Bummer: GOP Looks To Kill Funding For International Energy Agency

By William Teach July 25, 2025 – 7:00 am

Good. The IEA has spent way too much time and money on the climate scam, pushing this, that, and the other. They’ve gone full bore cult

House GOP looks to halt International Energy Agency funding

U.S. funding for the Paris-based International Energy Agency is on the chopping block this budget season.

Lawmakers on the House Appropriations Committee approved legislation Wednesday that calls for canceled funding for the IEA, according to the Republican report attached to the bill.

If approved by both chambers of Congress, the move would mark a stark departure from decades of U.S. funding for an organization that was established in the wake of the 1970s Arab oil embargo but has recently drawn the ire of Republicans.

“The Committee finds that the Agency has abandoned objectivity in the critical energy-supply information it produces and, instead, has pursued politicized information to support climate policy advocacy,” says the report, which is attached to a State Department appropriations bill for fiscal 2026 that also includes an international climate funding prohibition.

“This well-documented shift by the Agency undermines decision-making by policymakers and threatens energy security and the economic interests of the United States,” the report adds.

The rest is buried behind a paywall, but, you get the idea. They do not get a lot of direct money from the US, only about $5.8 million in normal appropriations, but, at least under Biden, but, they also get millions from other US agencies piecemeal. They shouldn’t get a dime.

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Liberals Incensed ICE To Put Ankle Monitors On 180K Fake Asylum Seekers

By William Teach July 25, 2025 – 6:45 am

Can we get that number up to 1.8 million and keep going?

ICE moves to shackle some 180,000 immigrants with GPS ankle monitors

Gotta love the Washington Post headline: “shackled”. Do they say the same when an American, say, a celeb who votes Democrat, gets an ankle monitor?

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has directed personnel to sharply increase the number of immigrants they shackle with GPS-enabled ankle monitors, as the Trump administration widens surveillance of people it is targeting for deportation, according to an internal ICE document reviewed by The Washington Post.

In a June 9 memo, ICE ordered staff to place ankle monitors on all people enrolled in the agency’s Alternatives to Detention program “whenever possible.” About 183,000 adult migrants are enrolled in ATD and had previously consented to some form of tracking or mandatory check-ins while they waited for their immigration cases to be resolved. Currently, just 24,000 of these individuals wear ankle monitors.

One exception would be pregnant women, who would be required to wear wrist-worn tracking devices, Dawnisha M. Helland, an acting assistant director in the management of non-detained immigrants, wrote in the letter. “If the alien is not being arrested at the time of reporting, escalate their supervision level to GPS ankle monitors whenever possible and increase reporting requirements,” Helland wrote.

The new ankle monitor guidance, which has not been previously reported, marks a significant expansion of a 20-year-old surveillance practice steeped in controversy. While tracking devices are cheaper and arguably more humane than detention, immigrants and their advocates have long criticized the government’s use of the bulky black ankle bands, which they say are physically uncomfortable, impose a social stigma and invade the privacy of the people wearing them, many of whom have no criminal record or history of missed court appointments.

“Surveillance.” They’re really trotting out the scary Authoritarian words, eh? We didn’t ask them to come here. If the fake asylum seekers do not like it, they are more than welcome to leave. There are plenty of airplanes and buses leaving the U.S.

“This will be a tool used to extend the reach of the government from just the folks it can manage to put in physical detention to an additional hundreds of thousands more that it can surveil,” said Laura Rivera, a senior staff attorney at Just Futures, a nonprofit group that has done research on ICE tracking technologies. “It’s designed to turn their own communities and homes into digital cages.”

They do not have homes and communities: most are not eligible for asylum. Most are temporary visitors to this country. And the ones that get asylum never seem to assimilate. They don’t want to be American, they just want what America will give them. Anyhow, the bleeding heart garbage continues, till the end

When Paola, the Honduran mother of two, got home from the BI office in June, her 6-year-old son asked her about the black box he noticed strapped around her ankle. She told him it was nothing serious — knowing she couldn’t tell him the truth.

If she loses her asylum case, she knows, the ankle monitor “makes it easier for them to find me and deport me.”

Um, yeah. Because most do not leave even when their asylum claims are denied.

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Europe And Chinese Elites Agree On Climate Crisis (scam) Or Something

By William Teach July 24, 2025 – 3:14 pm

In the meantime, China just built a whole bunch of new coal power plants in China and Africa

Europe and China agree to take action on climate change and nothing else in tense Beijing summit

China and the European Union have issued a joint call to action on climate change during an otherwise tense bilateral summit in Beijing on Thursday riven with major disagreements over trade and the war in Ukraine.

The two economic juggernauts issued a joint statement on climate change, urging more emission cuts and greater use of green technology and affirming their support for the Paris Climate Agreement as well as calling for strong action at the upcoming COP30 climate summit in Brazil.

