Biden Admin Approves Massive Lithium And Boron Mine In Nevada

By William Teach October 30, 2024 – 7:15 am

In order to build all those EVs Biden wants for Other People many things are needed, including lithium and Boron

America Approves Colossal Nevada Mine With Enough Lithium for Untold Millions of Electric Cars

Electric vehicleThe Biden administration has approved a gigantic lithium and boron mine — and though the project could revolutionize America’s electric car industry, critics say it could also endanger the survival of a rare wildflower species.

As the Washington Post reports, the Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron Project in southern Nevada, roughly halfway between Las Vegas and Reno, could provide the country with an important source of the alkali metal, which is a crucial component of EV batteries.

According to the report, the mine could produce enough lithium for around 370,000 vehicles each year for more than two decades, giving the United States a massive leg up in the reproduction of electric cars. So far, the country has largely relied on lithium battery imports and has been home to just one operating lithium mine.

Obviously, the same enviro-weenies pushing for EVs have issues

Still, environmentalists have raised concerns about the mine endangering wildlife species that thrive in the area, as well as its water consumption. The area has been battling a historic drought, as WaPo points out.

How long till they sue?

The company behind the project, an Australia-based mining firm called Ioneer, tried to reassure the public during a call with reporters on Thursday.

The Biden regime couldn’t have found an American company to do this on American land? Really? They’re getting a $700 million loan from the DOE (which will probably never be paid back). Anyhow, the extreme-greens are worried about an endangered wildflower, and

(Las Vegas Review-Journal) An Australian mining company’s lithium-boron mine in Nevada passed all environmental hurdles on Thursday, and an environmental group immediately notified the federal government that it plans to sue.

In a letter to Interior Department officials, the Center for Biological Diversity announced its intention to file a lawsuit, calling the mine an unacceptable threat to an endangered wildflower known as Tiehm’s buckwheat. The organization’s successful campaign for an emergency listing under the Endangered Species Act greatly shifted the mine’s plan of operations, with more accommodations made for the plant.

You can bet there will be others, and they will jam up the project, meaning there is no way that it will open in 2028.

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Kamala Pulls Campaign Funding From North Carolina

By William Teach October 30, 2024 – 7:00 am

It’s a weird thing: she is going to be in North Carolina Wednesday, doing something or other at Walnut Creek Amphitheater (I’d rather see Judas Priest), but, then, this

Democrat Kamala Harris Surrenders in North Carolina, Withdraws Nearly $2 Million in Planned Ad Spend from State

Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris is waving the white flag in North Carolina, surrendering the state to former President Donald Trump as her campaign withdraws nearly $2 million in planned ad buys from television stations statewide one week before the election.

The more than $1.7 million in canceled ad buys by Harris’s campaign in North Carolina suggests that her team believes, given polling data and early vote data, that the Tar Heel State is no longer in play for her.

More than 3 million people have already voted in early voting in North Carolina, which can be done via mail-in absentee ballot or via in-person locations around the state. Republicans, interestingly, for the first time ever actually lead the early vote–North Carolina provides the partisan breakdown and demographic data on early voters in the state–something they have done now for more than a week. This remarkably consistent GOP lead has shocked political observers, and comes as demographic data also suggests Democrats face serious issues in competing at the top of the ticket in the state. Black voter turnout is down approximately 3 percent from 2020, and about 1 percent more men than women, as compared with 2020, are voting in the state. These strong headwinds against Harris in North Carolina were proving to be a major issue for her in the closing days of the campaign as she set to flip the only battleground state out of seven nationwide that Trump won in 2020. For comparison purposes, again Trump won North Carolina in 2020–and the electorate per the early voting data based on millions of votes cast so far suggests a much more GOP-friendly electorate even than then.

In addition, older voters are turning out in much higher numbers while younger voters are dropping off from last time:

Has she given up? Because she’ll be here and Tampon Tim will be cavorting around (no one knows where) NC. Is it just not worth spending the money in NC? Why not go to Virginia, if that is the case? Older voters will definitely skew in Trump’s favor. Maybe because the top issues are exactly what Kamala is bad at?

(WTVD) A Pew Research Poll found that 81% of respondents rated the economy as “very important” to their vote, ranking as the top issue.

“The cost of food, the cost of going out to eat, all those aspects that you do everyday, (when) you pull up to the fuel pump,” said Ronnie Casey.

“Just the cost of food. My daughter actually came home two days ago with two small bags. Small bags. They weren’t even full from the supermarket. And she said $75 in groceries. Two small bags. And I can’t wrap my head around that,” added Jacqueline Falacara.

