in Italy must buy insurance to protect its assets from floods, landslides and other natural hazards that have become more common thanks to global warming. It’s the latest sign of Europe’s rising anxiety about climate change.

As the fastest-warming continent, its climate losses have increased by 2.9% a year from 2009 to 2023, according to the European Environment Agency. This year alone saw epic wildfires in Greece, a crippling drought in Sicily and costly floods in the UK, central Europe and Spain. And there’s still a month left.

No matter the continent the Warmists will claim it is the fastest warming continent. But, I’m confused: why is it warming when the government has forced their citizens to slowly give up their use of fossil fuels, outlawed certain types, replaced energy with solar and wind, and so much more?

That’s the insurance-protection gap — the difference between insured and uninsured losses from climate-related catastrophes, according to EIOPA data compiled from 1980 through 2021. The gap in Italy for all natural catastrophes is roughly 80%, based on Swiss Re research for the past decade. In the US, where insurers have fled states like California and Florida, the gap is a less onerous 42%.

There’s no such thing: weather happens. Always has, always will. Italy has a history of floods as far back as Italy has existed, easily back to when the Etruscans were the dominant force in Italy, the first true Italian civilization. And even further back. Because weather happens. This is all just a scam, and you can bet there will be lots of graft associated with this requirement.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 3, 2024 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Pacific Pundit, with a post on some of the other upstanding people Biden granted clemency.

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Trump Writes There Will Be Hell To Pay If Hamas Doesn’t Release The Hostages

By William Teach December 3, 2024 – 10:30 am

This has really upset a bunch of lefties

The moonbats are more upset that Trump would do this before inauguration day than that Hamas is still holding hostages, including Americans. Even the media is tending to treat it with Basic Journalism, no analysis, and certainly no cheers

Trump Threatens ‘Hell to Pay’ Unless Gaza Hostages Are Freed Before Inauguration

President-elect Donald J. Trump on Monday demanded that the hostages taken in the Hamas-led attack on Israel be released from Gaza before his inauguration in January, or there will be “hell to pay” in the Middle East for those responsible.

Writing on Truth Social, and without naming any militant group, Mr. Trump said in his post: “If the hostages are not released prior to January 20, 2025, the date that I proudly assume Office as President of the United States, there will be ALL HELL TO PAY in the Middle East, and for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against Humanity. Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America. RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW!”

About 250 hostages were captured in the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct, 7, 2023, and about 100 of them remain in Gaza, with about a third believed to be dead, according to the Israeli authorities. The Biden administration has been working since last year with Israel and international mediators, including Qatar and Egypt, on a cease-fire deal that would include release of the hostages.

One would think this would be a good thing, getting the hostages back, especially the Americans. It’s something that Biden should have done a year ago. But, then we get stuff like this from hyper leftist The New Republic

Trump’s Genius Plan to Release Gaza Hostages: More War
As usual, the president thinks bellicose threats of force—very much including setting off a regional war with Iran—are the solution to all of the world’s problems.

Suddenly war is bad for direct American interests after Biden kept it going in Ukraine and has essentially helped both sides after Hamas attacked Israel. Both of which are direct reflections on Biden’s horrible Afghanistan withdrawal. Few news outlets are saying “great, it was high time to put the terrorists on notice and get our people back.”

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Small Island Nations Take Long Fossil Fueled Flights To Tell ICJ Other Countries Are The Problem

By William Teach December 3, 2024 – 7:15 am

Seriously, they couldn’t have made the case using Zoom to eliminate that carbon footprint?

Handful of countries responsible for climate crisis, top court told

A handful of countries should be held legally responsible for the ongoing impacts of climate change, representatives of vulnerable states have told judges at the international court of justice (ICJ).

During a hearing at the Peace Palace in The Hague, which began on Monday, Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu’s special envoy for climate change and environment, said responsibility for the climate crisis lay squarely with “a handful of readily identifiable states” that had produced the vast majority of greenhouse gas emissions but stood to lose the least from the impacts.

