Chinese Coronavirus Cases Rising Again

By William Teach April 16, 2022 – 7:00 am

This was predicted when the cases in Europe were rising, with the actual experts expecting a spike in North America soon after. This makes COVID cultists and the power hungry politicians happy, because it gives them an opportunity to implement citizen controls, even though those controls made almost no difference

It’s not over: COVID-19 cases are on the rise again in US

Yet again, the U.S. is trudging into what could be another COVID-19 surge, with cases rising nationally and in most states after a two-month decline.

One big unknown? “We don’t know how high that mountain’s gonna grow,” said Dr. Stuart Campbell Ray, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins University.

No one expects a peak nearly as high as the last one, when the contagious omicron version of the coronavirus ripped through the population.

But experts warn that the coming wave – caused by a mutant called BA.2 that’s thought to be about 30% more contagious – will wash across the nation. They worry that hospitalizations, which are already ticking up in some parts of the Northeast, will rise in a growing number of states in the coming weeks. And the case wave will be bigger than it looks, they say, because reported numbers are vast undercounts as more people test at home without reporting their infections or skip testing altogether.

Strange that the surges start in the liberal areas which say they’re totally for all the restrictions, right? The question now is, does it look like Israel, with just a bump, or Europe, which had a pretty big surge.

Ray said government leaders must be careful to strike the right tone when talking to people about protecting themselves and others after COVID restrictions have largely been lifted. Philadelphia recently became the first major U.S. city to reinstate its indoor mask mandate after a sharp increase in infections. But Vermont’s Levine said there are no plans to bring back any of the restrictions that were imposed earlier during the pandemic.

“It’s going to be hard to institute restrictive, draconian measures,” Ray said. “Fortunately, we have some tools that we can use to mitigate risk. And so I hope that leaders will emphasize the importance for people to watch the numbers,” be aware of risks and consider taking precautions such as wearing masks and getting vaccinated and boosted if they’re not already.

And there’s the other question, what do the COVID authoritarians try and do?

If masking is so important, if the citizens are in such danger that a mandate must be reinstated, why is Philly waiting till Monday?

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GenZers Super Concerned About Doom From ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach April 15, 2022 – 3:00 pm

Hey, this shows that doomsday indoctrination works

1,500 Gen Zers were polled about climate change. Here are the results

Climate change is a primary concern for a majority of teenagers, but it’s also one of their biggest sources of motivation.

That’s according to a new nationwide poll published Wednesday, which found that 84% of teenagers believe climate change left unchecked will trigger global political instability and render parts of the planet uninhabitable. A vast majority of respondents said companies and legislators aren’t doing enough, and said they still wish to become involved in helping the planet’s future.

“Climate change is something that’s very top of mind for teens,” said Julia Majors, public relations manager for the national council of 4-H, a nationwide youth development organization. (snip)

The survey was conducted on behalf of 4-H by The Harris Poll, an American marketing and analytics company. Some 1,500 respondents between 13 and 19 years old were polled to gain a better understanding of what concerns teenagers have about the environment.

One interesting thing in the poll is how little the snowflakes spend outside, with 53% saying they spend 5 hours or less a week outside. 25% spend 6-10 hours a week outside. Yet, they think access to the outdoors is a human right. And, as usual, the poll fails to ask what they would give up to Do Something about ‘climate change’, what restrictions on their own lives they’d accept. We do get

So, really not doing much of anything, and all those things are environmental, not ‘climate change’. What about giving up their own use of fossil fuels, stop eating meat, buy clothes second hand, give up their massive electrical use of streaming and uploading? More below the fold

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 15, 2022 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is The Last Refuge, with a post on data showing a contraction on non-essential consumer spending.

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Moonbat Wants Term “Master Tapes” Removed From Music Lexicon

By William Teach April 15, 2022 – 10:30 am

See, the screed writer got a bee in her bonnet, so, Everyone must comply

Why the Music Industry Must Remove the Racist Term ‘Master Recording’ From Its Vocabulary

During the spring and summer of 2020, as protests across the country illuminated the systematic injustices Black Americans have faced and continue to face, the music industry was one of many that was called out to take accountability and action for its treatment of a group of people that is largely responsible for its many decades of profitability. While the industry’s unfair treatment of Black Americans is longstanding and deep-seated, one seemingly simple course of action is to cease all usage of the term “master recording,” which may sound innocuous but, as detailed in Variety’s expansive August 2020 interview with Pharrell Williams, derives from the words “master and slave.”

