Who’s Up For Credit Card That Monitors Your Carbon Footprint?

By William Teach September 16, 2021 – 8:34 am

What a great idea. Because the company doing this will be suckering in a lot of brainwashed doomsday cultists into using their card, which shuts off if you hit a certain carbon pollution limit (via Jazz Shaw)

Climate Lockdowns: New CO2 monitoring credit card enables tracking of ‘carbon footprint on every purchase’ – ‘Monitors & cuts off spending when we hit our carbon max’ – Mastercard & UN join forces

Get ready for a Chinese-style social credit system scoring when it comes to your personal spending habits and how they impact “climate change.” A new credit card called Doconomy, has launched that is “working in tight collaboration with Mastercard” and an alliance with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)  is now available so you can monitor your personal CO2 budget on every purchase you make.

The new CO2 monitoring Mastercard called Doconomy debuted in order to enable “all users to track, measure and understand their impact by presenting their carbon footprint on every purchase.” The credit cards feature the slogan on them reading “DO. Everyday Climate Action” and have a personal pledge on the rear of the card boasting: “I am taking responsibility for every transaction I make to help protect the planet.” The Mastercards feature the UN “Global Climate Action” logo on them as well.

The Doconomy credit card website explains: “With fat, sugar and salt levels labeled on food we buy, why shouldn’t our CO2 emissions be just as visible?” asks the Doconomy website. “This type of information shouldn’t be a premium or luxury that consumers pay for, but rather an essential part of every shopping journey.” The website details how the credit card will help consumers “understand their impact by presenting their carbon footprint on every purchase.” (snip)

Niclas Svenningsen, Manager, Global Climate Action at the UN Climate Change secretariat praised the CO2 monitoring credit card. “What’s really key here is the availability of information. One certainly can’t expect people to change their behaviors and take climate action if they do not know what their climate footprint is or what their consumption represents. With this data now easily accessible thanks to the partners’ excellent work, citizens are empowered to make smart decisions and act responsibly, and it can provoke a significant cultural shift around climate action.”, Svennigsen wrote.

This is great. All climate cultists should do this. Of course, why are they engaged in consumerism and capitalism in the first place? Aren’t they against those? Should they be buying fossil fuels? New electronics? New clothes? The company supposedly has 90 million users worldwide. I wonder if people are simply being given this card by their bank, or, is it a choice?

All Warmists should get this. But, as we all know, most Warmists will simply mentally flagellate themselves over having a big carbon footprint, but, then, go on to continue doing the same. Perhaps they’ll purchase a carbon offset for a tree or two, but, Doing Something in their own lives is popular with Warmists in theory, not practice.

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Ilhan Omar Blasts Judge For Blocking Ballot Measure On Defunding The Police

By William Teach September 16, 2021 – 8:20 am

Oh, it’s not really defunding, it’s just fundamentally changing the police department from police doing things police do to deal with crime to some sort of social justice organization. But, get this, I agree with her. Sure, she’s a left wing loon, a Progressive (nice Fascist), an Islamist supremacist, an Israel and Jew hater, but, doesn’t mean she can’t be sorta right

Ilhan Omar slams judge for blocking ballot measure to scrap Minneapolis Police Department

unintended consequencesRep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., railed against a judge’s decision to block a Minneapolis ballot measure that would replace the city’s police department with a new department of public safety.

During an in-person town hall meeting Tuesday evening in Minneapolis, Omar blamed big money for thwarting a progressive measure that she argued would have given the city “flexibility” on how to better police the city.

“The leaders who are opposed to progress in this city are not nameless or faceless,” she said. “Using your network to obstruct the kind of progress so many people in this city want and were looking forward to is not something that should go unnoticed.”

“This ballot measure should be on the ballot,” she said. “As you can tell, I’m pretty upset about it.”

“We have people pouring in so much money to make us enslaved to a charter that the majority of us [oppose],” she continued. “This is the opposite of what democracy should produce. The people had a vision for what they wanted, and there’s a judge, there’s a mayor, there is a police chief, and their monied friends who are telling us we can’t have a city that is flexible to our needs and to our demands. How else are we supposed to make progress if we can’t do that?”

Why did the judge block it?

Omar’s comments came after Hennepin County District Judge Jamie Anderson on Tuesday struck down Question 2 on the Minneapolis ballot for the Nov. 2 election, saying the wording was “unreasonable and misleading.”

The question was to ask voters whether they wanted the city’s charter to be amended to replace the Minneapolis Police Department with a Department of Public Safety, “which could include licensed peace officers (police officers) if necessary, with administrative authority to be consistent with other city departments to fulfill its responsibilities for public safety.”

