If All You See…

By William Teach May 22, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is wood rotting from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Watts Up With That?, with a post on focusing on real environmental conditions.

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Sanctuary City Denver Launches Ambitious Plan For Illegal Aliens

By William Teach May 22, 2024 – 10:30 am

Goodness, what could possibly go wrong with this?

Denver launches ambitious migrant program, breaking from the short-term shelter approach

illegal alien Democrat In a hotel conference room in Denver, Dallenis Martinez attended orientation with hundreds of other migrants Monday for the city’s new, ambitious migrant support program, which includes six-month apartment stays and intensive job preparation for those who can’t yet legally work.

It’s an about-face from strategies Denver, New York City and Chicago have used as the cities scrambled to support thousands of migrants and slashed budgets. The largely improvised support strategies have included days- to weeks-long shelter stays or bus tickets to send migrants elsewhere.

Now, Martinez, 28, and her two young kids, along with some 650 others in Denver, are being set up with an apartment with six months of rental, food and utility assistance, a free computer, a prepaid cell phone and metro bus passes.

Then, the city working in coordination with several nonprofits plan to provide courses on English language, computers, financial literacy, and workers rights, while also assisting migrants in getting credentialed in specific industries, like construction, retail, hospitality, healthcare and early childhood education. Martinez said she will take any job to support her kids.

I’m sure the homeless Americans in Denver are thrilled that illegal aliens are being given all this support. I’m sure illegals already in the U.S. and heading towards the U.S. are seeing this and saying “let’s go to Denver, they’ll pay for everything.” Is the government giving you all that assistance? It seems like government is doing all they can to raise your costs.

You also have to wonder what happens at 6 months: will the illegals leave the apartments, or just say “nah, we’re established.” And what of their neighbors? Will they enjoy having all the illegals in their neighborhoods with all the crime and life disruption they’ve brought with them?

(CBS NY) The tents have got to go. That’s the message from a community group pushing to get a migrant shelter off of Randall’s Island.

That group is threatening legal action, but city officials said Tuesday they have no alternatives.

From the outset, community groups did not like the idea of usurping eight acres of ball fields and parkland on Randall’s Island for a 3,000-bed migrant shelter. Now, after months of what one group calls violence, fights and reports of illegal activity, the Randall’s Island Park Alliance says it’s time for the city to fold its tents, remove the cots and hit the road.

“It is to the detriment of all — those temporarily housed in the park, along with the thousands of New Yorkers being denied access to parkland,” the group said in a letter to Mayor Eric Adams. “Moreover, it is illegal, and it is time for it to end.”

Well, that’s weird. One would think the Democrat voters in Sanctuary City New York would be happy to have illegal aliens in their neighborhoods, considering they support unfettered illegal immigration. They don’t enjoy the violence, fights, illegal activity?

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Your Fault: People Hurt, One Dies From Air Turbulence

By William Teach May 22, 2024 – 7:00 am

I told you to buy a bike and give up your fossil fueled vehicle, move to a tiny home in a big city, and give up meat, but, no, you wanted to live a modern life

Mid-air turbulence turns fatal: How climate change is impacting your flight journey

Turbulence is one of the uncertain factors a flyer may encounter when travelling on a plane. While these inconvenient shake-ups are rarely fatal, they quite certainly can inflict unwarranted injuries.

The rarest mishap occurred on Tuesday when a passenger died after Singapore Airlines’ Boeing 777 encountered “severe turbulence”. The flight was heading from London to Singapore but later diverted to Bangkok.

The incident, in which many passengers were injured, has thrown up multiple questions, with climate change impact being one of them.

Experts say global warming may increase instances of clear air turbulence by up to 200% by 2050. In India, the increase in flight turbulence could be felt during the pre-monsoon season.

Uh huh. In fact, it’s rare, but, it does happen

(USA Today) In the U.S., the Federal Aviation Administration reported 163 passengers and crew have been seriously injured by turbulence between 2009 and 2022.

Why only those dates? Turbulence goes plenty far back. Planes have been taken down by it.

But, you know, the talking points went out

Those are just a few, but, I got bored with the cult propaganda. And, really, all this proves is that the Earth is in a typical Holocene warm period. It doesn’t prove it is mostly/solely caused be Mankind. But, I recommend that all believers should stop flying.

