Israel Strikes Beirut, Kills Hezbollah Commander

By William Teach July 31, 2024 – 6:45 am

The question now, is the is the second f in FAFO going to be a lower case, or full on bold capitalized

IDF strikes Beirut: Hezbollah commander responsible for Majdal Shams strike confirmed killed

Israeli Air Force fighter jets killed Hezbollah’s most senior military commander and the head of its Strategic Unit, Fuad Shukr “Sayyid Muhsan,” in the area of Beirut Tuesday afternoon.

Shukr is a Hezbollah commander who was responsible for the strike on Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights a few days earlier, which killed 12 Israeli Druze youth.

The Hezbollah official had a $5 million bounty “on his head,” according to the United States Rewards for Justice.

Shukr was Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s military adviser and has been active in the terrorist organization for 30 years, where he was the head of the terrorist group’s operations room, three senior security sources told Reuters. Shukar also goes by the names “Hajj Mohsen” and “Muhsin Shukr.”

Fuad was responsible for the majority of Hezbollah’s most advanced weaponry, including precise-guided missiles, cruise missiles, anti-ship missiles, long-range rockets, and UAVs, the IDF reported. He was responsible for building Hezbollah forces and planning and executing terror attacks against the State of Israel.

Him being sent to see if he actually does get 72 virgins is a huge loss for Hezbollah, and not easily replaced. Good!

IDF Spokesperson R.-Adm. Daniel Hagari said in a statement following the announcement of the death of Fuad Shukr, “Hezbollah’s ongoing aggression and brutal attacks are dragging the people of Lebanon and the entire Middle East into a wider escalation. While we prefer to resolve hostilities without a wider war, the IDF is fully prepared for any scenario. We have a duty to ensure the safe and secure return of Israelis to their homes in northern Israel, and we will continue to act to defend all people of Israel.”

Commenting on the Beirut strike, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant wrote on X, formerly Twitter, stating that “Hezbollah crossed the red line.”

Upon confirmation of the death of Shukr, Gallant wrote on X, “Fuad Shukr ‘Sayyid’ Muhsan has the blood of many Israelis on his hands. Tonight, we have shown that the blood of our people has a price, and that there is no place out of reach for our forces to this end.”

Will Israel lay down more smackdown in the next few days, or, will they give Hezbollah a chance to stand down?

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We Haven’t Seen How Bad Bad Weather Will Get Yet Or Something

By William Teach July 30, 2024 – 3:50 pm

As usual, I have to ask: if things were this bad you would think that all the Warmists would be changing their lifestyles to match their beliefs, right?

The climate is changing so fast that we haven’t seen how bad extreme weather could get

Extreme weather is by definition rare on our planet. Ferocious storms, searing heatwaves and biting cold snaps illustrate what the climate is capable of at its worst. However, since Earth’s climate is rapidly warming, predominantly due to fossil fuel burning, the range of possible weather conditions, including extremes, is changing.

Scientists define “climate” as the distribution of possible weather events observed over a length of time, such as the range of temperatures, rainfall totals or hours of sunshine. From this they construct statistical measures, such as the average (or normal) temperature. Weather varies on several timescales – from seconds to decades – so the longer the period over which the climate is analysed, the more accurately these analyses capture the infinite range of possible configurations of the atmosphere.

Typically, meteorologists and climate scientists use a 30-year period to represent the climate, which is updated every ten years. The most recent climate period is 1991-2020. The difference between each successive 30-year climate period serves as a very literal record of climate change.

This way of thinking about the climate falls short when the climate itself is rapidly changing. Global average temperatures have increased at around 0.2°C per decade over the past 30 years, meaning that the global climate of 1991 was around 0.6°C cooler than that in 2020 (when accounting for other year-to-year fluctuations), and even more so than the present day.

Yet, how many Warmists have given up their own use of fossil fuels? There really is no such thing as extreme weather, it’s just weather. Does the climate cult have any hard data on what it looked like during the previous Holocene warm periods?

Second, the rapidly changing climate means we have not necessarily experienced the extremes that modern-day atmospheric and oceanic warmth can produce. In a stable climate, scientists would have multiple decades for the atmosphere to get into its various configurations and drive extreme events, such as heatwaves, floods or droughts. We could then use these observations to build up an understanding of what the climate is capable of. But in our rapidly changing climate, we effectively have only a few years – not enough to experience everything the climate has to offer.

Define stable environment. Except, storms are not getting more extreme nor more numerous: they are just being noticed more due to satellites, storm chasers, and more humans living in affected zones than previously.

