Climate Cultists Throw Soup On Van Gogh Painting, Glue Themselves

By William Teach October 14, 2022 – 2:58 pm

These people truly are nuts. Hey, I wonder how they got to the museum? Fossil fueled travel? Where did their clothes, shoes, smartphones, glue, and soup come from? How did it get to them?

From CBS News

Environmental protesters on Friday threw tomato soup over Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” painting at the National Gallery in central London, videos posted on social media showed.

Just Stop Oil said in a statement that two protesters threw two cans of Heinz Tomato soup over the painting at 11:00 a.m. (6 a.m. Eastern) to demand that the U.K. government halt all new oil and gas projects.

In a tweet, the activist group blamed the current economic turmoil and the climate crisis facing the world on fossil fuels, asking: “Is art worth more than life? More than food?”

Funny how they never destroy something that’s their own, eh?

London’s Metropolitan Police said officers arrested the two protesters for criminal damage and aggravated trespass after they “threw a substance over a painting” at the gallery on London’s Trafalgar Square.

BBC News said the the gallery had confirmed that the painting was covered by glass, so it wasn’t damaged.

Do they truly think this will get people on their side? Move casual Warmists to extremists? Or, will it just drive them away?

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 14, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is an area that appears to have been devastated by Bad Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post Londoners going after climate cult protesters blocking the road.

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Raleigh Police Searching House After Shooting

By William Teach October 14, 2022 – 8:11 am

There are still a bunch of police cars on my road, I guess securing part of the scene? I still haven’t heard an explanation of why my road is so involved, when it happened on a road a couple hundred yards away. Perhaps because of the access point to the Neuse River Greenway? It’s all still a bit confusing. Some reports say the shooting was on Osprey Cove, some say on the greenway between Osprey and Bay Harbor. I can hear and see the news choppers over the area (photo from WRAL story)

After mass shooting, police investigate home in east Raleigh neighborhood

Investigators on Friday were searching a home about 0.5 miles from where a Raleigh police officer and four others were shot and killed Thursday afternoon.

At 6 a.m., investigators were searching a home on Sahalee Way in the Hedingham neighborhood.

The home is close to Osprey Drive, wherefive people, including an off-duty Raleigh police officer, were shot and killed, and two people, including a K-9 officer, were injured.

The investigation appeared to be centered on one particular home, although officers were searching other homes in the area. Police were there throughout the night and into Friday morning.

The garage door to the home was open, and police were walking in and out of the house, which was surrounded by crime scene tape.

If the juvenile lived at that house, someone will most likely identify him. There’s a lot of people that live in the golf community. And, you never know if the parents are charged.

I’m also seeing a lot of this dumb stuff

https://twitter.com/withrowsRus/status/1580881004666888192

No. Every official report seems to have it being a shotgun. Stop using your unhinged politics, especially when you do not know.

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Government Reluctance To Require Life Changes Is Not Helping With Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach October 14, 2022 – 7:15 am

Remember, this is all about science, not government authority

To address climate change, lifestyles must change – but the government’s reluctance to help is holding us back

Without changes to people’s behaviour and lifestyles, it will be impossible for the UK to reach net zero emissions by 2050. But the government is failing to put in place the conditions that would enable this to happen – or even recognise its relevance in cutting emissions and meeting climate targets. Its laissez-faire approach of simply “going with the grain of consumer choice”, according to a recent report, has no chance of bringing about the urgent changes needed.

A House of Lords inquiry assessed the role of public behaviour in meeting climate and environmental goals. The report drew on evidence from leading experts on behavioural science and social change, as well as submissions from a wide range of organisations, including Tesco, Natural England and Cycling UK.

Among the criticisms levelled at the government were accusations that it places too much faith in unproven technologies to fix the climate, and is reluctant to communicate to the public the scale of social change needed to create a low-carbon society. The varying remits of different government departments charged with helping the public change their polluting behaviour were characterised as a “muddle” and “inadequate” to the task. In some instances, government actions have pushed people away from low-carbon choices, like offering a tax cut for domestic flights just before 2021’s UN climate summit in Glasgow.

