Biden Admin Asked Banks To Search Customer Transactions Over J6

By William Teach January 19, 2024 – 10:30 am

Now, just imagine it was the Trump administration doing this: how would the mostly Democrat voting news agencies cover this? Would Congressional Democrats be demanding impeachment within a day?

‘Alarming’ surveillance: Feds asked banks to search private transactions for terms like ‘MAGA,’ ‘Trump’

Bill Of RightsFederal investigators asked banks to search and filter customer transactions by using terms like “MAGA” and “Trump” as part of an investigation into Jan. 6, warning that purchases of “religious texts” could indicate “extremism,” the House Judiciary Committee revealed Wednesday in a letter obtained by Fox News Digital.

Fox News Digital has learned the committee also obtained documents that indicate officials suggested that banks query transactions with keywords like Dick’s Sporting Goods, Cabela’s, Bass Pro Shops and more.

The House Judiciary Committee and its subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government have been conducting oversight of federal law enforcement’s “receipt of information about American citizens without legal process and its engagement with the private sector.”

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said the documents obtained by the committee indicate that after Jan. 6, 2021, the Treasury Department’s Office of Stakeholder Integration and Engagement in the Strategic Operations of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, distributed materials to financial institutions that outlined “typologies” of “various persons of interest” and provided the banks with “suggested search terms and Merchant Category Codes for identifying transactions on behalf of federal law enforcement.”

Hmm, I purchase stuff at Dicks, Cabela’s, and Bass Pro Shops.

“According to this analysis, FinCEN warned financial institutions of ‘extremism’ indicators that include ‘transportation charges, such as bus tickets, rental cars, or plane tickets, for travel areas with no apparent purpose,’ or ‘the purchase of books (including religious texts) and subscriptions to other media containing extremist views,’” Jordan detailed in a letter to the former director of FinCEN, Noah Bishoff, a career employee.

“In other words, FinCEN used large financial institutions to comb through the private transactions of their customers for suspicious charges on the basis of protected political and religious expression,” Jordan wrote.

The problem here is, what happens? Who gets fired? Who gets sued? Does anyone pay a price for this outrageous and un-Constitutional program? Does anyone go to jail? Simply holding hearings is not enough when government goes off the rails. The government was spying on U.S. citizens for no reason. Was there even a blanket warrant?

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PRC Sues Oil Companies For “Lying” Or Something

By William Teach January 19, 2024 – 7:00 am

Once again, I’d like to see the oil companies at least put out statements that say “if the government of the People’s Republik Of California thinks fossil fuels are so bad, why are they using so much of it? Why is the governor, his staff, the appointed agency heads, and the elected lawmakers constantly traveling around in fossil fueled vehicles and airplanes?” Along with refusing to sell their product to the PRC government, because, why would you do business with anyone suing you?

California sues oil companies for allegedly lying about climate change

California filed a lawsuit Friday against five of the world’s largest oil companies, alleging that they lied to the public about the damage their product is causing. The state wants the companies to pay into a fund that would support recovery from climate change-related extreme weather events like heavy storms and wildfires.

“For more than 50 years, Big Oil has been lying to us — covering up the fact that they’ve long known how dangerous the fossil fuels they produce are for our planet,” California Gov. Newsom, a Democrat, said in a statement on the suit. “California taxpayers shouldn’t have to foot the bill for billions of dollars in damages — wildfires wiping out entire communities, toxic smoke clogging our air, deadly heat waves, record-breaking droughts parching our wells.”

Except, almost every single one of those wildfires were set intentionally or by accident by humans, not from any sort of ‘climate change’ driven Bad Weather, and when people keep building homes in areas that are prone to wildfires, well, that’s on them.

“This ongoing, coordinated campaign to wage meritless, politicized lawsuits against a foundational American industry and its workers is nothing more than a distraction from important national conversations and an enormous waste of California taxpayer resources,” Ryan Meyers, senior vice president of the American Petroleum Institute (API), an industry group also named as a defendant, said in a statement.

