European Commission Wants The Peasants To Travel Less

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

Obviously, the people pushing this won’t be cutting down on their own travel, which usually includes private jets and large limo SUVs (via Climate Depot)

Brussels says Europeans should consider traveling less to avoid energy shortages

The European Commission is asking member countries to consider cutting back on oil and gas use, especially in the transport sector, in preparation for “prolonged disruption” to energy supplies from the Iran war.

The request, made by EU energy chief Dan Jørgensen, reflects fears that the conflict in the Persian Gulf is graduating from a price problem to an all-out energy supply crisis, with serious implications for the global economy.

In a letter to national energy ministers, seen by POLITICO, Jørgensen said that national governments should consider “voluntary demand saving measures … with particular attention to the transport sector.”

That could mean governments asking citizens to drive or fly less to save fuel for more essential purposes, as is already happening in some Asian countries.

European energy ministers will hold an emergency meeting Tuesday to discuss how to address the energy crisis.

And how soon till asking becomes demanding? Kinda forcing citizens to live the Warmist life, just like during COVID. As a sidebar, the European Union and their Commission was never, ever meant to be this powerful. It was never meant to be a central government for European member nations.

In his letter, Jørgensen said Europe’s transport sector faces rising costs and supply shortages due to the industry’s heavy reliance on the Persian Gulf, which the EU relied on for over 40 percent of its jet fuel and diesel imports.

“Member States should refrain from taking measures that may increase fuel consumption, limit the free flow of petroleum products or disincentivize EU refinery output,” Jørgensen said. He added that countries should consider the cross-border impact of national measures to preserve “EU-wide coherence.”

What, you mean all those windmills and solar panels aren’t providing energy? Huh. Maybe the EU nations should have been digging for petroleum and natural gas, building nuclear plants instead of going full climate cult.

Activists fear long term shift to coal, as Italy, Germany talk of keeping coal plants open for years now…

The trend is spreading. Coal, the stranded asset of a bygone era, is hot property again everywhere. All it took was a few weeks of an energy crisis, and decades of brainwashing against coal is evaporating.

On Friday, I wrote about how countries like Japan, Korea, and India were redirecting themselves towards coal power. Now Bloomberg, Fortune, and others are reporting this trend. As I write, Italy is considering delaying the closure of all its coal plants til 2038, Germany is reopening old coal plants. Thailand is restarting two coal plants it only shut down last year. Bangladesh is going to run its coal plants at max capacity all summer.

And the Ecoworriers are starting to fear this crisis will trigger a more permanent  shift back to coal — which it absolutely will — not because of ‘sunk costs’ or any of the other excuses the greenies tell themselves, but because the oil crisis will break the sacred exorcism spell cast upon coal. Governments have been shocked at how vulnerable they are without fossil fuel energy.

Now, remember, I’ve said many times I am not a fan of coal, it is dirty, and not from CO2, what they call carbon pollution. Perhaps if the idiot cult nations had worked more on natural gas and petroleum, along with nuclear, they wouldn’t have to resort to super easy coal. Read the rest.

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Good Grief: NY Times Digs Deep Into Justice’s Histories To Protect Birthright Citizenship For Illegals

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

I don’t know what is more disturbing: the narrative baiting or the lengths the Fish Wrap went to

In Supreme Court Justices’ Histories, a Story of Immigration in America

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s father was a baby when he and his mother left their home in Italy bound for New Jersey, where he later became a U.S. citizen.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s ancestors’ passage remains unknown, but her relatives were enslaved in Georgia, becoming citizens only through the bloodshed of the Civil War.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.’s great-grandparents emigrated in the late 1800s from a mining town in what is now Slovakia, bound for Pennsylvania coal country. In the United States, the couple had a son — the chief justice’s grandfather. Albert Podrasky was born before his parents were naturalized, but he was nevertheless an American, guaranteed by the nation’s principle of birthright citizenship.

So, Alito’s father did not get birthright citizenship, he applied for and got it. Podrasky was not yet a citizen, but, with his legal immigration he was subject to the jurisdiction of the United States of America. Possibly the dumbest justice of all times, Brown Jackson, had her ancestors, if they were slaves, were exactly the people Section 1 of the 14th Amendment was talking about.

