UK Planning For A “Black Sky” Event

By William Teach November 10, 2026 – 4:28 pm

Is this what all that yammering was about having a few days of food and water the other week?

What happens if all the lights go out? This is the plan for a ‘Black Sky’ event

It was a Saturday night in early December when Roger Kemp realised something was very wrong.

“I was halfway through a Scandi crime drama when everything went off,” the professor at Lancaster University told the BBC. “Streetlights were off. The sodium glow that we can see over the horizon from Morecambe was off.”

The next day he went for a walk.

“[It was] almost like a zombie movie,” he said. “People trying to find phone reception, wondering where things were, and there was a huge queue at the one working telephone box.”

At 22:45 on 5 December 2015, the River Lune – which flows directly through Lancaster – had flooded, and the electricity supply to 61,500 people in the city went.

So, obviously this is Your Fault for driving a fossil fueled vehicle

For Kemp and others in the field of civil contingency, Lancaster was a warning. When a town loses power for several days, our connected world falls apart. This kind of disruption has been given a name: a Black Sky event.

At a recent summit on UK resilience, the conversation focused on the need for the UK to be able to withstand a Black Sky event for a minimum of 72 hours.

Bruh, we deal with this all the time in the US. Hurricanes and ice storms here in the US. I’ve been through this many a time. Sometimes those last longer.

In a major emergency, we are being told to hunker down and turn on an FM radio, as thousands did in Lancaster. This is why the BBC has its own Black Sky plan.

Only a small number of staff know the full details, but from what I have gleaned, about 100 people in the BBC will run a special emergency radio studio.

Why so secretive?

This emergency service will broadcast pre-arranged government messaging. The scripts have already been published online.

They include instructions on how much people should be drinking each day and how to dispose of toilet waste without flushing the toilet.

Other information will be broadcast via satellite vehicles from a select number of journalists at emergency centres around the UK, which will carry on as long as the diesel lasts.

Why is this giving me the heebie jeebies in a post-COVID world, especially with a soft authoritarian government like the UK? Being ready is a good damned idea, I do have stuff so I don’t have to run to the store, including a propane cook stove. Why are so many governments pushing this now? Is it a nothingburger or do they Know Something?

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 10, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible heatsnow because Other People ate meat, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Sharyl Attkinsson, with a post on “Judicial Watch seeks release of records from FBI search of Ilhan Omar’s home”

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Texas’ New Governor Plans Emergency Edict To Freeze Energy Prices Or Something

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

It’s cute and all, but, why? By most measures Texas is around #10 lowest cost energy prices in the country. It’s below national average at 15.91 cents per kilowatt for residential

Texas governor-elect’s plan to freeze electricity prices raises questions over legal authority

On her first day in office, Texas Democratic Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa plans to freeze residential electricity rates in response to what she described as an affordability crisis.

“On Day One as governor, I’ll freeze residential electricity rates and make corporations finally pay their fair share,” Hinojosa said in an interview with a local energy data group. She reiterated the plan in an interview with the Texas Tribune, stating, “Within an hour of taking the oath of office, I will declare a high-cost emergency in the state of Texas and issue an emergency executive order to … freeze electricity rates.”

The plan is raising concerns that such a freeze will clash with Texas’ uniquely competitive energy sector, which relies heavily on free-market choice, and that it could inadvertently create energy shortages as suppliers are prevented from adjusting their prices.

That’s the concern of Nick Loris, the president of C3 Solutions, a conservative coalition for climate solutions that focuses on energy, environment and agriculture policy.

He expects the emergency declaration will face legal challenges almost immediately from energy providers. In particular, he cast doubt on the scope of the emergency declaration.

The US average is 18.16 cents per kilowatt, so, what emergency?

“The Texas Disaster Act lets the governor declare disasters and suspend the regulatory laws and statutes that are in existence. But I think there is a high degree of skepticism, both from courts but also from state policymakers, that this warrants such a claim — and that it is such a disaster,” Loris told Fox News Digital.

Texas is a deregulated state for energy production, and very competitive, so, what’s her play here? Is this just a “I’m doing something, but, the big ole meany courts stopped me from keeping your rates the same”, or something else? Certainly, the rates have gone up over the past few years, just like a lot of states, as the population of Texas skyrocketed with all the transplants escaping California, and that so many people are using so much more electricity, while infrastructure has lagged, even in fossil fuels friendly Texas.

