Oh Noes: Spanish Winemaker Might Have To Move Due To Global Boiling

By William Teach May 17, 2025 – 3:09 pm

This is all your fault

Top winemaker ‘may have to leave its Spanish vineyards due to climate crisis’

A leading European winemaker has warned it may have to abandon its ancestral lands in Catalonia in 30 years’ time because climate change could make traditional growing areas too dry and hot.

Familia Torres is already installing irrigation at its vineyards in Spain and California and is planting vines on land at higher altitudes as it tries to adapt to more extreme conditions.

“Irrigation is the future. We do not rely on the weather,” said its 83-year-old president, Miguel Torres. “I don’t know how long we can stay here making good wines, maybe 20 or 30 years, I don’t know. Climate change is changing all the circumstances.”

The family business has been making wine in Catalonia since 1870, but Torres said: “In 30 to 50 years’ time maybe we have to stop viniculture here.

Weird how it’s always in the future, eh? Also weird how “news” organizations have to go looking for this cult propaganda to write. It’s all very silly and cultish. If they cannot survive over a miniscule 1.6 F increase in temperatures since 1850, the end of the Little Ice Age, perhaps they aren’t running the business correctly.

“Tourists are very important for Catalonia and we are very close to Barcelona. This area could be for activity for tourists but viniculture, I don’t think is going to be here.”

The group, which invests 11% of its profits every year to combatting and adapting to the climate crisis, may instead have to move at least some of its vineyards “more to the west because it is cooler and we have to have water”.

Let me ask: how many of those tourists take fossil fueled trips to the region? How many fossil fueled vehicles and ships are used to make and transport the wine?

“We have no profit in exports to the UK, that is the reality. Hundreds of thousands of English people come to Spain on holiday and know the brand. We have to keep it alive in the UK.”

They ain’t coming on sailing ships or biking.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 17, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jo Nova, with a post on secret comms devices and radios in Chinese inverters.

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Illegal In Charlotte Tries To Evade ICE By Jumping In Pond

By William Teach May 17, 2025 – 11:41 am

The ducks are unhappy

Unsurprisingly, most of the very liberal Charlotte news outlets ignored this, excepting WBTV. Unless the others have it buried. Anyhow, this happened at Marshall Park, a block away from the courthouse.

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Does NYC Have A Jew Hater And Islamist Running For Mayor?

By William Teach May 17, 2025 – 10:30 am

If Zohran Mamdani wins the race, will NYC start looking like many cities in the UK and the upper Midwest, run by Islamic supremacists and Jew/Israel haters? Is it this cut and dry? It must be bad if Politico is doing stories on it

Zohran Mamdani defends staying off Holocaust Remembrance resolution

Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani said Friday that his public statements should outweigh his actions on non-binding resolutions, following POLITICO reporting the mayoral candidate did not sign onto measures commemorating the Holocaust and honoring Israel.

“I have condemned the Holocaust every year. This is something that is very clear to me and every New Yorker, and is something that I’ve made clear mostly in public statements, which is where most New Yorkers are actually engaging with their politics,” Mamdani said at an unrelated press conference.

Andrew Epstein, a spokesperson for Mamdani’s campaign, shared the lawmaker’s social media posts commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021 and said Mamdani has supported more funding for Holocaust survivors, including by signing onto Assemblymember Nily Rozic’s budget letter advocating to allocate more to a state program for survivors.

Mamdani did not sponsor the annual resolution for Holocaust Remembrance Day any of the last four years. He was only listed as a sponsor in 2021, his first year in office.

Is he a bad guy, or, is it just something he missed, as he’s said that he’s missed multiple votes on resolutions? Is he a problem?

Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, a left-leaning group that has co-endorsed Mamdani and Lander, defended him.

Yeah, well, they are pretty hardcore leftist, and have acted more like an Israel hating group than anything else. The NY Post editorial board has thoughts on Mamdani

New York has seen more than its share of flawed pols over the years, but no major mayoral candidate has ever been as morally bankrupt — and antisemitic — as Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani.