Perhaps most uncomfortable for a government that has elevated economic growth as its foremost priority, the report stresses the need for absolute reductions in many of the commonplace activities that are driving the climate crisis. This includes people buying less of the things with sizeable environmental impacts, like long-haul flights, beef and products that use a lot of resources, such as fast-fashion clothing and electronics.

And Warmists are doing what in their own lives? Are they buying less? Eating less meat? They’ve been indoctrinated into thinking that this is not their own fault, that their own actions are meaningless, and that the solution is government authoritarianism. That they should be giving up their money, liberty, and freedom to government control. To be honest, it’s a brilliant bit of propaganda to get vast amounts of people to believe this.

People will be more inclined to make changes if they feel policies are applied fairly. The report is blunt in its assessment of what this means, noting that “higher-income households which typically have a larger carbon footprint must take correspondingly larger steps to reduce their emissions”.

Emissions are highly skewed by income: across Europe, the wealthiest 10% of people have footprints of around 20 tonnes of CO? a year, compared with half that for those in the middle-income bracket. And it’s not just the size that matters: people in the top 1% have a carbon footprint from air travel alone that exceeds the total footprint of middle-income citizens. The government’s failure to intervene in what amounts to a rapid depletion of the remaining carbon budget risks deepening social inequalities further, particularly as the effects of climate change become more severe.

Yeah, well, the Elites won’t do a thing. Biden took a long fossil fueled trip, with the planes and limos/SUVs to California yesterday. He’ll travel around there today, then fly to Oregon. How many elite Warmists will be taking fossil fueled flights in private jets to the exotic vacation spot of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, for the upcoming UN IPCC conference? I’ve been saying this is all about empowering government for almost 20 years, and that the people pushing it the hardest are the biggest hypocrites.

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NY Times Worries That Inflation Is Bad News For The White House

By William Teach October 14, 2022 – 6:52 am

If Trump, or any Republican, was in the White House, it would be stated that this is bad news for Trump or the Republican. Apparently, Biden doesn’t really exist. More importantly, this is apparently not that bad for you the American citizens (you can read the piece not paywalled here)

Inflation is unrelenting, bad news for the Fed and White House

Prices continued to climb at a brutally rapid pace in September, with a key inflation index increasing at the fastest rate in 40 years, bad news for the Federal Reserve as it struggles to wrestle the cost of living back under control.

Overall inflation climbed 8.2% over the year through September, according to the latest consumer price index report Thursday, a slight moderation from August but more than what economists had expected.

Even more worrisome, underlying inflation trends are headed in the wrong direction. After stripping out fuel and food — which are volatile and removed to get a better sense of the trajectory — prices climbed 6.6% over the year through September. That was the quickest rate since 1982.

Inflation has been rapid for a year and a half now, and it is proving stubborn even as the Fed mounts its most aggressive campaign in generations to slow the economy and bring price increases under control. Fast inflation has also triggered the highest Social Security cost-of-living adjustment in decades — an 8.7% increase in benefits to retired and disabled Americans, a move that was announced Thursday.

Again, this is what it looks like

Part of the problem is that the generic version of many foods have disappeared. So, the eggs are double at Lidl. Gas? It’s $3.50 here in Raleigh, was just over $2 when Trump left office. Used cars? Not sure where that number came from. Ones you could get for $17k to $18k even through mid-202o are now running around $25K.

Inflation is also a stumbling block for President Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats before the midterm elections. The report Thursday was the final consumer price index release before the Nov. 8 elections, and Republicans wasted little time in excoriating Biden for his handling of the economy. While Americans are keeping up their consumption, many of the nation’s most vulnerable are struggling with rising food, fuel and housing costs — and most people are seeing their paychecks eroded by the cost increases.

See? It’s bad for Joe.

Biden said that the report showed “some progress” in combating the increases, noting that costs have climbed by less over the past three months than they had in the prior three months. But he also acknowledged that inflation remained painfully high.

