Secret Group Funding Local News Climate (scam) Journalism

By William Teach January 6, 2023 – 7:15 am

In other words, local news outlets are failing in their jobs, simply publishing cult screeds fed to them

Mysterious eco group is funding local climate journalism: ‘Advocacy dressed up as news reporting’

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A little-known environmental organization founded by the heir of a billion-dollar fortune has quietly organized large grants for local news outlets to boost climate change coverage and, sometimes, hire new climate reporters.

The North Carolina-based 1Earth Fund states on its website that it was founded to “fund cost-effective communication projects that can reach audiences across the political divide.” The group markets itself as a counter to “disinformation campaigns” funded by fossil fuel companies.

While little else is publicly shared about 1Earth Fund’s operations, the group adds on its site that it funds “projects like Connected Coastlines,” a nationwide climate reporting initiative in coastal states overseen by the Pulitzer Center. The project’s list of partners includes The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Miami Herald, Seattle Times and Orlando Sentinel. (snip)

One such reporting project is titled “State of Change” and is based in North Carolina. The Pulitzer Center highlights six grantees who are journalists tasked with showcasing “the effects of climate change: sea level rise, ocean acidification, coastal erosion, more powerful storms, global warming, etc., and its impact on communities and individuals.” Their work has largely been published by a local PBS affiliate. (snip)

In addition, 1Earth Fund has partnered with various non-profit organizations to send direct grants to newsrooms located throughout the Southeast. The grants include a $65,000 grant to USA Today affiliate Wilmington News-Star in North Carolina, a $50,000 grant to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) in Georgia and a grant to The News & Observer and The Herald-Sun in North Carolina. Articles published in the Winston-Salem Journal in North Carolina have also been funded by a 1Earth Fund grant.

So, basically, these newsrooms have abandoned their independence and journalistic integrity to publish cult advocacy pieces.

Articles produced with financial support from 1Earth Fund grants or by reporters funded by such grants often promote green energy and warn of dangers posed by global warming.

Examples published over the last 12 months include a News & Observer story with the headline “Sea change: NC is starting to make progress on wind energy, but lags other states” and a Winston-Salem Journal article titled “100% green energy in NC would cut costs, spark job growth, study says.”

That N&O one sounds familiar.

Still, the newspapers that have received financial support from 1Earth Fund have said the group doesn’t influence their editorial judgment. When asked about 1Earth Fund’s ties to the Southwire Company, a spokesperson for the AJC said the outlet maintains “strict editorial independence at all times to protect journalistic integrity.”

BS

“The notion that McClatchy doesn’t consider the agenda of the special interest donors who pay their reporters’ salaries is ridiculous,” Daniel Sr. (chairman of the NC Ag Partnership) said. “We’re entering a startling new frontier when secretive donor networks pay journalists who claim their work is ‘objective.’”

It’s typical shady media stuff.

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Brandon Trots Out New Border Policy To “Curb” Illegal Immigration

By William Teach January 6, 2023 – 7:00 am

There are a few big things missing from this supposed method to reduce illegals flowing to the U.S.

Biden announces new program to curb illegal migration as he prepares for visit to border

Joe Biden Ice Cream AfghanistanIn a rare White House address on the nation’s southern border crisis, President Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled new policy that will accept 30,000 migrants a month from four nations but also will crack down on those who fail to use the plan’s legal pathways.

Speaking in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, the president said the policy will grant humanitarian “parole” to eligible migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. It will work as part of a border strategy that incorporates an expanded use of Title 42 expulsions.

“Do not just show up at the border. Stay where you are and apply legally from there,” Biden said, addressing potential migrants from those nations. “Starting today, if you don’t apply through the legal process you will not be eligible for this new parole program.”

The announcement was made as the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice released details of a plan to impose a new regulation — a version of a Trump-era policy often called the “transit ban.” Under the new rule, migrants would be prohibited from applying for asylum in the United States unless they were first turned away for safe harbor by another country. It would also deem ineligible migrants who don’t go through authorized ports of entry. DHS and DOJ will hear public comment on the proposed regulation before it goes into effect.