No way should he be allowed anywhere near City Hall. (snip)

In the past Mamdani has cheered similar resolutions for everything from Neurodiversity Pride Day, Juneteenth and Lunar New Year to Women’s History Month, Disabilities Awareness Day and Korean American Day.

His spokesman, Andrew Epstein, insists Mamdani backs the one on Holocaust Memorial Day too but wants to “narrow down” the number he signed.

Right. He just happened to draw the line at recognizing Nazi Germany’s murder of 6 million Jews.

I mean, sure, he’s sent out tweets, but, could have been staff. He refuses to put his name on an actual resolution, though.

In fact, he’s already made it clear how much he despises the Jewish state: On Oct. 8, 2023, the day after Jews suffered their worst horror since the Holocaust, he condemned Israel.

He vows that, as mayor, he’d arrest Benjamin Netanyahu should the Israeli leader dare set foot in New York.

That wasn’t in the Politico piece.

Set aside the rest of Mamdani’s socialist agenda, and even his support for defunding cops in 2020: The shameless Jew-hate is all you really need to know about him.

Yeah, well, Democrats keep flirting with all this garbage.

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CNN: Ocean Currents Are Slowing Down And It’s Doom

By William Teach May 17, 2025 – 7:15 am

We’re back to this now?

A crucial system of ocean currents is slowing. It’s already supercharging sea level rise in the US.

Flooding on the US Northeast coast has risen significantly as a critical network of Atlantic Ocean currents weakens, according to a new study — an alarming glimpse into the future as some scientists warn the current system could be just decades from collapse.

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, known as the AMOC, works like a vast conveyor belt, transporting heat, salt and freshwater through the ocean and influencing climate, weather and sea levels around the planet.

Coastal flooding is caused by a cluster of factors, chief among them climate change-driven sea level rise, but the AMOC also plays a critical role in the Northeast, according to the study published Friday in the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Of course, sea rise is much lower than expected in the Northeast for a Holocene warm period, but, hey, don’t let facts get in the way of a good cult narrative.

Scientists used data from tide gauges — instruments which monitor sea level change — combined with complex ocean models to calculate how the AMOC has affected flooding in the region over the past decades.

In other words, they do not like what the gauges are telling them, not giving them the sea rise necessary (Boston is .97 feet per 100 years), so, they just added in their garbage models.

A strong AMOC is typically associated with dense deep water that flows along the western boundary of the North Atlantic. When the AMOC weakens, water becomes less dense, literally taking up more space and fueling sea level rise. A weaker AMOC also affects the flow of the Gulf Stream, causing water to flow back onto the coastal shelf and increasing sea level rise at the coast.

Well, now, the cult is really trying to doomsay. Of course, the computer models also said the the AMOC might have shut down in two years. That was back in 2023. They’ve also said that ocean currents are speeding up. And that we might not be doomed.

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Arlington County, Va. Votes To Make Police Stop Working With ICE Over Illegal Criminals And Terrorists

By William Teach May 17, 2025 – 7:00 am

This one is a real doozy, though. They went way beyond the normal sanctuary city stuff

Virginia County Votes Not to Report Illegal Alien Terrorists to ICE—in Name of ‘Public Safety’

The Arlington County, Virginia, Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to end its police department’s ability to report illegal aliens arrested for felonies and terrorist activity to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Board members couched their decision as a way to protect immigrant communities from the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts, which, funny enough, target the types of criminals that Arlington is now protecting.

Prior to this egregious decision to disregard the public’s safety, the Arlington County Police Department’s interaction with ICE was already restricted in the county’s “Trust Policy,” also known as “Arlington’s Commitment to Strengthening Trust with Our Immigrant Communities,” enacted in 2022 and updated last year.

Section 7 of the “Trust Policy” very narrowly carved out a few exceptions for when police were allowed to report arrests of illegal aliens to ICE. These were for instances when police made arrests for felonies, gang activity, terrorism, and human trafficking.