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Good News: Aid Coming From Biden’s Gaza Pier Has Gone Nowhere

By William Teach May 22, 2024 – 6:45 am

It seems they’re having a bit of trouble

Pentagon says none of the aid unloaded from US pier off coast of Gaza has been delivered to broader Palestinian population

surprise surprise surpriseNone of the aid that has been unloaded from the temporary pier the US constructed off the coast of Gaza has been delivered to the broader Palestinian population, as the US works with the UN and Israel to identify safe delivery routes inside the enclave, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.

Several desperate Gazans intercepted trucks delivering aid from the pier over the weekend, leading the UN to suspend the delivery operations until the logistical challenges are resolved.

The US is working with Israel and the United Nations to establish “alternative routes” for the safe delivery of the 569 tons of aid transported to Gaza since last week, Pentagon spokesperson Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said on Tuesday.

Asked whether any of the aid has been delivered to the people of Gaza, Ryder said, “As of today, I do not believe so.” He added that aid had been held in an assembly area on shore, but as of Tuesday had begun getting moved to warehouses for distribution throughout Gaza as alternative routes have been established.

Sitting in warehouses, eh?

By Palestinians, that’s Hamas. Who then mostly hordes the aid, so, it mostly doesn’t make it to those starving Gazans.

(Cleveland Jewish News) According to Israeli estimates, Hamas has been stealing up to 60% of the aid entering the Gaza Strip, and a Channel 12 report last week revealed that the terrorist organization has made at least $500 million in profit off humanitarian aid since the start of the war on Oct. 7.

Huh.

Reuters also reported that “food and medicine for Palestinians in Gaza are piling up in Egypt because the Rafah crossing remains closed.”

Israel took operational control of the crossing weeks ago, but Cairo so far has refused to cooperate with Israeli authorities to facilitate the entry of aid through Rafah. The Israeli government wants to allow aid into Gaza through the crossing but is unable to do so without Egyptian cooperation.

What do the Egyptians know about the Palestinians?

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Small Islands Win Victory In Climate Doom Suit

By William Teach May 21, 2024 – 3:00 pm

I wonder if they truly considered the implications of winning

Climate change: small island states hail ocean court victory

A global maritime court found on Tuesday that greenhouse gases constitute marine pollution, a major breakthrough for small island states threatened by the rise in sea levels caused by global warming.

Cult science. CO2 is necessary for life on Earth

In its first climate-related judgment, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea said emissions from fossil fuels and other planet-warming gases that are absorbed by the oceans count as marine pollution.

Its ruling – an “advisory opinion” that should nevertheless provide a precedent for cases elsewhere – also said countries must go beyond the requirements of the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement to protect the marine environment and the states that depend on it.

“What happened today was that the law and science met together in this tribunal, and both won,” said Cheryl Bazard, ambassador to the European Union of the Bahamas, one of nine Caribbean and Pacific island nations that sought the opinion. (snip)

The court said states have a legal obligation to monitor and reduce the emissions that contribute to climate change and laid out specific requirements for their environmental impact assessments. (snip)

The other nations in the group that brought the case were Palau, Niue, Vanuatu, St.Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines and St. Kitts and Nevis.

So, what exactly do these nations want? There’s nothing really specific in their suit other than “Other Nations must do something.” Nor did the court really offer a ruling on what should be done. So, what happens if nations do Do Something? Perhaps they end the use of fossil fueled planes and ships, which bring tourists and goods to these islands. How well would that work out for them? Every single one of these islands depends heavily on tourism. For instance, tourism accounts for 65% of St. Lucia’s economy. Do they think people will want to sail to the island? The Bahamas depends on tourism and banking. That would utterly dry up.

Will these nations be getting rid of their airports and seaports? Banning fossil fueled vehicles? Will they be catching fish using rowboats and sailboats?

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 21, 2024 – 1:34 pm

…is coffee which will soon be too expensive to purchase unless you’re uber-rich, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Real Climate Science, with a post on cameras being raaaaacist.

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Biden Regime Give Condolences To Iran On Death Of “Butcher Of Tehran”

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

I remember when Obama picked Biden for his “vast foreign policy experience.” I also remember when all the Leftists in the news media said Biden would bring sanity back the foreign policy of the United States. Here’s the latest example of how bad it is

Biden Admin Expresses ‘Official Condolences’ For Death Of Iranian President Who Was Dubbed The ‘Butcher Of Tehran’

The Biden administration on Monday expressed condolences for the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.

Raisi and several Iranian regime officials were killed in a helicopter crash in northern Iran over the weekend. Raisi, known as the “Butcher of Tehran,” oversaw aggressive foreign policies that increased tensions with the West and authoritarian domestic policies to repress and abuse the Iranian population, whom he was deeply unpopular with.