Stop. Go hardball, not these squishy messages. Tell the people of California if they do not like fossil fuels the companies can take all their business, all their jobs, all that tax revenue, and all the gas and oil for their cars elsewhere. Ask them how they will get to work, the store, the beach, vacations.

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Court Says Texas’ Floating Border Barrier Can Stay For The Moment

By William Teach January 19, 2024 – 6:45 am

It’s too bad the U.S. needs something like the river border barrier, but, Biden and his underlings are doing less than nothing to stop illegal immigration

Texas’ floating barrier between US and Mexico can stay for now, court rules in reversal

A federal appeals court on Wednesday reversed an order requiring Texas to move a floating barrier on the Rio Grande that drew backlash from Mexico — the latest development in legal battles between the Biden administration and Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott over control of migration at the border.

In December, a divided panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had sided with a federal district judge in Texas who said the buoys must be moved. On Wednesday, the court vacated the panel’s 2-1 ruling after a majority of its 17 active judges voted to rehear the case.

The series of linked, concrete-anchored buoys stretches roughly the length of three soccer fields. The state installed it along the international border with Mexico between the Texas border city of Eagle Pass and Piedras Negras, Coahuila.

The barrier is one focal point in the legal disputes over border control between Democratic President Joe Biden and Abbott. The Biden administration also is fighting for the right to cut razor-wire fencing at the border and for access to a city park at the border that the state fenced off.

I’m waiting for a court to finally ask the Biden administration as to what it is doing to uphold the Constitution (invasion) and laws, because Texas wouldn’t need to do any of this if the federal government under Biden would do their job. Their duty. Biden is fighting against any measure that simply slows illegals down. If the GOP wants to impeach him, this dereliction of duty would seem an easy one.

Meanwhile, up in the sanctuary city of Boston, where the mayor has been complaining about being overrun with illegals/asylum declarers who were shipped there by Gov. Abbott

Haitian illegal immigrant charged with rape released back onto streets in Boston despite ICE appeals

A Haitian illegal immigrant charged with raping a developmentally disabled person was released back into the community in Boston, as authorities ignored an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) request to transfer them into its custody.

“Disturbingly and despite our filing an immigration detainer, this individual was released back into the community by the criminal court,” ICE said in a statement.

Being a sanctuary city means Boston doesn’t work with ICE. It shouldn’t mean that they release this scumbag back on the streets. Does anyone think he won’t run off?

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Super Tolerant LGBTQ Tries To Cancel Bethany Hamilton

By William Teach January 18, 2024 – 3:00 pm

Bethany Hamilton is, by all accounts, one of those people who fit the definition of “the best of us.” She had her arm bitten off by a shark while surfing as a teen, and was back surfing within months. Rather than be a victim, she used that experience to better herself, help others, and inspire people. If you watched her on The Amazing Race, she and her husband were the people everyone roots for, everyone likes. She’s also devoutly Christian, which infuriates the Tolerant Left

Midwest LGBTQ+ Community Protests Event Headlined by Surfer Bethany Hamilton

Kauai’s Bethany Hamilton is a surfer, author, mother, and shark attack survivor.

She recently gave birth to her fourth child, competed in the Vans Pipe Masters, and was invited to attend the Oshkosh Women’s Fund’s Annual Power of the Purse event as the keynote speaker in Wisconsin.

But in light of Hamilton’s stance on transgender athletes, the event’s been met with backlash as community members demand that she be replaced.

The controversy stems from Hamilton’s early 2023 announcement that she would officially withdraw from future World Surf League competitions in response to its policy on allowing transgender athletes to compete.

In a letter obtained by WLUK-TV, members and allies of Oshkosh’s LGBTQ+community retaliated against the Fund’s decision to select Hamilton as the keynote speaker. In the lengthy letter, protesters explained their decision to boycott Hamilton.

