If All You See…

By William Teach February 15, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a mountain that surely lost its glacier due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Cold Fury, with a post asking if crazy legislation is a joke.

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Weird: NC State Implements Hiring Freeze Due To Federal Money Freeze

By William Teach February 15, 2025 – 10:30 am

Trump and Elon are just so awful!

NC State hiring freeze: Faculty, staff positions on hold amid federal budget uncertainty

North Carolina State University Executive Vice Chancellor Warwick Arden told college deans, vice provosts and senior vice provosts on Friday that he was implementing an immediate “pause on all hiring activities” in response to uncertainty about the federal budget.

“Given the uncertain impacts of the presidential administration’s Executive Orders and guidance, the potential shut down of the federal government on March 14, and financial challenges that the state government is dealing with, leadership is becoming increasingly concerned with our budgets over the next year or two,” Arden wrote in part in a memorandum. (snip)

The Trump administration has issued dozens of executive orders, some of which involve freezing federal grants and loans that go to college campuses. Woodson told WRAL News that his university receives more than 400 federal grants and contracts. The university received $416 million in federal funding in 2023-24.

The freeze only covers NC State, not the rest of the UNC university system. And then there’s

Teachers fear shuttering Department of Education will diminish vital programs

Heather Stambaugh, a high school teacher in rural Ohio, said she sees the impact of federal funding every day in her classrooms.

It opens up opportunities for individual aides to work one-on-one with high-need students, she said, or to lead small group learning sessions that help students achieve “light bulb” moments they may not have otherwise.

“At the end of the day, this is the next generation of doctors and lawyers, business executives,” Stambaugh told ABC News. “But they’re not going to have as many opportunities if we don’t have enough staff and we don’t have the tools.”

Federal funds from the Department of Education support programs, resources and sometimes even staffing to address educational barriers faced by low-income, low-performing, disabled and rural students, among others.

If the department is dismantled, as President Donald Trump and some Republican lawmakers have said they hope to do, public school K-12 educators fear these programs could be diminished.

Here’s the problem in both related cases: schools are way, way, way too dependent on federal money. And guidance and control, of course. That money should be kept closer to home, where it can be watched and audited. Do we know what that taxpayer money is being used for? Does anyone in the federal government check, or, do they say “here’s a bunch of money, have fun”? This is why the size of the federal government workforce needs to be reduced, why their control of far away, unknown schools and everything associated needs to be drastically reduced.

Isn’t 46 Years Of Failure Enough? Time To Kill The Education Dept.

Good article, you’re welcome to read it. And, for Democrats who love the ED, consider that enabling all that federal control means that a president like Donald Trump can come in with a chainsaw, because he has that authority. He can put out Executive Orders restricting federal funding to schools that push the transcrazy agenda. I don’t agree with the gender confused agenda, but, shouldn’t that be up to the individual states? That’s why the Constitution was written in a specific manner.

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Investors Seem To Be Fleeing Climate Scam References

By William Teach February 15, 2025 – 7:00 am

Perhaps some sanity is returning

‘Sustainable’ Investors Flee References to Climate Change

For more than a decade, money manager Garvin Jabusch would show a chart of the planet’s rising temperatures when pitching investment ideas to clients, saying they could help save the planet and still make money. These days, he no longer uses the chart and avoids talking about climate change.

“I’ve given up on anyone ever caring about that,” said Jabusch, investment chief of Green Alpha Investments, which manages about $300 million.

He isn’t the only climate-focused investor downplaying references to global warming and related topics. Parnassus Investments, the biggest US sustainable-investing firm, has removed references on its website that its funds are “fossil-fuel free.”

And Engine No. 1, the small activist firm that led the shakeup of ExxonMobil Corp.’s board in 2021, has removed wording on its web page that corporate performance is “greatly enhanced” by investing in workers, communities and the environment. The fund now says it invests in companies that are “powering innovation and driving the reindustrialization of the United States.”

Shifting messages to match changing markets is nothing new. But after four years of declining prices for green investments, as well as Republican attacks on behalf of Big Oil for allegedly shunning fossil fuels, sustainable investors are shifting their past talking points in increasing numbers. The election of Donald Trump, an avowed enemy on topics that fall under ESG investing who has called global warming a hoax, may have sealed the deal.