“The United States expresses its official condolences for the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian, and other members of their delegation in a helicopter crash in northwest Iran,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement on Monday. “As Iran selects a new president, we reaffirm our support for the Iranian people and their struggle for human rights and fundamental freedoms.”

“We regret any loss of life. We don’t want to see anyone die in a helicopter crash,” Miller told reporters on Monday.

Raisi was elected to the presidency in 2021 but had spent decades serving in various roles in the Iranian regime. As a prosecutor in 1988, Raisi was on a “death commission” panel responsible for ordering the execution of thousands of Iranian political prisoners, earning him the “Butcher” nickname. Raisi boasted of his role in executing the prisoners and called it “one of the proud achievements” of the Iranian regime, according to Amnesty International.

The article itself goes into much more detail of how bad Raisi was. For one thing, Iran is still the world’s number one state sponsor of terrorism. How about all the morality police assaulting and even killing women for not wearing a hijab? Executing gays? Raisi was simply not a good person, and the US should not be officially expressing condolences for his death. Would the Biden admin do this if Putin died? How about Kim Jong Un?

Just imagine if it was the Trump State Department making this official proclamation: the Credentialed Media would be destroying him. Bored Panda has a long thread on women celebrating Raisi’s death, which, unfortunately, puts the women on the radar of Iran’s government, which has a tendency to do bad things to women. Further, Iranian dissidents around the world celebrated his death. But

(NY Post) But in the medium term, it (sadly) seems unlikely to change anything significantly.

Iran is still committed to its project of regional hegemony, a project far bigger than Raisi.

The Islamic Republic has scored a number of big wins on that front through proxies in recent months: the Houthi offensive against Red Sea shipping; Hamas’ Oct. 7 atrocities; the gathering storm of an Israel-Hezbollah war.

Nothing will change. Iran leaders will simply appoint another leader who will continue the same path as Iran has been traveling since their revolution in 1979. I have to wonder if it would have made a positive difference if Obama, with Biden as his VP, had completely backed the Iranian Green uprising, instead of blowing it off.

Meanwhile, Eli Copter enters the discussion

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Woke Pope Says Hotcoldwetdry Is “A Road To Death”

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

Strangely, he had nothing to say about Norah O’Donnell taking a long, fossil fueled flight to interview him at the Vatican

Pope Francis: “Climate change at this moment is a road to death”

Pope Francis says the climate crisis has “gotten to the point of no return” as the planet continues to see the effects of global warming and world leaders have an even greater responsibility to take action.

“How worried are you about climate change?” CBS Evening News anchor and managing editor Norah O’Donnell asked Francis during a historic interview in Vatican City.

“Unfortunately, we have gotten to a point of no return. It’s sad, but that’s what it is. Global warming is a serious problem,” Francis replied. “Climate change at this moment is a road to death.”

How can he be the Pope when his has forsaken the Catholic church and joined the Cult of Climastrology?

Francis said wealthy countries reliant on fossil fuels are contributing to the problem.

The Vatican, a nation of its own, is pretty rich, and the Woke Pope takes lots of long, fossil fueled trips around the world. Likewise, around 5 million people take fossil fueled trips to the Vatican each year. Francis should tell them to stop doing that.

He apparently talked about a lot of stuff which seemed to be more his Wokeness than about Catholic doctrine emanating from The Bible and the teachings of Jesus.

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AP Works Overtime To Let You Stupid Peasants Know The Trump Economy Wasn’t Good

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

The best part here is that the AP actually tries to Blame COVID on Trump

Many remember solid economy under Trump, but his record also full of tax cut hype, debt and disease

It was a time of fear and chaos four years ago.

The death count was mounting as COVID-19 spread. Financial markets were panicked. Oil prices briefly went negative. The Federal Reserve slashed its benchmark interest rates to combat the sudden recession. And the U.S. government went on a historic borrowing spree — adding trillions to the national debt — to keep families and businesses afloat.

Strange that the AP fails to Blame other world leaders like Justin Trudeau. Or mentions that more died in Biden’s first year from COVID than under Trump, even with all the forced masking, vaccines, and better knowledge. Or that it was mostly Democrats who were locking down schools, businesses, and citizens. Or all the unnecessary COVID relief funding passed in 2021.

But as Donald Trump recalled that moment at a recent rally, the former president exuded pride.

“We had the greatest economy in history,” the Republican told his Wisconsin audience. “The 30-year mortgage rate was at a record low, the lowest ever recorded … 2.65%, that’s what your mortgage rates were.”

