Myorkas Says US Govt Doesn’t Have Authority To Shoot Down Drones Or Something

By William Teach December 14, 2024 – 7:00 am

Really? This is the best they can come up with?

Mayorkas says government doesn’t have authority to shoot down drones

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Friday said the government doesn’t have the authority to shoot down drones and believes reports of some sightings are cases of mistaken identity.

Mayorkas appeared on CNN when he was asked about why the federal government doesn’t take down one of the many drones that have been spotted across multiple states in recent weeks.

“Our authorities are very limited,” Mayorkas told CNN host Wolf Blitzer, citing missions involving unmanned aircraft conducted by various federal agencies. “We have various authorities that are discreet to their particular missions. We can’t just shoot a drone out of the sky.”

Mayorkas said officials believe reported drone sightings are “cases of mistaken identity” where drones are actually small aircraft “where people are misidentifying them,” noting that some can be purchased at “convenience stores.”

Again, they do think you, the American People, are stupid. You can bet if the drones were flying over Biden’s homes in Delaware they would be shot down. We can tell the difference between the flight pattern of an airplane vs a drone, and people can easily see the size difference between drones bought at a convenience store (I’ve never seen one at one, but, people like Mayorkas are Out Of Touch) and what is flying over NJ and other states. Drones of any size unlawfully flying over secured installations can, in fact, be shot down.

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Bummer: Climate (scam) Scientists Are “Demoralized” Over Trump

By William Teach December 13, 2024 – 2:49 pm

I have a simple solution for these so-called scientists, but, we’ll get to that

‘Everyone’s demoralized.’ Trump’s climate threats rattle world’s biggest science meeting

Censorship. Funding cuts. Layoffs.

Those concerns loom over the world’s largest conference of climate scientists as they brace for whiplash at the White House when President-elect Donald Trump takes office in six weeks. Trump has recently said climate change isn’t happening, called it a hoax and joked that rising seas would create more coastal real estate — all in contradiction to the work of the 25,000 researchers attending the American Geophysical Union’s annual meeting in downtown Washington this week.

How many of these “researchers” took fossil fueled trips to D.C.? How many live in the D.C. area because that’s where they work the system for funding? Who yammer at politicians and their aids for funding and legislation to Do Something?

“Everybody at AGU is nervous,” Jill Brandenberger, climate security program manager at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, said in an interview. “The unknown is what makes people nervous.”

Dozens of scientists who spoke with POLITICO and at the conference expressed worry that the second Trump administration could be more antagonistic toward research underpinning federal rules on climate and environmental health. Scientists across the government — from NOAA and NASA to the Energy Department’s network of national laboratories — may soon face political risks that undermine their work, hide their research or leave them unemployed, said people attending the conference.

You know what they can do? Get their own funding from private companies and individuals, rather than feeding at the taxpayer teet. Go live their lives in accordance with their cult beliefs, rather than using shoddy science and computer models to force Everyone Else to comply. Scientologists may be loons, but, they don’t attempt to force everyone to live according to L. Ron Hubbard. Even insane Jim Jones didn’t try and drag other people by government fiat to drink the kool aid.

NASA employees are already concerned about job security following two rounds of mass layoffs at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in February and November of this year. The announcement of Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has raised new concerns among federal scientists.

“Everyone’s demoralized,” the NASA scientist said, adding that Musk’s potential influence at the agency — particularly his dream of sending a crewed exploration team to Mars — might affect NASA’s Earth science programs or compete with climate programs for funding.

There would be no concern if they would do their job, ie, stuff in space, rather than being doomsday cultists pushing a doomsday cult via a taxpayer funded agency. Seriously, do we care if they are demoralized? Let them go and live under the cult rules they want for Other People.

Brandenberger of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory said her message to staff was to “stay calm and carry on.” But she noted that changes are likely. Certain words might be less jeopardized than others. The fate of more than 100 “climate translators” staffed by her office to help Defense Department engineers make sense of future-looking climate data is uncertain.