For those not aware, the terms have long been used to distinguish between a source recording (the “master”) and the subsequent copies made (the “slaves”), which has led to a pervasive use of both terms in many industry contracts. Although these charged words have been normalized to indicate a dominant/ subservient relationship, it does not negate the weight that they carry, especially in context of the music industry.

LOL. The copies are not called slaves. These people. Making things raaaaacist where no racism lies

For as long as the music business has existed, Black performers often have been in a subordinate position to label executives, the majority of whom are white, even though their music is the vital resource upon which this industry is founded. Digging deeper, when you consider that most of these performers do not have control or ownership of the underlying copyrights to their music, parallels can easily be drawn to how slaves did not have autonomy over their lives since they themselves were the property. Many of these performers, most famously Prince and Kanye West, have outright said that their experiences in the music industry have felt like modern-day slavery.

This lady is a lawyer, and goes full on moonbat race baiter, rather white knighting for black people. Because the word bothers her, so, she makes massive leaps of logic

As soon as I realized the term’s origins, I implemented a policy in my firm to no longer use the term “master” in our contracts, and to implement this change into any agreements that we negotiate on behalf of our clients. Sony, Universal, Warner Music Groups and Sound Exchange have either removed or have vowed to remove this language from their form contracts and license requests moving forward; the American Association of Independent Music’s board voted unanimously to remove this language from their contracts prospectively as well. While this is a most critical step in the right direction for the industry at large, I am dismayed at the reticence of other attorneys to embrace this change.

Of course the music groups follow along. They’ll virtue signal. They also probably realize they can take advantage of this to make some money. But, boo hoo, other lawyers won’t embrace the SJW.

It is my hope that this sheds light on the issue — enough so that more can and will embrace this impactful change. Removal of such language is a simple yet meaningful step that can make our industry a more welcoming and inclusive space and allow us to reinforce the principle that music is for everyone — no matter one’s race, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or background.

Now do the certainly sexually explicit, violent, and demeaning to women music her clients are making.

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Good News: Supreme Court May Toss “Important Climate (scam) Too”

By William Teach April 15, 2022 – 7:00 am

If Democrats really want this rule, they should attempt to specifically pass it in Congress. That’s where something of this magnitude belongs, not an Executive Branch agency using sorta maybe possibly related in a tiny way language from previous legislation that is really unrelated

Supreme Court may toss an ‘important tool’ for regulating climate change

The Supreme Court is on the verge of restricting the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to limit carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

The court’s conservative majority appears likely to side with Republican-controlled states and coal companies in West Virginia v. EPA, for which the court heard oral arguments on Feb. 28 and is expected to issue a ruling in June. Such a ruling could eliminate some of the key methods that the Biden administration can use to accelerate the power sector’s transition to cleaner sources of energy, potentially hamstringing its ability to meet the president’s goal of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

Experts say the court is virtually guaranteed to side with the petitioners — a coalition of red states and coal companies — but that the still unknown logic and details of the ruling may determine the shape of U.S. climate regulation in the future.

“Taking the case is a very clear sign that they’re going to rule against EPA in some way, but we don’t know how,” David Doniger, senior strategic director of the Climate & Clean Energy Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, told Yahoo News. “It wasn’t clear from the oral argument what the dominant approach would be.”

Observers do not expect the Supreme Court to overturn previous rulings that give the EPA authority to regulate carbon pollution, but they say it’s possible the court may say the agency cannot use certain tools in doing so.

It all depends on how the ruling goes. It looked like Obama’s Clean Power Plan was on it’s way to getting whacked at the Supreme Court, having almost always lost at the lower court level, until the Trump EPA did away with it. It should cause a lot of apoplexy from Warmists if the Court rules against the EPA. You know, the same Warmists who won’t make their own lives carbon neutral.

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LGB: Newest Quinnipiac Poll Is Brutal

By William Teach April 15, 2022 – 6:45 am

Even the lefty Daily Beast cannot figure out how to spin this

Biden and Democrats Should Be Absolutely Terrified by New Poll Numbers

In Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, a character is asked how he went bankrupt. “Gradually, then suddenly” is the reply.