Does she simply want a takeover of the energy sector because Socialism?

In 1999, the state passed Senate Bill 7 — a piece of legislation that opened most of the state to retail choice, allowing customers to pick their preferred retail electric providers (REPs), beginning in 2002.

“The legislature finds that the production and sale of electricity is not a monopoly warranting regulation of rates, operations, and services and that the public interest in competitive electric markets requires that, except for transmission and distribution services and for the recovery of stranded costs, electric services and their prices should be determined by customer choices and the normal forces of competition,” the Texas Legislature wrote in the law.

Does she want control to pick and choose? Does she want to cause providers to limit production so they do not lose money? What’s the game? Simply yapping that she’s Doing Something to placate her unhinged leftist base without considering the implications? I suspect we’ll see a lot of this from Democrats in 2027, but, little will actually make it through the courts.

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Bummer: US Skips Climate (scam) Conference In Turkey

By William Teach November 10, 2026 – 7:15 am

Does it really matter? Because there really hasn’t been that much in the news about the latest UN IPCC conference. And Trump is trying to Save The Planet by not having his people take long fossil fueled flights

U.S. skips the COP31 climate summit as 1.5C global warming limit slips away

Representatives from around the world will gather in Antalya, Turkey, from November 9 to 20 for the 31st Conference of the Parties (COP31) to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. Although it is an annual event, this year’s climate summit is notable for two reasons: first, it coincides with the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement entering into force; and second, the United States — the world’s second-largest and historically biggest emitter, which formally withdrew from the agreement at the start of this year — will not send an official delegation. (Members of Congress and U.S. businesses will still attend.)

I’ll be interested to see which Democrats take long fossil fueled flights to Turkey

With the legacy of the Paris Agreement in question, COP31 President Murat Kurum has set the goal of moving beyond climate pledges to the concrete implementation of existing commitments. Alongside the formal COP agenda, Kurum has introduced an Action Agenda organized around ten themes, including the clean energy transition and electrification, zero waste and methane reduction, and climate-resilient cities. The COP31 presidency has also put forward voluntary pledges, including a 35-by-35 pledge aimed at increasing electricity’s share of total energy consumption to 35 percent by 2035—up from 23% today—as well as a commitment encouraging countries, corporations, and investors to make artificial intelligence more sustainable.

The Paris scam agreement was 11 years ago: why have most nations only paid lip service to it? Anyhow, what’s on the agenda?

Climate finance. Article 9.1 of the Paris Agreement states that developed countries “shall provide” financial resources to developing nations “with respect to both mitigation and adaptation” — but who pays, in what form, and how much are matters of long-standing debate. At COP31, developing nations will continue pressing developed countries to deliver on existing funding commitments, including the COP29 goal to mobilize at least $300 billion per year in climate finance by 2035 and the COP30 call to at least triple adaptation finance over the same period. Developed countries provided and mobilized a record $136.7 billion in climate finance in 2024, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Although developing nations are seeking faster and larger payouts and note that loans can add to debt distress, developed nations are under financial stress from increased fuel costs.

Yeah, redistribution of strings-free money from producing nations to non-producing nations

Fossil fuels. How to treat fossil fuels is a recurring point of contention at recent COPs. At COP30, the parties failed to formalize a roadmap for transitioning away from fossil fuels, even though the measure drew support from a broad coalition of more than eighty countries. The outcome of COP30—the Belém Political Package—omitted the words “fossil fuels” from the official text. Vulnerable nations, civil society groups, environmental nongovernmental organizations, and other actors viewed the omission as a major pullback from the Glasgow Climate Pact (COP26), which called for the phasedown of unabated coal power and phaseout of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies, and the United Arab Emirates Consensus (COP28), which explicitly called for transitioning away from fossil fuels. To quell the tension, the COP30 presidency published elements of a voluntary roadmap ahead of COP31.

Brazil? Is that where 50K+ took fossil fueled flights, then fossil fueled auto trips to Belam down a road built by cutting down a section of the Amazon? Which is followed by certainly 50K+ taking fossil fueled trips to Turkey? Piss off.

