Good: Jewish Students At NYU Sue Over Anti-Semitism

By William Teach November 16, 2023 – 7:00 am

The code of conduct at NYU, like most colleges, is published. It’s easy to find. It’s clear. And if Muslim students were being harassed you can bet the college would crack down

NYU is sued by Jewish students who allege antisemitism on campus

New York University (NYU) was sued on Tuesday by three Jewish students who accused the school of creating a hostile environment in which Jewish students are subjected to pervasive antisemitic hatred, discrimination, harassment and intimidation.

Bella Ingber, Sabrina Maslavi and Saul Tawil said in their complaint filed in Manhattan federal court that NYU has refused to enforce its own policies against bigotry, including by allowing chants such as “gas the Jews” and “Hitler was right.”

The plaintiffs said antisemitism had been a “growing institutional problem” at NYU even before the war between Israel and Hamas began last month, and has since gotten worse.

They also said Jewish students’ complaints are “ignored, slow-walked, or met with gaslighting” by NYU administrators, including new President Linda Mills, who they say falsely dismisses antisemitism on campus as overstated.

By allowing “the same anti-Jewish vitriol the Nazis propagated eighty years ago,” NYU has violated federal civil rights law and breached its duties to provide the education the plaintiffs expected when they enrolled, the complaint said. (snip)

The lawsuit seeks to require NYU to terminate employees, including administrators and professors, and suspend or expel students who engage in such abuse, and pay compensatory and punitive damages.

Jew hatred on college campuses is nothing new, and has only grown over the years. And who runs most colleges? Democratic Party voters. Will Jews, who overwhelmingly vote Democrat, realize they’re voting for people and supporting a party that hates them in general? Sure, there are many who do not, especially older ones like Chuck Schumer, but, there are so, so many who despise them.

Democrats are good with violent, unhinged people as long as they aren’t impacting their own lives.

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US And China To Accelerate ‘Climate Change’ Action Ahead Of San Francisco Meeting Or Something

By William Teach November 15, 2023 – 3:00 pm

Nothing like taking a long, fossil fueled flight across the Pacific on a jumbo jet to discuss Hotcoldwetdry, right? Or, taking a short helicopter flight to an airport, getting on a jumbo jet, flying across the US with a backup jumbo jet protected by fighter jets, right?

China and the US pledge to step up climate efforts ahead of Biden-Xi summit and UN meeting

China Votes BidenChina and the U.S. have pledged to accelerate their efforts to address climate change ahead of a major U.N. meeting on the issue, making a commitment to take steps to reduce emissions of methane and other greenhouse gases besides carbon dioxide.

The joint announcement came on the eve of a summit between Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping that is aimed at stabilizing the rocky U.S.-China relationship.

Cooperation between the world’s two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases is considered vital to the success of the U.N. climate talks opening in two weeks in Dubai. It wasn’t clear earlier this year whether the two governments would cooperate, given a sharp deterioration in ties over other issues including technology, Taiwan and Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Both countries “are aware of the important role they play” and “will work together … to rise up to one of the greatest challenges of our time,” they said in a statement released Wednesday in Beijing and Tuesday evening in Washington.

But, remember, all this is meant for you peasants, not the elites

I do believe that is Xi’s motorcade, but, you know Biden’s is as big if not bigger. And none are EVs.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 15, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is an area flooding from too much carbon pollution bad weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Chicks On The Right, with a post on Nikki Haley killing her campaign by saying people should not be anonymous online.

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FBI Director To Tell Congress There Are Lots Of Investigations Into Hamas Affiliated Individuals

By William Teach November 15, 2023 – 10:30 am

I wonder if the FBI is investigating AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and most members of The Squad?

“Multiple investigations into individuals affiliated” with Hamas, Wray to testify

The head of the FBI will tell Congress Wednesday that federal law enforcement officials have launched “multiple investigations into individuals affiliated” with Hamas since the terrorist group attacked Israel last month, according to excerpts of prepared remarks obtained by CBS News.