“In the fluid and turbulent international situation today, it is crucial that all countries, notably the major economies, maintain policy continuity and stability and step up efforts to address climate change,” the joint statement said.

Coal power plant over there

Their climate agreement was a silver lining on a stormy day where European leaders demanded a more balanced relationship with China in talks with President Xi Jinping.

And China continues to dump below market rate solar panels and stuff on the EU market.

Like the U.S., the 27-nation EU bloc runs a massive trade deficit with China — around 300 billion euros ($350 billion) last year. It relies heavily on China for critical minerals and the magnets made from them for cars and appliances. When China curtailed the export of those products in response to Trump’s tariffs, European automakers cried foul.

And as the EU elites force the peasants into EVs (which the Elites do not drive), they are utterly reliant on China. Fools.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 24, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible carbon pollution infused beer, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Doug Ross @ Journal, with a post on Larwyn’s Linx.

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Far Left Appeals Court Rules Against Stopping Birthright Citizenship For Illegals

By William Teach July 24, 2025 – 10:30 am

It’s not much of a surprise

Federal appeals court rules against Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order

President Donald Trump’s executive order (EO) putting an end to birthright citizenship faced another legal setback after a federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled it to be unconstitutional.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco affirmed a lower court’s decision blocking the nationwide enforcement of the EO, which would deny citizenship to babies born to people illegally or temporarily in the U.S.

A three-judge panel ruled against Trump’s plan in a 2-1 vote, keeping a decision first made by U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour in Seattle in place.

“The district court correctly concluded that the Executive Order’s proposed interpretation, denying citizenship to many persons born in the United States, is unconstitutional. We fully agree,” the majority wrote.

Though the Supreme Court has since restricted lower courts from issuing nationwide injunctions, the majority in the 9th Circuit ruled against the EO after discovering the case fell under an exception left open by SCOTUS justices.

In reading the decision, which is at the above link, on page 19 it looks like the panel is trying to rewrite and redefine the meaning of “subject to the jurisdiction thereof”, making it so that everyone in the United States for any reason, be it lawful or not, is subject to the jurisdiction thereof. Which would seem to conclude that Congress has no authority to define it, which would mean that all diplomatic and government personnel from other countries would see their babies born in America be American citizens, the opposite of what federal law states.

Sadly, though, there’s zero chance that Congressional Republicans will be able to get a law through that fully defines who is and isn’t subject. Put it in writing. Democrats would block this in the Senate. I suspect we’re going to see this head to the Supreme Court, and, it will be interesting what they rule. They can’t punt it. There needs to be a definition.

Most countries do not automatically give birthright citizenship to children born of foreign parents. There may be stipulations, they may just say no.

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Bummer: Trump EPA Looking To Kill Of Climate Cult “Endangerment Finding”

By William Teach July 24, 2025 – 7:15 am

The NY Times is incensed by this

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change

The Trump administration has drafted a plan to repeal a fundamental scientific finding that gives the United States government its authority to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions and fight climate change, according to two people familiar with the plan.

The proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule rescinds a 2009 declaration known as the “endangerment finding,” which scientifically established that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane endanger human lives.

That finding is the foundation of the federal government’s only tool to limit the climate pollution from vehicles, power plants and other industries that is dangerously heating the planet.

Sigh. CO2 is not a pollutant.

The E.P.A. proposal, which is expected to be made public within days, also calls for rescinding limits on tailpipe emissions that were designed to encourage automakers to build and sell more electric vehicles. Those regulations, which were based on the endangerment finding, were a fundamental part of the Biden administration’s efforts to move the country away from gasoline-powered vehicles. The transportation sector is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.

The draft proposal could still undergo changes. But if it is approved by the White House and formally released, the public would have an opportunity to weigh in before it is made final, likely later this year.

Well, I hope they dot every i and cross every T, following the specific manner to pass a regulation/rule, so, it gets killed off properly. But, you know some wacko lefty batguano insane judge will still rule that the Trump admin cannot do this, despite Congress having passed no specific law that requires it. And it will end up at the Supreme Court yet again, where the Court will find that the federal district judge is wacko and should be ignored with prejudice. The Clean Air Act was not about CO2, it never specifically mentions it, and CO2 is not a pollutant. The EPA just declared it under Obama in 2009 because they felt like it.

(CLINTEL) Having declared carbon dioxide (CO?) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) to be harmful pollutants, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2009 endangerment finding has been the cornerstone of wrongheaded climate regulation, an impediment to economic growth and destroyer of livelihoods. All the result of rulemaking that puts ideology ahead of science.