What’s standing in the way of climate action?

Well, how about that most people are in favor of Doing Something in theory, but, are not particularly happy when it is done in practice, and have seemingly had enough of this authoritarian crap, at least in the 1st World.

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Amnesty Salazar Still Pushing Amnesty

By William Teach November 10, 2026 – 7:00 am

I’m pretty sure that most Americans do not agree with amnesty

Maria Salazar Cheerleads for Amnesty After Fellow ‘DIGNIDAD’ Republicans Got Wiped Out in Midterms

Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL), currently facing a recount after barely being ahead of her Democrat challenger, is cheerleading for amnesty for illegal aliens even as most of her fellow Republicans who signed onto her DIGNIDAD Act lost reelection last week.

In an interview with 60 Minutes over the weekend, President Donald Trump dangled the idea of working with congressional Democrats on an amnesty for long-time illegal aliens, particularly those working in landscaping and the hotel industry.

“I’d love to do something about immigration,” Trump said. “Get the killers out. Get all the rough ones out. Get the drug dealers out. But let the people that are here, and in some cases here for ten and 15 years, work a deal for them.”

Does Trump really mean this? He did it before in his first term and didn’t mean it, but, it could keep Democrats running around thinking they got something

Four of her main GOP supporters lost their re-election bids.

The DIGNIDAD Act would offer amnesty to the roughly 10.5 million illegal aliens who lived in the United States prior to 2021, as long as they meet some requirements, while more than doubling employment-based legal immigration and blowing up foreign student pipelines in the hopes of giving special corporate interests a continuous flow of foreign labor to hire.

Reminds me of the BS Bush 43 pulled after he won in 2004.

(Breitbart) A new poll of 875 registered voters reported that 78 percent of U.S. voters want Trump to deport the huge population of illegal migrants who have committed a crime. That population includes nearly all illegal migrants who commit crimes after they enter the United States, including identity theft, document fraud, and tax evasion.

However, the poll pushed respondents to endorse an amnesty by asking if they want to deport “immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally but who otherwise have not committed a crime.” Forty-eight percent still endorsed mass deportations, while 41 percent said they “strongly [or] somewhat” oppose deporting the supposedly law-abiding illegal migrants.

Republicans are heavily opposed to any sort of amnesty, and want all deported, because it is a crime to enter the US illegally/overstay visa. One of the things that hurt John McCain was his support of Bush’s “comprehensive immigration reform”, ie, amnesty.

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Are These The 10 Best Horror Remakes Of This Century?

By William Teach November 9, 2026 – 3:00 pm

Love me some horror

10 Best Horror Movie Remakes Of The 21st Century, Ranked

While some folks may still understandably bristle at the idea of horror movies getting the remake treatment, there have been undeniably great ones in recent history. Following celebrated 20th century horror remakes like “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” and “The Thing,” the 21st century has its own fair share of memorable chillers. Whether it’s Americanized takes on foreign films or updates of longstanding fan-favorites, some of the best horror movies of the 21st century are remakes. With that in mind, we’re taking a look at some of the entertaining scary movie remakes released in 2000 and beyond.

A few caveats to keep in mind for this particular list is that remakes that reuse a title but feature a vastly different story, like 2020’s excellent “The Invisible Man,” are omitted. Other notably enjoyable movies not included here are 2017’s “It” and 2013’s “Evil Dead,” which we would normally recommend but not for the purposes of this list. “It” was previously adapted as a television miniseries, not as a movie, while “Evil Dead” offers a broad retelling, but its post-credits scene suggests it’s in the same universe.