This formulation might also help explain how it feels to lose an election. President Joe Biden’s collapse of popular support has been so long coming that a new Quinnipiac poll showing him with just a 33 percent approval rating (!) was greeted mostly with yawns.

Or, laughter

Dig a little deeper, though, and things are even scarier for Democrats.

Biden is polling at a dismal 24 percent approval among Hispanics (with 54 percent disapproving). And while his numbers among African-Americans are still above water at 63 percent, his numbers have fallen almost 20 percentage points since last April.

This poll may constitute a new low, but it’s no flukey outlier. The trends are clear. NBC News recently compared polling from 2018 (a great midterm year for Dems) with its own 2022 polling—and college-educated women are the only cohort that has become bluer. (Conversely, NBC News found a “pronounced [Republican] shift among men of 20 points,” as Steve Kornacki noted.)

It takes hard work to get to that number, like ruining a credit score

The main explanation, though, is probably a simple one: Hispanics and African-Americans—like a lot of us—are worried about inflation.

As Democratic pollster Jay Campbell told CNBC, “Cost of living has just blown everything else, including COVID, out of the water. And part of the reason for that is, there are attitudes about the economy that are largely a partisan phenomenon,” Campbell said. “That is not the case with inflation, or at least not right now. It is the top issue for Democrats, independents, and Republicans.”

This makes even more sense when you consider that inflation hurts low-wage Americans worse than anyone, and a disproportionate percentage of minorities belong to that economic cohort. As a result, some formerly reliable Democratic voters may be prioritizing their “working class” status over their racial identity.

At the end of every single poll, regarding the middle and lower classes, it comes down to the pocketbook. The kitchen table budget. The cost of putting food on the table. And all the basics of life. Biden is not only ignoring these, his policies are making them worse.

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Vegan Egg Food Truck To Troll Ted Cruz, Other Climate Change Skeptics or Something

By William Teach April 14, 2022 – 3:00 pm

What the heck is a vegan egg? Kinda sounds like it is not egg

Ted Cruz and fellow Republicans mocked for climate inaction – by vegan ‘eggs’

Members of Congress are subjected to plenty of scrutiny — from constituents, the press, and now, from vegan egg sandwiches.

Eat Just, a brand of plant-based “eggs,” is plastering a series of advertisements around Washington DC ahead of Earth Day on 22 April, in order to shame certain members of Congress for inaction on the climate crisis. And, as an added dig, they’ll be driving a food truck serving vegan egg sandwiches named after a few select senators.

Some of the ads broadly call out inaction from the legislative branch of the government. “This egg sandwich is more effective against climate change than Congress,” reads one. (The company’s website says that their product uses significantly less water, land and emissions to create than regular eggs.)

Other ads — plus the sandwiches — take aim at specific lawmakers. One sandwich is dubbed “Ted Cruz’s Cancun Vacation” and consists of vegan egg, plant-based pepper jack “cheese”, spinach and and chipotle aioli.

Yeah, not cheese, either. I wonder if they’re doing this just to drum up business from gullible Warmists, who will be happy to overpay for fake eggs and cheese. They’ll be others named after Rick Scott, James Inhofe, and even Joe Manchin.

Mr Rossmeissl (Eat Just’s head of global marketing) says that the company has previously focused on the benefits of a plant-based diet but, in light of the recent dire warnings of the United Nation’s IPCC climate report, that focus alone seemed “inadequate for the moment”.

“Individual lifestyle change is important, but it’s not enough,” Mr Rossmeissl said.

The ads have shown up in Washington as of this week, and the food truck will operate in neighbourhoods across the city from next Wednesday through the following Wednesday.

Will the food truck operate on fossil fuels? Anyhow, the company is pretty much serving up a side of clmavirtue signaling. Hey, if it makes them money, good job duping Warmists.

Meanwhile, nice to see our Treasury Secretary going full climahysteric

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If All You See…

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

…are wonderful palm trees that will soon grow in the Arctic due to ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Pacific Pundit, with a post on how many people are saying they won’t do business with Disney.