With the case approaching, The New York Times scoured passenger ship manifests, census records, voter registration lists and naturalization petitions and interviewed scholars and genealogists in an effort to better understand the nine Americans who will decide the issue.

The justices’ stories show how the nation’s changing laws and attitudes toward newcomers have guided waves of immigration, determining who is allowed to become a citizen and contribute to the American story.

For most of the the time since the passage of the 14th post Civil War it was understood that birthright citizenship did not apply to aliens, meaning foreigners, legal or illegal, unless they were in fact subject to the jurisdiction thereof, meaning, political jurisdiction. Who do they pay allegiance to? When illegals, fake asylum seekers, visitors, people on work or student visas are flying the flags of their home countries, well, their political allegiance is to their old country.

The one that gets me is that 1st paragraph in the above excerpt: this is the same paper, like most, who couldn’t be bothered to do any investigation into Biden’s mental issues, into Hunter’s laptop, into Benghazi, into what Obamacare would do to health insurance and healthcare, into why Democrat run colleges are charging so much for so little, into why America’s school systems are failing so often, into how elected politicians are getting so damned rich in office, into all the fraud in Minnesota (and so many other places), who George Floyd really was, into the origins of COVID, and so much more. Things that matter heavily. Yet, they can do deep dives into the backgrounds of the justices all for their pro-illegal alien narrative.

And, let’s not forget, the who idea is to make the kids citizens so that the parents won’t be deported, and will be give citizenship. Or, at least permanent resident status, for which Dem states, cities, and counties will let them vote. And they’ll vote Democrat

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Your Fault: Hotcoldwetdry Could Make Allergies Worse And Cause More Suicides

By William Teach March 31, 2026 – 4:10 pm

Are they implying that seasonal allergies could cause suicides?

Climate change leads to worsening seasonal allergies … and maybe even more suicides

This is not an April Fool’s Day joke, even though many may wish it were. March is coming to a close, but for those with seasonal allergies, the suffering is just beginning.

Cities like San Diego, which have ranked low on lists of the worst cities for seasonal allergies, jumped into the top 20 this year, thanks to high pollen counts.

The cause? Climate change.

It couldn’t have anything to do with the types of trees, bushes, and flowers being planted in San Diego, could it? And the fact that warm periods have been happening on and off throughout the Holocene?

Numerous studies have found that climate change is to blame for longer allergy seasons and worsening symptoms. Freezing temperatures are waning sooner, allowing plants and flowers to bloom and release pollen earlier.

“There are these extreme, chaotic conditions that climate change is associated with,” Kari Nadeau, chair of the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, told a Boston television station. “And that warming is affecting our pollen seasons.”

A few extra days a year? Big deal. This has happened before and will happen again.

That toll can also affect mental health.

In a study published last October, the Journal of Health Economics said deaths by suicide rose by about 7.4% on days when pollen counts were the highest. Although the study did not establish a definitive link, it suggested that allergy symptoms lead to diminished cognitive function and disrupt sleep, both of which are “predictors of suicidality.”

So, no link, but, they’ll fear monger regardless. Cult.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 31, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible pool made with carbon polluting concrete, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Climate Change Dispatch, with a post on the EV bubble being about to burst.

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Bummer: UN Wacko Upset She Can’t Use Her Credit Card After Simping For Hamas

By William Teach March 31, 2026 – 10:30 am

She wanted to take the side of Hamas, denigrate Israel, and show serious Jew hatred. FAFO

She Spoke Out About Gaza. Now She Can’t Use a Credit Card.

Francesca Albanese was on stage receiving a standing ovation when she first learned how the United States was going to punish her.

It was July 9 last year. The Italian legal expert, who is the U.N. special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, was in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana wrapping up a two-hour talk on her most incendiary report yet.

As she spoke, her tone flicked between professorial bromides on international law and flares of outrage as she detailed how some of the world’s largest companies — including giants of American tech, energy and defense — were aiding Israel in the starvation and killing of Palestinians of Gaza. Now and again she fixed the audience with a look of exasperation.