The court heard how Pacific island states such as Vanuatu were bearing the brunt of rising sea levels and increasingly frequent and severe disasters. “We find ourselves on the frontlines of a crisis we did not create,” Regenvanu said.

I’ve pointed out numerous times that sea rise is well below what should expected for a Holocene warm period

Over the next two weeks, the court will hear statements from 98 countries, including wealthy developed states with the greatest historical responsibility for the climate emergency, such as the UK and Russia, and states that have contributed very little to global greenhouse gas emissions but stand to bear the brunt of their impact, including Bangladesh and Sudan as well as Pacific island countries.

The US and China, the world’s biggest emitters, will make statements too, even though neither fully recognises the court’s authority.

Regenvanu told the court that states continued to emit vast amounts of greenhouse gases in spite of “increasingly dire warnings” from scientists, noting that emissions had increased by more than 50% since 1990.

I suggest that the nations being blamed stop allowing flights and shipments of goods via cargo ships to these nations, many of which have numerous airports. Let’s see how they survive, especially with not fossil fuels to power anything. Will they have enough food?

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Sweden Sees Children Carrying Out Contract Killings

By William Teach December 3, 2024 – 7:00 am

Sven and Gustaf need to be dealt with

Children carry out surge of contract killings as Swedish gangs exploit loophole in the law

surprise surprise surpriseFernando, a hitman for a Swedish narcotics gang, checks his phone as it pings with his latest orders: collect the guns, go to the target’s front door and fire until he runs out of bullets.

“Yeah, I understand brother,” he replies casually. He collects two pistols, a Kalashnikov rifle and an accomplice, before hurrying to their target in a suburb of Stockholm.

But this is no ordinary gang hit. Fernando is 14, a teenage assassin who was playing the video game Fifa in his youth club when the orders arrived by text.

He is one among dozens of child contract killers in Sweden, recruited by gang middle-men on social media who pay as much as 150,000 kroner (£13,000) per job.

The number of murder cases involving child suspects in Sweden, which has the highest per capita rate of gun violence in the EU, has exploded over the past year. The figures rose from 31 counts in the first eight months of 2023 to 102 in the same period of this year, according to Sweden’s prosecution authority.

What has been happening in Sweden recently?

Swedish prosecutors and police say the use of children – many of them from an impoverished or foreign background – to commit murders on that scale is unprecedented. One recent case involved a boy of just 11 years old.

Children are the ideal catspaw for Sweden’s gangs: those aged under 15 are too young to be prosecuted, a quirk of Swedish law that critics say is in urgent need of reform.

Hmm, I guess they mean “most” if not all are imports to Sweden. Fernando isn’t exactly a Swedish name.

Ms de Santos recalled one case where a 16-year-old boy fatally shot a father-of-two at his home in Västberga and then went upstairs to kill his wife and children.

The boy told the mother to turn around and shot her in the back. The bullet passed through her body and continued through a Winnie the Pooh toy held by her two-year-old child, who was also wounded.

Yeah, there’s some pretty brutal stuff going on. Import the 3rd world get the 3rd world.

The current wave of gang violence, from December 2022 onwards, is being fuelled by a power struggle between Foxtrot, one of Sweden’s largest organised crime networks, and the rival Dalen faction.

Two men at the heads of Foxtrot and Dalen have fled abroad, where they run their operations via middle-men. Rawa Majid, the leader of Foxtrot under the alias “Kurdish Fox”, is believed to be hiding in Turkey or Iran.

The other is Greek.

Many of the children come from a migrant background, such as those who arrived in Sweden during the 2015 refugee crisis. Some have failed to integrate into Swedish society, and that is “one piece” of the puzzle, she said.

Obviously, this is the fault of the Swedish government and Swedish people, not those who came in and refused to assimilate, wanting to keep their own cultures.

“With the first generation [of refugees and migrants to Sweden], they may not learn the language, and do cleaning jobs, things like that, and their children may see that Dad is working around the clock but doesn’t get anything for it,” Ms Frödin said.