Despite a record-warm planet, summer 2024 in the UK has been relatively cool so far. The past two years have seen global temperatures far above anything previously observed, and so potential extremes have probably shifted even further from what we have so far experienced.

Just as was the case in August 2022, we’ve got away with it for now – but we might not be so lucky next time.

Does this look like journalism or something a cult would produce?

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Chicago Creates New Court For Democrat Convention Protesters As Activists Call For “Restraint”

By William Teach July 30, 2024 – 10:30 am

It’s almost like the Democrats who run Chicago are expecting violence and law breaking

Chicago creates new court to handle the expected mass arrests during Democratic National Convention

Chicago courts and police are preparing for potential mass arrests outside the Democratic National Convention in a city where violent images of officers beating demonstrators at the turbulent 1968 event have loomed ahead of this year’s conference.

Court officials have announced that a defunct courtroom at a Chicago police station will temporarily reopen to process and release dozens of people, if necessary.

Chicago police — which paid out millions of taxpayer dollars to defend and settle lawsuits related to misconduct during 2020 protests — also vowed to respect demonstrators’ civil rights and have prepared for unrest with live drills featuring actors playing screaming protesters.

In other words, the police are going to be held back from actually dealing with troublemakers, and, really, most of them are going to be barely engaged, not wanting politicians and the media from excoriating them for doing the job of stopping criminals.

But civil rights groups and the city’s police watchdog have raised “serious concerns” about “mass arrest” policies and law enforcement’s capacity to responsibly handle potentially thousands of people marching in the streets and near the United Center, where the convention will be held.

Dozens of groups are planning to protest Democratic support for Israel’s war in Gaza during the convention.

It sure looks like these groups know what the “protesters” are going to do, and want the police to just stay out of it. Will the Chicago PD be allowed to arrest the pro-Hamas demonstrators when they start defacing property? Break things? Make physical threats? Will the Credentialed Media show all the Palestinian and Hamas flags being flown in the streets of Chicago?

“Police should be looking to de-escalate engagements with protestors, and must not use interactions as a pretext for mass arrests, violence, or retaliation,” Edwin C. Yohnka, director of communications and public policy at the ACLU of Illinois, said last week in response to plans for a security perimeter at the event.

Why is it on the police in this situation? If it’s a peaceful protest there’s no need for the cops to get involved. If they don’t want to be arrested do not break the law. If you can’t do the time don’t do the crime.

“Simply engaging in First Amendment activity, including peaceful activity that may cause inconvenience to others, is never a reason for arrest. Arrests should not be a tool for suppressing free expression,” he added.

It’s illegal to vandalize buildings and other property. It’s illegal to lock people in their buildings, and to harass them when they are coming out of buildings. Do not block their cars, do not beat on their cars. Do not block roads illegally. Do not interfere and attack police officers who are doing their jobs. If the demonstrators do not want to be arrested do not break the law.

Cook County judges have worked to clear their civil and criminal court calendars, and Chicago jurors won’t be summoned that week for one of the busiest courthouses in Illinois.

In other words, the powers that be know there will be lots and lots of lawbreakers, the majority of which will be Democrat voters. What are the optics at the DNC of streets full of people flying Palestinian flags, wearing Intifada keffiyahs, and many wearing Muslim garb railing about Israel and the United States? But, then, the Democratic Party is chock full of Jew and America haters and supporters of Muslim terrorism, and the politicians and such are courting their vote.

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Oh Noes: A Slight Increase In Global Temperature Is Making Parts Of The Earth Unlivable

By William Teach July 30, 2024 – 7:15 am

The Earth has seen a whopping 1.6F increase in global temperatures since 1850, and it is all your fault

Heat is testing the limits of human survivability. Here’s how it kills

(story of someone running in the heat and dying)

The tragedy is sadly far from unique; extreme heat is turning ordinary activities deadly.

People have died taking a stroll in the midday sun, on a family hike in a national park, at an outdoor Taylor Swift concert, and even sweltering in their homes without air conditioning. During this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in June, around 1,300 people perished as temperatures pushed above 120 degrees Fahrenheit in Mecca.

Heat is the deadliest type of extreme weather, and the human-caused climate crisis is making heat waves more severe and prolonged. Add humidity into the mix, and conditions in some places are approaching the limits of human survivability — the point at which our bodies simply cannot adapt.

No, cold is the deadliest

Globally, cold deaths are 9 times higher than heat-related ones. In no region is this ratio less than 3, and in many, it’s over 10 times higher. Cold is more deadly than heat, even in the hottest parts of the world.