Vote Kamala and you get more of this.

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PRC Considers Electric Motorcycle Mandate

By William Teach October 29, 2024 – 3:00 pm

Will this apply to the People’s Republik Of California Highway Patrol? It just wouldn’t be the same CHiPs if Ponch and Baker had to quietly buzz up to people doing wrong. Well, after charging up, patrolling for a little bit, then charging up again (via Green Jihad)

From the link

The regulations would impose a credit system for manufacturers so that 10% of motorcycles sold in California would be zero-emissions in 2028 and 50% in 2035, according to the state Air Resources Board. At the same time, a tighter standard for new gas-powered motorcycles would ratchet down their emissions for the first time in more than 25 years.

Under the proposed rules, more than 280,000 new electric or hydrogen motorcycles would be sold in California by 2045 — about eight times more than the total on its roads now. Electric motorcycles make up only 1% of current motorcycle sales.

The state Air Resources Board will vote on the proposed rules on Nov. 7 after a public hearing.

This would be the same unelected board which imposed the EV mandate on Comrades of the PRC, without noting if any of the members drive on themselves. Now they want to do this for motorcycles, and scheduled their public hearing for the day after election day. Weird, that, eh?

Anyhow, an EV bike might be fine for those who are simply puttering around town, but, most folks I know who ride want a motorcycle, not a scooter.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 29, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…are pumpkins which will soon disappear from global boiling, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on an Allahu Akbar shooting in Chicago.

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Excitable Kamala To Give Closing Speech On Turning The Page On Trump Or Something

By William Teach October 29, 2024 – 10:30 am

This is the woman who’s been vice president for almost 4 years and hasn’t really helped most working and middle class Americans, right? I’m just wondering how good of an idea this is, since she’s been Angry Woman as of late, and if she jumps into Word Salad it will be a bad look. Seriously, her written speeches read off a teleprompter include word salad

Harris reaches for a big moment in her closing argument for ‘turning the page’ on Trump

Vice President Kamala Harris will pledge to Americans that she’ll work to improve their lives while Republican Donald Trump is only in it for himself as she delivers her campaign’s closing argument Tuesday from the same site where the former president fomented the Capitol insurrection in 2021.

One week out from Election Day, Harris’ address from the grassy Ellipse near the White House is designed to encourage Americans to visualize their alternate futures if she or Trump takes over the Oval Office in less than three months.

She hoped to sharpen that contrast by delivering her capstone speech from the place where Trump on Jan. 6, 2021, spewed falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election that inspired a crowd to march to the Capitol and try unsuccessfully to halt the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory and the sealing of his own defeat.

Was this AP article written by the Harris campaign? It’s so partisan that the AP is proving they are not a news service

On Tuesday, aides said, Harris aims to look beyond the startling imagery of her location on the Ellipse to make a broader case for voters to reject Trump and consider what she offers.

“There’s a big difference between he and I,” Harris told reporters Monday in previewing her speech. “If he were elected, on day one he’s going to sit in the Oval Office working on his enemies list. On day one, if I am elected, which I fully expect to be, I will be working on behalf of the American people on my to-do list.”

Her “to-do” list since January 20th 2020 hasn’t helped Americans, unless they are rich. Her new to-do list is worse. Price controls on food will certainly help, right? Nothing will go wrong, right?

Harris was expected to use her speech to lay out a pragmatic and forward-looking plan for the country, including reminding voters about her economic proposals and pledging to staunchly work for access to reproductive care, including abortion.

Also central to her message: positioning herself as a “new generation” of leader after Trump and even her current boss, Biden.

As for Trump, she said Monday, “People are literally ready to turn the page. They’re tired of it.”

Harris is 60. How will that be a new generation of leader? How does it help to finally lay out a “plan” one week before the election? The speech will simply be about abortion, her bad sticky note economic ideas, and Trump Trump Trump. There will be nothing new. Enough voters turned the page on Trump four years ago, but, the horrendously bad Biden-Harris administration brought a new book. Remember, Harris said that she wouldn’t do anything different from her time as VP.

She can barely function with a script.

You know what will be missing from her speech? American flags. Patriotic apparel.

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San Francisco Churches Join The Cult Of Climastrology

By William Teach October 29, 2024 – 7:15 am

“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”

How Bay Area Churches Are Becoming Hubs for Climate Change Solutions

Black churches in the Bay Area are taking the lead on retrofitting their buildings with clean energy to become ‘resilience hubs’ in the event of a major storm or climate-related event. It’s part of a national movement called Green The Church, an organization merging the Black faith community and environmental justice.