That’s a new one. I hadn’t heard of a “climate translator” before. The AI thingy on Google says

A “climate translator” is a specialist who bridges the gap between complex climate science and the general public by translating technical jargon into understandable language, ensuring that scientific findings about climate change can be readily accessed and acted upon by diverse audiences, particularly in non-expert communities; essentially, they act as interpreters of climate data to facilitate informed decision-making on climate issues.

Sounds like BS to me, and that every single one of these surely over-paid, made up jobs should be abolished.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 13, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…are lizards which will soon grow monster sized due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is If You are Left you ain’t Right, with a post on the governor of Canada whining about Kamala losing.

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FBI, DHS Attempt To Gaslight On Drones Over NJ

By William Teach December 13, 2024 – 10:30 am

Does the FBI and DHS actually think people will believe their BS? Do they think Americans won’t be all “come on, stop blowing smoke up my bum”?

FBI, Homeland Security cast doubt on N.J. drone reports, echoing White House statements

The FBI and U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Thursday that after trying to corroborate reports of mysterious drones flying at night over New Jersey in recent weeks, “it appears that many of the reported sightings are actually manned aircraft, operating lawfully.”

The statement, released after 5 p.m., came shortly after a White House spokesman told reporters that experts looking into reported drone sightings have been unable to confirm “any” of the reports.

“Upon review of available imagery, it appears that many of the reported sightings are actually manned aircraft that are being operated lawfully,” John Kirby, the Biden administration’s national security spokesman, said at a press briefing.

The FBI had asked the public for reports and video of the supposed drones, receiving more than 3,000 tips. There had been 180 drone sightings reported Tuesday night, according to a briefing of state and local lawmakers Wednesday.

Oh, just regular old planes. Flying weird patterns over NJ and other states. They really do think we’re stupid

Drones reported over 2nd N.J. military facility, Navy says

At least two drones were spotted above another military base in New Jersey during the recent surge in unexplained sightings across the state, Navy officials said.

Naval Weapons Station Earle, a military base in Colts Neck in Monmouth County, has had two reports of drones in its airspace, facility spokesman William Addison said Thursday.

“While no direct threats to the installation have been identified, we can confirm at least two instances of an unidentified drone entering the airspace above Naval Weapons Station Earle,” he said. “The base remains prepared to respond to any potential risks, leveraging robust security measures and advanced detection capabilities.”

If you’re unfamiliar with Earle, go take a look at a map: Earle, a US Navy installation, is mostly not on the ocean. It’s not on a river. It’s a bit inland, except for the small area along the Raritan, but, the main base is around Colts Neck

Because it is a weapons research center. I drove by it many times growing up in Jersey, and security was pretty darned tight. It reportedly has anti-ballistic missile weapons, which were also banned per treaty with Russia, but, would be in a perfect spot to intercept ICBMs aimed at NYC. Private/commercial planes do not just fly over Earle like this, certainly not at low level.

You can actually see two actual airplanes flying, with the flashing lights and linear movement, which are further away and not directly over Earle. Why is the Biden-Harris admin allowing this? At this point, it’s starting to look like a coverup. If they do not know whose they are, shoot the down.

(AP) A U.S. senator has called for mysterious drones spotted flying at night over sensitive areas in New Jersey and other parts of the Mid-Atlantic region to be “shot down, if necessary,” even as it remains unclear who owns the unmanned aircraft.

“We should be doing some very urgent intelligence analysis and take them out of the skies, especially if they’re flying over airports or military bases,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said Thursday, as concerns about the drones spread across Capitol Hill.

Flying over military bases is a threat. Try standing around at the fence to watch what’s going on: the MPs will come over to see what you’re doing, and possibly chase you away. Drones are also now being reported over the NYC area.

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Baltimore Paper Recommends Suing Fossil Fuels Companies To Pay For Climate (scam) Goals

By William Teach December 13, 2024 – 7:00 am

Baltimore couldn’t survive without fossil fuels. All the ships coming in and out of their ports. All the trains. All the truck bringing and taking away the goods. All the vehicles driving through Baltimore. An NFL and MLB team. And then there’s all the tourism in Maryland. All those driving from Maryland into DC and the surrounding area for government jobs. How about all the citizens of Baltimore give up their own use of fossil fuels? Same with Maryland residents?