FBI Director Christopher Wray is set to testify before the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday, alongside Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Christine Abizaid, director of the National Counterterrorism Center.

“In a year when the terrorism threat was already elevated, the ongoing war in the Middle East has raised the threat of an attack against Americans in the United States to a whole other level. Since Oct. 7th, we’ve seen a rogue’s gallery of foreign terrorist organizations call for attacks against Americans and our allies,” Wray is expected to tell the committee, “Given those calls for action, our most immediate concern is that individuals or small groups will draw twisted inspiration from the events in the Middle East to carry out attacks here at home.”

Since the Hamas attacks on Israel — and Israel’s subsequent strikes against the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip — the FBI director has said the U.S. intelligence community has been most concerned about lone-wolf style assailants, inspired by the terrorist group, targeting Western nations — and this after Hamas, al-Qaeda, and ISIS have issued calls to action.

Perhaps it’s a damned good idea to stop letting in lots of people from Muslim nations, especially 3rd world ones like Somalia, who simply want to continue living their extremist lives and never assimilate. Perhaps it’s a damned good idea to shut down the border as much as possible so they cannot enter illegally. To stop allowing people to show up at the border and demand asylum then hang out in the nation for year after year, attending mosques and groups which teach even more Islamic extremism.

Federal officials like Wray have stressed in recent weeks that there is no specific credible threat against the U.S., and no indication that Hamas yet has the capacity to launch an attack on U.S. soil.

Still, over the last month, the FBI and Justice Department — alongside other federal, state, and local law enforcement partners — have operated with heightened vigilance for any potential threats from inspired lone wolf actors and individuals motivated by antisemitism, Islamophobia or anti-Arab hate.

Earlier this month, a 20-year-old Jordanian national living in Texas was indicted on allegations he illegally obtained firearms and trained with others of a “radical mindset” to “possibly commit an attack.” The man was arrested in Houston on Oct. 19 after investigators said he had been “conducting physical training,” and “trained with weapons to possibly commit an attack,” according to earlier court documents.

He came on a non-immigrant visa back in 2019 and never left, and no one bothered to pick him up and stick him on an outbound plane. The percent of illegal aliens who overstayed their visas used to be 45%. It’s probably less now with all the illegals Biden left in, but, there are millions. How many are from Islamist nations?

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Small Nuclear Power Plants Can Help Solve The Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach November 15, 2023 – 7:15 am

Hey, if calling small Gen5 and Gen6 nuclear power plants a solution for global boiling, I’ll go with it, as long as they get built

U.S. Bets on Small Nuclear Reactors to Help Fix a Huge Climate Problem

Towering over the Savannah River in Georgia, the first nuclear reactors built from scratch in the United States in more than 30 years illustrate the enormous promise of nuclear power — and its most glaring weakness.

The two new reactors at the Vogtle nuclear power plant will join two older units to create enough electricity to power 2 million homes, 24 hours a day, without emitting any of the carbon dioxide that is dangerously heating the planet.

But those colossal reactors cost $35 billion, more than double the original estimates, and arrived seven years behind schedule. That’s why no one else is planning to build large reactors in the United States.

There were lots of reasons they took so long. The Wuhan Flu pandemic, lots and lots of lawsuits from nutters, too much rework, not enough workers with the necessary skill, since new reactors hadn’t been built in a long time.

We shouldn’t be building large ones: we should be building the latest generation ones, which are much smaller, and have been built in places like France

Instead, the great hope for the future of nuclear power is to go small.

Nearly a dozen companies are developing reactors that are a fraction of the size of those at Vogtle, betting that they will be quicker and cheaper to build. As the United States looks to transition away from fossil fuels that have underpinned its economy for 150 years, nuclear power is getting renewed interest, billions of dollars from the Biden administration and support from Republicans.