Omar argued in an Aug. 31 op-ed for the Star Tribune that the measure was a necessary step in ending police brutality and making communities safer.

Now, I don’t agree with Omar on replacing the police department, I agree with her that the citizens of Minneapolis should be given the opportunity to vote on this, and then live with the results of that vote. If they want to approve the measure they can live with the mistake, because you just know crime will skyrocket more than it already is. Police are avoiding a lot of low level crime because they do not want to deal with the accusations of raaaaacism and such already. Even with bigger crime they are taking their time.

The crime rate in Minneapolis is now a 3, meaning that the city is safer than 3% of U.S. cities. It used to be a lot safer. Violent crime is 9.56 (per 1,000), with the Minnesota rate being 2.36, and the national median is 4. For property crime, it breaks down 47.52/20.79/21. You have a 1 in 105 chance of being a victim of a violent crime.

That said, if the citizens of Minneapolis want to replace their police department with something uber-SJW, let them. They should have the choice to make a huge mistake. Of course, there should be a provision that anyone who votes in favor of the ballot initiative should be required to stay in Minneapolis to deal with the fallout.

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We’re Save: Late Night Hosts Push Climate Cult

By William Teach September 15, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Nothing says comedy and entertainment like late night comedians coming together to push a doomsday climate cult, ones that work on sets that require the use of a lot of energy and celebs flying in on fossil fueled jets, right?

Late-Nights Hosts Come Together To Tackle Climate Change

A majority of late-night hosts are to dedicate a night to tackling climate change.

The comedians will each focus on the topic on Wednesday September 22 – Climate Night – in a rare show of unity across the genre.

CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Late Late Show with James Corden, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and TBS’ Full Frontal with Samantha Bee are all participating.

The event is designed to coincide with Climate Week NYC and has been created by former Daily Show and Patriot Act showrunner Steve Bodow. It is being supported in part by Laurene Powell Jobs’ Emerson Collective.

Will they be turning out the lights and turning the AC off, or at least up to 80? Or, would that inconvenience the running of the show and the celebs?

“Climate change has gone very fast from ‘probably the future,’ to ‘actually, right now’ – which means we all need to be talking and thinking about it much more,” said Bodow. “Late-night hosts reflect our national conversation even more than Russian Twitter bots set it – so this incredible group of shows coming together makes a statement about the scale and urgency of the world’s hottest problem.”

Oooooooh, so edgy, Russian Twitter bots!

“I don’t want to die,” said Kimmel.

“In the interest of recycling, please use whatever Jimmy Kimmel said,” said Fallon.

You have a much better chance being mugged or shot or stabbed or assaulted in NYC and LA than dying from a slight increase in the world’s average temperature over the past 170 years. Even the NY Times covers this, as do other “news” organizations. And not a one asked “hey, other than preaching to the choir (seriously, who else watches these programs, other than hardcore leftists?), what, exactly, will your shows, your hosts, and your networks be doing?”

Meanwhile

U.K. Power Surges to Record 400 Pounds as Wind Fails to Blow

Electricity prices soared to a record in Britain as a period of still weather is curbing wind power, exposing the U.K.’s reliance on intermittent renewables.

U.K. power for next day exceed 400 pounds ($553) a megawatt-hour at an auction on Monday, an all-time high. Wind generation is currently below normal, accounting for about 11% of all the electricity entering the grid. That’s leaving the market exposed to swings at a time five nuclear units are offline.

The U.K.’s ability to meet peak demand was already set to shrink this winter as coal and nuclear power stations close early. The outlook has worsened as low wind speeds have forced Britain to rely more on fossil fuels to produce power at a time Europe is facing a shortage of gas and coal prices are surging.

Remember, wind is totally reliable.

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Marco Rubio Calls For Biden To Fire General Milley: He’s 100% Wrong

By William Teach September 15, 2021 – 12:25 pm

Now, just imagine this had occurred in the latter days of the Obama administration: how would the media react? You’re barely finding the issue in most news outlets

Sen. Marco Rubio Urges President Joe Biden to Fire Gen. Mark Milley

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has called for the resignation of General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, following reports that he planned to undermine President Trump and inform China of an impending attack following the Capitol Hill riot on January 6.

In a letter released on Tuesday, Rubio urged President Joe Biden to “dismiss” Mark Milley immediately, charging that he undermined the former Commander in Chief of the United States Armed Forces by planning to commit treason.