The rest is simply a podcast. Which is pretty cultish. One of the things that Green The Church is about is amplifying green theology. Shouldn’t they be amplifying the Word Of God? That is the purpose of a Christian church, right?

Green the Church is a sustainability initiative designed to tap into the power and purpose of the Black Church Community and expand the role of churches as centers for environmental and economic resilience. As the Environmental Organization of the Black Church, we strive to teach faith communities, environmental organizations, and individual practitioners how to work in concert in order to “Green” The Black Church. Green The Church was created and developed by Carroll Ministries International.

Sounds like it is part of the Cult Of Climastrology, making the teaching of the Bible and Jesus second fiddle. Seriously, the whole thing sounds like a leftwing scam designed to replace religion with that of a state sponsored doom cult, and we’ve seen over the years how the left has been trying to replace religion with worship of the State.

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It May Be Years Before BidenHarrisflation Shocked Americans Spend Normally

By William Teach October 29, 2024 – 7:00 am

A vote for Kamala is a vote to continue lackluster economic conditions. The Credentialed Media can yammer all the want about how super duper awesome the Biden-Harris economy is and that you should get on your knees to thank them, but, Americans feel different

Inflation-shocked low- and middle-income Americans may not spend normally for years

Putting “fun” back into low- and middle-income Americans’ budgets could be years away with most of their income barely covering the surge in costs for bare necessities, economists said.

Even with annual inflation last month cooling to the lowest level since February 2021 and wages rising faster than inflation, low- and middle-income Americans are just barely covering their essentials, which include groceries, shelter, utilities and gasoline, economists say.

That’s because when inflation slows, it only means prices aren’t rising as quickly, not that prices are declining. So, Americans continue to pay higher prices for everyday needs.

Low- and middle-income Americans were hit disproportionately harder than their higher-income peers because essentials account for a larger share of their budgets, and their discretionary spending, or spending on nonessential items like dining out, vacations and entertainment, is only just recovering, economists say.

So, when all the celebs like Beyonce, Springsteen, DiCaprio, etc, start saying how great things are under Biden-Harris and now want Harris-Walz, none of this affects them. They’re living just fine.

“For a very large share of Americans, the bottom 60% are spending more on essentials than before the pandemic,” said Michael Pearce, Oxford Economics deputy chief U.S. economist. “The burden is hardest among the lowest income but also touches middle income. Spending patterns of low-income Americans will take years to recover.” (snip)

A Gallup poll this month showed 52% of Americans said they and their families are worse off today than they were four years ago. “Inflation likely underlies Americans’ perceptions that the economy is poor, even against a backdrop of generally low unemployment, steady economic growth, and record stock and housing values,” it said.

Americans feel the pain

The last time low-income Americans’ discretionary spending fell this much, which was during the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2008, it took five to 10 years for spending patterns to return to previous levels, he said.

“And the reason was gas prices fell,” Pearce said. Global oil prices fell by about 70% between 2014-16, which pushed pump prices sharply lower and helped low-income Americans catch up.

The policies of Obama and his Democrats kept the pain alive. Vote Trump and he’ll work to lower gas prices, which can lower the cost of goods and food quickly.

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Cool: UK Guardian Says Trump Would Totally Be Disastrous For The Climate (cult)

By William Teach October 28, 2024 – 4:43 pm

Stop, stop, I’m already voting for him, I do not need more reasons

Five ways a Trump presidency would be disastrous for the climate

climate cowThe climate crisis may appear peripheral in the US presidential election but a victory for Donald Trump will, more than any other issue, have profound consequences for people around a rapidly heating world, experts have warned.

By peripheral, they mean “it has virtually no bearing on the election when people are having trouble buying food and paying rent”

So what would a Trump election triumph mean for the environment?

1. A dangerous and uncertain future
Amid the frenetic bombast of politics, it is easy to overlook the long legacies of electoral decisions. Action or inaction on the climate crisis in the span of just the next few years will help decide the tolerability of the climate for generations not yet born.

“We have now brought the planet into climatic conditions never witnessed by us or our prehistoric relatives,” as a recent paper authored by more than a dozen scientists warned. “We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt.”

Considering that a goodly chunk of the time for modern humans was during an ice age, that’s a dubious claim. And, reconstructions show that several previous warm periods were warmer.

2. Climate denialism would return to the Oval Office

Of course, despite the climate sermonizing from people like Biden and Kamala, they themselves use enormous amounts of fossil fuels, way more than the average American. How many gallons did Biden use just to head to Delaware for most weekends this year alone?

