If All You See…

By William Teach August 21, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible flower garden which uses lots of water, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bunkerville, with a post on fraudulent jobs numbers.

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NY Times Reporter Natasha Frost Doxxed 600 Australian Jews

By William Teach August 21, 2024 – 10:30 am

I’ve been sitting on this story for several days. She’s still employed, which means the NY Times is fine with her actions, which are very much despicable, and violated the rules of employment for working at the Times

NYT reporter responsible for doxxing of 600 Australian Jews, to face legal action

A New York Times reporter based in Melbourne was responsible for the leak of personal information of over 600 Australian Jewish members of a WhatsApp Group earlier in 2024, according to a New York Times statement and Wall Street Journal investigation. The New York Times has announced that it will be taking legal action against the reporter, Natasha Frost, after she acknowledged the data breach.

The data was subsequently disseminated online, leading to mass doxxing, threats and harassment against the members of the group by pro-Palestine activists.

Frost, downloaded and shared 900 pages of content from the private WhatsApp group launched by multiple Australian Jews in the aftermath of the October 7 massacre and which become a “lifeline” to its members, according to New York Post and WSJ reports.

The incident, which happened in February, resulted in list called “Zio600,” which was used to threaten the people in the WhatsApp group, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency at the time.

The pro-Palestinian activists posted names, photos, and social media pages of many of the 600 members of the group, resulting in online and in-person harassment, threats, and vandalism, the WSJ said.

Frost has admitted she did this, though, has not said why.

A spokeswoman for the NYT said that said that “appropriate action” had been taken against Frost.

“It has been brought to our attention that a New York Times reporter inappropriately shared information with the subject of a story to assist the individual in a private matter, a clear violation of our ethics,” she said. “This was done without the knowledge or approval of The Times.”

What “appropriate action” was taken? Her profile is still on the NY Times, and, interestingly, includes this tidbit

I strive for accuracy, fairness and neutrality in my reporting. All Times journalists are committed to upholding the standards of integrity outlined in our Ethical Journalism Handbook. I do not participate in politics and I am always careful to identify myself as a reporter for The Times in news-related conversations.

Her stated job is European top stories for the European edition, but, she lives in Australia.  Jeffrey Blehar at National Review has a good, long summary of the Wall Street Journal article (which I do not have access to), and explains how this all happened. Many in the group were upset with anti-Semitic “local Australian woke cause célèbre Antoinette Lattouf.” Frost had been invited into the group, and, right before she leaked the names, she bolted the group. She then leaked the names to Lattouf herself, who then gave the names to a pro-Hamas group

For I am trying to imagine the circumstances under which a New York Times journalist — someone trained to be responsible with confidential sources — could, with such lifelong training, hand over the unedited monthslong private correspondence of her community to someone she had just written a piece about. Given the obviously related subject matter — discussions about Lattouf — I at least find it difficult to imagine doing this without malice aforethought. I will be honest, I don’t know how any responsible journalist could; even someone unprofessionally crossing the line to say “Listen, people I know really are pushing to get you canned” could easily have given Lattouf blind quotes. (Someone who does that is still a viper in my opinion, but at least one with some constraint.) What you don’t do is send 900 unredacted pages of free-flowing private conversations to a known bad actor. That speaks either of bad faith or irresponsibility so staggering as to beggar belief. Either one demands instant firing.

And yet Frost remains employed at the New York Times, a scandal beyond reckoning that, in a different era, everyone would be ablaze over. Australia itself is completely losing its gourd over this, just so you know — it is not some minor news story. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese went on the air to publicly denounce it, and an anti-doxxing bill is being introduced into Parliament as soon as this month, according to the Journal. Since Australia lacks our more robust free-speech principles, the incident may well result in heavy-handed censorship, English-style. Congratulations on triggering a potential free-speech clampdown in Australia because of your reporter, New York Times! Finally — you’re a truly global brand.

I do think Blehar is expecting better conduct from the NY Times than they deserve. Frost’s contact information has been removed from her Times webpage, and it looks like they are simply waiting for the clock to wind down on the story.

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Esquire Warmists Super Excited They’re Talking About Climate Doom At DNC

By William Teach August 21, 2024 – 7:15 am

There is just one bit of information Warmist Charles Pierce forgot to mention

Finally, Someone Is Talking About Climate Change At A National Party Convention

Tuesday happened to be the 80th birthday of Smokey Bear, an environmental avatar for most people my age growing up, often the first inkling we’d all have of what we came to call ecology. He made his first appearance on a poster in 1944. At the time, the nation was panicked at the possibility that Japanese submarines might fire-bomb the west coast. (In the spring of 1942, Japanese submarines actually did bombard Santa Barbara.) Created by an artist named Albert Stehle, Smokey soon became the face of fire prevention.