It’s just a matter of investors realizing that most of this is mule fritters. They won’t abandon projects that are “green” and/or environmentally responsible, but, so much they’ve been seeing really shows low to no return on investment.

The panicked retreat by investment firms also follows a year when clients pulled a record $20.1 billion from sustainable-investment funds, according to researchers at Morningstar Inc.

People invest mostly to make money themselves. There comes a time when they stop.

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Here We Go: Trump Signs Order Stripping Funds From Schools That Require Wuhan Flu “Vaccine”

By William Teach February 15, 2025 – 6:45 am

Obviously, Democrats are not taking this well

Let’s see

Trump signs executive order stripping funds from schools requiring COVID-19 vaccines

President Trump signed an executive order Friday to defund schools and other education agencies that require COVID-19 vaccines for students and staff.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the head of the Department of Education are directed to create a plan to end these mandates and end federal funding for entities that do not comply.

Plans for the executive action were first reported Friday by Breitbart.

The order helps Trump fulfill his campaign to end the mandates many schools enacted after the COVID-19 vaccines were developed and as cases were ravaging the country under his first presidency.

“I will not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate or a mask mandate,” he said on the campaign trail last year.

Sadly, the Bat Soup Virus vaccine was a big pile of crap. There was great hope that it would work..well, not by Democrats when Trump was president…but, come on, it really didn’t do much better than taking OTC flu medicine. It didn’t do what a vaccine was supposed to do. We all know it. The other vaccines required for going to school? Yeah. They work.

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Surprise: No Oversight On Biden’s $20 Billion Green Slush Fund Sent To CitiBank

By William Teach February 14, 2025 – 3:58 pm

Someone really needs to go to jail for this

EPA head Lee Zeldin reveals no real oversight of shocking $20B that Biden admin funneled through Citibank: ‘Tip of the iceberg’

A $20 billion Biden administration green-energy slush fund was collecting interest at a private bank and is being distributed without proper oversight, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin reveals in an exclusive interview.

President Joe Biden’s EPA parked $20 billion at the financial institution, which The Post has learned is Citibank, as part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. But the awardees weren’t announced until August 2024 and Citibank was not brought in until September — after Biden’s disastrous June debate performance led him to withdraw from his re-election effort in July, making for a very different race with Vice President Kamala Harris the Democratic nominee.

Zeldin’s team is looking into whether former EPA employees are working at any of the grantees, which include the Opportunity Finance Network (receiving $2.29 billion), where vice president Laura Silverman says she brings “economic, financial, and social justice to communities,” and the Native CDFI Network ($400 million), which has featured Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) as a speaker. Power Forward Communities, a $2 billion recipient, has no list of employees on its website — but does have openings for government affairs VP, communications VP and special assistant.

The others: Climate United Fund (which got the biggest grant, nearly $7 billion), Coalition for Green Capital ($5 billion), Inclusiv ($1.87 billion), Justice Climate Fund ($940 million) and Appalachian Community Capital ($500 million).

Here Lee Zeldin tells The Post’s Kelly Jane Torrance why it was “a high priority for me and my great team to get to the bottom of these questions as quickly as possible.”

You can read the rest at the NY Post link above, but, really, this is bad government at it’s worst: taking taxpayer money and just handing it out to outside groups to do with it as they will. No oversight. Full on cronyism. What did they do with the money? No one knows. And, seriously, there is so much malfeasance, possibly criminal behavior, including defrauding the federal government, where to start? Because where does it end? In this case, it might be worthwhile to just follow this to the end, rather than jumping here and there and everywhere the money went from, in this case, the EPA. Make examples out of groups, their employees, and federal employees. Focus on this like investigators on a serial killer.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 14, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Don Surber, with a post on why Democrats hate Pete Hegseth.

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ICE Arrests Venezuelan Gang Member In Raleigh

By William Teach February 14, 2025 – 10:30 am

Guess when he came in?

ICE agents arrest suspected member of violent Venezuelan gang in Raleigh

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement carried out a raid in Raleigh over the weekend they say nabbed a suspected member of violent prison gang from Venezuela.

Ricardo Granadillo-Padilla, 24, was taken into custody on Saturday. Wake County jail records show he was being held on a federal detainer. It’s not clear if he’s still in custody locally or was transferred to an ICE holding facility in Alamance County.