How can Maryland pay for its climate goals? Maybe by penalizing fossil fuel titans.

Maryland has big plans to zero-out its contributions to climate change over the next two decades, an aggressive timeline that state officials expect will require close to $1 billion of investment annually in the years ahead.

But could the state help cover that cost by charging ExxonMobil, Chevron and dozens of fossil fuel giants for their culpability in climate change? That was the recommendation of Maryland’s climate advisory committee Thursday.

This recommendation represents a sizable step forward in the eyes of climate advocates, as Maryland looks for ways to finance its ambitious climate goals. Under landmark legislation adopted in 2022, the state aims to eliminate 60% of its planet-warming carbon emissions by 2031 and achieve net-zero emissions by 2045.

Neutralizing the state’s greenhouse gas emissions to develop a clean economy won’t come cheap, and Maryland faces a severe budget crunch heading into the upcoming legislative session: State analysts have projected that Maryland will face a shortfall of $2.7 billion for the next budget year, and Gov. Wes Moore will have to close that gap before he introduces his spending plan in January.

That’s why climate advocates argue that forcing polluting companies to pony up cash — instead of making cuts elsewhere or cobbling together the costs by taxing residents — would be such an effective strategy.

So, basically it’s a cash grab, a shakedown. Did any reporter ask the members of the committee if they have switched to EVs themselves? If they have replaced out any natural gas appliances? Have they recommended that all members of the state government stop using fossil fuels? Of course not: cash grab. Sadly, if Maryland tries this the fossil fuels companies will continue selling to the Maryland government.

Coble acknowledged the mechanics of this idea are hard: How does Maryland charge a company in Saudi Arabia for climate change? But she said the vote sends a strong signal heading into next year’s legislative session about the importance of paying for the state’s climate plans.

The citizens voted for the wackjob politicians who put the cultists on the committee: let them pay for it.

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Tom Holman Says Mass Deportations Will Start In SCC

By William Teach December 13, 2024 – 6:45 am

The question is, should they?

Mass Deportations Will Start ‘Right Here In Chicago,’ Trump’s Border Czar Says

President-elect Donald Trump’s hand-picked “border czar” said his mass deportation efforts will “start right here in Chicago” as he threatened local officials to open the city and its county jail to the will of federal immigration agents.

Tom Homan — the former acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — addressed a friendly crowd of local Republicans Monday night at a Christmas party run by the Law & Order PAC at Biagio Events and Catering, 4242 N. Central Ave.

Homan told attendees they’d see an influx of federal immigrant agents after Trump is sworn in, warning he would prosecute Mayor Brandon Johnson if he continued to “harbor and conceal” asylum seekers.

“Do not impede us,” Homan said after taking to the “Trump-Vance 2024”-flanked podium to a DJ remix of “Bad To The Bone.” One person shouted “F— him,” about Johnson, as the crowd erupted in support.

“Because of his actions, we’re going to be arresting a hell of a lot more people than our priorities,” said Homan, telling Johnson and other Democratic officials to “get the hell out of the way.” He added that he’d sue sanctuary cities that don’t cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Many Democrats are starting to realize that Holman and Trump are dead serious about getting fake asylum seekers out, starting with the criminals

Illinois governor says ‘violent’ illegal immigrants should be deported, open to meeting with Trump officials

The Democratic governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, says he agrees with one part of border czar appointee Tom Homan’s historic mass deportation campaign under the incoming Trump administration.

Pritzker was responding to comments made by Homan at the Northwest Side GOP gathering that happened Monday evening,  according to FOX 32 Chicago, where he threatened to deport millions of undocumented immigrants. The move would impact tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants in Chicago and Illinois.

“Violent criminals who are undocumented and convicted of violent crime should be deported,” Pritzker said at an unrelated news conference, the local station reported. “I do not want them in my state, I don’t think they should be in the United States.”