Albanese’s head dropped. She stared at the floor, absorbing what it meant, thinking that she needed to call her husband and children. Sanctions would cut her and her family off from U.S. banking, travel and tech. Would they be okay? But the crowd was still there. Clapping. Hollering. Her head snapped up. She stretched her arms wide, palms facing her supporters, with a wry smile that said, “What are you gonna do?”

When the talk ended, Albanese stood to accept the crowd’s adulation. One of the organizers walked across the stage, leaned close and said into her ear: “The United States has imposed sanctions on you.” (snip)

Albanese is a self-admitted partisan in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, making her loved and loathed with equal extremes of feeling.

Maybe a United Nations representative shouldn’t be a self professed Jew hater and supporter of Islamic terrorist groups?

This has earned her powerful enemies. Israel and U.S. officials, antisemitism watchdogs and a group of European governments say she is an antisemite, whose simplistic depiction of the conflict and inflammatory language is fanning hatred toward Jews. Some Jews who might otherwise be sympathetic to her cause find some of her public statements — which, for instance, have drawn parallels between Israel’s government and the Nazis — troubling and offensive.

But even against a campaign to discredit and silence her, the U.S. sanctions were an escalation — and an impressive expression of American power and animus. She was, after all, only an unpaid U.N. expert, whose only real weapon (aside from the symbolic authority of her office) was her voice. That’s a point her family will take up in a court in the District of Columbia on Wednesday as they challenge the sanctions on free-speech grounds.

She’s called Hamas a political force. She said they had a “right to resist” the Israel occupation a month after Hamas launched their attack on Jewish civilians, killing over 1,000, raping and torturing. She said the Hamas attack “must be put in context”. She was against Hamas releasing the hostages.

She told Italian Jewish communities to “stop” feeling offended or threatened by criticism of Israel. She has criticized the IHRA definition of antisemitism, calling it a tool for repressing solidarity with Palestine. She keeps yammering about the “Jewish lobby”. She called Israel “the common enemy of humanity”. She has a long history of showing Israel and Jew hatred.

Albanese was among the first official voices to label what has happened in Gaza a genocide, the conclusion of her March 2024 report. Eighteen months later, a U.N. commission concluded the same. In November 2024, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. Whatever the legal definition, more than half of the dead are women and children, according to the Lancet study.

She may be “unpaid” but her Jew and Israel hatred has weight at the UN.

Since 2021, the family has lived in Tunis, where Cali had been posted by the Bank. The lawsuit filed in the district court in Washington in February by Cali and Albanese’s 13-year-old eldest daughter — Albanese is unable to bring suit herself under U.N. rules — enumerates the impacts of the sanctions on the family: Not only has the U.S. blocked them from their property, but banks have frozen Albanese’s accounts. Transactions involving her are stopped because intermediaries, such as Stripe, are American. Her health insurance has halted payments. Hotels have canceled bookings in her name.

She lives as a “financial outcast,” she said. She hides her identity, surviving on cash and the goodwill of friends and family. “If I were alone, I would be utterly, utterly screwed,” she said.

Unfortunately there are not more people learning FAFO when it comes to supporting Islamic terrorists.

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Heatsnow Is Busting Town Budgets Or Something

By William Teach March 31, 2026 – 7:00 am

No, no, definitely not an anti-science doomsday cult, nope

‘That comes with a price tag’: How snow removal is busting town budgets

When the February blizzard swept through Martha’s Vineyard, it knocked out a wastewater pump in Edgartown and toppled a historic harbor flagpole near where “Jaws” was filmed. These damages, on top of other snow and ice expenses, have put the town nearly $200,000 in the red for cleanup costs.

Similar steep bills are piling up across Massachusetts. After a blockbuster winter that dumped record-setting snow on southern New England, cities and towns from Boston to Mattapoisett have busted their snow budgets, forcing already cash-strapped municipalities to make hard decisions about how to close the gaps.

It’s counterintuitive — hey, isn’t it getting warmer? — but some experts say these strained budgets may reflect another impact of climate change: rare but intense snowfall. While global warming is on average producing shorter and milder winters, it is also driving up extreme precipitation. That means when temperatures do drop low enough, storms can drop significantly higher snow totals. And that may only get worse as monster storms grow more intense.