All the Usual Suspects in the Credentialed Media are lauding this as a Great Thing, but, what of illegals from all the other countries? And what happens with the ones who do simply show up at the border? Will they be turned away? Or allowed to enter? What of those who enter illegally? Sent packing or allowed to remain in the U.S.? Supposedly, they’ll be sent packing, like Biden did with Venezuelans last year, but, will he?

So, it’s numbers game, meant to hide the real number who entering.

Further, we’re talking about letting in 360,000 more immigrants who probably do not speak English, do not share our values, and will most likely be wards of the state.

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The Meaning Of the Waters Of The US Regulations

By William Teach January 5, 2023 – 3:00 pm

I’ve mentioned the Brandon admin’s EPA trotting out their Big Massive Government Waters of The US rule ahead of a Supreme Court decision a few times, to go with a few times while Brandon was Obama’s VP. Perhaps it’s time for an explanation of how bad this is

Biden backs his administration into a puddle

For a president who supposedly likes building infrastructure, President Joe Biden has a funny way of showing it. In a New Year’s Eve news dump, the Environmental Protection Agency issued new Clean Water Act regulations that will make it more expensive for people to build roads, bridges, and homes.

At issue is the definition of the term “waters of the United States,” which for decades meant interstate waters that were “navigable in fact,” such as a river, canal, or lake. But in a blatant power grab, the EPA expanded that definition to include not only “intrastate lakes, rivers, streams” but also all “mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lakes, or natural ponds.”

If there is a puddle somewhere, Biden wants authority over it. Under his administration’s new definition, if your property has a dirt road that occasionally gets muddy after a hard rain, it was now part of the “waters of the United States.” Under the Clean Water Act, this meant that if you wanted to pave the road, put a building on it, or run a power line over, you would need to get not only state and local permits but also a federal permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Getting a permit to build even adjacent to “waters of the United States” takes an average of 788 days and $271,596 in costs. Almost $2 billion is spent on federal water permits each year by people trying to improve infrastructure and housing stock. No wonder infrastructure and housing are so expensive.

This is a massive, humongous, insane level of federal over-reach, of control of huge swaths of privately owned property.

Instead, Biden issued a new rule last week that restores the permitting process to its pre-Trump absurdity. This means there will be hundreds of days of delay and hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs for virtually every infrastructure project in the country.

Fortunately, the Supreme Court is set to deliver a decision that might overturn the Biden water rule. In 2004, an Idaho couple began to build a house across the street from a lake after obtaining state and local permits. Then EPA officials showed up and threatened them with thousands of dollars in fines per day unless they immediately stopped construction and got a federal Clean Water Act permit as well.

The couple sued, and their case was argued before the Supreme Court last October. A decision is expected this spring.

Hopefully the Supreme Court will do the right thing and smack the federal government around for assuming vast authority to regulate people’s private property.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 5, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is an area turning to desert from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on the J6 committee sealing all important videos and documents for 50 years.

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COVID Forever: New Strains Are Most Transmissible Ever

By William Teach January 5, 2023 – 10:30 am

It never ends

New Covid strain is the most transmissible yet, WHO says

The coronavirus Omicron strain XBB.1.5, which has become the dominant strain in the U.S. in just a matter of weeks, could drive a new wave of cases, a World Health Organization official told reporters Wednesday.

“We are concerned about its growth advantage, in particular in some countries in Europe and the Northeast part of the United States, where XBB.1.5 has rapidly replaced other circulating sub-variants,” said Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s Covid-19 technical lead.

Still, health officials are not sure whether that means more people will go to the hospital or die, because of immunity built up by vaccination and prior infection.

What we know: Public health officials have detected the strain in 29 countries, but it could be circulating in many more, Van Kerkhove said.

In the U.S., the sub-variant went from being present in 4 percent of sequenced cases to 40 percent in just a few weeks, White House Covid-19 Response Coordinator Ashish Jha tweeted Wednesday.

But the WHO doesn’t yet know whether XBB.1.5 is more severe than other circulating sub-variants.

You’d think they’d have some idea about the severity after a few weeks if it’s hitting so many people, right?

What’s next: Jha warned that Americans’ immunity against XBB.1.5 “is probably not great” if a prior infection was before July or if they have not received the bivalent shot that became available in September.