“We have more work to do,” he said in a statement after the release.

He actually has to do work. For which he really hasn’t done much at all to help. Climbing less from a high point isn’t a big helper.

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Holy Cow, That Active Shooting Was Just A Couple Hundred Yards Away

By William Teach October 13, 2022 – 10:54 pm

I don’t want to give up where I live, but, it’s damned close. Many of the helicopter shots showed my home (I really need to powerwash the parking space)

I heard about it from a coworker who was near my area, was going to hit some golf balls. Said cops were streaming into my area. This was around 530pm. I soon learned it was an active shooter. There’s a greenway that runs along the Neuse River very close to me. I left early, kinda took a back way to get in line. Sat there for a while, they started letting cars in, but, was blocked to my area. Finally turned around and got dinner (BTW, El Tapatio off New Bern is awesome. I’ve surprisingly never been there).

Started heading home around 915, took a while, cut down two “back roads”, as a coworker who lives down the street tried. Got kinda close, had to park up the street and walk down. Slowly. In the middle of the road. Officer allowed me to walk home, finally around 10. Waited outside to talk briefly to an officer, as they were going door to door. Nothing I could tell him. There are 8 police cars on my little section of road, and more around the corner. My heart is pounding. Not sure how they deal with all those flashing lights.

He was apprehended a few miles away, apparently having used the greenway and then going through the woods, then to some roads (possibly, still very woody there), before being captured off of McConnell Oliver Dr.

https://twitter.com/ThePriceReport/status/1580727819445104641

Yeah, that’s the main road that leads to the back part. Just that one road.

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Say, When Will The World End From Climate Doom Or Something?

By William Teach October 13, 2022 – 3:00 pm

No, no, this isn’t took wackadoodle or cultish, right?

When Will the World As We Know It End From Climate Change?

climate cowThe climate crisis is already here. Extreme weather has become more common across the globe, and estimates suggest that current levels of warming may have already crossed the threshold for irreversible change in several of the Earth’s key climate systems.

If nothing is done to curb greenhouse gas emissions, temperatures are likely to rise by 2.1 C to 3.5 C compared with pre-industrial levels by the end of the century. Earth has not been this hot for over 3 million years. These temperatures are not unprecedented, but the difference now is the speed at which global temperatures are rising and the role humans have played in this process.

Normally, Earth’s climate systems exist in equilibrium—if we give them a small push, they return to their natural state. However, after a critical threshold is crossed, these changes become irreversible and self-sustaining, with devastating effects on animals and plants. These thresholds are called tipping points.

Actually, according to NOAA, it was warmer than now 3 million years ago. And mostly warmer on Earth, excluding snowball Earth.

“Once a tipping point is crossed, ‘positive’ (i.e. amplifying) feedback loops become powerful enough to keep driving change in the tipping element until it reaches a totally new state,” David A. McKay, a research consultant at Georesilience Analytics and a researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Center, told Newsweek.

Really, the rest of the article doesn’t match the doomy headline. It’s all about the “tipping points”, which happen. It’s how we saw multiple warm and cool periods during the Holocene. It’s how the last glacial age started and ended.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 13, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is a field that would be perfect for a solar farm, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Greenie Watch, with a post on more COVID hypocrite doctors going maskless after demanding everyone wear one.

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Black Farmers Sue Feds Over Loss Of Promised Debt Relief

By William Teach October 13, 2022 – 10:30 am

Well, Democrats sure made a mess of this with their virtue signaling

‘We’re facing extinction’: Minority farmers sue government over scrapped plan to give $5B in aid

John Boyd Jr., who has been a farmer for over 40 years, said Wednesday that the promises made in the American Rescue Plan Act gave farmers of color hope and finally addressed the racial injustices Black farmers have experienced for decades.

But when President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) into law in August, the legislation repealed Section 1005 of the ARPA, directly affecting farmers of color.