Holman went as far as to say “Your mayor sucks and your governor sucks” of Sanctuary City Chicago, and to say Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson should come to the table to help. Doing mass deportations in a city like SCC will set a tone, and tell the fake asylum seekers, and especially the gang members and criminals, that the Trump admin is 100% serious. And it would let those trying to come and falsely declare asylum, or just cross the border illegally, that they will be booted.

Really, while it will be great to start with Chicago, Holman needs to go to all the small towns who did not want the illegals/migrants and had them foisted on them by Democrats. Towns that do not vote Democrat and do not want them. Clear them out town by town.

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Who’s Up For A “Geopolitical Winter Due To Trump?

By William Teach December 12, 2024 – 4:39 pm

I have to wonder: do the EU citizens agree with all the climate targets scams, knowing that they are the ones will bear the burden?

EU’s climate chief warns of ‘geopolitical winter’

The planet is heating up, but the geopolitical landscape is freezing over, European Union climate chief Wopke Hoekstra warned in an interview with POLITICO.

Donald Trump, a fossil fuel evangelist and climate heretic, is back. Across Europe, far-right, anti-green crusaders are rising. And in Brussels, Hoekstra’s own center-right political family is questioning the EU’s climate ambitions.

“We clearly have entered a geopolitical winter,” Hoekstra said in his office in the European Commission’s Berlaymont headquarters describing “tremendously challenging geopolitical times” that “will get worse before it gets better in the years that we have ahead of us.”

Good grief. “Fossil fuel evangelist and climate heretic”? And then the media, here and in Europe, wonders why the trust in them is so low and why people think they are activists, not journalists. I’ve seen more even handed treatment from climate cult groups. I’m going to have to do some sort of climate related TDS graphic.

Hoekstra is not a new figure to Brussels, having taken over as EU climate chief in 2023. But he was recently reconfirmed for his role at the Commission, the EU’s executive branch, starting a new term on Dec. 1.

For the Dutch commissioner, who oversees international climate negotiations for the EU as part of his job, the next few years are likely to be a bumpy ride as he tries to convince the rest of the world to accelerate efforts to cut planet-warming emissions.

“We’re truly making progress in tackling climate change and implementing measures here, but Europe alone cannot save the day,” he said. “The way the heating of the Earth works is that climate change is indiscriminate. It doesn’t matter where CO2 is being pumped into the air. It affects the whole planet.”

Didn’t he take a fossil fueled flight to Azerbaijan for COP29?

Huh. Anyone think he flew coach?

One stick the EU is about to impose on the world is a carbon border tax, which will charge importers a levy on emissions-intensive goods starting in 2026. The move has drawn fierce criticism from countries such as Brazil, India, China and South Africa, which also sought to discuss the issue at last month’s COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan.

And you know who will pay the price? The peasants in the EU. Have fun.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 12, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is a world turning to desert encroaching on structures, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on Biden giving Iran sanctions relief right after Trump was elected.

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What’s Up With The Drones Over New Jersey?

By William Teach December 12, 2024 – 10:30 am

This story has gone from something tiny to but within days

More than 3K mystery drone sightings reported to FBI

Federal investigators have received more than 3,000 reports of drone sightings since beginning an investigation this month into unexplained objects hovering over New Jersey, a top FBI official said at a Congressional hearing Tuesday.

The reports coming in from the public included sightings of both fixed-wing and rotary drones, Robert Wheeler, the assistant director of the FBI’s Critical Incident Response Group, said during a Homeland Security subcommittee hearing on security threats posed by drones.

Wheeler said investigators are still unclear on “the particular specifics” of the alleged drones.

“We don’t know the people responsible behind that and that’s what we’re working on,” he added.

Then we have

(NJ.com) Between 12 and 30 drones were spotted following a Coast Guard lifeboat off the Jersey Shore Sunday night, a Republican lawmaker said during a Congressional hearing Tuesday on mysterious drone sightings over the last month.