Let’s see

  • 10. My Bloody Valentine 3D (Not bad at all, good watch, just the right amount of gore and suspense)
  • 9. Maniac (2012) (never watched it)
  • 8. Suspiria (2018) (I liked the remake a lot better than the 1977)
  • 7. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) (good. Again, just the right amount of gore. Doesn’t touch the original, though)
  • 6. Speak No Evil (2024) (haven’t seen it)
  • 5. Dawn of the Dead (2004) (some people, like me, love it. I have it on DVD and Bluray. Some don’t like it. It was really done well, and, of course, a good horror ending during the credits)
  • 4. Fright Night (2011) (very good, but, certainly less comedyish like the original, more straightforward horror)
  • 3. The Ring (2002) (Fantastic movie, but, of course, it was a remake of a Japanese movie, so, a bit different)
  • 2. Let Me In (same with this, a remake of a foreign film)
  • 1. Nosferatu (2024)

NO. Stop. Full stop. This version of Nosferatu was trash. It was basically the 1979 artsy fartsy version, which I have never made it more than a third thru it is so dull, combined with the 1992 Keanu Reeves Dracula. This bears no semblance to the 1922 original. It is not scary, the makeup is overdone, and seemed a platform for Lily Rose Depp to get naked. Not much else. Was slightly less dull than the 1979, but, took me 2 tries to get through it, and was bummed that I did.

Anyhow, there are a few others, like Willard, The Hills Have Eyes, The Crazies. Which do you think is best?

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 9, 2026 – 1:00 pm

..is early Heatsnow caused by an evil gas powered mower, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on “It looks like the pro-Hamas activists’ Skokie 2.0 bike rally fell flat”

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Senator Markey Soft Threatens Google Over Schools, Sen Warren Threatens Businesses

By William Teach November 9, 2026 – 10:30 am

Democrats sure like to threaten private companies, eh? Maybe some of them need it, but, it’s problematic when an elected federal official, ie, a public servant, does it

Senator Tells Google to Let Schools Disable A.I. Features in Search

Senator Edward J. Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, sent a letter to Google on Monday telling the tech giant to allow schools to disable the artificial intelligence features within its search engine.

The letter cited a New York Times article last week reporting that Google planned to turn off student access to certain A.I.-related services — including its Gemini A.I. tool and search — giving schools the option of turning any back on.

But schools will not have the ability to turn off A.I. features in search if they want to keep using it to run queries, Google said. That’s because tools like A.I. Overview and A.I. Mode are too “deeply integrated” into search, the company said. A.I. Mode is a chatbot-like feature while A.I. Overview generates search summaries. There will also be a new student A.I. chat feature, Guided Learning, meant to assist with schoolwork while tamping down on A.I. cheating.

The tech industry is facing heightened public concern that chatbots can hinder students’ learning and pose risks to children’s mental health. And Google’s announcement last week set off criticism from some politicians and nonprofit groups that the tech giant’s insistence on keeping A.I. features in search was undermining schools’ abilities to make learning and safety decisions for their students.

Interesting. They’re worried about AI, but, not all the other things Democrats support, such as enticing children to declare themselves trans and wanting drugs and surgeries. Or growing up too fast and sexualizing themselves. Or legalizing drugs, for which children will have a lot easier access to them then when they were illegal (yeah, we could get marijuana back in the day, but, we actually didn’t start till 10th grade).

Elizabeth Warren gears up to take on Wall Street, Big Tech in new role

Brace yourself for the most progressive — and aggressive — Senate Banking Committee chair in decades.

Elizabeth Warren, the longtime Wall Street antagonist poised to take over the Banking panel next year, is preparing a sweeping policy and oversight agenda that will put her in a key position to influence the Democratic Party’s debate over economic populism ahead of 2028.

According to an initial rundown of her plans provided to POLITICO by a Warren Banking aide, the Massachusetts Democrat is preparing to use her new perch to confront corporate America on multiple fronts, from investigations to legislation aimed at curbing corporate power. As Banking chair, Warren will be in charge of a wide-ranging policy portfolio that includes banking, housing, cryptocurrency, the Federal Reserve and more.

Chief want big wampum from those companies, eh? But, really, does she have any evidence that any of these companies are doing wrong, or is this a fishing expedition because Democrats hate big companies? Despite getting vast amounts of campaign (and other types) money from those same companies. I bet a lot of them she’s targeting have played nice with Trump.

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Your Fault: Rice Krispies Have No Rice

By William Teach November 9, 2026 – 7:15 am

All you had to do was take a fossil fueled flight to Turkey for the last climate conference, which starts today, along with 50K+ others to discuss taking fossil fuels usage away from Other People, but, no, you had to be a Skeptic

Climate Change Has Become So Bad That Rice Krispies Don’t Have Actual Rice in Them Anymore

Snap, Crackle, and Pop! The sonic slogan of Rice Krispies is now becoming an anachronism.