“The way we experience climate change is through extremes,” said Shel Winkley, a meteorologist at Climate Central. “All of that comes with a price tag.”

Because big snows only come when it’s hot out, you know.

Across the region, officials are trying to figure out how to pay that price. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation has already spent more than $185 million on snow and ice removal this winter — about $20 million beyond what was spent during the “Snowmageddon” winter of 2015. State officials are weighing whether to seek aid from the Trump administration.

And that’s all because it’s too hot from Other People driving fossil fueled vehicles. Nope, not a cult.

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ACLU Seems Upset More Law Enforcement Working With ICE

By William Teach March 31, 2026 – 6:45 am

Why wouldn’t they? Even in majority Democrat cities cops tend to be Republicans and are not thrilled with all the illegal aliens, especially the criminal ones

ACLU of Ohio finds more police departments and sheriffs are signing agreements with ICE

Contracts between Ohio police departments and sheriff’s offices with Immigration and Customs Enforcement have increased since President Donald Trump’s second term in office began.

An American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio records request found 19 counties have agreements ranging from jail and transport services to what are called “287(g) agreements” that essentially deputize local police to enforce immigration law. In central Ohio, Delaware County has an agreement to jail and transport immigrants detained by ICE.

Jocelyn Rosnick with the ACLU said that before 2025, there were only two Ohio counties with these kind of agreements.

“I think there is a real fear that the expansion will continue. I think that we have seen from the administration that there is an environment of pressure to enter into these contracts and agreements,” Rosnick said.

Some counties don’t have these formal agreements, but still work with ICE on some level. The Columbus Dispatch reported the Franklin County Sheriff, through its jail, cooperates with ICE by alerting the agency if an undocumented immigrant is detained even if a criminal case is dismissed or bond is posted.

Here’s the thing: if more cop shops cooperated with ICE they could be handing over the really bad illegals while somewhat protecting the normal illegals. ICE would be happy to get the bad ones, and the liberal politicians would be happy that the standard illegals who got busted for speeding or something low are not getting deported. But, no, the liberals want to protect all, including the murderers, rapists, child predators, etc., which means ICE is going to end up picking them all up when they get word of them.

Oh, and it pays well to work with ICE

Rosnick said there’s also a financial incentive the Trump administration is using to get more counties to comply. She said millions in federal tax dollars flow to these counties.

“If every single jail bed, every single day of the year that was available to ICE, was filled, the financial gain, the money coming in to those locales would be over $54 million in total. That’s a lot of money,” Rosnick said.

And local and county cops get very bad people out of their communities.

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Doomsday Cult Now Linking Growing Cancer Rates To ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach March 30, 2026 – 3:00 pm

They really have no proof of this, but, what they’re doing is linking the climate scam to other factors

Vandana Mahajan Urges Action on the Link Between Climate Change and Rising Cancer Cases

Vandana Mahajan, Palliative Care Counselor, Cancer Counselor, Patient Advocate, and Cancer Survivor, shared a post on LinkedIn:

“Cancer cases are rising at an alarming rate worldwide. While only 5-10% of cancers are genetic, the vast majority are linked to environmental and lifestyle factors-tobacco use, alcohol, carcinogen exposure, and more. Yet, there are still many cases with no clear cause.

An increasing body of evidence from global oncology experts is pointing toward a critical and under-recognized factor: climate change and environmental pollution. These are not distant threats-they are already impacting human health and contributing to cancer risk across populations.

Despite this, the urgency of this crisis is not being adequately addressed at a global level.

As a patient advocate in cancer care, I find this deeply concerning. The future demands action-coordinated, evidence-based, and urgent.

We need a global task force that brings together oncologists, physicians, researchers, policymakers, and civil society. Strong data must drive strong policy. Governments must recognize and act on the link between environmental change and cancer.

There’s not one shred of proof in the article that anthropogenic climate change, or even natural global warming, is having any affect on this, nor can any article I looked for provide any factual causation. Now, environmental factors, otherwise known as pollutants? Yes. This is proven. But, it’s like they MUST throw in ‘climate change’. Their cult requires it. A 1.7F increase in global temps since 1850 has nothing to do with anything. I wish they would stop adding Hotcoldwetdry into everything, because something like rising cancers certainly is a concern.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 30, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is a fast rising sea because Other People won’t stop driving fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Bustednuckles, with a post on Gunday Monday.