Smith also said an Ocean County Sheriff’s officer saw 50 drones moving over land from the ocean at Island Beach State Park over the weekend.

Interesting. My parents live somewhat near there, and they have a friend who lives even closer. None saw them, but, there plenty of videos of the drones then and during the previous month

Then you have the Experts! chiming in on what they can be

  • Theory: Local drone hobbyists set off a panic.
  • Theory: The drones are tied to defense contractors or the U.S. military.
  • Theory: A startup company is testing new drone technology.

Those are a lot of drones for hobbyists or a startup company. And some of the drones are reported to be huge, small car sized. The US military or defense contractors could make sense, because, no one is intercepting them or shooting them down! No military jets, no military combat helicopters. Nothing. Or, they could be, as some suggest, Chinese or Iranian, and we saw what Biden did when a Chinese spy balloon flew over the entire US, including military bases. Nothing.

Now, imagine if Trump was in office and Democrats ran the House: he would have been impeached for dereliction of duty. They would have done the same after the Chinese spy balloon. Why is the government yapping and holding hearings when they should shoot a couple down to find out WTF they are? They are flying over military bases in NJ, among other sites. You have Naval Weapons Station Earl near the northern coast, but, not actually on the water, which is a big research center, which reportedly has anti-ballistic missile weapons. Shoot one down so we know what they are and whose they are.

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Hotcold Take: Climate Crisis (scam) Makes HIV Inequities Worse For Black Americans

By William Teach December 12, 2024 – 7:15 am

Having watched this issue for decades, and the way lefties think, I can seriously see someone sitting around saying “black people have HIV, let’s drag in climate doom”

Climate Change Is Deepening HIV Inequities for Black Americans

As Hurricane Ida’s fierce winds ripped panels off of rooftops across New Orleans in September 2021, health workers and HIV activists braced for the aftermath. With power cut and roads blocked by debris, prescription refills and patients would be lost and forgotten in the storm’s chaotic wake across the South.

And with record-breaking hurricanes like Helene and Milton leading to hundreds of deaths and missing people earlier this fall across the Southeast, there is increasing fear that people living with HIV are losing the supportive services they need to stay alive because of climate change.

You know how they can stay alive? Do not have risky, unprotected sex with someone who has, or might have, HIV/AIDS, particularly within the gay male community. It’s literally one of the easiest diseases to not get.

Nationwide, half of people with HIV are living in places that are extremely vulnerable to extreme weather and climate disasters, according to a new analysis of federal disaster and health data from the Center for American Progress (CAP), a progressive policy think tank. Of the 48 counties that are most vulnerable to climate disasters and have high rates of HIV, 35 have an above-average share of Black residents.

And there you go, the hyper-Progressive CAP started this with their article. Weirdly, almost every one of these areas is Democratic Party run.

At the same time, a new study by Tulane University in New Orleans found that former racial segregation policies like redlining continue to impact these health outcomes today. Those living in once redlined neighborhoods across New Orleans experience 15% longer delays in accessing HIV-related care. Louisiana, where about 80% of people living with HIV are Black, has the nation’s third-highest rate of new cases.

New Orleans is run by Democrats, is in a low lying area, with some areas below sea level. Perhaps the city should be less concerned with climate (scam) doom and more concerned with why HIV is raging through their black population. The mayor is black, and 4 (maybe 5) of the 7 city council members are black. Why are they not telling their people the truth?

Morris Singletary, the founder of HIV education nonprofit The Pozitive2Positive Initiative, said this shows how the social factors that determine health outcomes, like racism or access to housing, “lead from one harm to another, to another, to another.”

None of that has any bearing on the weather or people having risky, unprotected sex.

With climate change intensifying the frequency and severity of natural disasters for people living with HIV, these events present significant health challenges dependent on several things like economic status and geography.

Weather disasters are not getting worse, and people living with HIV is mostly a self-caused disease. If you climb to the top of your roof on a rickety ladder and fall, that’s on you. The weather has nothing to do with it, nor does raaaaacism.

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