The raid, according to ICE, also involved the U.S. Marshals Service. Aside from Grandadillo-Padilla, officers say the found a handgun, ammunition and 10 other Venezuelan nationals.

WRAL News asked federal and local authorities specifically where the raid took place, and whether any of the other people in the home were taken into custody. So far, those authorities have not answered those questions.

In announcing the arrest, ICE said Granadillo-Padilla is a suspected member of the Tren de Aragua gang but did not provide a mug shot.

They’re spreading around the nation

ICE agents also say Granadillo-Padilla is a suspect in a mass shooting in Chicago.

ICE has not released more details about that mass shooting, but WRAL News found unsolved shootings from February and December of last year.

The arrest warrant obtained by WRAL shows Granadillo-Padilla was wanted on federal charges for illegal entry into the United States when he crossed the border near El Paso, Texas, Oct. 1, 2022. He was paroled and then failed to show up for his immigration appointment scheduled on Sept. 12, 2024.

He came in when the border was over-run with too many illegals, so, a violent gang member was simply let go, and then “reportedly” shot a bunch of people in Sanctuary City Chicago. How many others are out there? The Biden-Harris admin had no interest in arresting gang members.

Meanwhile

Trump’s State Department to Designate Specific Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Groups

The Trump administration is preparing to designate a series of Mexican drug cartels and two from Central and South America as foreign terrorist organizations. The move comes as Mexico continues to experience unprecedented levels of violence, including the widespread use of landmines and improvised explosive devices, despite empty government claims that crime has decreased and impunity has ended.

A document reviewed by Breitbart Texas revealed that the U.S. State Department is expected to designate the Sinaloa Cartel, Cartel Jalisco New Generation, The Gulf Cartel, The Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas (Northeast Cartel), Carteles Unidos, and Familia Michoacana as foreign terrorist organizations on February 19.

The designation would include the Central American gang Mara Salvatrucha and the South American Tren De Aragua.

The move follows an executive order signed on January 20 by U.S. President Donald Trump that calls for designating cartels as terrorist organizations and for their complete eradication.

Will this upset Democrats? They seem to support every illegal, and, really, have a kneejerk reaction to oppose everything Trump does.

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Your Fault: Chocolate Getting Bitter For Valentines

By William Teach February 14, 2025 – 7:15 am

I mean, will all saw this coming for Valentine’s Day from the climate cult, right?

Climate change is turning Valentine’s Day bitter for chocolate lovers

If you’re not a fan of nuts in your sweets, Valentine’s Day could cost you more this year. The chocolates inside many of this holiday’s heart-shaped boxes will likely contain more filler ingredients like nuts and fruits to offset the cost of pure chocolate.

“We used to look at hazelnuts and pistachio as an expensive inclusion,” said Jacques Torres, a chocolatier with high-end shops in New York City. “Today, those nuts allow us to lower the cost of our chocolate bar.”

The price of raw cocoa, chocolate’s key ingredient, has surged by 200% over the past year, according to Adobe Analytics, which tracks online retail prices. On global commodities markets, cocoa futures are down slightly in recent weeks after peaking above $12,000 per ton — a record — just before Christmas. Two years ago, they were less than $2,500.

Weather never used to happen, you know

The Wells Fargo researchers estimate the cocoa supply deficit is now the worst it’s been in 60 years, standing at negative 478,000 metric tons. The crunch is triggering doubts about festivities beyond Valentine’s Day.

Wait, so, this has happened before? And it happened during a downturn in global temperatures, when they were worried about a coming global ice age? Huh. Interesting, The news station known as NBC failed to mention things like

  • Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease (CSSVD)
  • Black Pod Disease
  • Aging Trees
  • Underinvestment in Cocoa Farms
  • Illegal Gold Mining
  • Rising production costs
  • Financial Market Volatility
  • Demand Outstripping Supply

So, lots more going on than Bad Weather.

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Surprise: HHS Wasted $22 Billion On Getting Cars And Homes For Fake Asylum Seekers

By William Teach February 14, 2025 – 7:00 am

I know, I know, the Democrats will say “it’s only $22 billion. Big deal. The budget is over $6 trillion.” Which is a talking point I highly recommend Democrats run with to people who have trouble buying food and stuff

Report: HHS Squandered More than $22 Billion on Migrants for Vehicles, Home Loans, Startups

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reportedly increased grants for migrants from 2020 to 2024, spending more than $22 billion in taxpayer dollars on grants that included money going toward vehicles, home loans, and startup businesses.

