Some People Seem Upset George Clooney Was Granted French Citizenship

By William Teach January 1, 2026 – 10:30 am

So, how does one become a citizen of France through naturalization?

In most cases, when you are 18 or older and have legally lived in France for an uninterrupted period of five years, you can apply for citizenship by naturalization. You’ll have to meet certain requirements, such as:

But

French government defends granting citizenship to George and Amal Clooney

Actor George Clooney and his wife Amal Clooney were granted French citizenship because “they contribute, through their distinguished actions, to France’s international influence and cultural outreach,” the French government said Wednesday, defending their naturalization that was questioned by a junior French minister.

The naturalizations of the Kentucky-born star of the “Ocean’s” series of heist movies, his wife and human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, and their twins Ella and Alexander were announced last weekend in the Journal Officiel, where French government decrees are published.

Marie-Pierre Vedrenne, a junior minister at the Interior Ministry, expressed misgivings Wednesday that some of the Clooneys’ new French compatriots may think that the star couple was granted special treatment. The actor speaks only what he himself says is “horrible, horrible” French.

I mean, that is a good point, because reading and writing French is rather a requirement. His wife and kids supposedly are fully fluent.

“The message being sent is not good,” Vedrenne said in an interview with broadcaster France Info. “There is an issue of fairness that, in my eyes, is absolutely essential.”

The couple purchased an estate in France in 2021 and Clooney has said that it’s their primary residence. Non-French residents of France have multiple possible routes to becoming naturalized. It wasn’t clear whether the 64-year-old actor retained his American citizenship. His 47-year-old wife was born in Lebanon and raised in the U.K and naturalized by France under her maiden name, Amal Alamuddin. The 8-year-old twins were born in London.

The Foreign Ministry said the Clooneys were eligible for citizenship under a French law that allows for the naturalization of foreign nationals who contribute to France’s international influence and economic well-being.

Now, see, I’m not a big fan of Clooney as an actor, I’ve just never enjoyed his acting and parts. This goes back to not liking him on ER. There are many actors I do not care for. That he’s Trump deranged plays no part in this. But, let’s really consider this: George and his wife, regardless of your personal opinion of Clooney and his wife, damned sure bring value. And money. Is it better than France gave citizenship to the Clooneys, who will not be drains on the French, won’t be taking welfare and other government resources, but, will be contributing money to the French treasury, unlike all those migrants from 3rd world shitholes the French government brings in.

Immigrants should bring value, not dependency.

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Your Fault: Minnesota Got Big Snow Storm Supercharged By Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach January 1, 2026 – 7:15 am

Are these “scientists” familiar with Minnesota in the winter?

How climate change supercharged a routine clipper into a Minnesota snowstorm

We got 5.8 inches of snow officially at MSP Airport Sunday, putting an end to a nearly two-week winter hiatus. That in itself is nothing to write home about. We get snowfalls of that nature frequently, but this was an Alberta Clipper on a potent form of steroids. The steroid? You guessed it: climate change.

A system like this is a great example of the energy boost from climate change we don’t always see or feel so visibly. Our temperatures weren’t remarkable, though they were above normal, starting in the 30s early Sunday and falling into the teens, but the air mass just to our south, which fueled the system, was quite remarkable.

This system is a textbook example of how climate change supercharges storm systems with both more heat, or energy, and more moisture. A warmer atmosphere holds more water, and a storm system squeezes out that higher moisture content into a condensed form, resulting in heavier rainfalls and snowfalls.

Got that? Heating causes more snow, even though the same Warmists said ‘climate change’ would be the end of snow, but, when that didn’t happen, they manufactured a way to blame heavy snow on warming. It’s a cult.

But, um, if carbon pollution is so bad why is MSP Airport still open?

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Many Big Cities Cancelled New Year’s Even Celebrations Over Security Concerns

By William Teach January 1, 2026 – 7:00 am

I wonder why? This is the Jerusalem Post, will they say the real reason?

Major cities cancel NYE events over security concerns – what are they?

Major New Year’s Eve events around the world have been canceled for security reasons amid rising terror threats.

Cities began canceling their celebrations following the FBI’s announcement that it had thwarted a terror plot planned for Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. Here is a breakdown of major cities that have canceled events and why.

While the main fireworks event at Sydney’s Opera House went ahead, in light of the Hanukkah Bondi terror attack, the NYE celebration at Bondi Beach did not.

“Due to the current situation on the ground, Waverley Council has decided to cancel New Year’s Eve events at Bondi Beach, including elrow XXL Bondi and Local’s Lawn,” organizers at Waverley Council told Sky News.

I’d read about the cancellations, but, the notion that there was concern about Islamic jihadis let into Australia by the government being the root cause was never mentioned.

