Climate Elite Gretchen Whitmer Spent $670 Million On Green Crazy

By William Teach March 22, 2025 – 3:09 pm

But, better, what actually happened?

From the Midwesterner article

Green energy and EV taxpayer-funded handouts from SOAR Critical Industry Program promised thousands of jobs that never transpired

Three years after lawmakers created the Strategic Outreach Attraction Reserve Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said would “create tens of thousands of good paying jobs,” not a single one has materialized.

Michigan taxpayers have shelled out more than $670 million to five multibillion companies to prop up the electric vehicle and renewable energy industries in Michigan with a promise to create a total of 8,812 jobs, but a report from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation that oversees the spending shows zero “actual qualified jobs created.”

“The program was poorly designed from the start,” said James Hohman, director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. “It allows companies to cash in on taxpayer subsidies without having to create jobs. Lawmakers must wait years to ask for taxpayer money back if deals fail to deliver. It’s good that House lawmakers are working to redirect this money to roads.”

Some of the companies have been around for a while (did GM really need this money?), some, like Our Next Energy, are start ups and have done nothing. This is all a scam.

Not only have the jobs failed to materialize, companies awarded taxpayer funds have backed out of their commitments, or laid off employees.

Earlier this month, Our Next Energy cut two dozen Michigan jobs in a second round of layoffs since receiving its $200 million payout. The company also laid off 128 workers in November to focus on “core priorities,” according to The Detroit News.

Scam. Maybe I need to at a “Green Scam” sub-category to the Global Warming category.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 22, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is an area flooded by carbon pollution driven Extreme Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Cold Fury, with a post on the death of George Foreman.

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LOL: Trump Revokes Security Clearances For Biden, Hillary Clinton

By William Teach March 22, 2025 – 10:30 am

In NY Times World it was perfectly fine for Biden to revoke Trump’s security clearance, but, not the other way around. Anyhow, as we’ve been told, elections have consequences

Trump Revokes Security Clearances for Biden, Harris, Clinton and More
The tally of names read like President Trump’s enemies list, from Letitia James to Liz Cheney.

President Trump’s revenge tour continues.

Late Friday night, he issued a memo rescinding security clearances and access to classified information for a slew of erstwhile opponents including Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Joseph R. Biden Jr. and “any other member of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s family.”

Mr. Trump had said back in February that he planned to remove his predecessor’s access to classified intelligence briefings. It was payback — Mr. Biden had done the same to him after he left office in the days after the Jan 6. attack on the U.S. Capitol.

A variety of figures who’ve tangled with Mr. Trump at one point or another were named in Friday’s memo. Some had already been mentioned by Trump officials as people who would soon have their security clearances revoked, so their inclusion in Friday’s memo did not come as a shock. But taken together, the catalog of names read like an enemies list.

There were New York’s top two law enforcement officials, Letitia James (the New York attorney general) and Alvin L. Bragg (Manhattan’s district attorney), both of whom took on Mr. Trump.

Biden is no longer in office, and no longer needs it. Nor is Kamala. James and Bragg are a disaster, and misused those clearances. Why did Biden’s family need them? Hillary has been out of office for quite some time, and, quite frankly, showed that she played fast and loose with security regulations. Trump should have stripped her clearance in 2017, but, back then, he didn’t want to play that brand of retaliation politics.

And there were the only two Republicans who served on the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.

Neither are in office: why do they need them? It’s like the clearances are thrown around like candy. He does want to play that hardball politics now, after all the crap Democrats did to Trump. Perhaps Dems should have considered their actions against Trump after he left office.

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Global NGOs Shocked And Dismayed Over Greenpeace $660 Million In Damages Ruling

By William Teach March 22, 2025 – 7:00 am

They are all very upset that a company dared to sue despite all the climate cult groups using massive lawfare

Greenpeace $660mn damages ruling shocks global NGOs

Civil society groups on Thursday condemned a US court order that Greenpeace pay over $660 million in damages to an oil pipeline company as a chilling attack on climate action around the globe.

Environmental defenders rallied behind Greenpeace after the shock ruling by a North Dakota jury fuelled concerns that courtrooms were increasingly being used to smother critics.

“It sends a dangerous message: that fossil fuel giants can weaponize the courts to bankrupt and silence those who challenge the destruction of our planet,” said Anne Jellema, executive director of advocacy group 350.org.

The judgement “is not only an attack on Greenpeace — it is an assault on the entire climate movement, clearly intended to chill the resistance to fossil fuels”, she added in a written statement to AFP.

Or, perhaps climate cultists shouldn’t attack private companies and damage their very expensive equipment.

Ana Caistor Arendar from rights monitor Global Witness said it was “an existential threat to activism, protest and to land and environmental defenders, not just in the US, but everywhere”.

Violence and defamation are not protest. But, hey, if they are saying they cannot operate without doing that, well, too bad.

