If All You See…

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

…is an area perfect for a wind farm, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Greenie Watch, with a post on solar trade woes.

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Majority Of Americans Say Government Too Involved

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

Yet, supposedly, 81 million voted for the guy who’s agenda was to involve the federal government even more in our lives, instead of the guy doing the opposite but had Mean Tweets

Majority of Americans in new poll says government doing too much

crying democratA majority of Americans say that the government is doing too much, according to a Gallup poll released Thursday.

Fifty-two percent of respondents said government is doing too many things that should be left to individuals and businesses, while 43 percent said the government should do more to solve the country’s problems.

The findings come in contrast to when Gallup conducted the poll last year and found that 54 percent of Americans wanted the government to have a more active role in solving the nation’s problems. That poll came amid economic struggles resulting from the coronavirus pandemic and racial injustice issues.

Perhaps that explains the election. And, now, these people are realizing that too much government is a bad thing, especially when it originates from the Central Government in isolated Washington, it’s own little world of dis-reality.

Fifty-seven percent of Independents say the government is doing too much, compared to 38 percent who held the same opinion last year. A separate thirty-eight percent said the government should be doing more, down 18 points from the 56 percent who held that view last year.

That does not bode well for the mid-terms. Perhaps they should have thought of this with their brains during the 2020 election season, rather than with their hearts

The poll also found that 18 percent of Democrats say the government is trying to do too many things, and 78 percent said the government should be doing more. Eighty percent of Republicans held that the government is trying to do too many things, while 15 percent said the government should be doing more.

Who are these 15% of Republicans who want more Government?

Given the choice, 50 percent of respondents said they preferred less services and reduced taxes, while 19 percent said they wanted more services and taxes. A separate 29 percent preferred keeping government services and taxes the way they are now.

You know, government could do more with less, if they spent it wisely. But, should focus more on core missions.

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Climate Cult Says Unfettered Immigration Necessary For Fate Of The World

By William Teach October 14, 2021 – 8:45 am

I’m starting to think this has nothing to do with climate, and everything to do with Progressive politics

The future of the world may depend on letting people move

The best — and perhaps only — way to respond to huge changes in the climate and global demography may be to facilitate mass migration.

Why it matters: Migration in the future will be subject to powerful push and pull factors — the push of climate change and the pull of rich and aging countries in the West and East Asia that will desperately need younger workers from abroad.

But a big post-COVID migration wave will need to overcome substantial political barriers.

Political barriers like “countries have borders” and “bringing in unskilled workers with completely different beliefs who refuse to adapt and demand countries adapt to them destroys countries”

What’s happening: In his new book “Move: The Forces Uprooting Us,” political geographer Parag Khanna makes the case that the world is poised to enter a new era of mass migration in response to major environmental, economic and political changes — and this will be a largely positive change.

Ask Sweden and the UK how this is working out, with tons of “migrants” creating their own little zones which include violence, grooming gangs, and often, Sharia Law. A goodly chunk of which do not work, do not provide value, but, demand government money.

Between the lines: The single biggest factor is that whatever they might feel politically about immigration, most rich countries will require large numbers of workers to keep their economies going in the face of population slowdown and decline.

Which drops the value of wages. This makes it tough for 1st World progressives getting worthless degrees to get a job slinging coffee.

Context: At the same time, many of the countries and regions that have a surplus of people will also come under increasing pressure from climate change, while many of the areas that will remain more livable in a hotter future — what Khanna calls “climate oases” — are comparatively empty.

Within the U.S., heavily populated places like the desert Southwest or wildfire-prone parts of California will become increasingly inhospitable even as colder, depopulating areas like the Great Lakes are poised to better withstand climate change.

This is just jamming ‘climate change’ into the Left’s belief in bringing in lots of people to be their voters. How’s this working out in Minneapolis, which is essentially becoming a 3rd world shithole, just like parts of Somalia.

Mankind has always been impacted by climatic changes, because this has always happened. Same with all life on Earth.

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FBI Launches New “Hate Crimes” Snitching Program

By William Teach October 14, 2021 – 8:32 am

The FBI apparently has nothing better to do than to turn American against American, and missed that whole pesky Freedom of Speech part of the Bill Of Rights, which is also present in every single U.S. state constitution. And that being mean to someone is not something that crosses state borders. Here’s the Pittsburgh Post Gazette editorial board

The FBI launches new effort against hate crimes

No one likes a snitch.