The classic puffed rice foodstuff now no longer contain actual rice grains, at least in UK and European markets, the manufacturer Kellogg’s recently admitted. It will now use rice flour and corn flour, which aside from gustatory concerns, will result in it being noticeably quieter than it used to be. Kellogg’s, in the face of complaints online, insists that retaining the original sound was a “huge focus.”

It’s yet another example of the corporate cost-cutting putrefaction we’ve come to expect — and the reason for it is grim: climate change.

A spokesperson told media outlets that the reformulation will help “maintain consistent quality at a time when changing weather conditions are affecting the quality and availability of some of the rice and grains used in our cereals.”

Things change. Manufacturers have had to deal with The Weather for pretty much forever.

The company didn’t get into specifics, but the recipe change comes as a powerful “super El Niño” climate phenomenon has devastated agriculture in South and Southeast Asia, where more than half the world’s rice is grown.

El Nino is not caused by Mankind. It is entirely natural and happens. This is all doomsday cult BS. Let’s look at the BBC article in the “recently admitted” link

The cereals have already undergone some change, with reductions in salt content in the 1990s and lowered sugar in 2018. The company said Rice Krispies and Coco Pops will continue to meet UK food standards on levels of fat, salt and sugar in food.

A backlash against processed foods in recent years, especially those low in fibre and high in sugar, has put breakfast cereals generally under the spotlight from healthy eating advocates.

Kellogg’s stressed the cereals contain no artificial colours, flavours or sweeteners and the nutritional benefits in each bowl, such as fibre, Vitamin D and iron are staying the same.

Sounds like taking rice out is more about complying with wacko British and EU regulations, and, the price of rice has skyrocketed over the years with all the Asian, African, and Middle Eastern imports, and, all the rice for the UK and EU is imported.

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Surprise: Trump Admin Not Going To Back Down On Immigration Enforcement

By William Teach November 9, 2026 – 7:00 am

Did they think he would?

ICE unlikely to scale back crackdown, sources say, citing Stephen Miller’s promotion

The Trump administration is unlikely to scale back its aggressive crackdown on illegal immigration following the results of the midterm elections, multiple U.S. officials told CBS News, citing the elevation of immigration hawk Stephen Miller as White House chief of staff.

Republicans suffered huge losses across the country on Election Day, including in some historically red states like Texas. Exit polls indicated that immigration was one of the top issues, alongside the economy, among Texas Latinos, who swung heavily toward Democrats. And 58% of voters nationwide said the Trump administration’s deportation crackdown had “gone too far.”

In January, Democratic lawmakers will take control of both chambers of Congress and assume sweeping powers to investigate the administration’s immigration crackdown and its most controversial policies.

They can investigate all they want: unless they can get a bunch of Republicans in the Senate to vote with them there is nothing they can do, especially since Trump can just veto anything they pass.

Still, officials at the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have not received instructions to reduce immigration enforcement since the election, the sources said, requesting anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

In recent weeks, ICE officials have been instructed to try to carry out around 19,000 arrests per week, or about 2,700 per day, an increase from a prior 2,000 daily arrest target, agency sources told CBS News. That target was set before the midterms.

The U.S. officials cited Miller’s appointment to the top post in the White House as a clear indication the Trump administration is likely to continue ICE’s deportation blitz, as well as its quieter yet far-reaching campaign to sharply restrict legal immigration.

If Trump wraps up the Iran war and moves on from any tariffs, focuses on economic issues the GOP could be in a good spot in 2028, particularly for the White House (my money is on Rubio), and no one will care about deporting illegals, especially since the big actions are done with, as they were more about deterrence. But, it won’t stop. It’s literally the law of the United States.

(KRGV) After Democrats’ overwhelming midterm victories this week, winning candidates spoke of the need, once they are sworn in, to rein in President Donald Trump’s mass deportation machine. Some suggested putting forward a new vision for immigration reform while both houses of Congress are in Democratic control.

Democrats care more about illegals than US citizens. Nothing unusual.

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