The agency’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), handed out $22.6 billion to a host of nonprofits, effectively acting as a “giant magnet” for migrants crossing the U.S. border and claiming asylum, auditors from OpenTheBooks told New York Post.

The amount of noncitizens eligible to obtain funding that derived from ORR under the majority of former President Joe Biden’s administration soared significantly, with more than $10 billion handed out to grant-receiving organizations in just 2023 alone, the outlet noted.

Non-government organizations swindled up to $1.7 billion from U.S. taxpayers for services “including dollar-for-dollar matching savings plans for cars, homes, college educations or startups; small-business loans of up to $15,000; loans to repair credit history of up to $1,500; ‘cultural orientation,’ ’emergency housing support,’ legal assistance, and Medicaid care,” New York Post reported.

But most of the funding went toward unaccompanied migrant children — committing $12.4 billion over five years — despite whistleblowers sounding the alarm and calling out ORR for handing over many of nearly 300,000 children in its care to unvetted and sometimes even abusive sponsors.

And how much of that money disappeared into the pockets of the folks at those NGOs? See, what DOGE and the rest of the Trump admin have been finding out is just the tip of the iceberg. There needs to be an accounting of what happened to that money after it was given to the unaccountable outside organizations. How much made it to the “migrants”, how much went to overhead, how much disappeared? Realistically, the answer to all should have been $0. Will it all be audited?

The watchdog organization also pointed out that Church World Services and the International Rescue Committee were two of the top groups that received funds over the last four years.

Strikingly, since 2020, Church World Services bagged $355 million in grants, while the International Rescue Committee netted $598 million.

Interestingly, Robin Dunn Marcos — a senior HHS official who oversaw ORR program during some of that time — previously worked at both Church World Services and the International Rescue Committee for more than 30 years combined, a revelation that OpenTheBooks said represents a conflict of interest.

I’m shocked!!!!! How about you?

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Obama’s Ivanpah Solar Plant On Way To Closure, A “Financial Boondoggle”

By William Teach February 13, 2025 – 3:00 pm

I’ve always said I’m not against “alternative” (can’t call them green, not with ones like Solyndra) energy methods like solar and wind. They just aren’t ready for primetime yet. Instead of dumping, say, $1.6 billion into an untried solar method, there should have been more research and development

Energy experts blast failed billion-dollar DOE project as ‘financial boondoggle,’ ‘disaster’

A major solar power plant project that was granted over a billion dollars in federal loans is on the road to closure, with energy experts blasting the project as a “boondoggle” that harmed the environment.

In 2011, the US Department of Energy (DOE) under former President Barack Obama issued $1.6 billion in loan guarantees to finance the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, a green energy project that consists of three solar concentrating thermal power plants in California.

The facility was touted by then-Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz as an “example of how America is becoming a world leader in solar energy.”

But after 10 years, the federally funded plant is now on track to close.

“Ivanpah is yet another failed green energy boondoggle, much like Solyndra,” Jason Isaac, CEO of the American Energy Institute, an American energy advocacy group, told Fox News Digital in a statement. “Despite receiving $1.6 billion in federal loan guarantees, it never lived up to its promises, producing less electricity than expected while still relying on natural gas to stay operational.”

“Now, with its power contracts canceled, Ivanpah stands as a testament to the waste and inefficiency of government-subsidized energy schemes,” Isaac said.

Now it will be a monument to cult stupidity, rotting away in the desert

“The Ivanpah plant was a financial boondoggle and environmental disaster,” Julia Dowell of the Sierra Club, an environmental activism group, said of the power plant.

“Along with killing thousands of birds and tortoises, the project’s construction destroyed irreplaceable pristine desert habitat along with numerous rare plant species,” Dowell said. “While the Sierra Club strongly supports innovative clean energy solutions and recognizes the urgent need to transition away from fossil fuels, Ivanpah demonstrated that not all renewable technologies are created equal.”

If even the Warmist Sierra Club is against it, it must be bad. Like, this bad

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