Brice Bohmer from Transparency International, a global corruption watchdog, said the lawsuit was “unconscionable” and evidence of a much wider problem.

“This kind of activity is becoming increasingly common across climate action, with fossil fuel actors undermining progress wherever possible,” he said.

So fossil fuels companies, where are completely legal, are just supposed to sit back and allow the cult groups to attack them? Oh, brother. And there are even more examples of the cult groups whining. Seriously, breaking the law has consequences, Greenpeace and NGOs. Crying because those laws were enforced is hilarious. Think twice before doing it again. But, they won’t.

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Bummer: Trump To Shift Student Loans And Special Education From Education Department

By William Teach March 22, 2025 – 6:45 am

Obviously, this makes Democrats very upset because they will no longer be able to skim money off to send to the teacher’s unions and other leftist groups

Trump says the Education Department will shed oversight of student loans and special education

President Donald Trump on Friday began sketching a roadmap for dismantling the Education Department, with other agencies taking over responsibility for federal student loans and programs serving students with disabilities.

The executive order Trump signed Thursday to do away with the department did not offer a timeline or instructions, but his administration appears poised to carve away all but the department’s most vital operations.

The Republican president said during a White House event that student loans will be handled by the Small Business Administration, and “it will be serviced much better than it has in the past.” He also said programs involving students with disabilities would be shifted to the Department of Health and Human Services.

The decisions drew blowback from advocacy groups that fear disruptions will be inevitable. The Small Business Association announced Friday it will cut its staff by 43%, raising questions about its ability to take on the Education Department’s $1.6 trillion loan portfolio.

Student loans were run through other federal agencies prior to the creation of the Department Of Education (ED, not DOE). You had them through the National Defense Education Act of 1958, backed by Treasury. The the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program established in 1965. The the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae), formed in 1973. It wasn’t till 1979, with the creation of the ED, that they started rolling some through the ED. And then with all sorts of shenanigans by Obama and the Democrat controlled Congress they drastically increased it all, causing student loan dept to skyrocket, especially as colleges started drastically increasing the cost of tuition, since Los Federales were totally backing it all, including private loans.

And for special education, things worked a whole hell of a lot better behind when states and school districts were in charge, since they knew their students, rather than far away bureaucrats in D.C.

Trump’s executive order said the student loan portfolio is too big for the Education Department to manage. After the SBA cuts, however, it will be left with fewer than 4,000 employees — about the size of the Education Department before it was cut in half by the Trump administration.

Except, there are around 50,000 non-direct employees helping out the ED employees, which are around 4,500 now.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said she is preparing to relocate the department’s core operations to other agencies and roll back federal regulations. In an opinion piece published Friday by Fox News Channel, she said abolishing the department “will not happen tomorrow,” but she plans to pave the way.

“We will systematically unwind unnecessary regulations and prepare to reassign the department’s other functions to the states or other agencies,” McMahon wrote.

Which is always the way it was supposed to be. The ED is supposed to be a helper, not the people in charge of everything, who dictate everything. Look at FEMA: they were meant to be coordinators and helpers for states, counties, and cities. They were not meant to be In Charge of every disaster. They were meant to help with things like supplementing state emergency management offices, especially when there are tons of helpers coming from out of state. Well, the ED was meant to be a helper, not dictate things like that schools must allow the gender confused in women’s sports and safe spaces. What schools are allowed to serve for breakfast and lunch.

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Bummer: Feeding Our Future CEO Aimee Bock Found Guilty

By William Teach March 21, 2025 – 3:00 pm

How bad was the graft with a federal program to make the government come after her? Pretty bad

Minnesota jury convicts alleged ringleader of massive pandemic food fraud scheme on all counts

A jury found the alleged ringleader of a massive pandemic fraud case in Minnesota guilty on all counts Wednesday for her role in a scheme that federal prosecutors say stole $250 million from a program meant to feed children in need.

They found her guilty. Nothing alleged about it. Fookin’ Associated Press

Aimee Bock — founder of Feeding our Future, the group at the heart of the plot — was one of 70 defendants charged in the overall case, which prosecutors said was the nation’s single largest fraud scheme against COVID-19 relief programs.

The Minnesota case has also drawn attention for an attempt to bribe a juror in an earlier trial and witness tampering in Bock’s trial, which began last month. Thirty-seven defendants have already pleaded guilty, while five were convicted in a group of defendants who were tried last year.

The jury also convicted a co-defendant, Salim Ahmed Said, owner of the now-defunct Safari Restaurant in Minneapolis.

Bock, 44, and Said, 36, were charged with multiple counts involving conspiracy, wire fraud and bribery. Said was also charged with money laundering. Bock allegedly pocketed nearly $2 million, while Said was accused of taking around $5 million. They both maintained their innocence and testified at trial.

