5,000 Of 13,000 FBI Agents Were Involved In J6 Investigations

By William Teach February 5, 2025 – 10:30 am

All for this

Instead of dealing with serious crimes, they went after grandmas who casually walked through the People’s House

FBI turns over details of 5,000 employees who worked on January 6 cases to Trump Justice Department, as agents sue

FBI officials have complied with demands to provide the Justice Department with details of thousands of employees who worked on investigations related to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot, according to people familiar with the situation.

The demand has caused consternation among FBI employees who fear it is meant to amass a list of personnel for possible termination by the Trump administration.

Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, in a Friday memo with the subject line “Terminations,” had given FBI officials a noon deadline Tuesday to submit the details of thousands of agents and analysts. Bove previously ordered the firing of eight senior FBI officials, including those who oversaw cyber, national security and criminal investigations.

More than 5,000 employee details were submitted, including employee ID numbers, job titles and their role in the January 6 investigations, sources said, but not their names. There are more than 13,000 agents and 38,000 total FBI employees.

How many failed to go after violent gang members, like all those Ten De Aragua illegals let in by the Biden-Harris admin? Or illegals who are murderers? Or those people who firebombed the Portland Justice Center during the 2020 mostly peaceful protests? And, not one J6er was actually charged with insurrection. Maybe they would have been able to stop the New Orleans jihadi had they focused on actual bad people.

I wonder what they will say? That they were “just following orders?” This is why the FBI needs to be restructured: it’s a wholly leftist political agency.

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Bummer: Killing USAID Is Bad For ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach February 5, 2025 – 7:00 am

BTW, Trump has all the authority needed to kill the program, since it was created by Jimmy Carter with an Executive Order. Which means Trump creating DOGE is just fine

Ending USAID climate programs could increase security risks

The axing of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which Elon Musk has vowed to “kill” with President Trump’s support, could destabilize regions where human-caused climate change is hitting particularly hard.

Why it matters: By ending humanitarian assistance and proactive climate resilience and adaptation programs, the U.S. military could get pulled into responding to more future crises.

Experts tell Axios that axing the agency completely, or even significantly downsizing it, would have security implications when it comes to climate change.

I don’t. Especially since we all know that most of the money will never end up where it is supposed to go. It’ll go in lots of people’s pockets. It’s a slush fund.

Zoom in: According to archived versions of USAID’s websites, the agency helps countries cut their emissions, conserve carbon-rich tropical rainforests and rely more on renewable energy sources.

“Climate change affects nearly everything we do at USAID,” its climate page stated as of Jan. 17, according to the Internet Wayback Machine.

“As such, the Agency mainstreams climate change considerations across much of our development and humanitarian assistance work.”

Don’t care. Time for USAID to die, and move on to all sorts of other agencies to cut.

What they’re saying: Curtailing USAID is “going to add substantially to the instability in these volatile regions, because vulnerable populations will be doing without,” Sherri Goodman, a senior fellow at the Wilson Center and board chair at the Council on Strategic Risks, told Axios.

Let them get their own money.

Also the cult

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Hmm: Trump Says Will Level, Rebuild, And Own Gaza Strip

By William Teach February 5, 2025 – 6:45 am

I’m really not sure how I feel about this idea. Good one? Bad one? Mixed? Do we really want to get that involved? Would be allowed to? Who pays for it? We should certainly rebuild Western NC, the fire area of California, and Maui (believe it or not, only 3 homes have been rebuilt of over 3,000, thanks to Democrat policies) before Gaza.

‘Level it’: Trump says US will ‘take over’ Gaza strip and rebuild it to stabilize Middle East

The U.S. will “take over the Gaza strip,” level it and rebuild the area, President Donald Trump said during a press conference Tuesday evening after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House.

“The U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too,” Trump said Tuesday evening in a joint press conference with Netanyahu. “We’ll own it, and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous, unexplored bombs and other weapons on the site.”

“Level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out, create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area,” he said. “Do a real job. Do something different. Just can’t go back. If you go back, it’s going to end up the same way it has for 100 years.” (snip)

“I see it bringing great stability to that part of the Middle East, and maybe the entire Middle East,” Trump said. “And everybody I’ve spoken to — this was not a decision made lightly — everybody I’ve spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land. Developing and creating thousands of jobs with something that will be magnificent in a really magnificent area that nobody would know. Nobody can look because all they see is death and destruction and rubble.”

If Trump could make it happen (and where’s the money coming from?), would it work? It sounds like there would have to be a large military presence, effectively a military outpost, to make sure Iran wasn’t sending in material to make military weapons and bombs, and to keep the Palestinians from going terrorist.

Netanyahu lauded Trump’s tenacity and ability “to think outside the box” during his comments to the press.

“Your willingness to puncture conventional thinking, thinking that has failed time and time and time again, your willingness to think outside the box with fresh ideas, will help us achieve all these goals,” he said. “And I’ve seen you do this many times. You cut to the chase. You see things others refuse to see. You say things others refuse to say, you know. And after the jaws drop, people scratch their heads and they say, you know, he’s right.”