Anyhow, back to the CNN piece, which is more of a press release from the climate cult than any sort of news article

“We’ve essentially weaponized summer,” said Matthew Huber, a climate professor at Purdue University.

Our bodies can get used to the heat to some extent, but it takes time, and even then, sometimes heat is simply too extreme to adapt to. (snip)

Purdue University’s Huber and a team of scientists projected that billions of people will be exposed to this dangerous threshold as global warming accelerates. With every half a degree the world heats up, scorching, sticky heat “just expands outward in these hot, deadly blobs,” Huber said.

Except, it’s not accelerating, and it really is nothing unusual for a Holocene warm period. Of course, in previous ones the few wackos just blamed Bad Weather on witchcraft and the gods.

Heat already kills an estimated 489,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, but the real toll could be higher because heat-related deaths are so hard to track.

The real toll could be way less. They can’t give you actual numbers, they just say a death is related, much like someone who died from a motorcycle crash but tested positive for COVID, so, they say it was COVID.

Instead, heat is a creeping threat, a steady hum in the background. Its worst damage is not to property but to our bodies, Venkat said. And it is an “invisible, silent killer.”

Cult.

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Israel Says Attack Against Hezbollah Will Be Severe But Targeted

By William Teach July 30, 2024 – 7:00 am

Perhaps if Lebanon would crack down on the terrorists in their nation none of this would be necessary. Perhaps if 1st World nations, especially the U.S., would promise severe consequences against Hezbollah if they continue their terrorism none of this would be necessary. Perhaps if so many in the “religion of peace” weren’t terrorists none of this would be necessary. Perhaps if the Koran didn’t say to spread Islam by the point of a sword none of this would be necessary

As diplomats scramble, Israel says response to Hezbollah to be ‘harsh’ but contained

With the region on edge ahead of an expected Israeli retaliation against Hezbollah for a deadly rocket strike on Saturday, Western diplomats urged de-escalation, while Israeli officials suggested that the response would be serious but not lead to an all-out conflagration.

Israeli officials speaking to Reuters said Israel wants to hurt Hezbollah, but not drag the Middle East into regional war, while other Israeli officials told the wire service that the IDF is preparing for the possibility of a few days of fighting with the Iran-backed Lebanese terror group.

In the Hezbollah strike on the Druze town of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on Saturday afternoon, 12 children were killed while playing on a soccer field when they were hit by what Israel said was an Iranian-made Falaq-1 rocket with a warhead of over 50kg of explosives.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Majdal Shams on Monday, saying that “these children are our children; they are all the children of all of us.”

Netanyahu said that “Israel will not and cannot let this simply pass on by. Our response will come, and it will be harsh.”

It’s all really easy: stop attacking Israel, especially civilian targets, because there comes a time when Israel has had enough and will respond with devastating force, as we witnessed with Gaza. Of course, the terrorists, as backed by Iran, want Israel to attack, because there are plenty of 1st World wackos who are anti-Semites and will take the side of the terrorist groups

Iran warns of serious consequences for any Israeli hit on Lebanon

Any possible Israeli attack on Lebanon will have serious consequences for Israel, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in a phone call with French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, Iran’s state media reported on Monday.

Israeli authorities blamed Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah for a rocket attack that hit a football ground in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Saturday, killing 12 children and teenagers, and vowed to inflict a heavy response. Hezbollah denied any responsibility for the strike.

“Any possible Israeli attack on Lebanon will have serious consequences for Israel,” Pezeshkian was quoted by Iranian state media as saying.

“We are willing to improve our relations with France on the basis of mutual trust,” Pezeshkian added in his conversation with Macron.

And what did Macron tell Pezeshkian? We know he told Netanyahu to not escalate. Macron should have been telling Iran that France has Israel’s back, and any moves by Iran would result in serious consequences against Iran. Force is what Iran understands, not squishy talk.

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UK Guardian Super Bummed Supreme Court Decisions Stop Government From Being Dictatorial For Bird Flu

By William Teach July 29, 2024 – 3:10 pm

One would have though a UK based news outlet would have seen the complete Fascism of the UK government’s response to COVID, but, since the Guardian leans way left, maybe not

US supreme court rulings will affect response to threats like bird flu – experts

Four recent decisions from the US supreme court have unleashed the greatest changes to the American regulatory state in decades and will probably affect responses to emerging threats like the bird flu outbreak currently spreading in the country, experts say.

The decisions will have ripple effects for enforcing and creating regulations, including complicated technical and scientific rules, and they could open up agencies to increased legal challenges.

The rulings may create a “chilling” effect for regulations beyond the scope of the individual decisions, said Josh Michaud, an associate director for global health policy at KFF, a nonpartisan health policy organization.