But there are times when reporting poor behavior or telling the truth to authority is valuable for societal health. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has recognized this fact and has launched a national public awareness campaign calling on everyday citizens to report hate crimes when they see them.

The FBI Pittsburgh field office is joining that effort, and city residents should heed that request. In short, if you see something, say something, to borrow a phrase.

The FBI has defined a hate crime as a “criminal offense against a person or property motivated in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender or gender identity.” Such crimes are disgusting and tear at the country’s social fabric.

Hey, perhaps I’ll report the Post Gazette when they make fun of Christians or white men. Or make nasty remarks about straight people.

Double hey, can we report those who commit fake hate crimes to the FBI? Like this one. Because there is a proliferation of them, which, as that article shows, cause massive problems for those accused. The allegations usually get front page news: when they are proven to be false, they often do not even make it into the news

People should be able to disagree politically or socially without criminally attacking one another. And yet, the stats indicate that they can’t. The FBI has in the past acknowledged that white supremacy and hate groups now account for the largest share of U.S. domestic terrorism, and the local field office has stated that some such groups are alive and active in Western Pennsylvania. Not that such groups are the only perpetrators of hate crimes or cannot themselves be the target, of course.

Words are now criminal. And you can see that this is mean to be an attack on opponents of Democrats, criminalizing their words, deeming all who oppose Democrats white supremacists and hate groups.

Here’s what can be done now: Everyday citizens can take it upon themselves to step up and report when they see something amiss. If the victims themselves are reluctant to report such crimes, then it’s up to the people in their lives or even bystanders to help ensure that justice has its day. (The reporting hotline is 1-800-225-5324, or tips can be submitted at tips.fbi.gov.)

So, wait, if the “victims” of the so-called crime do not want to report it, do not want to file charges, some rando can now reach out to the FBI and get them involved? What if the victim doesn’t think it’s a crime and/or involved “hate”? Will the snitch be required to testify in court, as required by the Bill of Rights?

The FBI is calling on residents to help them discover and investigate such incidents, as the bureau cannot launch an investigation based on hateful language alone — there must be a threat of violence, a furtherance of an ideology or a federal crime. Now it’s up to residents to step up when they are able.

Sounds like there’s going to be a lot of hoax reports.

The photo is the cover of the book, which is here.

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Biden Speaks On Infrastructure: Brandon Was As Bad As You’d Think

By William Teach October 13, 2021 – 5:19 pm

Watch, if you can

Biden was almost an hour late for his Big Speech, spoke for ten minutes, started out by botching names, then walked away without taking any questions. So, yeah, the Christmas buying season will be a disaster, and the supply chain issues will be around for a long time.

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Bummer: China Building More Coal Plants, Could Deal Blow To COP26

By William Teach October 13, 2021 – 2:53 pm

Hey, remember when Let’s Go Brandon and John Kerry, along with so many Warmists, were extolling how great China is for saying they’re on board with Doing Something about ‘climate change’? How’s that going?

China’s plan to build more coal-fired plants deals blow to UK’s Cop26 ambitions

surprise surprise surpriseChina plans to build more coal-fired power plants and has hinted that it will rethink its timetable to slash emissions, in a significant blow to the UK’s ambitions for securing a global agreement on phasing out coal at the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow.

In a statement after a meeting of Beijing’s National Energy Commission, the Chinese premier, Li Keqiang, stressed the importance of regular energy supply, after swathes of the country were plunged into darkness by rolling blackouts that hit factories and homes.

While China has published plans to reach peak carbon emissions by 2030, the statement hinted that the energy crisis had led the Communist party to rethink the timing of this ambition, with a new “phased timetable and roadmap for peaking carbon emissions”.

China doesn’t want to depend on unreliable wind and solar, but, they’re happy to sell all those “clean energy” products to climate cultist nations.

Beijing’s renewed embrace of coal – apparently at odds with Xi’s state climate ambitions – are likely to cause alarm in the run-up to Cop26.

China was never giving up coal. They were, shockingly, telling the Warmists what they wanted to hear, pledging to Do Something, but, doing the opposite. If they were smart, they’d build nuclear plants, but, it’s a lot easier and faster to do coal. And cheaper.

Meanwhile

Where has the wind gone? ‘Global stilling’ is blamed as wind speeds drop across Europe cutting green energy production – threatening to drive up energy prices even FURTHER

Industry experts are warning that climate change may have caused wind speeds in Europe to plummet this year in news that threatens to drive energy prices even higher.