Would the Palestinians be living there? We keep being told how nice Gaza was prior to Israel bombing it back to the stone age after October 7th: what would keep them from doing the same old same old? But, you know, maybe it’s time to try something different. The naysayers will say “you can’t do that!”, to which the response should be “what’s your plan?”

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What’s Going On In Maya Country?

By William Teach February 4, 2025 – 8:59 pm

This is probably your fault with your big carbon footprint

I love the way whomever is doing this is now adding shadows.

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Climate Cult Scientists Brace For The Worst As Trump Kills Government Run Cult Website

By William Teach February 4, 2025 – 3:54 pm

If I’m to understand correctly, they could go get a job in the private sector. Or, start their own business, get their own funding

Scientists brace ‘for the worst’ as Trump purges climate mentions from websites

Donald Trump’s administration has started to remove or downgrade mentions of the climate crisis across the US government, with the websites of several major departments pulling down references to anything related to the climate crisis. Climate scientists said they were braced “for the worst”.

A major climate portal on the Department of Defense’s website has been scrapped, as has the main climate change section on the site of the Department of State. A climate change page on the White House’s website no longer exists, nor does climate content provided by the US agriculture department, including information that provides vulnerability assessments for wildfires.

An entire section on “climate and sustainability” hosted by the Department of Transportation has now vanished, with the department’s new leadership also ordering the elimination of any policy positions, directives or funding “which reference or relate in any way to climate change, ‘greenhouse gas’ [sic] emissions, racial equity, gender identity, ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ goals, environmental justice or the Justice40 initiative”.

Sean Duffy, the US transportation secretary, said the administration is focused on “eliminating excessive regulations that have hindered economic growth, increased costs for American families, and prioritized far-left agendas over practical solutions”.

I’ve left all the links in so you can seem them down. The grift will not continue under President Trump. The DOD should concern itself with defending the U.S., with training their members, with not crashing into civilian airplanes. The State Department should concern itself with it’s core mission, same with the rest of the federal agencies. Do their job, not get involved with an unscientific cult.

Some researchers have found that their own studies, from ocean carbon cycles to the connectivity of cleaner electrical grids, have now vanished from federal government websites. Critics say the actions will stifle the public’s understanding of the climate crisis amid record-breaking temperatures and a wave of storms and wildfires that are being worsened by the burning of fossil fuels.

Their studies paid for by the citizens of the U.S., meant to make sure these same cult researchers continue to get paid way too much to do more research.

“We should plan for the worst,” said Michael Mann, a climate scientist at the University of Pennsylvania. “The keys to the car have been given to the polluters and fossil fuel plutocrats and they intend to drive it off the climate cliff.”

The government should not be your feeding trough nor a way to force citizens to comply with your cult. Go buy your own car.

“A plan for a modern-day book-burning is not a plan for American families,” Ben Jealous, executive director of the Sierra Club, said of the website deletions. “By stripping taxpayers from having the ability to access life-saving websites and information, websites and information paid for by taxpayers, Donald Trump will be putting families across the country in peril.”

If the scam Sierra Club, which was once a good guardian of true environmentalism, wants to have websites and info, have at it. Let them pay. Government agencies need to perform their core mission, not deviate into doomsday cult activism, scamlighting, and authoritarianism.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 4, 2025 – 1:31 pm

…are wonderful railroad tracks for moving low carbon passenger trains, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell…, with a post on Chuck Schumer being under investigation.

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Good News: Texas National Guard Can Now Arrest Border Jumpers

By William Teach February 4, 2025 – 10:30 am

This has made the pro-illegals crowd very upset – as long as those illegals are Somewhere Else

Texas National Guard can now arrest and detain people who illegally enter the US

Texas National Guard soldiers can arrest and detain people for entering the U.S. illegally from Mexico under an agreement with the Trump administration that expands the military’s role in immigration enforcement.

The new authority is a shift for the Guard and the military broadly, which has been limited to a supporting role for the Border Patrol. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott gave Texas Guard members the power to arrest migrants on trespassing charges in 2021, but that order was limited to encounters on border landowners’ private property.

Texas’ pact with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, signed Friday, gives the Guard full authority to investigate, arrest and detain migrants for purposes of deporting them. Guard members must work “only under the supervision of a CBP official” and must be able to speak with a CBP official “by cellular phone, radio, or other similar technology,” the agreement says.

“This boosts manpower for border security,” Abbott said late Sunday on the social media platform X.

No one in the Trump administration is going to stop this. They will help. Texas has a green light to do this.

The military has been limited to tasks like surveillance and building barriers, adhering to the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 to keep the armed forces away from civilian law enforcement. But advisers close to President Donald Trump argue there are legal grounds to summon the military to combat narcotics and mass migration.

And there we go. The left loves to trot out Posse Comitatus when a Republican is in office. Except, if they actually read the Act they’d know that the President or Congress can use the military for certain operations, such as protecting federal property (like the border), enforce federal laws (like illegal immigration), and domestic emergencies (like keeping illegals out).