These rules seem likely to affect the safety and effectiveness of vaccines and drugs, improvements for clean water and air, reduced carbon emissions, consumer safety, and the control of infectious diseases, Gostin said.

And they should have a chilling effect: the Executive Branch, from the White House down, can no longer create rules beyond the scope of what the Legislative Branch specifically tasked them to do. They can no longer simply come up with so many of the things we saw during COVID, like dictating masks, which really do not work, and 6 feet spreads. They need Congress to authorize it. Just as the Constitution intended. Nor can the Legislative Branch give their power to the Executive to make what rules they want. It’s like a non-transferable warranty: you cannot transfer it. Period.

The news comes as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports three more cases of bird flu in Colorado poultry workers, bringing the tally to 13 people who have tested positive for H5N1, a highly pathogenic avian influenza, this year after close contact with animals.

“Bird flu is complicated because even at the best of times, our regulatory framework for dealing with it is chaotic and has many gaps, because it involves multiple agencies that have overlapping and sometimes inconsistent orders and regulations,” Gostin said.

OMG, we’re dooommmmeeeeddddd…wait, 13? Out of almost 336 million, plus all those millions of illegals? 13? The Guardian is getting worked up over that? Were any federal agencies thinking of going Fascist over this?

In the Loper Bright decision, the supreme court overturned something known as Chevron deference, where judges prioritize federal agencies’ interpretations of ambiguous language in federal laws – opening up uncertainty in agencies’ ability to make or enforce rules not explicitly enshrined in law.

So, Britain, we have a Constitution, and the Executive Branch cannot act like potentates. And the States and We The People retain all power not expressly delegated to the Congress.

“The supreme court is asking Congress to say very, very specifically what it wants to regulate,” Gostin said. In the past, Congress has delegated regulatory capacity to agencies because they tend to have greater scientific and technical expertise – and because dysfunction among lawmakers could bog down the advancement of thousands of regulations needed to keep Americans safe, Gostin said.

Another reason agencies have taken the lead, he said, is because “it’s impossible for Congress to foresee all of the evolving health threats that people face”.

Tough. Congress critters get paid to do the job, and they ran for the job. Stop wasting time on stupid stuff, and do the job.

On Thursday, the UK Health Security Agency slightly elevated its risk assessment of bird flu for people, raising their level of risk from 3 to 4 – a change from “limited” to “sustained” transmission among mammals, including limited spread in people.

The number of people in the UK who have gotten bird flu in 2024 is so low that there really is almost no news on it. And most people are highly skeptical now after COVID over-reaction.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 29, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…are Evil fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on the Monday morning stimulus.

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US And France Attempt To Keep Israel From Obliterating Hezbollah

By William Teach July 29, 2024 – 10:30 am

Using restraint and calling for it is what entices terrorist groups to attack

US, France scramble to stop Hezbollah attack sparking larger Lebanon war

The United States and France scrambled on Sunday to prevent the sparking of a third Lebanon war after the Hezbollah attack that killed 12 Druze children in the Golan Heights village of Majdal Shams on Saturday. Israel stood poised to respond militarily.

“We have been in continuous discussions with Israeli and Lebanese counterparts since the horrific attack yesterday,” US National Security Council spokesperson Adriane Watson stated.

The United States “is working on a diplomatic solution along the Blue Line that will end all attacks once and for all and allow citizens on both sides of the border to return safely to their homes.” (the Blue Line is essentially the border between Israel and Lebanon and the Golan Heights, made up of blue barrels, and which Hezbollah keeps violating)

French President Emmanuel Macron spoke with both Prime Ministers, Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Najib Makati of Lebanon.

Where’s Biden? Oh, right, weekend. I have yet to find an article which shows him engaged on this issue.

Diplomats have urged Israel to constrain its response to avert an all-out war between the two countries. Macron told Netanyahu that France was “fully committed to doing everything possible to avoid a new escalation in the region by sending messages to all parties to the conflict,” the Elyse said.

“He also reiterated the need to reach a diplomatic solution to the issue of the Blue Line, based on [United Nations Security Council] Resolution 1701 and his determination to contribute to it.”