Paris canceled its massive annual New Year’s Eve live concert at the Champs-Élysées due to security concerns. However, large crowds were still expected, as well as a fireworks display at midnight and a video projection on the Arc de Triomphe.

France’s Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez announced he is tightening security and is employing 90,000 police officers and gendarmes across the country to ensure the celebrations remain safe.

Probably all those farmers upset over climate scam crap, right?

Cancellations in Tokyo, though, are not unusual, and have happened since 2019, with Islamic or other terrorism just a general concern. Mostly it’s too many people and too much alcohol.

The Mayor of Belgrade, Aleksandar Šapi?, announced the cancellation of both the New Year’s Eve celebration and the Serbian New Year’s celebration on account of security reasons.

Back to Islamists

While celebrations were not canceled, the city enforced a 10 p.m. curfew for everyone under 18 who is unaccompanied by an adult. It is also urged people to stay alert, be aware of their surroundings, and report anything suspicious.

Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies also released a threat assessment last week warning that Chicago’s New Year’s Eve fireworks celebration at Navy Pier was “an attractive target for both foreign terrorists and domestic extremists.”

Now, would that be from all the Islamists or from the Central and South American illegal alien gang members who’ve settled in Chicago?

There have been myriad terror attacks on New Year’s eve in the past.

Most recently was the vehicle-ramming and shooting attack in the early hours of New Year’s Day 2025 on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter, a major New Year’s celebration area.

Well, that was an Islamic terrorist, and New Orleans has installed stanchions that rise up in the area to protect against people, meaning Islamists, driving into the area.

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Your Fault: Melting Glaciers May Possibly Wake Up Volcanoes

By William Teach December 31, 2025 – 3:33 pm

All because you had to drive a fossil fueled vehicle and eat meat

Glaciers are melting. It may reawaken the world’s most dangerous volcanoes

A powerful swarm of earthquakes in January suggested one of Iceland’s giant “ice volcanoes” may be awakening after a decade of slumber. In the months that followed, more earthquakes have rocked the ground.

They are a sign that hot, viscous magma is flowing to the roots of Bardarbunga, which lies beneath Europe’s largest glacier Vatnajökull. It’s not a matter of if Bardarbunga erupts, but when — and it could be a big one.

Scientists in Iceland have their eyes on this volcano, along with others nestled under the frozen landscape — roughly half of the country’s 34 active volcanic systems are covered in ice. They are trying to unravel whether a decades-old theory could be correct: that retreating ice, fueled by the climate crisis, is triggering more frequent and more explosive volcanic eruptions.

At the heart of this quest is an effort to understand how the planet functions at a fundamental level, and how what humans are doing at the surface — namely, warming the Earth — could be interacting with natural processes deep beneath the ground.

It’s “a connection that we haven’t always understood,” said Ben Edwards, a professor of geosciences at Dickinson College.

And they still don’t understand, they’re just hypothesizing, fear mongering, without realizing that Iceland was created by volcanoes around 16 million years ago, being on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. That volcanoes have happened. The Vikings freaked when one went off not long after they landed, and they built walls and sacrificed birds and things to the fire god Surtr (I don’t like that this article includes “satanic”, has nothing to do with Vikings). And the eruption stopped, so, the sacrifices and such seemed to work. Anyhow, Iceland is volcanic!

About 15,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age, the country was enveloped in a thick ice sheet. Over the course of just a few thousand years, much of it disappeared, forging a new landscape. Glaciers now cover only around 10% of Iceland.

When the ice vanished, something unusual followed. There was a pulse of volcanic activity, with eruption rates increasing an estimated 30- to 50-fold, said Michelle Parks, coordinator of volcano deformation monitoring at the Icelandic Meteorological Office. This increased volcanic activity lasted roughly 1,500 years.

Now the remaining ice is retreating rapidly, this time driven by human-caused climate change, and Parks and other scientists are trying to figure out if this effect might happen again.

See? This time it is your fault.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 31, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…are tire tracks from horrible fossil fueled vehicles in carbon pollution created Heatsnow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Gates Of Vienna, with a post on fundraising for Hamas in Genoa.

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Excitable Eric Swalwell Threatens ICE Agents If He Becomes Governor

By William Teach December 31, 2025 – 10:30 am

There’s patronizing the base and then there’s recklessness, but, damn, I almost want to see him become California governor to see him try this

Swalwell: As CA Gov I Will Charge ICE Agents, Take Away Their Drivers License

Tuesday on MS NOW’s “All In,” Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said if he became governor in California, he would charge ICE agents and take away their driver’s licenses if they commit crimes.