Climate and the environment, invisible at the Republican National Convention last month, hangs heavy over the proceedings here at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The party’s Council on Environment and the Climate Crisis has organized a number of events over the four days, starting on Monday with Al Eastman, an Oglala Sioux climate scientist from the Rosebud reservation in South Dakota, who said,

“Just last month, there was something that was a little surprising. There were 27 tornadoes in one evening in the Chicagoland area. I was working that evening and it was a pretty exciting ride home—trees falling down into homes and into the street….my relatives back in South Dakota talk about drought. The bottom line is that we just need to elect people that are willing to stand up and fight the climate crisis, and for the solutions.”

Both Senators Jeff Merkley and Ed Markey are scheduled to speak on the subject on Wednesday. I am nothing short of dumbfounded that half of the American political system chooses to ignore, or downplay entirely, this crisis. Fire doesn’t care about your poll numbers. Drought brings thirst to both your base voters and the undecideds. Only you can prevent catastrophes.

Will they really tell us their plans, though? Do they want the average American to truly know that they want government to control their lives and take their money?

Interestingly, none of the media, including the above article, mention the 50,000 who are supposed to attend the DNC, as well as the at least 50,000 pouring into Chicago to protest. How are they getting there? How many are taking the train and bus, and how many are flying in on fossil fueled planes or taking fossil fueled vehicles? How many of the big wigs are being ferried around in fossil fueled limos and SUVs?

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Biden-Harris DHS Loses Track Of 32,000 Illegal Alien Children

By William Teach August 21, 2024 – 7:00 am

Now, imagine had this happened during the Trump years: would this be a huge story, or mostly ignored by the media?

DHS Watchdog: 30,000 Migrant Children Missing

illegal alien DemocratThe internal watchdog for the Department of Homeland Security issued a warning on Tuesday that that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency lost track of tens of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children, ABC News reported.

The interim report sent to Congress and obtained by ABC News states that in the past five years, more than 32,000 unaccompanied migrant children failed to report for their immigration court hearing and that ICE was “not able to account” for their whereabouts.

Inspector General Joseph Cuffari wrote in his report: “Without an ability to monitor the location and status of [unaccompanied migrant children], ICE has no assurance [they] are safe from trafficking, exploitation, or forced labor.”

Cuffari also urged ICE to “take immediate action to ensure the safety of [unaccompanied children] residing in the United States.”

During his investigation, Cuffari found that immigration officials had moved over 448,000 children from ICE custody to the Department of Health and Human Services, which is tasked with placing them with sponsors or in foster homes.

Those are two disturbing issues: first, that almost half a million children arrived in the United States without their parents, and that the Biden-Harris administration lost track of 32,000. Where are they? What is happening to them?

The issue of immigration figures to be one of the top concerns for voters in the upcoming U.S. elections. Since being chosen as the Democrat presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris has presented herself as tough on illegal immigration, according to her campaign staff.

Most of this occurred during the Biden-Harris years, especially since everyone involved at the federal level has been over-run by the staggering number of illegals pouring across the border.

(ABC News) In his interim report, Cuffari said that as of May 2024, more than 291,000 unaccompanied children had not been placed into removal proceedings because ICE had not served them notices to appear or scheduled a court date for them. Accordingly, the number of unaccompanied children who failed to appear for their court dates “may have been much larger” than 32,000 had ICE issued notices or scheduled court dates for those 291,000 children.

It’s hard to serve them notice when their are so many millions and millions who came since Biden-Harris opened the floodgates.

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Weird: Climate Cult Group Fails To Mention “Climate” In Kamala Support Ad

By William Teach August 20, 2024 – 3:00 pm

Now, why wouldn’t they mention what they Believe? Also, I wonder if these ads violate their non-profit status by endorsing a candidate?

Why climate is missing from climate groups’ ad splurge

Kamala Climate ClownThe first three spots in climate groups’ new $55 million, swing-state ad buy supporting Kamala Harris don’t mention climate change or global warming.

Why it matters: It’s a striking example of a wider — and longstanding — strategy from Democrats and allies to make economics and jobs the tip of the spear.

And it’s one that emphasizes consumer costs right now as inflation is high on the political radar.

Driving the news: The political arms of the League of Conservation Voters, Climate Power and the Environmental Defense Fund unveiled the campaign on Monday.

You mean inflation fueled by Biden-Harris energy policies?

What’s inside: One spot backs into energy, opening by touting Harris going after banks that “unfairly foreclosed” on people when she was California’s AG.