Feeding or Future was always rather shady, the minute it was created in 2016, and the Minnesota Department Of Education was always leery of them from the get go. But, somehow they got funding

(IRS) In total, Feeding Our Future opened more than 250 Federal Child Nutrition Program sites throughout the state of Minnesota, and in doing so, went from receiving and disbursing approximately $3.4 million in federal funds in 2019 to nearly $200 million in 2021. Throughout the course of their scheme, Feeding Our Future fraudulently obtained and disbursed more than $240 million in Federal Child Nutrition Program funds. The defendants used the proceeds of their fraudulent scheme to purchase luxury vehicles, residential and commercial real estate in Minnesota as well as property in Ohio and Kentucky, real estate in Kenya and Turkey, and to fund international travel.

Who authorized these federal funds to go to Feeding Our Future? I hope federal prosecutors are looking at their finances and lifestyles, see if they were receiving kickbacks. The thing here is that FOF was so shady that they were easily caught. How many others aren’t? How much waste of federal money occurs elsewhere but they’re better at hiding it? From this tweet on the subject

They were so bad they got caught. When Dems caterwaul about children going hungry, medicine not getting to needy people, and so forth, how much of the federal money actually goes to the stated purpose? What percent? There are a few charities I refuse to donate to because so much of the donated money goes to overhead, payroll, and more fundraising and just a pittance goes to aid. If, say, $2 billion goes to feeding people around the world, how much makes it? As it passes through the hands of NGO after NGO to this company to that company, what percent is used for food? The programs are set up poorly, and often set up to avoid accountability. This needs to stop.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 21, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a hill which probably lost its glacier from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Greatness, with a post on a reckoning for higher education.

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Bummer: Universities Are Caving To Trump

By William Teach March 21, 2025 – 10:30 am

This has given Politico and Democrats a big mad

Universities are caving to Trump with a stunning speed and scope

Colleges and universities across the country are capitulating to President Donald Trump with staggering speed, moving to slash progressive policies and crack down on student activism as they face compounding threats from an administration hellbent on reshaping higher education.

Columbia University on Thursday appeared poised to submit to a list of Trump administration demands that threaten core tenets of the school’s mission in an attempt to release itself from a $400 million federal funding freeze. The University of California’s board moved on Wednesday to cut diversity statements from recruitment requirements. Dartmouth College on Monday announced it had hired the Republican National Committee’s former chief counsel — an outspoken critic of birthright citizenship — as the college’s top lawyer and leader of its immigration office. And dozens of universities last month rushed to scrub diversity, equity and inclusion policies from their websites and cancel related events.

It’s a stunning display of how some of the country’s oldest, wealthiest and enduring institutions have swiftly folded to Trump, who is acting on longstanding conservative criticisms of universities as elitist and progressive. In the path of the Trump administration’s threats — and with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake — schools are being tested on how their values, jobs and research stand up to today’s political realities.

If they’re so wealthy then why are they relying on millions, even hundreds of millions, of dollars from Los Federales?

“It’s going to be tense for a while, because … the [university] presidents are not going to go into full-on resistance mode,” said Holden Thorp, the former chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “They have too much history and financial resources and people to protect to do that.”

A growing number of institutions are initiating hiring freezes, rescinding graduate admissions offers and pausing construction, which may be costly to fire up again even if Congress or a new administration reopens the spigot of cash.

Trump hit them in the thing they really care about, the thing that will make them change their behavior: money.

Trump’s tactics are largely delivering on years of conservative frustrations accelerated during the pandemic that galvanized voters against academic frameworks like critical race theory and gender identity as well as DEI and pro-Palestinian protests. As early as 2021, Vice President JD Vance — a Yale alum and not yet a senator — declared “the universities are the enemy.”

Now that Trump and Vance are in charge, they’re using rarely tapped levers of government to shred DEI, discipline pro-Palestinian activists and bar transgender athletes from sports nationally in a way that previous administrations have shied away from. They’re also testing those theories with private universities that are not as directly dependent on state tax money for their operating budgets but have come to expect billions of dollars in federal grant funding for research that can be excruciating to restart if dismantled.

Politico finally hit the primary reasons, the first being allowing Hamas support/protests/riots on their campuses, but, do not mention the harassment and violence towards Jewish students. Second is allowing biological men to take the spots of biological females in sports primarily, along with those gender confused in the safe spaces of women. When did Democrats decide they would throw woman overboard? It wasn’t that long ago they were overdoing it with #MeToo.

“This is long overdue,” said Roger Severino, vice president of domestic policy at the Heritage Foundation. He added that universities are “finally complying with the law” after “civil rights laws under Obama and Biden were turned on their head and the DEI woke agenda displaced actual civil rights.”

As usual, Democrats went too far with this, and it was long time to end it.