Empowered to impose sweeping restrictions on GHG emissions from all manner of human activity, the EPA has been free to impose unreasonable demands on electric generation, transportation, manufacturing and agriculture – just to name more prominent targets. Under the Obama and Biden administrations, with CO2 emissions being the focus, fossil fuels in general and coal in particular were hammered by this regulatory cudgel.

It’s worth reading the rest.

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UK Guardian Shows How Awesome Trump’s Illegal Alien Crackdown Has Been

By William Teach July 24, 2025 – 7:00 am

The very far left UK Guardian thinks this is horrible. That enforcing US federal law is bad

How Trump has supercharged the immigration crackdown – in data

In the six months since Donald Trump took office, the US president has supercharged the country’s immigration enforcement apparatus – pushing immigration officials to arrest a record number of people in June.

A Guardian analysis of arrest and deportation data has revealed that Trump is now overseeing a sweeping mass arrest and incarceration scheme.

By scheme they mean, that’s right, enforcing federal law as passed by duly elected members of Congress and signed into law by duly elected presidents.

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency does not publish daily arrest, detention and deportation data. But a team of lawyers and academics from the Deportation Data Project used a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to obtain a dataset that provides the most detailed picture yet of the US immigration enforcement and detention system under Trump.

A Guardian analysis of the dataset found:

  • In June this year, average daily arrests were up 268% compared with June 2024. (who was president then?)
  • Ice is increasingly targeting any and all unauthorized immigrants, including people who have no criminal records. (that’s their job, and crossing the border/overstaying a visa is a federal violation)
  • Despite Trump’s claims that his administration is seeking out the “worst of the worst”, the majority of people being arrested by Ice now have no criminal convictions. (how many have felony charges pending? They don’t say)
  • Detention facilities have been increasingly overcrowded, and the US system is over capacity by more than 13,500 people. (I the illegals do not like it they can self-deport themselves)
  • The number of deportations, however, has fluctuated as the administration pursues new strategies and policies to swiftly expel people from the US. (Democrats keep fighting to keep murderers, rapists, child abusers, etc. here in the U.S.)
  • The US government has deported more than 8,100 people to countries that are not their home country. (They could have returned to their own homes themselves)

I’m cheering. Are you cheering?

Arrests have especially ramped up in the southern and western states that have eagerly backed Trump’s immigration agenda, volunteering state resources and law enforcement personnel to work with federal officials seeking to detain immigrants.

You notice there is no caterwauling in the news about this? No riots and stuff? Heck, even in Dem NC cities like Raleigh, Charlotte, and Greensboro we don’t get this.

In legal filings following the LA raids, immigrants who were arrested said they were held in federal buildings without adequate access to water, food and medications. Family members and lawyers struggled to locate and contact people in Ice custody.

Which is funny, considering how often this was happening as Biden brought in scores of illegals/migrants/”refugees”, and few cared. If the illegals do not like it now, leave the U.S.

Oh, and then there’s this funny one

Trump’s Attack on Immigrants Is the Tip of the Spear for His Attack on Democracy

The attack on immigration is the tip of the spear for the attack on American democracy.

It’s an attack on all noncitizens (and even, sometimes, citizens), who now live with the very real threat of being snatched from their homes by masked agents of the state and prosecuted by lawyers who refuse to give their names. It’s an attack on rights of free speech and due process – neither of which have ever extended quite as far for noncitizens as they have for citizens, but both of which have historically offered at least some universal protection before this administration sought to dismiss them entirely.

It’s an attack on the U.S. citizens who love and support immigrants. Telling people what their rights are when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) comes to their door is portrayed as a criminal conspiracy to obstruct law enforcement. Protesting near an ICE operation merits arrest. Simply accompanying an immigrant to a court hearing where ICE sought to detain him (possibly so he could be deported without trial), and asking the arresting officers for a judicial warrant, merits arrest. Even asking a question of the Homeland Security secretary merits arrest. The fact that all of these sentences refer to things that have happened to elected government officials is not irrelevant – it sends a message to everyone less powerful that they are not safe either.

Got that? Following federal law is an attack on democracy. These people are batguano insane.

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International Court Of Justice Says Rich Countries Must Do Something About The Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach July 23, 2025 – 4:43 pm

This would be the same court that went after Israel and Jews for defending themselves from terrorists, right? Too bad they didn’t say “all Believers have a duty to make their own lives carbon neutral and stop using fossil fuels, especially you rich and/or powerful folks”

Top UN court says treaties compel wealthy nations to curb global warming

The United Nations’ highest court on Wednesday told wealthy countries they must comply with their international commitments to curb pollution or risk having to pay compensation to nations hard hit by climate change.

In an opinion hailed by small island states and environmental groups as a legal stepping stone to make big polluters accountable, the International Court of Justice said countries must address the “urgent and existential threat” of climate change.