As for young girls, they “feel stared at in Sweden for wearing the hijab and told that they are being oppressed. If they go into the city they are told to leave the shops”.

Perhaps the Swedish politicians should have considered the ramifications before they imported people incompatible with Swedish culture.

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Hotcold Take: ‘Climate Change’ Is Making Snowstorms Worse In Buffalo

By William Teach December 2, 2024 – 3:00 pm

I kinda did expect something like this from the doomsday climate cult, as we head into winter. They always have to make every weather event something cultish

The article is behind a pretty hard paywall, but, was published on December 1, 2024. And, as the tweet ends, “Bonus Point: Let’s see Buffalo survive the storm without fossil fuels.” Yup. Good luck.

But, let’s see why the cultists at the NY Times have to say today

The Lake-Effect Snowstorm Enveloping the Northeast and Midwest: What We Know

Lake-effect snow blowing in from the Great Lakes has blanketed parts of Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, stranding hundreds of vehicles on roads and snarling post-Thanksgiving travel.

Well over two feet of snow had fallen in many parts of the region by early Monday, with some communities getting more than three feet. Lake-effect snow warnings, freeze alerts and other winter advisories remained in effect in many areas as bands of snow continued streaming off the lakes Monday morning.

The lake-effect conditions are expected to continue dumping snow in parts of the Great Lakes region during the week, meteorologists said. Some areas could see up to six feet of snow by Tuesday, with the heaviest snowfall expected along the belly of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario in Pennsylvania and New York. Governors of both states have made disaster declarations in these areas and deployed National Guard troops.

“It’s going to be pretty brutal,” said Brian Hurley, a senior meteorologist at the National Weather Service.

Weather happens

Experts say climate change could increase the amount of lake-effect snowfall in the short term, as warmer lake temperatures and longer ice-free periods lead to more evaporation that can fuel these storms. Researchers have found that lake-effect snowfall has risen around Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. As the climate continues to warm, though, more of this precipitation may eventually fall as rain instead of snow.

“Could.” Supposedly it is happening right now, per the Warmists, so, is it or is it not the fault of Other People driving fossil fueled vehicles? It was almost like the Times through that bit in because it is required to link the climate scam in every weather related article.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 2, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible farm animals spewing world killing emissions, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Don Surber, with a post on a tale of two cabinets.

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Obligatory Joe Pardons Hunter Post

By William Teach December 2, 2024 – 10:30 am

Obviously, the Credentialed Media is soft handing this, where, let’s say it was Trump pardoning his child for tax evasion and lying on a gun form they’d be Fire Alarm Category 5

Joe Biden Makes History as First President to Pardon His Criminal Son

President Joe Biden spent his final days in office rolling out a full and complete pardon of his criminal son, Hunter Biden.

“I will not pardon him,” Joe Biden said in June after a jury found him guilty on three federal gun charges.

NBC News reported on the pardon:

The decision marks a reversal for the president, who has repeatedly said he would not use his executive authority to pardon his son or commute his sentence. The pardon comes ahead of Hunter Biden’s Dec. 12 sentencing for his conviction on federal gun charges. Hunter Biden also is set to be sentenced in a separate criminal case on Dec. 16, after pleading guilty in September on federal tax evasion charges.

Here’s Joe

If he wasn’t Joe’s son the IRS would have prosecuted years ago. They might not have found the lying on his gun form, but, he would have been in big trouble for failing to pay taxes. Of course, if he wasn’t Joe’s son involved in the graft he wouldn’t have been making all that money. Joe had to do this quick because sentencing was scheduled for December 12. Interestingly, the pardon is backdated to 2014, even though his crimes were between 2016 and 2019. What happened in 2014? Hunter started working for Burisma in 2014.

But, this opens up a big can of worms: what about other people who committed the same crimes: do they get pardoned? Why do people who committed much less tax fraud get convicted and possibly spend time in jail while Hunter doesn’t?