Long labelled as a saviour of the energy industry, wind farms have cropped up across the continent in recent years and have been billed a low-cost, renewable and dependable source of power.

Experts are blaming a growing phenomenon known as ‘global stilling’ – whereby measurable wind speeds across the world’s continental surfaces have decreased by as much as 15 per cent since 1980.

Remember when the climate cult was saying that ‘climate change’ is causing the world’s winds to speed up? What happened to that? I’m sure they have Reasons, just like blaming winter weather on heat trapping gases.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 13, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil plastic water bottle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Datechguy’s Blog, with a post on Help Wanted.

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Let’sGoBrandon To Discuss The Supply Chain Crisis

By William Teach October 13, 2021 – 10:41 am

Well, it’s about damned time, but, could be a little to little a little to late. Though, in honesty, I hope they can help alleviate this, because it is hurting Americans

Biden to discuss supply chain crisis with US ports and carriers

Biden Brain SuckerThe US government is stepping up its efforts to relieve the supply chain nightmare that has led to shortages of some goods, higher prices for consumes and now threatens to slow the economic recovery.

The White House will work with companies and ports on a “90-day sprint” to alleviate bottlenecks, according to a senior administration official. Some will start working 24/7 to address the backlogs.

The Port of Los Angeles will move to 24/7 service, bringing it into line with operations at the Port of Long Beach, which is already working on a 24/7 schedule, the official said. Those two ports handle 40% of container traffic in the US. (snip)

President Joe Biden will meet with senior officials and stakeholders to discuss collective efforts to address global transportation bottlenecks and then deliver remarks on Wednesday. Port operators, truckers’ associations, labor unions and executives from Walmart (WMT), FedEx (FDX), UPS (UPS) and Target (CBDY)will attend the talks.

Well, it’s a start. We’ll have to see how this plan shakes out, and whether it just ends up being a bone thrown to union workers. And you’d think that the White House and Brandon getting involved would be big news. CNN finds something else to be bigger

The global supply chain nightmare is about to get worse

Computer chip shortages. Epic port congestion. And a serious lack of truck drivers. The world’s delicate supply chains are under extreme stress.

The supply chain nightmare is jacking up prices for consumers and slowing the global economic recovery. Unfortunately, Moody’s Analytics warns supply chain disruptions “will get worse before they get better.”

“As the global economic recovery continues to gather steam, what is increasingly apparent is how it will be stymied by supply-chain disruptions that are now showing up at every corner,” Moody’s wrote in a Monday report.

Indeed, the IMF downgraded its 2021 US growth forecast on Tuesday by one percentage point, the most for any G7 economy. The IMF cited supply chain disruptions and weakening consumption — which itself has been partially driven by supply chain bottlenecks such as a lack of new cars amid the computer chip shortage.

Moody’s said the “weakest link” may be the shortage of truck drivers — an issue that has contributed to congestion at ports and caused gas stations in the United Kingdom to run dry. Unfortunately, Moody’s warned there are “dark clouds ahead” because several factors make overcoming the supply constraints particularly challenging.

Could they use the National Guard or regular military to move product, at least to get it from the ports to a warehouse or something? There doesn’t seem to be a problem in using them to supplant health workers. Let’s see if Brandon has any impact, or, this is simply an acknowledgement of the problem for the news and some soundbites, with little being done.

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Climate Crisis (scam) In Court: Going After Bolsonaro, St. Greta Dismissed

By William Teach October 13, 2021 – 8:29 am

There’s no doubt that many of Jair Bolsonaro’s Amazon policies are bad for the environment: do they rise to crimes against humanity, especially when being argued through the lens of ‘climate change’?

Climate activists call for investigation of Bolsonaro

A group of climate lawyers called Tuesday for the International Criminal Court to launch an investigation into Brazil’s president for possible crimes against humanity over his administration’s Amazon policies.

The AllRise group filed a dossier with the global court alleging that Jair Bolsonaro’s administration is responsible for a “widespread attack on the Amazon, its dependants and its defenders” that affects the global population.

The call comes less than three weeks before the United Nations’ 26th Climate Change Conference of the Parties, known as the COP26, starts on Oct. 31 in Glasgow.

Since taking office, Bolsonaro has encouraged development within the Amazon and dismissed global complaints about its destruction as a plot to hold back Brazil’s agribusiness. His administration also weakened environmental authorities and backed legislative measures to loosen land protections, emboldening land grabbers.