He advised people to get their bivalent booster, to test before attending large gatherings or before meeting with elderly or immunocompromised people and to wear a high-quality mask in crowded indoor spaces.

Yes, yes, get the booster, which doesn’t seem to stop people from getting COVID nor from getting a severe case.

Is it normal for a naturally developing virus to have so many strains/variants in such a short time? That it keeps changing?

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It’s Time For The GOP To Get Serious About ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach January 5, 2023 – 7:00 am

Isn’t it wonderful when people who don’t vote Republican, don’t support Republicans, work uber-hard to oppose Republicans and make sure they lose elections, who stand against everything Republicans stand for (except when it comes to their own personal freedom, free speech, ability to make money, travel in fossil fueled vehicles and planes, and have government leave them alone) want to dictate to Republicans what they should do? In this case, it’s Christy Goldfuss, the chief policy impact officer for the Natural Resources Defense Council, a far, far left scam advocacy group

It’s Time for Republicans To Get Serious About Climate Change

After a year of remarkable achievement in the nation’s urgent work to confront climate change, the landscape of possibility is shifting, with Republicans now holding the House majority.

To a person, the GOP opposed the nation’s strongest-ever climate action last summer, when Congress approved $370 billion, over 10 years, in strategic investment to strengthen the economy and speed the growth of clean energy.

Wasn’t that bill about inflation reduction? And it didn’t do that?

No matter who holds the gavel in the 118th Congress, the climate crisis will not go away. Nor will the opportunity to confront it in ways that create jobs, cut costs for our families, and make our communities, rural and urban, more equitable and resilient.

Congress has an important role to play, as does the executive branch, in making sure critical clean energy incentives shrink the nation’s carbon footprint and deliver on benefits already improving the lives of people in red states and blue.

Why? I don’t see this duty in the Constitution. Tell you what, Christy: let’s agree on green lighting and fast tracking lots of next-gen nuclear power plants. NRDC isn’t opposed in principle, but, in practice, they sure find a lot of reasons to complain about them. Anyhow, blah blah blah to

Congress also has a responsibility to expand opportunity and equity across rural America, by imbedding those goals in this year’s $400 billion farm bill.

That means making the national crop insurance, agricultural research, and related support programs work better for farmers that plant cover crops and take other measures to make their fields more resilient in the face of worsening storms, floods, heat waves, and drought. And it entails efforts to improve soils, help farmers transition to organic practices, and assist rural electric co-ops in replacing coal-fired power with renewable energy from the wind and sun.

Congress will play a key role, as always, in funding major transportation initiatives, bolstered by the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which includes money to build half a million electric vehicle charging stations coast to coast, restore urban communities fragmented by misguided highway siting, and help strengthen public transit.

So, basically, the GOP needs to give in to the Democrat climate apocalypse agenda, and get nothing back in return. Strange how that works.

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Brandon Claims He Will Visit The Border

By William Teach January 5, 2023 – 6:45 am

Of course, he says lots of things, most of which he doesn’t understand, and many which no one who’s listening can understand

Biden says it’s his ‘intention’ to visit US-Mexico border amid historic crisis

President Biden says it’s his “intention” to visit the U.S-Mexico border amid a record high number of border crossings, according to a report.

Biden made the comments Wednesday at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, saying that it’s his “intention” to visit the border during his trip to the North American Leaders’ Summit on Jan. 9-10, which will include meetings with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

The visit would mark Biden’s first trip to the border during his presidency.

People familiar with discussions surrounding the potential visit told the Wall Street Journal that Biden will not be making a policy announcement if he visits the border.

So, it sounds like it will be a “visit” like Influencers visit places: not to actually see it, not to notice it, enjoy it, wonder at it, no, just for a photo and leave, putting it up on the Instagram and moving on to the next thing. Check it off the list.

The potential trip comes amid a record-breaking crisis at the southern border, with 617, 250 total migrant encounters occurring so far in FY 2023 as of Dec. 29, 2022, according to Customs and Border Protection sources, adding that there’s an average of 6,858 encounters per day.