It then cites her prosecution of oil companies’ environmental violations, while saying Donald Trump “has always stood with corporations that rip us off.”

Another starts with “prices are too high” and says Harris will attack oil industry “price gouging,” and that growing “clean” energy production will cut power bills.

Except, despite all the billions and billions dumped into “clean” energy, energy has gone up during the Biden-Harris administration, to the tune of about 30% higher.

A third begins by saying the goal of Harris’ presidency would be strengthening the middle class. It lists “advanced manufacturing and clean energy” as ways to get there, alongside capping drug prices and strengthening social security.

Except, the Biden-Harris admin has decimated the middle class. Are they trying to force everyone into a manufacturing job?

The big picture: The ads are consistent with the pocketbook topics central to the race and voters’ longstanding concerns — and efforts to help Harris on the economy, where polls show her lagging Trump.

Danielle Deiseroth, executive director of the lefty polling outfit and think tank Data for Progress, notes “kitchen-table economic issues have been a major concern this cycle.”

“So communicating to voters how clean energy will help relieve the pain in their wallets is key to defining the vice president’s broader narrative around curbing high prices,” she said via email.

In other words, they are attempting to hide their actual agenda. Unsurprising, since poll after poll after poll shows that Americans may care about Doing Something about Hotcoldwetdry in theory, but, in practice it mostly fails to move the voting needle.

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If All You See…

By William Teach August 20, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is metal corroding from too much carbon pollution driven humidity, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post Joy being redefined.

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Last Denny’s In Kamala’s San Francisco Closes Due To Crime

By William Teach August 20, 2024 – 10:30 am

It’s surprising that they lasted this long

Last remaining Denny’s in major US city forced to close after 25 years – and customers are getting the blame

Another iconic Denny’s restaurant has closed its doors for the last time, stripping a California city of the chain’s last location.

Denny’s has closed more than 70 of its restaurants in the last two years, including 15 this summer alone.

Among the recent closures is the last bastion of the fast-casual chain in San Francisco.

The 24-hour restaurant in the city’s Union Square district ran for 25 years before closing on August 1 as a result of rising crime.

The franchise’s operator Chris Haque told the San Francisco Gate the restaurant ‘operated until the last day that we could.’

And what did that crime look like?

The location in San Francisco’s crime-riddled downtown was reportedly effected by frequent ‘dining and dashing’, where customers order, eat and then leave without paying.

‘The cost of doing business is tremendous. There’s vandalism, and people come and eat and walk away, and there’s no one to stop them,’ Haque told the publication.

‘It’s a beautiful city – we love it, we have been there so many years,’ Haque said.

‘But I think [city officials] should make it more business-friendly.’

And it didn’t help that there’s been a big dip in tourism and convention attendance, because it’s become too dangerous in San Francisco, especially the downtown area. And, sure, many other Denny’s have closed this year and in previous years since the Wuhan Flu pandemic started, but, they each have their own reasons. This one was over crime. Oh, and

Robert Verostek, Denny’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, blamed inflation as a significant factor for closures when he spoke to investors earlier this year.

He pointed out that the breakeven point for a restaurant to remain open had jumped from $1 million to $1.2 million due to higher costs for food and wages.

And you can bet that the cost to run this one in San Fran had skyrocketed due to the recently passed $20 minimum wage law. This is Kamala’s America. This is the policies of Democrats that the Biden-Harris admin tried to implement across the country, and that Kamala would work to implement.

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Bummer: SCOTUS Decisions Are Already Slowing Climate Action

By William Teach August 20, 2024 – 7:00 am

I wonder if Warmists ever considered that they can change their own behavior on their own? That there is no need for authoritarian government to force everyone to comply with the cult?

Recent Supreme Court decisions are already slowing climate progress

During its last session, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority dealt blow after blow to federal agencies’ authority to draft and enforce policies, including those aimed at mitigating climate change. Its decisions have already created upheaval for courts considering issues ranging from the approval of a solar project to vehicle emissions rules. This has upended the legal landscape for judges and for regulators, and could slow climate progress as a result.

The uncertainty has alarmed, but not surprised, legal experts who earlier this summer predicted that four rulings limiting federal authority could curtail the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency and other agencies to limit pollution, govern toxic substances, and mitigate global warming.

“It’s going to throw climate policy into many years of litigating what these cases actually mean when applied to individual rulemakings,” said Deborah Sivas, an environmental law professor at Stanford University. “That’s not good for the energy transition that we actually need to go through.”