“Crimes against nature are crimes against humanity. Jair Bolsonaro is fueling the mass destruction of the Amazon with eyes wide open and in full knowledge of the consequences, “ AllRise founder Johannes Wesemann said in a statement. ”The ICC has a clear duty to investigate environmental crimes of such global gravity.”

And, let’s say the climate lawyers win: what’s the end result? Bolsonaro ignoring the ruling? Or, are the climate lawyers just looking for some cash? Of course, the ICC has to accept the case in the first place, and, with hundreds filed each year, the ICC generally avoids picking them up. This, though, is where the climate cultists want to go: anyone not complying with their doomsday cult beliefs should be jailed as a criminal against humanity.

U.N. panel says it can’t rule on climate case brought by Thunberg

St. GretaA U.N. panel said it could not immediately rule on a complaint by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg and others that state inaction on climate change violates children’s rights, adding that they should have taken the case to national courts first.

The complaint was filed with the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child in 2019 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-un-complaint-idUSKBN1W82AS and the 18-member panel has been conducting hearings and deliberating since.

The 15 activists, aged between eight and 17 at the time, had argued that France, Turkey, Brazil, Germany and Argentina had known about the risk of climate change for decades but failed to curb their carbon emissions. (snip)

The committee, made up of 18 independent human rights experts, concluded that a “sufficient causal link” had been established between the significant harm allegedly suffered by the children and the acts or omissions of the five states.

However, it accepted the arguments of the five countries that the children should have tried to bring cases to their national courts first.

The kiddies should be advised that if they believe so strongly in the doctrine of their doomsday cult they should start living a carbon neutral life and get all their fellow cultists to do the same.

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Surrender Joe Tells Texas And Florida He’ll Override Their Anti-Mandate Laws

By William Teach October 13, 2021 – 8:15 am

Brandon is working hard to implement his #Unity agenda. We’re all in this together with rising inflation, a shortage of goods, rising gas and energy prices, incensed by Americans stuck in Afghanistan, and more. So, what does he do? His administration picks a fight with Texas and Florida

White House Taunts Texas and Florida for Fighting Vaccine Mandates: Joe Biden Will Override State Laws

The White House on Tuesday warned Republican governors of Texas and Florida that President Joe Biden would override their efforts to fight coronavirus vaccine mandates in their states.

“We know that federal law overrides state law,” she said referring to state attempts to ban vaccine passports.

She accused Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott of playing politics by issuing executive orders that fight vaccine passports.

“Why would you be taking steps that prevent the saving of lives that make it more difficult to save lives across the country or in any state?” she asked.

Psaki argued that the governors were “putting politics ahead of public health.”

Except, what federal law exists that mandates citizens to take the Chinese coronavirus vaccine? Most mandates for taking vaccines come from the states when it comes to schools. Because there really is no federal law. There isn’t even a federal law regarding the crossing of state borders. There are federal laws about vaccination for foreigners entering the United States, which Brandon and his admin seem to be blowing off, though, when it comes to illegals at the border.

Further, it is not open-ended preemption, as the federal government cannot preempt when there is no Constitutional authority. The Constitution does not grant them every single power they want. The 10th Amendment makes that clear. Just because the Biden admin puts out a rule from OSHA requiring companies with 100+ employees to require vaccination does not mean it over-rides the states and what they say.

(Bono Law) On August 4, 1999, the Clinton administration issued Executive Order 13132, entitled “Federalism.” It outlined a policy for how regulatory agencies of the Executive Branch should approach regulations that might conflict with state law. Section 4 of the order specifically addresses preemption. It states that agencies should restrict their interpretations of their own regulations so that they preempt state law in only three situations:

  1. Congress expressly authorized preemption;
  2. Congress intended preemption, based on “clear evidence”; or
  3. State law conflicts with the regular enforcement or exercise of federal law.

These are still generally accepted as the three main situations in which preemption may occur.

Just because Congress passed a law creating OSHA doesn’t mean there is an open-ended ability to manufacture whatever the hell they want. There is no explicit language, which is generally the excepted requirement, including in Supreme Court rulings, allowing a vaccine mandate. They can, in fact, encourage companies to implement procedures to do away with disease in the workplace, but, nothing gives them statutory authority to create a mandate.

They might, though, have the power to require weekly testing. We’ll have to wait and see what the rule looks like. Does it provide exemptions for religious and medical reasons? And, again, why 100+ people?

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