Arlington County is the county just to the west of D.C. Activists have been pushing to repeal Section 7

Karantonis claimed that the community has “seen a decrease in safety” since the Trump administration has started deporting dangerous illegal aliens. Board members said immigrants are increasingly afraid to call 911 for fear of deportation—a claim, as TV station WJLA noted, that was made without supporting data.

Right, right, it’s all about protecting illegals. So much that they want to protect felons, murderers, child abusers, and terrorists.

Meanwhile

DHS mulls reality show for immigrants seeking US citizenship

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed it is in the early stages of vetting a potential reality show that would have immigrants competing for a fast-track to citizenship.

As first reported by the Daily Mail, producer Rob Worsoff, the mind behind “Duck Dynasty,” approached the department about the idea, in which he envisions celebrity immigrant hosts welcoming immigrants who would then undertake competitions across the country, such as digging clams in Maine or rafting in Colorado.

DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said the show “is in the very beginning stages” of a vetting process, noting the department receives numerous requests for participation in television programming.

I can’t tell if the Trump admin is serious with this or not. If so, no, just, stop.

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NJ Globe Reports LaMonica McIver (D) To Be Arrested For Assault

By William Teach May 16, 2025 – 3:00 pm

As Joe Biden wrote, no one is above the law

Let’s go to the Globe

The Justice Department plans to bring charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-Newark) following a scuffle with federal immigration agents last week at Newark’s Delaney Hall detention center, three sources speaking on the condition of anonymity confirmed to the New Jersey Globe.

Much is still unknown about the case against the freshman congresswoman, but interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba could announce charges as early as today. McIver may turn herself in this afternoon, the New Jersey Globe learned; she’ll be represented by Paul Fishman, the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey during the Obama administration.

Partway through the visit, Baraka was arrested by federal authorities; they claimed he was trespassing, while he maintained that he had followed their directions and left when they instructed him to. Baraka’s arrest prompted a scuffle among the three representatives, ICE agents, and a group of protesters who had gathered at Delaney Hall’s gate; both sides have claimed that the other was the aggressor in the fight, which seems to have caused no reported injuries.

Video footage shows the fight to have been a general scramble. McIver in particular forcefully attempted to protect Baraka both physically and verbally as he was led away, which may be the basis for charges against her, though claims from some Republicans that she body-slammed or punched ICE officers are more dubious based on the footage available. (Menendez and the 80-year-old Watson Coleman were also involved in the melee, but there’s less video evidence of them physically engaging with agents, perhaps explaining the Justice Department’s focus on McIver.)

What could the charges be? Assaulting a federal law enforcement officer. Obstructing/delaying an arrest (we call it RDO in NC “resisting, delaying, obstructing”). Felonies.

It matters not if she was in the course of performing her duties as a member of Congress

In Article I, Section 6, Clause 1, the Framers provided for Members of Congress to be free from arrest when attending or traveling to and from Congress except in cases of treason, felony, or breaches of the peace.1 In interpreting this provision, the Supreme Court has held that the phrase treason, felony, and breach of the peace encompasses all criminal offenses.2 Consequently, Members are only privileged from arrests arising from civil suits, which were common in America at the time the Constitution was ratified.3

She was not at the Capitol Bldg, nor traveling to or from it. So, yes, she can be arrested, charged, and tried for her actions, and convicted. And jailed. They are not above the law.

I set this to post at 3pm: let’s see if she is arrested before then. Or even in the next few days.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 16, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon sailboat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on the Warmists never being serious about ‘climate change’

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Trump Admin Lays Off A Third Of Voice Of America “Employees”

By William Teach May 16, 2025 – 10:30 am

Elon Musk may be gone, but, the principles of DOGE continue. Which has driven the NY Times into a frothing lather

Trump Administration Fires Hundreds of Voice of America Employees

The Trump administration on Thursday fired nearly 600 employees at Voice of America, a federally funded news network that provides independent reporting to countries with limited press freedoms.

The layoffs targeted contractors, most of them journalists but also some administrative employees, and amounted to over a third of Voice of America’s staff. They signaled that the Trump administration planned to continue its efforts to dismantle the broadcaster despite a court ruling last month that ordered the federal government to maintain robust news programming at the network, which President Trump has called “the voice of radical America.”