Yeah, the group is totally opposed to Bethany having a different opinion, despite how much she’s helped women and inspired so many girls, because Bethany doesn’t want to compete against men. And, look, watching women surf, especially professionals, is awesome. But, they cannot really do some of the things men do. You won’t see as many aerials or 360s, some of the cuts will not be as hard, because they just do not have the muscle mass as the professional male surfers.

The crazy people’s letter concludes

“We all look forward to the day we can celebrate, positively amplify, and support this event. Once the Women’s Fund has removed and replaced Bethany Hamilton as keynote speaker for this and any future events and issued a public statement of apology to the LGBTQ+ community, we stand ready to accept that apology, end our objections, and extend our sincere wishes for their and your continued success.”

Apology? For what? Allowing people to have their say? It’s too bad all these women in these groups can’t be replaced by men pretending to be women. The caterwauling would be epic and hilarious.

The men in drag sure are intolerant and want real women to know their place.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 18, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is a calm sea due to carbon pollution calming the wind, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Don Surber, with a post on state sanctioned protest.

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Good News: A New War Could Start Between Iran And Pakistan

By William Teach January 18, 2024 – 10:30 am

Things are going so well In Biden’s America

So, yeah, the guy who Obama picked as VP because of his vast foreign policy experience and who said Trump was a bull in a china shop has seen Russia invade Ukraine, with no end in sight. Iran backed Hamas committing a mass terrorist attack on Israel, resulting in Israel hitting the FAFO button, Iran backed Houthis getting friskier than ever which has the US, UK, and others launching attacks and Biden designating them a terrorist group, China seemingly making moves towards invading Taiwan, and now Iran firing missiles into Iraq, Syria and Pakistan, resulting in

Pakistan launches retaliatory strike on Iran, raising tensions

Pakistan launched counterstrikes on Iran early Thursday, allegedly targeting a militant group’s hideout in the country just days after Tehran conducted airstrikes within its borders.

Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said it conducted  “a series of highly coordinated and specifically targeted precision military strikes” against Baluch militant locations in the Siestan-o-Baluchistan province of Iran.

A local Iranian official said three women, four children and two men were killed in the strikes near the town of Saravan, along the border in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan province, according to reporting from The Associated Press.

“This morning’s action was taken in light of credible intelligence of impending large scale terrorist activities by these so called Sarmachars,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “This action is a manifestation of Pakistan’s unflinching resolve to protect and defend its national security against all threats.”

The AP also reported that Pakistan’s military said it used “killer drones, rockets, loitering munitions and standoff weapons” in its strikes Thursday.

Pakistan labeled the action as “Operation Marg Bar Sarmachar.” The AP noted that “marg bar” means “death to” in Iranian Farsi and “Sarmachar” means guerrilla in the local Baluch language and is used by militants in the region.

Well, this sounds like it will go well, right? “Death to”?

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Davos Wackjobs Want To Prosecute People For “Ecocide”

By William Teach January 18, 2024 – 7:15 am

This again? It’s just so 2010

Davos Speaker Demands International Criminal Court Prosecute ‘Ecocide’, Punish Farmers Alongside War Criminals

The International Criminal Court should add “ecocide” to its brief alongside genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes to criminalise the side effects of farming, fishing and energy production, a green activist argued during the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

Greta Thunberg ally and CEO of Stop Ecocide International Jojo Mehta demanded during a WEF Davos panel dubbed “Where Nature Meets Conflict” on Tuesday that a new international criminal category of “ecocide” to prevent the “mass damage and destruction of nature”.

Mehta, who co-founded Stop Ecocide in 2017 alongside the late green legal activist Polly Higgins, said at the globalist World Economic Forum meeting: “What our organisation and other collaborators aim to do is to have this recognised legally as a serious crime because one of the issues that pervades this discussion is that we have a culturally engrained habit of not taking damage to nature as seriously as we take damage to people and property.”

While proponents of the legislation have often pointed to disasters such as oil spills and nuclear meltdowns, Mehta suggested that ecocide could be extended to include necessary functions of humanity such as agriculture and energy production.

