Sen Warren Wants US Government To Have It’s Own Digital Currency

By William Teach April 1, 2022 – 10:30 am

Who’s surprised that Warren wants to move the power into the hands of the Central Government?

Elizabeth Warren Calls for US to Create a CBDC

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) says it’s time for the U.S. to create its own central bank digital currency (CBDC). Warren spoke with NBC’s Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press Reports,” scheduled to air at 10:30 p.m. ET on Thursday. NBCUniversal shared a partial transcript of the conversation with CoinDesk.

“So a lot that banks do wrong, if you think, ‘We could improve that in a digital world,’ the answer is, ‘Sure you could.’ But in that case, let’s do a central bank digital currency,” Warren told Todd. “Yes, I think it’s time for us to move in that direction.”

Responding to Todd’s question on whether Bitcoin will face at minimum being regulated like a commodity, Warren responded, “I think it’s going to end up getting regulated,” using the subprime mortgage financial crisis that started in 2007 as of an example why it’s needed. She didn’t say what form regulations might take.

Of course she’s upset with banks for doing what they do, which is mostly correct, with a few bad things. She’s always been a complainer about banks, probably because they hold a lot of money that she, as a government official, cannot simply take and use on a whim. You know what she’s proposing is that the bank be run by the federal government, and creating a digital currency controlled by the federal government is mostly a bad idea

(Crunchbase) The ugly aspect of CBDCs is that they centralize money even more and preserve the oligopoly power of financial institutions. Unlike cryptocurrencies that aim to democratize and decentralize finance, CBDCs grant near-complete control to central banks.

Now, replace a few words

The ugly aspect of CBDCs is that they centralize money even more and preserve the oligopoly power of government entities. Unlike cryptocurrencies that aim to democratize and decentralize finance, CBDCs grant near-complete control to the central government.

Different viewpoint, right?

It would also enhance control over an ordinary citizen’s level of access to a financial system, especially if a citizen is engaging in behavior that central banks governments may deem threatening, for whatever reason.

In China, social credit scores prevented 23 million people from buying plane and train tickets in 2018 for so-called “behavior crimes.” Now imagine that central banks governments, with a newfound ability to oversee accounts thanks to their CBDC rollout, can build similar systems to punish businesses or consumers for behaviors they deem as untoward.

Huh. CBDBs are also a massive threat to regular cryptocurrencies, which is also the point of creating CBDBs, especially in the hands of government.

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UN Chief Names Group To Investigate Companies On Climate Crisis (scam) Response

By William Teach April 1, 2022 – 7:00 am

Oh, good, a not so secret police group, unelected with absolutely zero accountability to anyone. The Climate Stasi without the power to drag people away and beat them. Yet

UN chief names panel to probe companies’ climate efforts

The head of the United Nations announced the appointment Thursday of an expert panel led by Canada’s former environment minister to scrutinize whether companies’ efforts to curb climate change are credible or mere “ greenwashing.”

Recent years have seen an explosion of pledges by businesses — including oil companies — to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to “net zero” amid consumer expectations that corporations bear part of the burden of cutting pollution. But environmental campaigners say many such plans are at best unclear, at worst designed to make companies look good when they are actually fueling global warming. (snip)

The 16-member panel will make recommendations before the end of the year on the standards and definitions for setting net-zero targets, how to measure and verify progress, and ways to translate that into international and national regulations.

In addition to examining net-zero pledges by the private sector, it will also scrutinize commitments made by local and regional governments that don’t report directly to the U.N. However it will not “name and shame” individual companies, U.N. climate envoy Selwin Hart said.

What’s the over/under that the names get released? What else is the point of doing this? Hopefully a lot of companies will tell the panel members and their staffs to just piss off, not even letting them in the door?

The panel includes prominent Australian climate scientist Bill Hare, South Africa-based sustainable finance expert Malango Mughogho and the former long-time governor of the People’s Bank of China, Zhou Xiaochuan.

It will be chaired by Catherine McKenna, who was Canada’s minister of environment and climate change from 2015 to 2019.

Oh, good, China. And Climate Barbie (McKenna). Who’s going to monitor their massive carbon footprints as the drive and fly all over the world? How about all the climate cult members of the UN who fly all over on private jets?