More importantly, this means that Trump should pardon all the J6 folks, particularly those who never committed any violence.

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Al Jazeera Thinks It’s Time To Tax Fossil Fuels And Shipped Goods

By William Teach December 2, 2024 – 7:00 am

Just wondering, isn’t Al Jazeera backed by Qatar, a nation which would be 3rd world without petroleum production and sales? Heck, most of the Middle East nations would be, at best, 2nd world nations without fossil fuel production

It’s time to tax fossil fuels and shipped goods to fund climate resilience

climate cow(Lots of blah blah blah, leading to)

The oil, gas and coal sectors are responsible for about half of current greenhouse gas emissions, and the high-emission products of agriculture, industrial, and manufacturing sectors contribute most of the rest. All are shipped. Almost 90 percent of the $25 trillion of goods transported yearly go by sea.

Ministers will need to take the lead as the shipping industry is unlikely to levy its customers itself. Still, just a 0.2 percent levy on the value of fossil fuels and goods transported with penalties for under-recording and exemptions for goods produced with ultra-low emissions, could raise up to $50bn per year to finance the new Fund for responding to climate-related loss and damage in particularly vulnerable developing countries.

The levy cannot fall heavily on developing countries that contributed so little to global warming. Long has the precedent been set that owners and importers are responsible for the environmental risks of what is being shipped.

International mechanisms exist, and sizeable monies are raised daily – just not yet for climate-related loss and damage. Multilateral development banks should use their new lending headroom to lend more cheaply and longer term to help vulnerable countries build lasting resilience.

However, if vulnerable countries are not to sink under oceans of debt, they also need new international levies to cover loss and damage. What are we waiting for? A category five hurricane in the English Channel?

So, are you fine with more taxes/fees on fossil fuels and shipped products? How about you, Warmists? Whenever a survey asks even Warmists say they do not want to pay more. And most do not want to give up their own use of fossil fuels. And the younger ones sure do not want to give up all those packages they receive to do their stupid TikTok videos and take their Instagram photos. When does Qatar stop taking petroleum out of the ground?

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PRC Says They Won’t Help With Deportations

By William Teach December 2, 2024 – 6:45 am

Sounds rather insurrectiony, what with the People’s Republik Of California refusing to follow the Constitution

California will not help Trump’s deportation plans, Alex Padilla says

California Sen. Alex Padilla aims to keep California’s resources out of President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans, adhering to the constitutional requirement that the federal government control the border, he said Sunday.

“There’s an important distinction here. No state’s government, not Texas, not California, not any state in the nation has a constitutional authority to impose federal immigration law. That is the responsibility of the federal government,” Padilla, a Democrat, told guest host Major Garrett on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

Trump has promised to declare a national emergency and use the military for mass deportations, with backlash to the threat from many Democrats and even some Republicans.

“Let the federal government do the federal government’s job, but have state and local officials do the state and local officials’ job. There doesn’t have to be a conflict unless that’s what Trump wants,” Padilla said.

However, states have the duty to assist in apprehending those unlawfully present in the U.S., especially if they are gang members and criminals, just like if the feds were looking for a kidnapper. And states also have a duty to not interfere in the apprehension of illegal aliens.

California Senate Bill 54, a 2017 law which prohibits state and local law enforcement from using resources to assist in federal immigration enforcement, might bring that conflict. Incoming Trump administration border czar Tom Homan recently warned that local law enforcement who do not cooperate with I.C.E. agents in the process of deportation will be federally prosecuted.

How hard is it to pick up a phone and call ICE? California actually considers that to be “using resources”.

Padilla is not the only California politician to speak up against Trump’s border policies. California State Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas has promised “to ensure that people feel protected and they feel welcomed.” Gov. Gavin Newsom made it clear that California will be leading the resistance to Trump in a myriad of ways, including on immigration.

The Trump admin should send every single person who lawfully declares asylum and passes the initial screening to California, especially the state capitol of Sacramento.

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