“States must cooperate to achieve concrete emission reduction targets,” Judge Yuji Iwasawa said, adding that failure by countries to comply with the “stringent obligations” placed on them by climate treaties was a breach of international law.

The court said countries were also responsible for the actions of companies under their jurisdiction or control.

Failure to rein in fossil fuel production and subsidies could result in “full reparations to injured states in the form of restitution, compensation and satisfaction provided that the general conditions of the law of state responsibility are met.”

Of course, this ruling is, like most, non-binding. Has no force of law. Just yappers yapping.

“I didn’t expect it to be this good,” Vanuatu’s Climate Minister Ralph Regenvanu told reporters after the unanimous opinion by the ICJ, also known as the World Court, was read out.

Vishal Prasad, one of the law students that lobbied the government of Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean to bring the case to the ICJ, said: “This advisory opinion is a tool for climate justice. And boy, has the ICJ given us a strong tool to carry on the fight for climate justice.”

Remember, I just blogged this morning about Vanuatu having their day in court for the ICJ’s response, and boy howdy did the Progressives on the court give it to them.

Judge Iwasawa, who presided the panel of 15 judges, said that national climate plans must be of the highest ambition and collectively maintain standards to meet the aims of the 2015 Paris Agreement that include attempting to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit).

Under international law, he said: “The human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is essential for the enjoyment of other human rights.”

If that’s the case then why, to repeat myself the gajillionth (a gajillion is slightly more than a shitload) time, do so few Believers change their lives in accordance with their beliefs? The ICJ members will refrain from using fossil fuels, right?

The court’s opinion is non-binding, but it carries legal and political weight and future climate cases would be unable to ignore it, legal experts say.

“This is the start of a new era of climate accountability at a global level,” said Danilo Garrido, legal counsel for Greenpeace.

Gotta love that a bunch of unelected, unaccountable judges can now make almost-law for the world. But, if they think the US is going to listen, then can pound sand. And, if 1st World countries try to go to far they might have a bigger revolt than they have now.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 23, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a hazy day due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on Biden’s EPA doling out billions to friends .

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Dems Find Their TDS Mojo On Epstein Or Something

By William Teach July 23, 2025 – 10:30 am

Aren’t these the same people that resisted releasing anything on Epstein during the Biden years, who could have released it all while they had control of the White House and Congress?

House Dems Find Their Mojo With the Epstein Saga

When it comes to fighting President Donald Trump, Democrats across the nation have complained for months about the sluggish reflexes of party leaders in Washington.

Who would have guessed that a MAGA-fueled conspiracy theory would change all that?

Congressional Democrats appear to have finally found their mojo in sticking it to the White House by seizing on the Jeffrey Epstein saga to humiliate the president and split the GOP. Unlike in the past, senior Democrats have shown a surprisingly nimble ability in recent days to pivot to the GOP’s vulnerability du jour, threatening to force votes exposing a divided Republican Party.

The strategy has effectively hijacked the House, derailed Hill Republicans’ agenda and forced Speaker Mike Johnson to send lawmakers packing for an early August recess. That’s not to mention embarrassing Trump in the process and exposing the surprising limits of his sway on a party he’s held in his clutches for the better part of a decade.

“We’ve been trying to say Trump is full of shit for years and it hasn’t really stuck, right? But something about this topic is making a healthy portion of MAGA world — particularly folks who are not ideologically aligned with Trump but kind of flirted with him last year when they pulled the lever for him — be like, ‘Yea, he’s definitely full of shit,’” a senior Democratic campaign aide boasted to me. (This aide and others in the story were granted anonymity to speak candidly about dynamics on the Hill.)

Democrats will say they couldn’t release the docs till after Ghislain Maxwell’s trial, but, come on, they’ve never had a problem leaking stuff before. But, did Democrats ever consider that Trump and Republicans are playing them in an attempt to get all the docs released? That they do not include anything that will harm Trump? That Trump and the GOP did this to get Democrats to back releasing them?

Did they ever consider that Trump cannot serve more than one term, that they might be going a bit too moonbat?

Behind the scenes, there’s a question even among senior Democrats about whether this issue will impact the midterms. Americans, after all, are more likely to be motivated by their own pocketbooks rather than online obsessions and scandal. And Trump is doing his damndest to argue that this is exactly that: a very-online, inside-the-beltway obsession that nobody actually cares about.

Really, do most Americans care? Do they even know what this is about? I couldn’t care less. I know many MAGAs care, but, most don’t. How about releasing all the info on the Trump attempted assassinations? All the docs on Russia Russia Russia. Show how much money went to waste and fraud for agencies like USAID, and how the taxpayer money was fed into Democrat re-election coffers instead of helping the poor like it was supposed to. Those are things that matter.

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