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Americans Overwhelmingly Support Florida Anti-Grooming Law

By William Teach April 1, 2022 – 6:45 am

Democrats are already facing a massive uphill battle for the mid-terms, and they learned absolutely nothing from the loss in Virginia for the governorship, and a close call in New Jersey, all because of what the schools were doing with kids. The Democrat politicians and pundits are barking up the wrong tree if they think opposing Florida’s parental rights bill will help them

Americans support ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, poll shows

Anew poll found that Americans overwhelmingly support the language of the Parental Rights in Education bill signed into law by Florida governor Ron DeSantis this week.

Celebrities at the Oscars on Sunday night shrieked about the alleged attack on LGBT rights and Disney executives were caught on tape promising to create more queer content for children in response to the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

A poll conducted by Public Opinion Strategies indicates that these woke institutions are wholly out of step with the concerns of normal Americans. When registered voters were shown the actual language of the bill, which prohibits age or developmentally inappropriate sexual education in pre-K through third grade, they supported it by more than a two-to-one margin.

Yeah, it doesn’t look good for Democrats

So, yeah, Democrats, run on teaching young children about adult sexual issues, which leads to grooming children to be all sorts of crazy sexual identity that wouldn’t even be a consideration for them at that age. Not something they would think about or talk about. Things that could mess them up badly as they grow up. Things that teachers have no right to be talking to kids about. Just teach the subjects they were hired to teach, and damned sure don’t try and hide what’s going on from parents.

Oh, and then there’s Disney

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Canada Joins The Bandwagon Of Banning Fossil Fueled Vehicles By 2035

By William Teach March 31, 2022 – 3:00 pm

What’s the over/under that this exempts politicians like Justin Trudeau?

Canada will ban sales of combustion engine passenger cars by 2035

Canada is joining the ranks of countries and states planning to ban sales of combustion engine cars. Canada has outlined an Emissions Reduction Plan that will require all new passenger car sales to be zero-emissions models by 2035. The government will gradually ramp up pressure on automakers, requiring “at least” 20 percent zero-emissions sales by 2026 and 60 percent by 2030.

Officials didn’t say whether this applied to a make’s product mix or simply the volume of cars sold. The strategy is more forgiving for the workplace — the Canadian government wanted 35 percent of total medium- and heavy-duty vehicle sales to be zero-emissions by 2035, and 100 percent of a “subset” of those machines by 2040.

The country is also offering $1.7 billion CAD (about $1.36 billion US) to extend incentives for buying electric cars and other zero-emissions vehicles. The current federal program offers up to a $5,000 CAD ($4,010 US) rebate for EVs, plug-in hybrids and hydrogen fuel cell cars that meet varying price, seat and battery requirements. Some provinces, such as British Columbia and Nova Scotia, offer their own incentives.

Will limos and such that politicians drive around in be exempt? How well will these EVs work in the Canadian winter?

Canada’s car market is small compared to the US. Passenger vehicle sales in Canada reached 1.64 million in 2021, according to estimates, versus an estimated 15 million for the country’s southern neighbor. However, the de facto ban on combustion engine cars could further motivate car brands already transitioning to EVs — that’s still a lot of potentially lost sales, particularly for a country known for its auto manufacturing plants.

There’s actually a pretty big manufacturing business in Canada. Toyota and American manufacturers make a lot of vehicles in Canada.

Now, when do Justin Trudeau and his Comrades give up their own use of fossil fuels?

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 31, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful big city with like minded people concerned about ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on Disney embracing evil.

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Progressive Candidates: Hey, Don’t Call Us Progressives

By William Teach March 31, 2022 – 10:30 am

I wonder why they don’t want anyone to call them what they really are? I wonder why they won’t label themselves what they really are?

Progressive candidates seek distance from label

They’re pushing for environmental reforms, embracing single-payer health care and calling for more government assistance. But increasingly, many are reluctant to call themselves “progressives.”

Left-wing candidates from Pennsylvania to North Carolina to Missouri are shying away from the P-word on the campaign trail, in messaging and online fundraising, and even in media blitzes, signaling an attempt to rebrand their wing of the party as Democrats debate how to win the midterm elections.

On paper, many mesh with Capitol Hill’s top leftists. Some support easing the country’s reliance on fossil fuels and restarting discussions around “Medicare for All.” Others want to accept more Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russia’s invasion of their country. Most would like President Biden to use executive action to give Americans more aid across the board.

Their hesitation to be defined as such, however, is new.