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Ron DeSantis Expected To Soon Sign The Stop WOKE Act

By William Teach April 14, 2022 – 10:30 am

I’m of a mixed mind on this: it’s one thing to get involved in what the government does regarding what government run schools teach, it’s another to get this involved in what private companies tell their employees. However, government has long become involved in the private sector, dictating policies. Perhaps it’s time to protect employees from business that are trying to indoctrinate and demean employees? This has made some Very Upset

BREAKING: Florida Senate Passes “Stop WOKE Act,” Bill Heads to DeSantis’ Desk for Signature or Veto

Today, the Florida Senate passed the “Stop WOKE Act” (House Bill 7), and the bill now heads to Governor Ron DeSantis’ desk for his signature or veto. If enacted, the bill would limit protected speech in workplaces with more than fifteen employees and classrooms by censoring honest dialogue about systemic racism, gender, and race discrimination. It would also change Florida’s employment discrimination statutes to give employees the ability to file discrimination claims against an employer engaging in trainings or discussions about Black history, LGBTQ+ issues, and other concepts of injustice and discrimination.

That was Human Rights Campaign back on March 10th. Now

(EMEA Tribune) Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to soon sign legislation that will open a new front in how employers will need to think about workplace activities and set new state guidelines for what would constitute “unlawful employment practices.”

House Bill 7, titled “Individual Freedom,” was one of the most contentious pieces of legislation considered by lawmakers during the legislative session that ended in mid-March. While much of the attention focused on the restrictions that would be applied to the classroom, the bill could also alter Florida businesses’ labor practices — in particular restricting how employers present programs aimed at promoting diversity, equity and inclusion at work.

Here are a few things it includes

In practice, the bill would amend the Florida Civil Rights Act and make it unlawful for employers to subject workers to “training, instruction, or any other required activity” that promotes or compels them to believe the following concepts:

  1. That virtues such as merit, excellence, hard work, fairness, neutrality, objectivity, and racial colorblindness are racist or sexist, or were created by members of a particular race, color, sex, or national origin to oppress members of another race, color, sex or national origin.
  2. That members of one race, color sex, or national origin are morally superior to members of another race, color, sex or national origin.
  3. That an individual’s moral character or status as either privileged or oppressed is necessarily determined by his or her race, color, sex, or national origin.
  4. That an individual, by virtue of their race, color, sex, or national origin, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously.

There are bunch more, as you can read at the article. What will it do

The potential of lawsuits as an enforcement mechanism are likely to have a chilling effect on how employers convey certain diversity and inclusion goals in training sessions, according to some labor lawyers and consultants in the human resources field.

Supporters say the bill is meant to protect workers from being told they should feel bad about historical wrongs committed by people of their same race, gender or national origin.

The bill sponsor, Rep. Bryan Avila, R-Miami Springs, acknowledged part of the intent is to eliminate workplace programs that promote the concept of “white privilege” and broadly singled out training programs promoted by Walt Disney Co., Coca-Cola, American Express and Google, that he said would be in violation of the bill.

Basically, yes, it’s meant to get companies to turn away from having all types of unhinged training based on critical race theory, which deems some people raaaaacist for simply being born with a specific skin color. These types of trainings create racial problems in the workplace where none existed. They waste lots and lots of time, all so companies can virtue signal to the paid race scammers who demand it be taught.

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Climate Cult Scientists Stage A Worldwide Protest Or Something

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

They’re calling it “Science Rebellion”

Scientists Stage Worldwide Climate Change Protests After IPCC Report

Over 1,000 scientists from 25 different countries staged protests last week following the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s new report. The report warned that rapid and deep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions are necessary by 2025 to avoid catastrophic climate effects.

The group, called the Scientist Rebellion, writes in a letter that “current actions and plans are grossly inadequate, and even these obligations are not being met.” Their protests “highlight the urgency and injustice of the climate and ecological crisis,” per a statement from the organization. (snip)

Scientists historically have had differing opinions about becoming activists on topics related to their work, but that has started to change in recent years, reports Chelsea Harvey for E&E News.  (snip)

Scientists around the world expressed similar fears during protests last week, and demanded rapid action to address climate change from their governments.

Scientist Rebellion protesters in Washington, D.C. chained themselves to the White House fence. Spanish scientists threw fake blood over the facade of the National Congress. Panamanian scientists staged demonstrations at various embassies, and German protesters glued themselves to a bridge. In Malawi, scientists held a teach-in at Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, per the Scientist Rebellion statement.

Well, this seems sane, right? They’ve given up scientific rationality for advocacy of a doomsday cult.

Did anyone in the media ask the scientists what changes they’ve made in their own lives to become carbon neutral? Probably not, especially since few actually covered this protest.

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