One reason is that nuclear plants can run at all hours, in any season. To those looking to replace coal and gas with wind and solar energy, nuclear power can provide a vital backstop when the air is calm or the sky is cloudy.

They would be much more efficient, less nuclear waste, and, from an air quality view, not a “carbon pollution” view, they would be much better than coal fired plants, especially as backups to wind and solar. Or, we could stop desecrating vast tracks of land with solar panels and wind turbines.

“The United States is now committed to trying to accelerate the deployment of nuclear energy,” John Kerry, President Joe Biden’s climate envoy, said in September. “It’s what we believe we absolutely need in order to win this battle.”

But the push to expand nuclear power, which today supplies 18% of electricity, faces enormous hurdles.

One of those hurdles is a very slow, slow, slow bureaucracy. Biden may want them, Kerry might want them, even some leading Warmists like Michael “Robust Debate” Mann might want them, but, there are tons of unhinged bureaucrats who despise them, and will slow walk them. Not mentioned in the very long, and well worth the read, NY Times article is that they will face lawsuit after lawsuit from the extreme-enviros, along with pressure from states and lawmakers.

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Tens Of Thousands Of Israel Supporters Rally In D.C. Tuesday

By William Teach November 15, 2023 – 7:00 am

This must have made all the Progressive, Hamas supporting Democrat lawmakers and federal employees very upset

Tens of thousands of supporters of Israel rally in Washington, crying ‘never again’

Supporters of Israel rallied by the tens of thousands on the National Mall under heavy security Tuesday, voicing solidarity in the fight against Hamas and crying “never again.”

The “March for Israel” offered a resounding and bipartisan endorsement of one of America’s closest allies as criticism has intensified over Israel’s offensive in Gaza, set off by the bloody Hamas incursion on Oct. 7.

Overlooking a sea of Israeli and U.S. flags, the top Democrats in Congress — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic leader Hakeem Jefferies — came together on the stage with Republicans Mike Johnson, the House speaker, and Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa. They joined hands as Schumer chanted, “We stand with Israel.”

I heard Schumer was fantastic, and read a bit about his speech. It’s definitely not fair to condemn all elected Democrats, heck, most. It’s a small minority who are unhinged Jew haters

A succession of speakers took the stage to denounce the Hamas attack and what they said was a virulent spread of antisemitism internationally, “an embarrassment to all civilized people and nations,” in the words of Israeli President Isaac Herzog, who addressed the crowd by video from the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

After “the largest massacre since the Holocaust,” he said, “let us call out together, never again.”

“No one will break us,” he vowed. “We will rise again. … There is no greater and just cause than this.”

Ernst said Hamas’ brutality cannot be overstated. “They murder babies,” she said. “They rape women. They abuse the elderly. How anyone in America could sympathize with these terrorists is unfathomable.”

Yet, a goodly chunk of the hard left, especially the younger ones, along with a huge chunk of imports from Muslim nations, not only sympathize, they advocate for the Jews haters, because they hate Israel and Jews.

Did AOC happen to view the intelligence released that shows Hamas tunnels and weapons linked to hospitals in Gaza? Meh, she’ll probably say it’s fake, if she bothered. Of course, Ilhan Omar is doing her thing, calling for a ceasefire, but, only from Israel’s side. No mention of the Hamas terrorists.

And here are at least 500 US officials who need to be terminated for going against official Executive Branch policy and siding with a State Department designated terrorist organization. Especially the State Dept employees. Should be sacked ASAP.

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Washington Post Wonders How Fast You Have To Buy EVs And Heat Pumps To Avoid Climate Doom

By William Teach November 14, 2023 – 3:00 pm

Interestingly, nowhere in this Washington Post piece do the authors, Michael J. Coren and Niko Kommenda, mention themselves making any of these changes, nor that the Washington Post is doing this for their offices (non-paywalled here)

How fast do you have to buy EVs and heat pumps to avoid the worst effects of climate change?