Whoops! Probably should have read the legislation, considered the implications of what it would do, prior to voting on it

In a statement Wednesday, the Department of Agriculture said they were prepared to provide funding to farmers of color under the American Rescue Plan Act, but court challenges to the program prevented the government from providing the payments.

“USDA strongly supported the ARPA Section 1005 program and was ready to make payments to direct-loan borrowers. However, the $5 billion that was intended to help farmers was frozen by three nationwide injunctions that prevented USDA from getting payments out the door. The government vigorously defended this program in the courts but because of these injunctions, the $5 billion provided in ARPA remained frozen. This litigation would likely have not been resolved for years,” Marissa Perry, Department of Agriculture press secretary, told Yahoo News.

Court challenges, eh? I wonder why

In response, midwestern white farmers filed a lawsuit against the federal government, claiming that ARPA was discriminatory because they couldn’t participate in it. The plaintiffs of the suit included farmers from Ohio, Wisconsin, South Dakota and Ohio, according to ABC News.

“Were [the] plaintiffs eligible for the loan forgiveness benefit, they would have the opportunity to make additional investments in their property, expand their farms, purchase equipment and supplies, and otherwise support their families and local communities,” the lawsuit said. “Because [the] plaintiffs are ineligible to even apply for the program solely due to their race, they have been denied the equal protection of the law and therefore suffered harm.”

Yeah, it violated the Constitution. While there may be some racism in modern farming, most is simply perceived, meaning, it’s not happening, it’s just business. The IRA, which does nothing to reduce inflation, now allows any to apply based on social justice perceived discrimination.

While farmers of color have been disadvantaged for decades, the new debt relief does not solely focus on Black, American Indian, Hispanic, Alaskan native, Asian American and Pacific Islander farmers.

“They believed the U.S. government’s promises. They took Congress and the administration at their word, expecting that the government would pay off their debt, as the USDA promised in writing. Instead, it was 40 acres and a mule all over again, 150 years later — broken promises that doomed generations of Black farmers to become sharecroppers and robbed Black families of billions in intergenerational wealth,” Crump said.

In other words, it’s reparations for things that happened a long time ago to other people. Nowhere in this story does it lay out what those racial injustices are, other than the 40 acres and a mule thing from back just after the Civil War.

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Politico Europe Names Putin Number One On It’s Best Green List

By William Teach October 13, 2022 – 7:15 am

Nothing gets in the way of a cult, not even a brutal dictator who’s invaded Ukraine, threatened nuclear war, and is round up dissidents

From the cult screed

It took a war criminal to speed up Europe’s green revolution.

By invading Ukraine and manipulating energy supplies to undermine European support for Kyiv, Russian President Vladimir Putin has achieved something generations of green campaigners could not — clean energy is now a fundamental matter of European security.

The political response from the EU was swift: Within weeks of the February 24 invasion, a plan was sketched out aimed at unhooking the Continent’s energy ties from Moscow. It leaned on three pillars: cutting oil, gas and coal supplies from Russia; getting gas and other fossil fuels from elsewhere; and massively speeding up the roll out of renewable power and energy saving measures.

“Renewables give us the freedom to choose an energy source that is clean, cheap, reliable, and ours,” EU Green Deal chief Frans Timmermans said less than two weeks after Putin’s tanks rolled in.

Seriously, where does one go with this? I’ve seen some seriously wackadoodle stuff from the climate cult, this is definitely up there

The green acceleration doesn’t mean Europeans will avoid a succession of brutally cold and expensive winters. This crisis also means that governments across the bloc have been preoccupied with short-term measures to stave off blackouts, rather than doing their utmost to aid the longer-term energy shift. (snip)

While Ukrainians are the primary victims of the war, Europeans have been hit hard by Putin’s weaponization of energy. But the consequences mean an EU that becomes greener, faster, than before Russian troops marched across the Ukrainian border. That impact will be more than a footnote in the history of the war.

Meh, f*** those Europeans, they can just suffer to get the “green” economy, and Politico will thank Putin for it.

Of course, let’s consider that Warmists are, at their hearts, authoritarians, and want to force Everyone Else to do as they say.

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