Host Jason Johnson said, “What would you do if you are able to be elected as governor of California? Yes, we’ve seen over just not just one year of this new regime, that it’s the states that tend to be the strongest pushback. It’s the governors of Illinois, it’s the governor of Michigan, governor of Virginia, Maryland, everything else like that. What will you bring to the table? Because California, just by size and GDP alone, is sort of the tip of the spear. What would you bring to the table as a governor of California?”

Swalwell said, “Well, you have immense powers as governor of California and your responsibility to protect the most vulnerable in the state. So if the president is going to send ICE agents to chase immigrants through the fields where they work, what I’m going to do is make sure that they take off their masks and show their faces, that they show their identification. And if they commit crimes that they’re going to be charged with crimes, if it’s falsely imprisoning people, if it’s kidnapping, if it’s assault battery, they’re going to be held accountable. I also think if the governor has the ability to issue driver’s licenses to people in California, if you’re going to wear a mask and not identify yourself, you’re not going to be eligible to drive a vehicle in California. There’s a lot you can do, but most importantly, you have to go on offense. Otherwise, the most vulnerable in our community will always be on defense.”

Well, good luck with that, Sparky, good luck! It would be really amusing to see Swalwell try this. How many California cops would actually cooperate with this, knowing that the headache they will receive if they try? How many California cops are in favor of illegal immigration? How many California cops think it is “kidnapping” to detain illegal aliens per federal law? Denying federal agents driver’s licenses or revoking them would violate California law.

And, quite frankly, Swalwell has a good shot considering who’s running. I mean, Xavier Becerra, Katie Porter, and Tom Steyer are probably Eric’s biggest competition, and none of them are clear front runners, the person to beat. Porter is a bigger wackjob than Steyer, Steyer is one of the hated Rich People, Becerra is rather boring and possibly involved with a corruption scandal. Antonio Villaraigosa is the most “moderate” of the bunch, so, good luck, unless Republicans in California decide to vote for him as a spoiler. Former state Controller Betty Yee? Most Californians are going “who?” Same with State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond and Ian Calderon, and then there’s Republican Steve Hilton. Not a chance.

I wonder why some in California want to keep illegal immigration going

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Atlantic Ocean At Tipping Point Scientists Say Or Something

By William Teach December 31, 2025 – 7:15 am

This again? Hasn’t it been at a tipping point for at least a decade, and nothing happens?

Scientists Issue Grim Warning: Atlantic Ocean ‘At A Tipping Point’

Many of us have a way of taking the oceans for granted. A place to surf, perhaps, or to enjoy other water sports, or simply admire while sitting on the beach. Those who make their livings in far harsher ocean conditions would feel rather differently, however, and so do climate scientists, who warn that the Atlantic Ocean could reach a critical point from which it’s going to be impossibly difficult to recover. Though we often think of the ocean as separate and distinct from life on land, the thing to remember is that about 71% of the planet is covered in water, the vast majority of which is ocean water. The Atlantic Ocean, the second largest on Earth, covers 41.1 million square miles, about one-fifth of the surface of the planet. This is why it takes so long for an aircraft carrier to cross the Atlantic, and it also makes it a critical barometer and provider of life on Earth.

Wow, could that be any more patronizing? But, then, most Warmists are not particularly known for having a solid foundation in Earth sciences

Tragically, its role in safeguarding that life is in increasing jeopardy because of climate change. A study from René M. van Westen et al., published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences in November 2025, sounds the alarm: “The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is expected to weaken or even collapse under anthropogenic climate change.” Humanity, according to the report, is causing the AMOC, a system of currents that the Met Office likens to “a conveyor belt” regulating the temperature of ocean water, to deteriorate. The study created several potential scenarios to detail what might happen if this system was lost, and the possible impact on life on Earth in a broad sense is chilling to think about. Let’s take a closer look at the AMOC and what the impact of climate change on it potentially means for the Earth.

Wait, I thought we were told it wasn’t slowing down? Or was it speeding up? No one knows, but, unsurprisingly, the study’s computer models tell them doom is coming, but, you know

Antarctic Collapse 9,000 Years Ago Hints at White Continent’s Future

Scientists closely study our planet’s polar regions to understand the overall changes in our climate. Loss of ice sheet volume has far-reaching effects, but is also difficult to predict. A team from Tokyo’s National Institute of Polar Research has published a paper in Nature, exploring the Holocene Antarctic collapse to understand what happened in the past after rapid ice sheet thinning.

The East Antarctic Ice Sheet is the planet’s largest ice sheet. Here, the continent experienced significant ice loss and breakup after the end of the last Ice Age around 9,000 years ago. The NIPR team examined sediment cores from the seafloor, and the tiny fossils within them, to trace the breakup of the ice.