Democratic state Rep. Gene Wu said Texas’ agreement makes law enforcement’s job more difficult and dangerous and that Abbott “continues to generate more hate against an already terrified and vulnerable population.”

How does it make the job more difficult? He failed to enlighten us on that. And that population? They aren’t an American population. They shouldn’t be here. Why do Democrats want so many illegals?

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NY Post: NY Dems Are Getting The Message To Stand Down On ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach February 4, 2025 – 7:15 am

Is the Post’s editorial board on to something?

Dems are finally getting the message on their NY climate agenda: Stand down!

A light just went off for the left: Americans don’t like paying higher bills for a climate war. Duh.

Democrats (well, some of them) are suddenly recognizing the message of November’s victories by Donald Trump and other Republicans.

First, that voters are deeply skeptical of a pricey (and likely futile) war on climate at their expense.

Second, that those victories will make it harder still to achieve the greenies’ fanciful agenda.

Hmm: With luck, the entire climate agenda might just collapse, saving Americans billions and bolstering energy security across the nation.

Could it?

“The public is exhausted,” admits Assemblyman John McDonald (D-Albany). “They don’t want to see their bills go up. We have to be sensitive to that.”

McDonald also stressed the need “to be realistic that we’re not going to have a federal partner.”

Gov. Kathy Hochul, too, has delayed her plan for a “cap-and-invest” tax on fossil-fuel corporations, knowing the costs would be passed to consumers, conflicting with her 2026 reelection focus on “affordability.”

The Post tries to make the case, but, what they are missing is what I said in regards to the Wall Street Journal saying the same thing: “but, I have news: it will never die. The cultists will not let it. It will keep coming back. The disciples will make sure their voices are heard since the news media is on their side, along with politicians. They will never stop.” They won’t. The cult may go a little quiet, might act like they are backing down, but, they will always be there, always be ready to go full cult. They will always try and back door legislation and regulations. They will try and slip stuff through. Don’t ever turn away.

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Good News: Trump To Reportedly Defund UNRWA

By William Teach February 4, 2025 – 7:00 am

This is the UN group which has lots of Hamas terrorists working for them, and which works with terrorist groups. UNRWA employees literally worked with Hamas during their October 7th attack

Trump to Defund UNRWA, Leave UN Human Rights Council — Again

President Donald Trump will reportedly defund the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the agency for Palestinian “refugees” that has aligned with Hamas terrorists, this week.

Trump will also withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council, which has been little more than a forum for dictators to sanitize their human rights records while bashing Israel and, to a lesser extent, the United States.

Both moves will repeat policies that Trump had adopted during his first administration, and which were reversed by President Joe Biden — to little avail, as UNRWA sheltered Hamas terrorists and the Human Rights Council continued to attack Israel.

The executive orders giving effect to these decisions were postponed until Tuesday, when President Trump is to welcome Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House.

The problem with Biden was that he did support Israel, but, so many of the people around him did not, not too mention the unhinged Democrat base. They hated Israel. Now you have Trump and his people who unabashedly, wholeheartedly support Israel and loathe Hamas and the other Islamic terrorist groups. And will do all they can to protect and support Israel.

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Your Fault: Global Boiling Could Maybe Possibly We Feel Wipe Out $1.4 Trillion In Real Estate Value

By William Teach February 3, 2025 – 5:00 pm

If it’s a day ending in a Y it must be a great day to fearmonger and prognosticate (it’s an Axios article, so, their formatting is always a bit different

Climate change could erase $1.4 trillion in real estate value: report

A novel new report combining several strands of research finds that human-driven climate change could result in $1.47 trillion in net property value losses from rising insurance costs and shifting consumer demand.

Why it matters: Insurance costs are increasing faster than mortgage payments. That’s squeezing homeowners and leading to climate change-driven migration away from high-risk areas in the Sun Belt and the West.

The report from First Street, a climate risk financial modeling company, identifies the five largest metro areas likely to see the biggest spikes in insurance premiums: Miami, Jacksonville, Tampa, New Orleans and Sacramento.

I’ve mentioned First Street before: they are overly hysterical and full blown members of the doomsday climate cult. And they’re claiming this will happen over the next 30 years. What happens if this doesn’t happen? Who gets fired?

According to the new research, climate impacts may disrupt historical migration to Sun Belt states as risks of climate change-worsened extreme weather events continue to grow.

Is there anyone who thinks that this slight uptick in temperatures will stop them? The fearmongering over tropical systems, something not born out by actual data, will scare people? It has not so far. Nor the scary prognostications of sea rise doom.

Between the lines: First Street’s report itself hasn’t been peer-reviewed, and there are important caveats and uncertainties associated with the work, since it combines results from multiple models and peer-reviewed studies.

OK, so, then why are so many news outlets reporting this? Why did they publish a report with “important caveats and uncertainties”? Would it surprise you that this is based on a garbage computer model? This is doomsday crap that’s as useful as Alex Jones and the Weekly World Report.

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