I write with grave concern regarding recent reporting that General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, worked to actively undermine the sitting Commander in Chief of the United States Armed Forces and contemplated a treasonous leak of classified information to the Chinese Communist Party in advance of a potential armed conflict with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). These actions by General Milley demonstrate a clear lack of sound judgement, and I urge you to dismiss him immediately.

According to the upcoming book Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, Milley worried President Trump would “go rogue” and orchestrated two back-channel phone calls with China’s top general promising to inform him an attack on the Communist country were to commence.

“You and I have known each other for now five years. If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise,” Milley reportedly told his Chinese counterpart.

In his letter, Rubio stressed that Milley interfered with America’s civilian-controlled military, which could possibly “lead to war.”

Miley should neither be fired or allowed to resign. That would be the easy way out. It would allow Milley to keep his rank and pension. Milley violated the law. He violated the Constitution. He violated his oath of office and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Any lower ranking officer would be charged, arrested, and tried. And, if convicted, would be stripped of rank, sent to jail, and given a dishonorable discharge upon completion of the sentence, with a loss of all pension. The higher the rank, the more responsible, and the higher the penalty.

I do not need to tell of you the dangers posed by senior military officers leaking classified information on U.S. military operations, but I will underscore that such subversion undermines the President’s ability to negotiate and leverage one of this nation’s instruments of national power in his interactions with foreign nations.

Even more egregiously, reports indicate that General Milley interfered with the procedures by which the civilian commander-in-chief can order a nuclear strike. He purportedly instructed officials not to take orders without his involvement and forced them to take an oath to that effect. A senior military officer interfering with that civilian-controlled process is simply unacceptable at best, and at worst, would cause ambiguity which could lead to war.

No resignation, no firing. Prosecution. Government officials need to be held accountable for their actions. Too often we’ve seen those in Power let off the hook, with few, if any, consequences.

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New York Passes Law Banning Fossil Fueled Vehicles Sales By 2035

By William Teach September 15, 2021 – 8:38 am

If this is meant to Save The Planet, why not do it now? Will the state, and, especially, the lawmakers and Governor’s office, be giving up their own use of fossil fuels? What of all the airports?

New York passes law that will ban all gas-powered car sales by 2035

st greta carIn 14 years’ time, no fossil fuel-powered vehicles will be sold in New York anymore. The state has passed a new law that bans the sale of gas vehicles starting in 2035, requiring all new cars to be zero emission. New York’s Senate and Assembly passed the bill and Governor Kathy Hochul signed it into law last week. The move will help reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions by 35 percent and help it achieve its climate targets, including an 85 reduction in GHG emissions by 2050.

This essentially does away with even regular and plugin hybrid sales.

As Ars Technica notes, though, the state has a lot of work ahead of it, considering only around one percent of new vehicles sold in New York at the moment is fully electric. That’s why, under the new law, several state agencies are required to work together to conjure a zero-emissions vehicle market development strategy by the end of next year. They’ll have to find a feasible way to make sure that even off-road vehicles and equipment sold in the state are emissions-free by 2035. The law also requires all medium- and heavy-duty vehicles sold in New York to be emissions-free by 2045.

It sure looks like the state is going to attempt to take over the new car sales business, creating a massive bureacracy and dictating what dealers will be able to sell. Well, those which are left, because a ton will close, as they will not have the product, and, unless prices drop massively by 2035, the customers, as most will not be able to afford them or find them convenient, since many have long drives, and the short range of the least expensive EVs will cause issues. Further, what of those who need all wheel drive and four wheel drive vehicles due to the snowy nature of New York? How will this work for family vehicles and work vehicles that are not considered medium and heavy duty?

An interesting part of the law as written is this is about the sale of vehicles that use fossil fuels, not the registration. So, people will simply go to other states to purchase. But, will gas stations close all over, putting a lot of people out of work, just like with car dealerships? Meaning it is tough to refill the vehicle?

Fortunately, they are going to make it easy for people to bike

SUPPORTING BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN OPTIONS, PARTICULARLY IN LOW-INCOME AND DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES IN THE STATE, BY INCORPORATING SAFE AND ACCESSIBLE INFRASTRUCTURE INTO PROJECTS WHERE APPROPRIATE.

Sounds fun, right?

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Judge Temporarily Blocks New York’s Vaccine Mandate For Healthcare Workers

By William Teach September 15, 2021 – 8:18 am

The Executive Office order failed to include one very important thing

Federal judge blocks New York COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers

A federal judge has temporarily blocked New York state from requiring healthcare workers to be vaccinated for COVID19.