The article attempts to portray Progressives as those that push for progress, moving forward. Which is a load of mule fritters. These people are Nice Fascists, meaning, again, not that they’re nice, but, that they are doing this For Your Own Good. Instituting lots and lots of government FYOG. Controlling you. Which is fine when mom and dad do it when you’re a child. Not so good when you’re an adult in a nation founded on Freedom.

While some high-profile contenders still use the moniker, others want to be thought of in different terms. Pennsylvania’s Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, who’s seeking the party’s nomination for a coveted Senate seat, prefers a different word: populist.

Progressivism sounds great, right up till you consider the implications and how it negatively effects your life.

Former North Carolina state Sen. Erica Smith, who suspended her Senate bid in November to instead try to replace retiring Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D) in the House, is using the term “New Deal” to describe her place within the party.

She’s pretty much a far left wacko along the lines of AOC. But, really, Progressives are far, far right on the political scale. The further right you move the more governmental control there is. U.S. Conservatives are smackdab in the middle of the scale.

But unlike the quartet of senators from liberal bastions, these 2022 Democratic candidates aren’t situated in safe, deep-blue states and districts. Fetterman, Kunce and Smith are each competing in battlegrounds that could determine which party controls the Senate and House — Pennsylvania, Missouri and North Carolina — making their choice of rhetoric more consequential, some Democrats say.

Hence why they’re lying about who they really are. G.K. Butterfield represents NC’s 1st District, very rural, which comprises parts that are very much GOP and very much Democrat. It’s almost 45% black, and 43% white. But, it isn’t close. No Republican has been elected since 1883 to the House. The northeast section very much sways the vote. It has gone Democrat for president biggly every time. So, why would Smith eschew the term Progressive? Their internal polling must not be going well on the agenda.

They’ve been dinged not only as “socialists” by the GOP, but as too left to win general elections by some in their own party. For months, moderate Democrats have levied critiques against liberals with aspirations of defeating long-standing members. Even Biden has made it clear he believes a return to the center is necessary.

“It is a reaction to progressivism somehow being attached to socialism or communism,” said Bullard. “You have a lot of apprehension, regression, people who just are scared.”

Well, because it is like socialism and communism. Not the Political Theory 101 definition, but, the in practice one, which is actually far into the Authoritarian model. But, then they get elected and vote as Modern Socialist goons.

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Brandon’s ‘Climate Change’ Agenda Shockingly Polls Pretty Low

By William Teach March 31, 2022 – 7:15 am

When it comes to real world applications, ‘climate change’ almost always polls very low. It might be popular in theory, but, not when you put real issues with it

Poll: American Voters Reject Biden’s Climate Agenda – Want Reliable, Affordable Domestic Energy

American voters in strong majorities reject Joe Biden’s energy policies designed around so-called climate change and want reliable and affordable domestic energy.

“Just 13 respondents (1.3 percent) identified [climate change] as the most pressing issue facing the United States, and just 25 more (2.5 percent) identified it as the second most pressing issue facing the United States,” the announcement of the poll said.

“Voters don’t want the federal government telling them what kinds of cars they should buy and drive,” Stephen Moore said, co-founder of the Committee to Unleash Property. They don’t want taxes on carbon dioxide. “They don’t want the government to make energy more expensive.”

Voters are against a carbon tax and electric vehicle mandates.

  • Voters don’t want the government to make energy more expensive (by a margin of 68 points). They do not want a carbon dioxide tax (rejected by 40 points).
  • Voters reject electric vehicle mandates (63 points).  More than two-thirds (68 percent) said we don’t need government policies that force consumers to buy electric vehicles.

Oops! What do people care about? Economy, inflation, COVID, and, immigration. I’m kinda surprised Ukraine polls so low.

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Atlanta Schools Implemented Cameras To Make Sure Kids Wearing Masks Correctly

By William Teach March 31, 2022 – 7:00 am

This is what the mask cultists were doing in the far left Fulton County. Big Brother is always watching

‘Really alarming’: the rise of smart cameras used to catch maskless students US schools

When students in suburban Atlanta returned to school for in-person classes amid the pandemic, they were required to mask up, like in many places across the US. Yet in this 95,000-student district, officials took mask compliance a step further than most.

Through a network of security cameras, officials harnessed artificial intelligence to identify students whose masks drooped below their noses.

“If they say a picture is worth a thousand words, if I send you a piece of video – it’s probably worth a million,” said Paul Hildreth, the district’s emergency operations coordinator. “You really can’t deny, ‘Oh yeah, that’s me, I took my mask off.’”