Well, the actual government employees, instead of the contractors, can continue their “robust news programming.” Do more with less. It’s not like half their news articles do not look like what you see in the hard left outlets, right? There’s literally nothing on the website that can’t be found on tons of websites.

In another sign of the Trump administration’s hostility toward the broadcaster, the federal building in Washington that houses the media organization was put up for sale on Thursday.

LOL

Michael Abramowitz, the director of Voice of America, said in an email to his staff on Thursday that the firings were “inexplicable.”

Kari Lake, a senior adviser at the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees Voice of America, said that the Trump administration had acted within its legal authority.

“We are in the process of rightsizing the agency and reducing the federal bureaucracy to meet administration priorities,” Ms. Lake, who is leading the efforts to ramp down the operations of Voice of America, said in a statement. “We will continue to scale back the bloat at U.S.A.G.M. and make an archaic dinosaur into something worthy of being funded by hardworking Americans.”

And she said more is to come. English news has pretty much stopped since March, but, there is a little. There is a boatload of Chinese and Arabic language news, but, do we know what it says? Is it helping the US point of view?

Mr. Trump has accused the outlet, which delivers news to countries with repressive regimes — including Russia, China and Iran — of spreading “anti-American” and partisan “propaganda.”

VOA doesn’t help America, hence, it’s unnecessary. And most of the contractors are in the US on work visas, so, they have to leave by June. Why is it necessary for them to be here? They could write elsewhere. It’s VOA’s fault for going rogue. They created the problem.

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Bummer: Making “Polluters Pay” Losing Steam In PRC

By William Teach May 16, 2025 – 7:15 am

What a shame: they should make the “polluters” pay in the People’s Republik Of California. Start with all the lawmakers, the governor, and state government employees who support this and still own fossil fueled vehicles. Then everyone who voted Democrat in the PRC

Push to make Big Oil pay for climate damage losing steam in California

Only weeks ago, new science had buoyed state legislation to calculate the costs of climate change in California and force fossil fuel companies to pay for it. A study in Nature published last month took the reported emissions of major oil companies and modeled their effects on temperatures, finding their pollution led to $14 trillion in worldwide economic losses due to extreme heat alone.

Yet in Sacramento, the science of making “polluters pay” is losing momentum in an unfavorable political environment. Rather than risk rejection from their colleagues, the lawmakers who backed the Climate Superfund Act — Assemblymember Dawn Addis, D-San Luis Obispo, and state Sen. Caroline Menjivar, D-San Fernando Valley — postponed hearings for their bills in hopes of a better reception later this summer.

Since 2013, when a researcher first compiled company emissions data, scientists, regulators and campaigners have tried to tie individual corporations to extreme weather events. At the same time, improved ways of computing global climate models have yielded more refined data on worsening heat and flooding at the local level. Combining the methods offers a chance to charge companies money for climate damage in a specific region.

But the mood for such a far-reaching approach has soured in the California Legislature, after lawmakers and Gov. Gavin Newsom spent years challenging oil companies by imposing rules on gasoline supplies to prevent price hikes at the pump. Advocates of the climate superfund are now reframing their advocacy, focusing on its potential to serve as a “common-sense revenue generator” amid the state’s projected budget shortfall.

So, it’s really all about being a shakedown. Which would mean that those companies would stop operating in the PRC. They’ll move elsewhere. Move headquarters out. Again, too bad the fossil fuels companies won’t grow some cajones and stop selling their products to the state government of the PRC.

Blame it on anxiety over the costs of living — the focus of the oil industry’s public relations campaign since last year. That, in addition to threats from President Donald Trump to eradicate state emissions policies, have left lawmakers reluctant to take on the industry. One high-ranking legislative staffer, who asked not to be identified to protect their job, told Capital & Main that the “rancid” political vibe in Sacramento is hampering all things climate-oriented

But, wouldn’t all the Warmists in California be excited to see their cost of living skyrocket even more? It’s what they want, right?

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