3. Clean energy policies unpicked
A primary target for a new Trump administration would be the landmark climate bill signed by Biden that is pushing hundreds of billions of dollars to renewable energy deployment, electric car production and battery manufacturing.

Trump is not against “green energy”, he’s against wasting taxpayer money for projects that are not really beneficial, as well as not forcing Americans into vehicles they do not want.

4. A purge of science
A far more ideological slant on science and expertise is likely to emerge should Trump win office, with Project 2025, the conservative manifesto authored by many former Trump officials, calling for civil servants to be replaced by loyal political operatives.

It mostly won’t happen: Trump didn’t do it last time, he won’t do it this time. Of course, what about the ideological slant of all those government employed “scientists”?

5. International relations shaken
As president, Trump took several months to decide to remove the US from the Paris climate agreement. “This time I think he would do that on the very first day, likely with a lot of dramatic flourish,” said Rabe.

If other countries want redistribute their citizen’s earnings for silly projects with the money ending up in the hands of the UN, the IMF, 3rd World dictators, feel free. And, I’m hoping that Trump does end up ending America’s involvement with the Paris Climate (scam) Agreement within the 1st month. Our allies will be happy when Trump calms the world down so we’re not headed towards WW3. Lest we forget, these are the same world leaders who also tend to have massive carbon footprints and take lots of fossil fueled travel.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 28, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible particleboard, which causes temperatures to spike, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on moonbat election meltdowns having already begun.

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John Fetterman Abuses NY Times Reporter Who Questioned Him On Supporting Israel

By William Teach October 28, 2024 – 10:30 am

No matter what one might say about John Fetterman’s liberal leanings, he has been one of the biggest Democrat supporters of Israel and in their fight against Islamic extremism. I wonder, here, though, if what he said to the NY Times reporter got through her indoctrinated to hate Israel and Jews head

‘Daddy Was A Member Of Hezbollah’: Dem Senator Claps Back At NYT Reporter Over Question On Israel’s War Against Terror

Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman clapped back at New York Times (NYT) reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro over a question on Israel’s war against terror in an interview released Saturday.

Garcia-Navarro poked at Fetterman’s unwavering support for Israel following the deadly Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Islamic terror group Hamas with a slew of questions. The Democratic senator remained consistent when pressed about Israel’s exploding pager attack of mid-September which targeted Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon.

Fetterman told the NYT reporter he “absolutely” does support Israel’s pager attack despite the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh chapters of the Council on American Islamic Relations condemning him in a joint statement issued in late September.

This would be the same CAIR which has always had massive links to Islamic terrorism groups

“They said, ‘When our elected officials start condoning the civilian loss of life, our collective moral compass is irreparably harmed,’” Garcia-Navarro said.

“It was targeted for members of Hezbollah. You know, no one uses beepers in that situation other than they were a member of Hezbollah,” Fetterman countered.

All those beepers were sold to Hezbollah as part of a long Israeli operation to get them to stop using phones, and the company who built and sold the beepers to Hezbollah was an Israeli one, which is truly funny.

“There was a young child who was killed,” the NYT reporter said.

“Unfortunately, tragically, because daddy was a member of Hezbollah,” Fetterman responded. “He brought that danger and evil into their home. And that’s what tragically resulted in that poor child’s death.”

“That’s what’s so terrible. She paid the price because her father was a terrorist for Hezbollah,” he added.

It’s one thing to ask tough questions to elicit answers that are favorable to the interviewee. It’s another to ask questions that appear to take the side of a US State Department designated terrorist group, which is what Garcia-Navarro was doing.

Also, if you refer to that link I made bold in the first excerpt, here’s how the entire thing started. It was the second question, after one about how Fetterman no longer defines himself as a Progressive, for which he said he has “reasonable views”

You said just now that progressives have adopted extreme positions, which you don’t agree with anymore. What would you say those are? Like defund the police, those kinds of things. That was a huge gift to the Republicans. And now, just some of these protesting right now. They’re openly being supportive of Hamas, or they’re now calling for the infantada [intifada] and these kinds of extreme absurd things. And they are supporting the kinds of regimes that live and impose the kind of values that are antithetical to the progressive kinds of way that they would live.

Exactly. How many Democrats are openly supportive of Islamic terrorism groups, and Iran, which are attempting to kill Jews and destroy Israel? There’s actually quite a bit more later in the interview for which Fetterman educates Garcia-Navarro on why Israel is good and Islamic terrorism groups are bad.

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