Judging by the surging sales of green technology, U.S. households appear to be on the verge of a low-carbon future. Millions of Americans are buying electric vehicles, heat pumps and induction ranges.

But those numbers belie a starkly different present. Just about 3 percent of Americans, for example, reported owning an induction stove in 2022.

That’s close to the share of the U.S. population that owned a cellphone in the late 1980s, a few years after the first models came out. It took more than two decades for wireless technology to eclipse home landlines.

There are a whole bunch of whys for taking that long, such as cost and coverage, but, the most important thing is that Government wasn’t forcing people to get a mobile phone and get rid of their landline. And, why is this anyone’s business what kind of stove you have? Or car? Or heating/cooling system?

Time is tighter for the climate. To meet net-zero emissions targets, and avoid the worst effects of warming, most households will need to embrace a new suite of low-carbon technologies by 2050, says the electrification nonprofit Rewiring America.

To make it happen, they’re betting on the “S-curve.”

Virtually every major technology over the past two centuries has followed the same swooping S from virtual obscurity to near-ubiquitous adoption. Economists can now predict this basic shape with surprising accuracy, though the exact nature of the curve or slope change varies by product.

And almost none of the major technologies required governmental force to make citizen purchase and use. Your computers, 4K TVs, streaming devices, WiFi, seriously, all this stuff I’m looking at while sitting here typing was not forced by government. Heck, some things just work great. The design of my guitars and fishtank have barely changed in decades, because they’re fine.

How fast Americans reach that point with green technologies is up to early adopters, about 15 to 20 percent of the population. They set the stage for this exponential growth by trying products before others do.

Take the thousands of die-hards who leased the first modern electric car, the EV1, released by General Motors in 1996. It had a 74-mile range at a time when drivers had virtually nowhere to charge except their garage.

They purchased those because they wanted to. Not because they were made to. Right now, the majority getting EVs are getting them because they want to, and typically make between $150k-$300K. Those who aren’t switching might consider in the future, but, it needs to be their choice, not the government’s.

Americans are on track to meet those goals, but reaching higher levels of adoption will require overcoming barriers such as high costs and a limited number of available models.

Which is government force. Mandates. For EVs, heat pumps, home solar panels, stoves, and heat pump water heaters, all mentioned in the screed. The only way they get there is by government regulating away what people can purchase and use. All of which are much more expensive. One way to get people to do this is by making the established devices much more expensive. They changed the standards for AC systems this year, making them thousands more. Or, they just refuse to approve, or say no more natural gas stoves and heating systems and water heaters.

In the early 1980s, AT&T asked consultants from McKinsey to estimate how many wireless customers it might have at the turn of the century, according to a report in the Economist.

Their answer — 900,000 subscribers — turned out to be the number of new customers joining mobile phone services every three days by 2020.

No one made citizens get them. No one mandated that people could not have wireline phones at home or the office. Construction typically has landlines (it’s usually required by government in new construction. Also, landlines tend to be one of the last things that go down during storms. I have a cheapo in the bedroom. I have no service, but, it will work if I call 911). Government did not require people to give up their flip and candybar phones and get a smartphone. Private companies incentivized people to do that. Private companies moved from WAP (wireless access protocol) running at 14.4kbs to 5G. Private companies put up towers to provide coverage.

And these climate cultists are pushing people to do things they mostly aren’t doing themselves, all for an authoritarian scam.

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 14, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…are evil carbon pollution Bad Weather clouds, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Elephants, with a post noting the death toll on Maui keeps changing.

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People’s Republik Of New York Spying On Citizens To Stop “Hate Speech”

By William Teach November 14, 2023 – 10:30 am

It’s rather shocking that the ACLU, especially the ACLU of NY, hasn’t jumped in to protect the citizens of NY from this un-constitutional attempt by government to monitor free speech. And protections are for speech you do not like, because the next person who could be on the hit list for “mean speech” could be you

Hochul Says NY Is Conducting Social Media ‘Surveillance Efforts’ To Monitor ‘Hate Speech’

Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Monday that the state is “very focused” on collecting data from social media platforms as part of an effort to counter online “negativity” and “hate speech” after a rise in antisemitic attacks.