They discovered that melting ice caused a positive feedback loop. As the ice melted, the fresh surface water drove the warmer, saltier water toward Antarctica. This warmer water — called the Circumpolar Deep Water — melted the base of the ice shelves, leading to more freshwater ice melt. (snip)

This thinning peaked between nine and seven thousand years ago. Eventually, conditions changed, and the loss was reversed. But the paper’s authors believe this ancient event can improve our modern models of ice loss.

So, um, what caused this 9,000 years ago, and, why can’t that primarily be the case now?

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Wacko Judge Angel Determines That TPS Cannot End For South Sudanese

By William Teach December 31, 2025 – 7:00 am

I’d like to see where in the federal code that federal judges were empowered to change the terms of TPS

US judge halts ending of temporary protected status for South Sudanese migrants

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked plans by the Trump administration to end temporary protections from deportation that had been granted to hundreds of South Sudanese nationals living in the United States.

US district judge Angel Kelley in Boston granted an emergency request by several South Sudanese nationals and an immigrant rights group to prevent the temporary protected status they had been granted from expiring as planned after 5 January.

The ruling is a temporary victory for immigrant advocates and a setback for the Trump administration’s broader effort to curtail the humanitarian program. It is the latest in a series of legal challenges to the administration’s moves to end similar protections for nationals from several other countries, including Syria, Venezuela, Haiti and Nicaragua.

Kelley, who was appointed by the Democratic former president Joe Biden, issued the order after four migrants from South Sudan along with African Communities Together, a non-profit group, sued. The lawsuit alleged that action by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was unlawful and exposed them to being deported to a country facing a series of humanitarian crises.

She wrote that allowing it to take effect before the courts had time to consider the case’s merits “would result in an immediate impact on the South Sudanese nationals, stripping current beneficiaries of lawful status, which could imminently result in their deportation”.

It’s not our job to take in every person from a 3rd world shithole in perpetuity and provide them with everything

(Fox News) In a statement to Fox News Digital, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said TPS protections were “never designed to be permanent.”

“Yet another lawless and activist order from the federal judiciary who continues to usurp the President’s constitutional authority,” McLaughlin wrote. “Under the previous administration, Temporary Protected Status was abused to allow violent terrorists, criminals, and national security threats into our nation. TPS was never designed to be permanent.

“With the renewed peace in South Sudan, their demonstrated commitment to ensuring the safe reintegration of returning nationals, and improved diplomatic relations, now is the right time to conclude what was always intended to be a temporary designation.”

The benefits for South Sudanese end on January 5th. Let’s consider

On September 5, 2023, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas announced the extension and redesignation of South Sudan for Temporary Protected Status for 18 months, from November 4, 2023, through May 3, 2025. On May 6, 2025, DHS announced that TPS for South Sudan is extended and redesignated through November 3, 2025

So the Trump admin extended it to the beginning of November, not a full 18 months, after the Biden era extension. We do not have to keep them. This will end up being yet another loss for hyper-partisan left wing judges (Judge Angel was appointed by Biden) once it goes to a federal appeals court. Also, Judge Angel can only apply this to her Boston district, per the Supreme Court decision.

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PRC’s Next Move Is To Ruin Tortillas

By William Teach December 30, 2025 – 3:00 pm

It’s always something in the People’s Republik Of California

From the link

The ingredients in tortillas sold in California will soon change forever in hopes that a new ingredient will boost infant health, as critics worry the taste of the popular food could change too.

Beginning New Year’s Day, most tortillas and corn masa products sold in the state will be required to contain folic acid, a vitamin that’s vital to baby health.

But critics warn it could forever affect the taste of the state’s tacos. Even though the required dose is tiny, folic acid doesn’t taste great.

Los Angeles Times columnist Gustavo Arellano put it to the test last year — and the results weren’t pretty. In a blind taste test between a regular tortilla and one loaded with the B vitamin, he and tortilla factory owners could immediately spot the difference.

Between 2017 and 2019, data showed about 28 percent of Latinas reported taking folic acid the month before becoming pregnant, while white women checked in at 46 percent, according to the California Department of Public Health.

So, the idea is that Latino women will eat more of the tortillas with the folic acid, instead of, say, recommending they take folic acid pills, readily available at any drugstore, Walmart, vitamin store, etc?

Alabama has passed its own version of the law, which goes into effect in June 2026.

So, they’re going to ruin them, too.

Some manufacturers have already been adding folic acid to their products. Mission Foods said it started fortifying its foods back in 2016, when the federal government first allowed it, and it supports the new laws in California and Alabama.

They have all sorts of weird types of tortillas, so, can’t tell you if they are good or not, as I avoid them. I like the La Banderita or Guerrero ones.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 30, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is an island almost erased by carbon pollution driven sea rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Don Surber, with a post on the death of Brigitte Bardot.

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