Judge David Hurd of the Northern District of New York issued the ruling after 17 healthcare workers filed a lawsuit saying the mandate violated their rights because it did not permit religious exemptions.

The state issued the vaccine mandate on Aug. 28, requiring employees at nursing homes and hospitals to have at least one shot by Sept. 27.

The plaintiffs, who included physicians and nurses, claimed that because the New York Department of Health allowed no exemptions for “sincere religious beliefs that compel the refusal of such vaccination,” the mandate violated their rights under the U.S. Constitution and the New York State Human Rights Law.

It appears that their objections centered on their religious conviction to oppose any involvement in abortion. The court papers said that all COVID-19 vaccines use cell lines derived from fetal tissue in their development, production, or testing.

Well, that’s a new one, and could have profound implications on the federal mandate, whenever the rule is created, depending on how the state responds and how the arguments go in court. Even though the federal rule will supposedly include a religious exemption, some of the yammerings of Biden appointees has made it seem that they will be looking hard at anyone who claims a religious exemption and seemingly turning them down. The inclusion of the fetal tissue cells issue will ramp that religious opposition up majorly in suits against Los Federales. But, won’t kill the federal mandate. As for that mandate

Arizona becomes first state to sue over Biden vaccine mandate, even though the text isn’t out yet

Arizona’s Attorney General Mark Brnovich filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration over its vaccine mandates, the first of several threatened cases from Republicans.

In the complaint submitted Tuesday, Brnovich called the policy is “unconstitutional,” appearing to focus his argument on the claim that it unfairly does not apply to migrants who enter the US illegally. (snip)

Brnovich argued that the mandates favor “migrants who cross the southern border illegally ” who “are not subject to any vaccination requirements.”

“This reflects an unmistakable-and unconstitutional-brand of favoritism in favor of illegal migrants,” Brnovich’s office said in a statement.

He argues that the move violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, his office said.

Now, that’s an interesting take. Can this be argued prior to the release of the rule by OSHA, because Biden and his people have spoken about what the rule is meant to do, and illegals are not being required to get the vaccine, or, seemingly, tested. And it would create a situation over the 100+ people rule, since this would exclude those companies with fewer employees, potentially violating the Equal Protection Clause.

Meanwhile

Teachers march through New York City to protest vaccine mandates

Hundreds of current and former teachers, parents, school staffers, and others marched across New York City‘s Brooklyn Bridge on Monday to protest vaccine mandates.

Teachers for Choice organized the demonstration in Foley Square to condemn the vaccine mandates, which the organization claims force teachers either to get vaccinated or lose their jobs.

Marching from the Brooklyn Pier and across the Brooklyn Bridge, protesters carried posters with messages including, “Last years heroes, this years unemployed” and “I call the shots.”

“I have lived and worked in this city as a civil servant for 28 years of my life,” Amy Carroll, a retired teacher, told PIX11. “I should be able to make my own health decisions and make a decision that doesn’t affect my employment, that doesn’t affect my right to go to a restaurant, or a Broadway play, a museum.”

They should be. The un-vaxxed should be able to make that decision, and, if they get sick, that’s on them. Those of us who took the vaccine took it to protect ourselves, because that’s the way it’s supposed to work.

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LOL: Almost Half Of Youths Say Climate Anxiety Causing Problems In Their Daily Lives

By William Teach September 14, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Just wait till they actually have to enter the Adult World and deal with real issues

Nearly half of young people worldwide say climate change anxiety is affecting their daily life

A global study has found young people are suffering “profound psychological distress” due to climate change and government inaction on the crisis.

Some 45% of the 10,000 young people surveyed across 10 countries for the study, published Tuesday, said anxiety and distress over the climate crisis was affecting their daily life and ability to function.

Three-quarters of respondents aged 16-25 felt that the “future is frightening,” while 64% of young people said that governments were not doing enough to avoid a climate crisis.

In fact, nearly two-thirds of young people felt betrayed by governments and 61% said governments were not protecting them, the planet or future generations.

The study, which was said to be the first large-scale research of its kind, was led by academics from the U.K.’s University of Bath and the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, among others. It is under peer review in The Lancet Planetary Health journal.

“Such high levels of distress, functional impact and feelings of betrayal will inevitably impact the mental health of children and young people,” the authors of the study warned.

First, it’s fantastic how the climate cult has created a bunch of neurotic youngsters, fearful of a complete scam. Second, the same scammers have created a generation of people who can only do things that the government tells them to do. They cannot survive or do anything, seemingly, without the Strong Hand Of Government.