The school district in Fulton county had installed the surveillance network, by Motorola-owned Avigilon, years before the pandemic shuttered schools nationwide in 2020. Out of fear of mass school shootings, districts in recent years have increasingly deployed controversial surveillance networks like cameras with facial recognition and gun detection.

If the uber-leftist UK Guardian is calling this really alarming, be very concerned. The school system is mask optional now, so, what are the schools doing now?

But one of the most significant developments has been in AI-enabled cameras. Twenty years ago, security cameras were present in 19% of schools, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Today, that number exceeds 80%. Powering those cameras with artificial intelligence makes automated surveillance possible, enabling things like temperature checks and the collection of other biometric data.

Districts across the country have said they had bought AI-powered cameras to fight the pandemic. But as pandemic-era protocols like mask mandates end, experts said the technology will remain. Some educators have stated plans to leverage pandemic-era surveillance tech for student discipline while others hope AI cameras will help them identify youth carrying guns.

The cameras have faced sharp resistance from civil rights advocates who question their effectiveness and argue they trample students’ privacy rights.

You think? Many other schools systems implemented systems, which were used for COVID compliance in various ways, and are gathering massive amount of data on juveniles

Verkada offers a cautionary tale. Last year, the company suffered a massive data breach when a hack exposed the live feeds of 150,000 surveillance cameras, including those inside Tesla factories, jails and at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. The Newtown district, which suffered a mass school shooting in 2012, said the breach didn’t expose compromising information about students. The vulnerability hasn’t deterred some educators from contracting with the California-based company.

Many of these systems are purchased from China owned vendors. Great way to put all this data on children in the hands of bad actors, right?

In a post-pandemic world, Albert Fox Cahn, founder of the non-profit Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, worries the entire school security industry will take a similar approach.

“With the pandemic hopefully waning, we’ll see a lot of security vendors pivoting back to school shooting rhetoric as justification for the camera systems,” he said. Due to the potential for errors, Cahn called the embrace of AI surveillance in schools “really alarming”.

Where is the line between monitoring for safety and invading privacy?

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Hotcold Take: Switching To EVs Could Save 100K Lives

By William Teach March 30, 2022 – 3:00 pm

If only Government would force citizens to switch to EVs

US transition to electric vehicles would save over 100,000 lives by 2050 – study

st greta carA speedy nationwide transition to electric vehicles powered by renewable energy would save more than 100,000 American lives and $1.2tn in public health costs over the next three decades, according to a new report.

Analysis by the American Lung Association highlights the public health damage caused by the world’s dependence on dirty fossil fuels, and provides a glimpse into a greener, healthier future – should political leaders decide to act.

According to the report, swapping gas vehicles for zero-emission new cars and trucks in the US would lead to 110,000 fewer deaths, 2.8m fewer asthma attacks and avoid 13.4m sick days by 2050.

Interestingly, they could be correct. But, this nothing to do with ‘climate change’, but, the environment. I’ll be happy to admit that combustion engines release air pollution. Of course, what of the pollution caused by all the mining of the precious metals to create the batteries, and we really do not know the environmental damage in full caused by EVs.

The shift would lead to a 92% fall in greenhouse gases by 2050, generating $1.7tn in climate benefits by protecting ecosystems, agriculture, infrastructure from rising sea levels and catastrophic weather events including drought and floods.

Are they really saying that 92% of the greenhouse gases come from vehicles? Cult. It’s no surprise they’ve dragged in a scam to what is actually a real environmental issue.

Overall, communities of color and low-income neighborhoods would reap the biggest benefits from zero-emission technologies as they currently suffer disproportionately from air pollution and climate disasters, the study says.

Because they won’t be able to afford the vehicles?

The calculations are based on transitioning to 100% electric cars sales by 2035 and 100% electric trucks by 2040, as well as ditching dirty fossil fuels for 100% renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, hydroelectric and nuclear by 2035.

However, given political polarization in the US and a lack of political urgency, it seems highly unlikely that oil and gas companies will stop drilling or that American car dealers will be selling only electric cars by 2035.

Joe Biden’s Build Back Better (BBB) legislation, which includes historic funds for climate initiatives, has failed to move through the Senate due to stonewalling by the Republicans and the conservative Democrat Joe Manchin, the fossil-fuel friendly senator from West Virginia.

Unsurprising is the pimping of Government solutions.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 30, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is an area drying up due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Gates Of Vienna, with a post on the West’s goals in Ukraine.

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