As I wrote back in 2010

You know, it’s funny how those one the Left around the world, who tend to be, of course, the primary believers in this mule fritters “science,” always yammer on about human rights and free speech and speaking their minds and “power to the people,” etc and so on, yet, at the end of the day, they are always the first ones to call for gagging people at the point of a legal ruling. Unless you follow the strict doctrines of their liberal/progressive tenets, they expect you to just STFU and STFD (sit the f*** down). Hopefully, in a jail cell.

They’re always quick to go the Fascist route: toe the line or go to jail. But, hey, if Mehta wants this, let’s start with all the folks in Davos who flew in on fossil fueled private jets. Then those who took commercial. And then those who drove there in fossil fueled vehicles. And Jojo, who lives in England, and you know damned well she didn’t walk or bike or something.

BTW, Polly Higgins, mention in the article, was the person who originated this wacktard idea of ecocide, as mentioned in my 2010 post.

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Speaker Johnson Not A Fan Of “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” In Exchange For Ukraine Money

By William Teach January 18, 2024 – 7:00 am

I’m seriously hoping he is against it because doing comprehensive immigration reform and giving Biden lots of Ukraine money would be giving Biden two wins

Johnson Digs In Against Border Deal to Unlock Ukraine Aid, Defying Biden

Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday threw cold water on the idea of striking an immigration deal with Democrats that could revive stalled legislation to send aid to Ukraine, hours before a meeting in which President Joe Biden planned to make a renewed push for the plan.

“I don’t think now is the time for comprehensive immigration reform because we know how complicated that is,” Johnson said Wednesday morning before an afternoon meeting at the White House. “You can’t do that quickly. I do think it’s past time to secure the border.”

Johnson said he told Biden on Thursday during a 30-minute phone call that he was dug in on the matter and would deliver the same message face to face later Wednesday. Biden has summoned Johnson and other congressional leaders as well as the top-ranking national security committee lawmakers in Congress, in an urgent bid to break a monthslong logjam over military assistance for Ukraine and the border security policies Republicans have insisted are a requirement for the aid.

“I’m going to tell the president what I’m telling all of you, what we’ve told the American people: border, border, border,” Johnson said. “We have to secure our own border before we talk about doing anything else. And that’s the message I’ve had since Day 1.”

Yes, we do. If you do CIR what ends up happening is that tens of millions of illegals/migrants will be given some sort of legal status, all the way up to free, unearned citizenship for a promise of securing the border and other measures to stop illegal immigration in the future, which never appears. We saw how Reagan was duped on this, and how Democrats and squish Republicans, such as Bush 43, McCain, and Graham, tried to push during the later years of the Bush 43 years. That’s what Bush tried to use his capital for winning in 2004 on, and, yes, I did blast him and other Republicans. Many times

A group of Senate Republicans and Democrats as well as Biden administration officials have made substantial progress in recent weeks toward a compromise that would clamp down on migration at the southwestern border and unlock support for a fresh round of money for Ukraine. But House Republicans have stood against the emerging deal, which has infuriated the party’s hard-right base, arguing that a more severe crackdown is needed.

They’ll never get the border measures and such, and should not be giving any sort of pathway to citizenship for people who came illegally. What should be done is boot all illegals out when caught. No hearings, gone. Cross the border? Sent packing. Asylum needs to end, and any here now need to have their cases adjudicated within a year, and all those who do not qualify are sent packing. No more refugees. Other than the standard, legal pathway to citizenship, no one else should be allowed in. The US has shut down immigration many times to give those legal immigrants time to assimilate. And those who won’t should be booted.

If you reward law breaking you get more law breaking.

Johnson suggested that a border deal, even one that met all the Republicans’ demands, might not be enough to win their support for funding Ukraine’s war effort against Russia. He insisted that the administration provide other guarantees and accountability measures.

“What is the endgame and the strategy in Ukraine? How will we have accountability for the funds?” Johnson asked. “We need to know that Ukraine will not be another Afghanistan.”

What is the endgame? It seems like just a dump for US money and arms. There needs to be reasons to continue providing support. Anyhow, as we see from all the sanctuary cities and states whining about illegals being sent to their areas should prove that it’s time to shut it down as much as possible.