Yeah, it is a real shame that unelected bureaucrats can no longer bypass the express intentions of the US Constitution, where it is incumbent on the duly elected Legislative branch to pass laws which the Executive carries out

Sending cases back to lower courts for further review will almost certainly delay decisions, limiting the effectiveness of federal policies to address climate change and other issues. But an even greater impact may be felt by the agencies charged with taking those actions and already facing increasing scrutiny and lawsuits.

“Agencies will have to be even more careful than they already are to ground proposed regulations in the text of the statute and to explain why they believe that the regulation is consistent with Congressional intent,” Rylander said.

So they cannot just simply do whatever they want willy nilly, they actually have to follow the Constitution? Huh. Shame.

Meanwhile, the fossil fuel industry and other polluters, emboldened by the Supreme Court’s recent decisions, have ramped up challenges to environmental regulations. In late July, Republican state attorneys general, rural electric cooperatives, and fossil fuel trade organizations asked the Supreme Court to pause an EPA rule to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of coal- and gas-fired power plants. As in Ohio v. EPA, the plaintiffs are once again asking the high court to block the rule even as it wends through the D.C. Circuit. (The Supreme Court previously paused another EPA power plant emissions rule in 2016, the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, which never went into effect.) Legal experts say the outcome of Ohio v. EPA proves the Supreme Court is willing to take such far-reaching actions — and that it has clearly encouraged this request for an emergency pause.

“Industry lawyers believe it is open season to go after regulations,” Michael Gerrard, an environmental law professor at Columbia University, said. Corporate clients, egged on by Ohio v. EPA and other Supreme Court wins, have concluded that “the expense of the lawsuit is small compared to the benefit if they win,” he said.

Get laws passed. That’s the way it works.

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Kamala Voters Tear Down Fencing, Fly Hamas Flag At DNC

By William Teach August 20, 2024 – 6:45 am

Hey, moderate Democrats, Never Trumpers, and Jews who vote Democrat, is this what you support?

Hamas Flag Flown At Rally Near DNC

Protesters were seen holding a Hamas flag at an anti-Israel rally Monday near Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, Fox News reported.

Just hours before the DNC started, hundreds of organizations staged a protest at which both Hamas and Palestinian flags were seen, according to Fox News. Chicago officials, along with the U.S. Secret Service and local police, expressed their commitment to maintaining peace and ensuring safety during these demonstrations.

“The U.S. Secret Service, along with its federal, state, and local partners, respects the right of the public to demonstrate. We make no distinction on the purpose, message or intent of any particular group,” Chicago police told Fox News Digital in a statement.

Now, imagine how the Credentialed Media would cover this if it was wacko Republican voters flying Russian flags or Nazi ones. Here you have people flying the flag of a US designated terrorist organization.

Anti-Israel protesters arrested after breaching barrier at DNC ahead of Biden speech

Hundreds of anti-Israel protesters breached the first layer of fencing outside the Democratic National Convention, with some later apprehended by Chicago police and others pushed back by officers behind to restore the secure perimeter. (snip)

Several protesters had crept up to the fence and began shaking it before slipping through. An entourage of law enforcement officers then arrived to reinforce the lines.

Reportedly, only four were arrested. What’s the over/under that they’re out of jail before bedtime?

The Jew hating, Hamas supporting wackos are also trying to build an autonomous zone right outside that fence.

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Good Grief: Climate Cult Tries To Link Italian Shipwreck To Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach August 19, 2024 – 4:26 pm

Their science is sure full of lots of “mights”

Global warming may be factor in deadly Italian shipwreck, climatologist says

Global warming may have contributed to the freak storm that sank a luxury British-flagged yacht off the coast of Sicily on Monday, Italian climatologist Luca Mercalli told Reuters.

One man died and six people were missing, including British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, after the “Bayesian”, a 56-metre-long (184-ft) sailboat, was suddenly hit by ferocious weather.

Mercalli, president of the Italian meteorological society, said the episode could have been a water spout, essentially a tornado over water, or else a downburst, a more frequent phenomenon that doesn’t involve the rotation of the air.

“We don’t know which it was because it all happened in the dark in the early hours of the morning, so we have no photographs,” he said.

In Italy water spouts can involve winds of up to 200 kilometres (124 miles) per hour, while downbursts can produce gusts of around 150 km per hour.

So they do not know what actually happened, and water spouts are not abnormal in Italy

“The sea surface temperature around Sicily was around 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit), which is almost 3 degrees more than normal. This creates an enormous source of energy that contributes to these storms,” Mercalli said.

“So we can’t say that this is all due to climate change, but we can say that it has an amplifying effect.”

Right, right. What about all sorts of other shipwrecks going back 5 millennium in the Mediterranean? Were they from Other People driving fossil fueled vehicles? Seriously, no matter what happens this cult wants a piece of it

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