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Doom Today: UN Says Some Glaciers May Not Survive By The End Of The Century

By William Teach March 21, 2025 – 7:00 am

I’d say “who gets fired when this doesn’t happen”, but, really, there are lots and lots of glaciers which have disappeared since the end of the last glacial age. That’s why this is called an inter-glacial. And then glaciers will come back during a Holocene cool period. Then disappear during the warm period that follows

End of eternal ice: Many glaciers will not survive this century, climate scientists say

Together with ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, glaciers lock up about 70 per cent of the world’s freshwater reserves. They are striking indicators of climate change as they typically remain about the same size in a stable climate.

But, with rising temperatures and global warming triggered by human-induced climate change, they are melting at unprecedented speed, said Sulagna Mishra, a scientific officer at the World Meteorological Organization

Last year, glaciers in Scandinavia, the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard and North Asia experienced the largest annual loss of overall mass on record. Glaciologists determine the state of a glacier by measuring how much snow falls on it and how much melt occurs every year, according to UN partner the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) at the University of Zurich.

How far back does that record go? Can it incorporate the previous Holocene warm periods for scientific integrity?

The latest data indicates that 25 to 30 per cent of sea level rise comes from glacier melt, according to the World Glacier Monitoring Service.

Melting snowcaps are causing sea levels to rise about one millimetre higher every year, a figure that might seem insignificant, yet every millimetre will flood another 200,000 to 300,000 persons every year.

Man, they are really going full Doom, eh?

WGMS’s Mr. Zemp, who also teaches glaciology at the University of Zurich, is already preparing for a world without glaciers.

“If I think of my children, I am living in a world with maybe no glaciers. That’s actually quite alarming,” he told UN News.

“I really recommend going with your children there and having a look at it because you can see the dramatic changes that are going on, and you will also realise that we are putting a big burden on our next generation.”

And how will they get there? Fossil fueled travel? Maybe they can talk about the glaciers during the next UN climate conference in Brazil after tens of thousands take fossil fueled trips.

Echoing those concerns, WMO’s Ms. Mishra added that if emissions of warming greenhouse gases are not slowed “and the temperatures are rising at the rate they are at the moment, by the end of 2100, we are going to lose 80 per cent of the small glaciers” across Europe, East Africa, Indonesia and elsewhere.

And if that doesn’t happen? Well, none of the people making the prognostications will be around to be fired.

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Trump Admin Drops Lawsuit Against Texas Law Which Criminalizes Illegally Crossing The Border

By William Teach March 21, 2025 – 6:45 am

Yet another Biden era thing that’s going away….unless one of the moonbat judges want to try and tell the DOJ they must challenge the law

Trump administration drops challenge to Texas law targeting people who illegally cross the border

The Trump administration late Tuesday moved to drop the federal government’s legal challenge to the Texas immigration law that allows local police to arrest people they suspect crossed the Texas-Mexico border illegally.

The law, known as Senate Bill 4, will continue to be challenged by El Paso County

Two immigrant rights groups — Austin-based American Gateways and El Paso-based Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center — who are represented by Texas Civil Rights Project lawyers.

In a court filing, the U.S. Department of Justice told U.S. District Judge David Ezra that it is voluntarily dropping its legal challenge.

The Texas Legislature approved the law in 2023, then the Biden administration filed a lawsuit against it. Ezra had blocked the law from going into effect, but Texas appealed. The appeals court sent the case back to Ezra’s court, where it remains pending.

Unfortunately, it still means that the law is on hold

The law would make it a state crime to cross the Texas-Mexico border between ports of entry. If a police officer believes they have evidence that a person illegally crossed the Rio Grande, that person could be charged with a Class B misdemeanor, which carries a punishment of up to six months in jail. For subsequent offenses, the person could be charged with a second-degree felony and face up to 20 years in prison.

If the migrant is convicted and has served their sentence, a judge must order police to transport them to a port of entry for removal from the country. A judge could drop the charges if a migrant agrees to return to Mexico, and police could turn over migrant families to Border Patrol agents to avoid separating children from their parents instead of arresting them.

Fortunately, President Trump has been sending tons of help to the border states, including Texas, to pick up all those illegals. And, if a local, county, or state law enforcement officer catches one they can just hand of to Los Federales.

Meanwhile

TN lawmakers introduce bill to criminalize those harboring illegal immigrants

Tennessee lawmakers are working to make it a crime to harbor or hide a person who illegally enters and remains in the United States.

Introduced by Representative Chris Todd (R-Madison County) and Senator Brent Taylor (R-Memphis), HB0322 has recently been recommended for passage in the House and has had multiple sponsors added throughout March.

The bill would allow the attorney general to charge people or an organization with a human trafficking offense or an aggravated human trafficking offense if they harbor or hide an illegal immigrant in Tennessee.

And we all know that the minute it is passed the Usual Suspects will sue.

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