Any war won’t be between Israel and Lebanon: it will be Israel annihilating Hezbollah, which Lebanon has wanted gone for a long time, as they create lots of problems, including damage to Lebanon’s economy. Anyway, if France was being attacked by a group designated a terrorist organization (France has that designation for Hezbollah) constantly, and the group was intentionally attacking civilians, what would Macron be saying? Would he be calling for restraint, or saying that France would destroy them? Calling for restraint against an Islamist terrorist group simply emboldens them, as they see weakness. It would be better if France and the US were out there saying to Hezbollah “stop now, or you will be destroyed. We’ll give Israel full reign, and perhaps we’ll join in.” Politicians have forgotten the lessons of 9/11 and other big terrorist attacks.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters in Tokyo on Sunday that “It’s so important that we help diffuse that conflict” along the northern border, “not only prevented it from spreading but to diffuse it.”

It’s simple: threaten Hezbollah. Threaten Iran. In case Blinkin missed it, Hezbollah is a US State Department designated terrorist group. Why is the Biden admin placating them? Kowtowing to them?

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Green Wackos Thwarted At Paris Olympics

By William Teach July 29, 2024 – 7:00 am

Looks like the authorities in France and Paris were in no mood to put up with the shenanigans by the climate cultists (via Watts Up With That?)

Climate protest in Paris foiled on first day of Olympics

French police on July 27 blocked climate activists from holding a demonstration in central Paris on the first official day of the Olympic Games.

Protesters from Extinction Rebellion (XR), once notorious for shutting down bridges over the Thames River in London, had planned to occupy the Pont des Arts bridge over the Seine, which had hosted the Games’ opening ceremony only hours earlier.

On July 27 morning, police officers “arrested 45 people belonging to a radical ecology group who were about to carry out a demonstration,” Paris prosecutors told AFP. (snip)

The stint on the bridge, which organisers previously said would be “more visible than disruptive”, was called off after police arrested XR activists before the protest even began, the group said in a statement.

“The French government has deployed great resources to block our special Olympic action,” Extinction Rebellion France said in a statement on X. “Our democracy burns, and we are watching the flame of Paris 2024.”

They were stopped from certainly causing a whole bunch of trouble for all the athletes and attendees for the Olympics. Do they ever stop and think on whether their protests bring people to their side? Might they be driving away people who are concerned with climate doom?

Activists are calling for more participative democracy and the creation of a citizen assembly to design a new climate-focused Constitution for France, which finds itself in a political impasse following elections earlier in July.

It’s not much of a “democracy” belief if they want to blow it all up because they aren’t getting their way, is it? Last time I checked people went and voted in the elections.

“We need a new model for society, which has to be fair and democratically accepted. We want to put citizens back at the heart of the political project that we want to see,” said Mr Sandro, an XR activist who did not want to give his full name.

And what kind of model is it? Why do they so rarely say what they want? They aren’t getting their way, so they want everything changed.

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Elizabeth Warren Says Supreme Court Is On The Ballot

By William Teach July 29, 2024 – 6:45 am

If you listen Democrats will tell you exactly what they want to do

Elizabeth Warren: ‘Supreme Court is on the ballot’

Sen. Elizabeth Warren said President Joe Biden will remind Americans that “the Supreme Court is on the ballot” in November with a Supreme Court reform proposal Biden will be releasing Monday.

“I think what Joe Biden will do over the next six months is he’s going to keep drawing that to the attention of the American people and reminding them when they vote in November, the Supreme Court is on the ballot,” Warren (D-Mass.) said Sunday in an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“And that is a good reason to vote for Kamala Harris, to vote for Democrats in both the Senate and the House.”

Biden is expected to unveil a proposal for Supreme Court reforms, such as term limits for justices and an enforceable code of ethics. Biden is also expected to push for limiting immunity for presidents through a constitutional amendment, after the Supreme Court recently ruled that former President Donald Trump has some immunity from prosecution.

The only way there can be term limits is with a constitutional amendment. Said code of ethics may be illegal, as it is highly questionable as to whether Congress has this power over the Supreme Court. Sure, they can impeach, but, code of ethics? As written by people who have their own serious ethics issues, starting with insider trading? Laughable. Joe should remember that if the limiting immunity thing passes they could then come after him

“We have a Supreme Court that has basically jumped the guardrails and is out there giving power to the president saying that the president can commit any act that the president wants, saying that Congress cannot authorize agencies to act,” Warren said. “So we’ve got a Supreme Court that is actively undermining our democracy.”

Which is a compete misunderstanding of the ruling. The POTUS has the same immunity that members of Congress do. But, Fauxahantos is upset that the Court keeps limiting the power of the Executive Branch, demanding that Congress do their job. Further, what’s not being said in this piece is that Democrats want to pack the court. I’ve written here, I’ve said it in other comments, said it on Twitter, said it in real life, just like some other, this election is huge, because they really do want to pack the Court so they can obliterate the Constitution.

Trump and his team best be on their A+ game and make sure people get out to vote for him.

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