And then ignore the problems at the southern border, and, even making them worse

(Daily Signal) Former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s makeshift border wall is coming down.

Workers with large machines are removing the shipping containers that make up the wall following a Biden administration lawsuit against the state of Arizona and Ducey. The suit argued that the governor’s makeshift barrier along sections of the border was illegal.

The Brandon admin has stated that it will be replaced with something at some point. So, why not just leave it?

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NY Times Pimps Mating With Short People To Stop Climate Doom

By William Teach January 4, 2023 – 3:00 pm

It’s always something with these cultists

Mating with ‘shorter people’ is a ‘step toward a greener planet’ since smaller individuals are ‘inherent conservationists,’ New York Times op-ed claims

A New York Times guest opinion column published on Sunday claimed that mating with “shorter people” is a “step toward a greener planet” since smaller individuals are “inherent conservationists.”

The essay by writer Mara Altman, titled “There Has Never Been a Better Time to Be Short,” argued that people of shorter stature live longer and are “better” for the planet because they use fewer resources.

“The short are also inherent conservationists, which is more crucial than ever in this world of eight billion,” the article stated.

Altman’s essay referenced a study by Thomas Samaras, “the Godfather of Shrink Think,” which found that if Americans were 10% shorter, it would “save 87 million tons of food per year (not to mention trillions of gallons of water, quadrillions of B.T.U.s of energy and millions of tons of trash).”

“Short people don’t just save resources, but as resources become scarcer because of the earth’s growing population and global warming, they may also be best suited for long-term survival (and not just because more of us will be able to jam into spaceships when we are forced off this planet we wrecked),” the essay continued.

According to the piece, single people should prioritize finding shorter partners.

Watching climate cultists is like watching Today’s Hit Artists!!!, ones like Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, Madonna, etc, who continuously had to do wilder and wilder things to top what they did to keep in the public eye, rather than putting out good music. Warmists just have to keep pushing the insane, rather than think in Science.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 4, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon mode of transportation, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on the Times’s Square jihadi screaming Allahu Akbar. But, you know, it’s totally not part of the religion of peace.

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Farmers Are Not Happy With Biden’s Waters Of USA Overreach

By William Teach January 4, 2023 – 10:30 am

Here’s the extreme environuts in the Biden admin continuing the work of the extreme environuts of the Obama admin, not caring how much this will cause problems for regular Americans

Farmers slam Biden over latest eco regulation targeting businesses: ‘Federal overreach’

Organizations representing American farmers slammed a recent Biden administration regulation repeals a Trump-era action regarding how natural water sources in the U.S. are protected.

The groups argued that the rule would increase uncertainty and pose regulatory roadblocks for farmers. On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the rule change, redefining which “waters of the United States” are federally protected under the Clean Water Act.

EPA Administrator Michael Regan said the regulation change “safeguards our nation’s waters, strengthens economic opportunity, and protects people’s health.” But critics of the move said it would lead to increased federal scrutiny of how farmers and other landowners treat water sources on their property such as ravines and creeks, creating additional costs.

This has been contentious since they tried to do this under the Obama admin, as it would make every pond, creek, stream, even temporary ones, a federal regulatory one. And it’s been working its way through the courts ever since, being a vast, massive federal over-reach

“AFBF is extremely disappointed in the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers’ new Waters of the United States Rule,” said Zippy Duvall, the president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. “Farmers and ranchers share the goal of protecting the nation’s waterways, but they deserve rules that don’t require a team of attorneys and consultants to identify ‘navigable waters’ on their land.”

And it will make it harder for farmers to do their jobs and increase the cost of food.

“The EPA’s latest rule on defining ‘waters of the United States’ is a statement of federal overreach that ignores states’ authority to regulate intrastate water quality and the Clean Water Act’s statutory mandate for cooperative federalism,” Ted McKinney, the president of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, said in a statement.

“In turn, although we recognize EPA’s attempt at clarifying through a roster of exemptions, its rule ignores the voices of nearly all in American agriculture who have long been seeking clarity on this issue, especially regarding the debate over what is and is not a navigable water.”

The feds want control of everything, and this rule was put out ahead of a Supreme Court decision on this, so, we’ll have to see what happens.

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