BTW, that headline from the NY Times about “defying Biden”? Is he now a dictator? NY Times needs a refresher course on Constitution 101.

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Climate Scam Today: U.S. Cold Weather Your Fault, Vermont Thinks They’re On To A Great Tax

By William Teach January 17, 2024 – 3:00 pm

I’ve been watching many of the webcams from the Buffalo and Watertown, NY areas (here, here, and here). Watertown just needs to forget the plows for the moment it’s come down so hard. The lake effect snow around Buffalo has been wandering northward since this morning, where they had expected some pretty good snow all day in the areas just to the south of Buffalo. Always interesting to see one cam show clear skies and just down the road is pounding down and the wind is howling.

Anyhow, it’s your fault

US in deep freeze while much of the world is extra toasty? Yet again, it’s climate change

Much of the United States is shivering through brutal cold as most of the rest of the world is feeling unusually warm weather. However strange it sounds, that contradiction fits snugly in explanations of what climate change is doing to Earth, scientists said.

In a map of global temperatures the last several days, big chunks of the world — the Arctic, Asia, parts of Africa, the Middle East and South America — show as dark red, signifying more than a dozen degrees Fahrenheit (7 degrees Celsius) warmer than the late 20th-century average. But the United States stands out like a cold thumb — a deep bluish-purple that is just as out of whack but on the frigid side.

Wind chills in parts of North Dakota reached minus 70 degrees (minus 56 degrees Celsius), while the heat index in Miami was more than 160 degrees warmer at 92 (33 degrees Celsius). The fourth-coldest NFL football game took place in Kansas City, while across the globe the thermometer hit a blistering 92 degrees, 12 degrees (6.8 degrees Celsius) warmer than average on Friday during tennis’ Australian Open in Melbourne. Warm temperature records fell overnight in Aruba, Curacao, parts of Argentina, Oman and Iran.

“When the Arctic is off-the-charts warm (like now), we’re more likely to see frigid cold invade places like Texas that are ill-equipped to deal with it,” said Jennifer Francis, a Woodwell Research Center climate scientist and a pioneer in the theory of Arctic Amplification, which links the cold outbreaks to climate change. “Rapid Arctic warming is one of the clearest symptoms of human-caused climate change, making winter extremes more likely even as the globe warms overall.”

Same old same old. Because you drove a fossil fueled vehicle this is on you. This comes from the same media which scaremongers over rain, big storms, heat, etc, in limited areas as Proof that anthropogenic global warming is doomy. But, then dismiss the opposite weather. Or simply blame it on “carbon pollution.” Because it’s a cult.

Final Reading: Vermont legislators pursue climate change ‘superfund’

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“But let’s be clear,” [Sen. Anne Watson, D-Washington, Vermont] said. “Vulnerable Vermonters, mom and pop businesses, and small cities and towns are not the cause of this damage. That came from climate change.”

So, who should pay?

A slew of state lawmakers — 20 out of 30 senators and 87 out of 150 representatives — are invoking a precept from kindergarten: The person who made the mess should clean it up.

In this case, that’s the fossil fuel industry.

Those 100-plus lawmakers have sponsored two companion bills, H.809 in the House and S.259 in the Senate, that would establish a climate change “superfund.” At Tuesday’s press conference, some of them held signs that said “make big oil pay.” The issue is also a priority for environmental groups in the state, including Vermont Public Interest Group and Vermont Conservation Voters.

The idea here is to hit every company that produced fossil fuels in any form from 2000-2019 with fees, thinking that one of two things won’t happen: the company closes shop, putting Vermonters out of work, taking all the links to other businesses with them. Or, simply passing on the costs to the consumers. All while those 20 Senators and 87 reps continue to travel via fossil fuels.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 17, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is a fast rising sea which will swamp the land, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Dissecting Leftism, with a post on How Moderna Came Up With a Vaccine Against Vaccine Dissent.

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