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UK Guardian: The Kiddies Are Now Watching Videos While Driving

By William Teach March 30, 2026 – 10:30 am

It’s not new, but, is this starting to happen a lot?

‘Kids say they take a quick look at TikTok’: a new kind of distracted driving is on the rise

Jackie was on her way to a doctor’s appointment last fall when she realized her Uber driver’s eyes were not fully on the road. “He had a video playing on his phone and was intermittently looking at it,” she said. Jackie, who is 32 and lives in New Jersey, could not tell exactly what the driver was watching, but she remembers seeing shots of people talking – she guessed it was a video podcast. “I was definitely feeling a lot of dread and distress.”

As they continued on their 40-minute drive down the New Jersey Turnpike – a hectic highway that is not easy driving – Jackie considered saying something. But she felt vulnerable as a rider. “I was alone in a car with someone who was already doing something I found shocking and reckless,” she said. “I didn’t know how they were going to react.”

Jackie, a publicist who asked that her last name be withheld for privacy reasons, made it to her appointment safely, but the experience rattled her. And it happened again just hours later.

Since cellphones became ubiquitous, drivers have been texting behind the wheel, leading to awareness about “distracted driving”. Slogans such as “It can wait” or “Arrive alive, don’t text and drive” are blazed on highway billboards across the country, and 49 states and Washington DC have instated laws against it. (Montana is the one holdout.) But experts – and plenty of drivers, passengers and pedestrians – have clocked a new culprit: people watching videos, such as YouTube or TikTok, while driving.

Look, it’s not just the yutes, certainly older folks do it, but, it is mostly the younger Millennials and the Gen Z who are the problem. When companies required everyone to come back to the office the roads suddenly became a mess in 2022 in spots that had never been a problem. I cannot take 540 if I have to be at work by 830 anymore. If you’re at a stop light you can expect that one of them will be slow to go, and, when they do go, they barely touch the gas pedal, driving like grandma in a TV commercial or movie.

They’re texting, they’re talking while holding the phone in their hand on speakerphone (like their car doesn’t have Bluetooth. Heck, they might be holding it while talking on BT), they have it on a holder while talking on video, they’re making videos, and, now, apparently, watching more and more videos. I have a theory: it’s not just all that stuff, it’s that they have a very short attention span. They cannot keep their eyes off their phones for long. They constantly have to peek at it. Hold it. Their eyes aren’t staying on the road.

I mentioned that the 2026 CRV Hybrid does not have a screen you can watch to see the instant fuel economy screen, where you can see if you are doing good with MPG. People in hybrids and EVs kinda obsess over this. You’re constantly peeking at it. But, most of the older folks who can afford them are good drivers, confident. They do not keep their eyes on the screen, it’s almost like looking around to see what is happening to watch out for trouble on the road. The kiddies are not. The road is almost secondary in their minds. The phone is first. It’s precious. They cannot just be satisfied with Apple Carplay/Android Auto, no, the whole phone.

“People are engaging more and more with their phones [while driving],” said Charlie Klauer, a research scientist and associate professor at Virginia Tech who studies the effects of driving while distracted or fatigued. “The progression has gone from texting to browsing and looking and watching, which we now see a lot of. It’s Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and a wide range of things.”

New drivers, which the NHTSA categorizes as between the ages of 15 and 20, made up the largest proportion of drivers who were distracted at the time of a fatal car crash. Klauer says she sees distracted driving “across the board” in her research, but “it’s through the early to mid-20s that we see very high prevalence of this type of behavior.”

I’ll disagree, and say it’s up to around the late 20’s, from what I see on the road. Maybe there needs to be a law about no phone holders on the dashboard/hanging from the windshield? No holder where they can see the screen upright. Many states do have laws about not being allowed to hold the phone (have you heard about the girl pulled over for holding her phone in her right hand? She doesn’t have a right hand. I think there was some sort of shenanigans). Phones for a lot of people are full on addictions, like opioids. How do we stop this?

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