Following a meeting with the state’s Jewish leaders, local law enforcement and federal authorities, Hochul spoke to the media to discuss the state’s efforts to combat hate crimes.

“It’s painful to me as the governor of this great state — that has been known for its diversity, and how we celebrate different cultures, different religions, different viewpoints — it’s painful to see the cruelty with which New Yorkers are treating each other. Everywhere from college campuses, to our streets, to schools, to playgrounds; even as they’re entering their houses of worship,” Hochul said, noting that she “immediately deployed the State Police to protect our synagogues and yeshivas and mosques and any other place that could be susceptible to hate crimes or violence.”

It’s great that she’s protecting Jews from her Democratic party voters, but, calling for death to Jews isn’t, and hasn’t ever been, free speech. Nor is attacking them or places like synagogues

The New York governor went on to detail the state’s plan “to catch incitement to violence” and “direct threats to others” by monitoring social media activity.

“We’re very focused on the data we’re collecting from surveillance efforts – what’s being said on social media platforms. And we have launched an effort to be able to counter some of the negativity and reach out to people when we see hate speech being spoken about on online platforms,” Hochul said, insisting that no New Yorker “should feel they have to hide any indications of what their religious beliefs are.”

Will NY go after all those on social media who are Hamas supporters? Who are Islamists and Islamist supporters calling for the destruction of Israel? That is a very dangerous path when the government starts surveilling citizens online. We’ve seen this happen in England. But, they do not have a 1st Amendment. And you know that the NY government will use this all as an excuse to go after citizens who are against the Democrat government. Article 1 Section 8 of the NY Constitution is pretty darned clear about government interfering with freedom of speech and the press.

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Good News: More Oil, Gas, And Coal Is Coming

By William Teach November 14, 2023 – 7:15 am

This has made the climate cultists at the NY Times very upset

Coming Soon: More Oil, Gas and Coal

electric vehicleIt’s no secret that fossil fuels are still going strong, as we discussed last month. But a new United Nations-backed report paints an alarming picture of how dramatically coal, oil and gas production is expected to grow in the coming years.

If current projections hold, the United States will drill for more oil and gas in 2030 than at any point in its history, our colleague Hiroko Tabuchi reports. So will Russia and Saudi Arabia.

In fact, almost all of the top 20 fossil fuel-producing countries plan to produce more oil, gas and coal in 2030 than they do today. If those projections hold, the world would overshoot the amount of fossil fuels consistent with limiting warming to 2 degrees Celsius — the level scientists say would result in vastly more life-threatening heat waves, drought and coastal flooding.

So, what happens if all that production happens and the Earth doesn’t “overshoot” the magical 2C limit? Who loses their job over the failed prognostication? Oh, who am I kidding, the cultists will simply find a way to deflect say it didn’t happen do to something or other?

Saudi Arabia, as Hiroko reported last year, has an “aggressive long-term strategy to keep the world hooked on oil for decades to come and remain the biggest supplier as rivals slip away.” The country plans to increase production by up to 47 percent by 2050.

Let’s face it, most people want fossil fuels, which are inexpensive, reliable, and dependable, as well as easily obtained. Even the average Warmist is unwilling to give up their own use of fossil fuels. When does the NY Times forgo the supplied power and put solar panels on the roof? Since almost 50% of the energy in the state comes from natural gas.

“COP28 must send a clear signal that the fossil fuel age is out of gas — that its end is inevitable,” Gutteres said. “We need credible commitments to ramp up renewables, phase out fossil fuels, and boost energy efficiency, while ensuring a just, equitable transition.”

Why? Because you and the other Elites say so? You folks aren’t even giving up your own massive use of fossil fuels. Did the UN restrict the use of private jets to COP28?

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