The question of who can best steer the U.S. economy could be a deciding factor in who wins November’s presidential election. While an April Gallup poll found that Americans were most likely to say that immigration is the country’s top problem, the economy in general and inflation were also high on the list.

Trump may have an edge over President Joe Biden on key economic concerns, according to an April poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs. The survey found that Americans were more likely to say that as president, Trump helped the country with job creation and cost of living. Nearly 6 in 10 Americans said that Biden’s presidency hurt the country on the cost of living.

Of course, you peasants need to stop paying to your own lying eyes

But the economic numbers expose a far more complicated reality during Trump’s time in the White House. His tax cuts never delivered the promised growth. His budget deficits surged and then stayed relatively high under Biden. His tariffs and trade deals never brought back all of the lost factory jobs.

And there was the pandemic, an event that caused historic job losses for which Trump accepts no responsibility as well as low inflation — for which Trump takes full credit.

If anything, the economy during Trump’s presidency never lived up to his own hype.

Just stop. This is pathetic. And simply reinforces the reality that the Credentialed Media has abandoned all forms of journalism and are simply activists for Democrats. It’s a long, long hit piece, but, really, do you think people really buy this garbage anymore?

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Wackjob International Criminal Court Seeks Arrest Warrant For Netanyahu

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

It’s utterly insane that the ICC would equate Netanyahu with the leader of Hamas, which is designated a terrorist organization by the U.S., U.N., and E.U.

ICC requests arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Hamas leaders over ‘war crimes’

An International Criminal Court prosecutor announced Monday that he has filed applications for arrest warrants against Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas leaders for allegedly committing “war crimes” during the conflict in Gaza.

Prosecutor Karim Khan said in a statement that based on evidence collected and examined by his office, he has “reasonable grounds” to believe Netanyahu and Gallant “bear criminal responsibility for… war crimes and crimes against humanity committed on the territory of the State of Palestine.”

He said those alleged crimes include “starvation of civilians as a method of warfare” and “intentionally directing attacks against a civilian population.”

Khan also said he is seeking arrest warrants for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, its top political leader Ismail Haniyeh and its military commander Mohammed Dief.

The Hamas terrorists were pretty much included as an afterthought. Not like the ICC is actually going to try to get them

Israeli war cabinet member and opposition leader Benny Gantz blasted the ICC’s announcement Monday, saying “the prosecutor’s position to apply for arrest warrants is in itself a crime of historic proportion to be remembered for generations.”

“While Israel fights with one of the strictest moral codes in history, while complying with international law and boasting a robust independent judiciary – drawing parallels between the leaders of a democratic country determined to defend itself from despicable terror to leaders of a blood-thirsty terror organization is a deep distortion of justice and blatant moral bankruptcy,” he added.

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said the move is a “historic disgrace that will be remembered forever,” The Associated Press reports.

Neither the IS or Israel are part of the ICC, though, Palestinians are, despite really having no nation. Why? To blame Israel

(Politico) “I will feverishly work with colleagues on both sides of the aisle in both chambers to levy damning sanctions against the ICC,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said shortly after the news became public.

In a statement, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that “Khan’s kangaroo court has no jurisdiction in Israel to pursue these anti-Semitic and politically motivated ‘charges,’” adding that he looks “forward to making sure neither Khan, his associates nor their families will ever set foot again in the United States.”

The outrage was not isolated to Republicans. Democrats representing large Jewish American communities also slammed the decision. In a post on X, Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) slammed the warrants as “not justice but rather retribution against Israel for the original sin of existing as a Jewish State and the subsequent sin of defending itself amid the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.”

But

Progressives, however, celebrated the decision. “If Netanyahu comes to address Congress, I would be more than glad to show the ICC the way to the House floor to issue that warrant. Ditto for Hamas leader,” Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), a past head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, posted on X. A handful of progressive Democrats have previously indicated support for an arrest warrant.

Well, of course they’re saying this, but, not saying a damned thing about the Hamas leaders. I wonder why?

Secretary of State Antony Blinken came out against the warrant requests Monday afternoon: “We reject the prosecutor’s equivalence of Israel with Hamas. It is shameful,” he said in a statement. “This decision does nothing to help, and could jeopardize, ongoing efforts to reach a cease-fire agreement that would get hostages out and surge humanitarian assistance in.”

In a statement, President Joe Biden called the announcement “outrageous” and stated that “We will always stand with Israel against threats to its security.”

Good on Blinken and Biden. But, how long does that last when the unhinged, Jew hating base bleats at Biden?

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