They added that while climate anxiety may not constitute a mental illness in itself, “the realities of climate change alongside governmental failures to act are chronic, long term and potentially inescapable stressors; conditions in which mental health problems will worsen.”

If they’re so concerned why don’t they change their own lives? No more taking a fossil fueled trip somewhere to take selfies. No more streaming TikTok, which uses a lot of power. No more smartphones. No spring break. And so much more.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 14, 2021 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Irons In The Fire, with a post on trusting the (China linked) scientists.

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It’s Crazy That People Can Travel Around U.S. Without Vaccination Proof, Eh?

By William Teach September 14, 2021 – 12:20 pm

Now, imagine this discussion occurred while Trump was president

“Being considered.” Have fun trying to shut down state borders. Dem states might comply. Republican ones won’t. What if companies refuse to ship their products to those shut down states? Same people with this Progressivism (nice Fascism) belief always want the Southern border open and no COVID tests for illegals/migrants. And no voter ID.

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Of Course California: Church Installs Gender Confused As Bishop

By William Teach September 14, 2021 – 10:30 am

In all fairness, the Bible doesn’t say all that much about gender in the first place, nor does it say anything about transgenders

Mainline Christian church installs first openly trans bishop

A California church installed the first openly transgender bishop of a mainline Christian denomination in San Francisco.

The Rev. Megan Rohrer was named bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on Saturday, saying the recognition is humbling.

“It’s fancy new embroidery but still first part of doing a new job, you want to do well since so many people around the world are paying attention,” Rohrer told Fox2 in the Bay Area. “Becoming a bishop is one more field that trans people can be fully equal.”

Rohrer is set to serve a six-year term and preside over the Sierra Pacific Synod, which consists of roughly 200 Lutheran congregations.

The road to becoming bishop has not been smooth, according to Rohrer, who was the first transgender chaplain of the San Francisco Police Department.

Rohrer had reportedly been excluded from the church for its regulations against those in the gay and transgender community.

“She” doesn’t look much like a woman, eh? As far as being the bishop, I guess this all depends on the parishioners. Do they care? Will they have a problem with some with obvious mental illness? And, is that low level mental illness but a person who is well adjusted and safe, or, like a lot of trans, who are dealing with serious mental illness up to the point of suicidal thoughts? Or, will this drive many away?

(Religion News) Really, it is not all that complicated. There are only six verses used when discussing same-sex relationships. With transgender identities, the only verse that could be interpreted in addressing transgender people is Deuteronomy 22:5.

The verse says, “A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor a man wear women’s clothing, for the LORD your God detests anyone who does this.”

Anyone who reads Deuteronomy 22:5 and thinks it addresses transgender identities doesn’t have a firm grasp on transgender identities. If anything, this verse more accurately responds to cross dressing — not gender identity.

There really isn’t any difference. Even if a man “identifies” as a woman, he’s not. He’s male. Hence, cross dressing. The bigger issue is, Rohrer is gay, and there is prohibitions on same sex relationships. Though, being honest, if he/she isn’t raping young boys like we’ve seen in the Catholic Church, and preaching God’s Word, that’s fine.

Rohrer hopes that being bishop will elucidate the dedication that gay and transgender members have toward faith.

Will Rohrer push SJW stuff from the pulpit, or stick with religion?

Transgender MMA fighter chokes out female competitor in debut match

Transgender mixed martial arts fighter Alana McLaughlin, a biological male, defeated her opponent via rear-naked choke in a Friday debut fight.

McLaughlin, 38, began transitioning in 2010 after leaving the U.S. Army Special Forces, Outsports.com reported. The transgender fighter beat Celine Provost, a biological female, 3 minutes and 32 seconds into the second round. McLaughlin began training in the sport a year ago and was cleared to compete against women by the Florida State Boxing Commission after a hormone level test.

He beat the snot out of her, taking a win away from a woman in a woman’s division. Piers Morgan, who makes a lot of sense on things other than firearms, notes

It was the moment ideology met cold, hard reality.

Alana McLaughlin, 38, the second transgender MMA fighter to compete in the sport, used a powerful choke hold to beat Celine Provost, 32.

The latter was demonstrably a more skilled and experienced fighter during their bout on Friday night – McLaughlin only took up MMA earlier this year, whereas Provost’s been doing it for a decade – but just couldn’t compete with the overwhelming physical strength of her opponent.

Provost’s punches bounced off McLaughlin like a baby lion’s off its father, and when she was pinned to the ground, she couldn’t move and quickly tapped out.

Take a peak at the article: McLaughlin looks nothing like a woman.

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