Cult: Day Of The Dead Flowers Getting Killed By ‘Climate Change’

This is what it looks like when a news organization is consumed by a doomsday cult

This orange flower cloaks Mexico during Day of the Dead. Climate change is putting it at risk

Lucia Ortiz trudges through endless fields of cempasuchil flowers, the luminescent orange petals of which will soon cloak everything from city streets to cemeteries across Mexico.

Here, in the winding canals and farms on the fringes of Mexico City, the flower also known as the Mexican marigold has been farmed for generations, and takes the spotlight every year in the country’s Day of the Dead celebrations.

But as 50-year-old Ortiz and other farmers busily bundle clusters of the plant to sell in markets around the capital, they quietly wonder what will be left of their livelihood down the line.

That’s because cempasuchil growers say they’ve been left reeling by torrential rains, stretching drought and other impacts from climate change — caused by the burning of fuels like gas, oil and coal — that have grown increasingly common.

 

Seriously, weather happens. How would they do if the world went into a new Little Ice Age?

This year, torrential rains stretching on for months wiped out more than 37,000 acres of crops across the country, according to government figures. In a visit to cempasuchil fields earlier this month in Xochimilco, Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada said that as many of 2 million marigold plants were put at risk. Despite that, she said that production this year simultaneously broke a record of 6 million plants as farmers ramp up to meet increasing demand even as growing the flower has become more precarious.

So, wait, broke the record and doomed? Cult.

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If All You See…

Something’s going on, most likely with Photobucket. No picture I pull from my PB account will show up in a post right now. The photo in the 1030am post shows. Have to see what happens over the next day. So, replaced with one from Imgur.

…is an evil refrigerator, you might just be a Warmist

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The blog of the day is Ace Of Spades HQ, with a post on Antifa terrorists being arrested and tried.

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Washington Halloween Displays Show Complete Trump Derangement Syndrome

No matter what’s happening Democrats cannot avoid TDS. I love that Progressive commercial (well, I love them all, one of the best ad campaigns of all time) which ends with “you’re watching TV, not supervising it. Sit down and relax.” Democrats cannot relax.” It’s TDS 24/7

Washington Halloween displays show scariest thing for Democrats is Trump

In some neighborhoods of heavily Democratic Washington, Halloween displays with a decidedly political tone have long been a tradition.

But ahead of Halloween on Friday – 10 months into Donald Trump’s second White House term driven by a conservative policy blitz most Democrats oppose – some residents are using the holiday to protest his policies with anti-Trump yard displays.

In a front yard close to the U.S. Capitol, Donna Breslin, 79, has installed an entire graveyard with 16 headstones to mark policy moves the Republican Trump has made since he took office in January that she says are killing off American democracy.

There are headstones – purchased on Amazon and hand-painted by Breslin – for “USAID,” and “research for health and science,” among others.

The Washington metropolitan area has borne the brunt of Trump’s cuts. A government shutdown, now in its 30th day, has forced many more civil servants to be furloughed with each party blaming the other.

All they have to do is tell their Democrat Senators to vote for a clean CR, as they had done 13 previous times.

Sadly, not a ton of photos, mostly of the same stuff. But, you know there is plenty more TDS in D.C.

One focus of this year’s Halloween displays is Trump’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has cut staff at the Department of Health and Human Services and promoted debunked claims that routine childhood vaccines cause harm.

In the wealthy, liberal Northwest Washington neighborhood of Georgetown, where Kennedy lives, there are multiple skeletons on display in front yards alongside vaccine-related messages.

A block from Kennedy’s house stands a giant 10-foot (3-meter)-tall skeleton next to a sign that reads, “Hi, I’m Wally! Vaccines save lives – believe me I know!”

Kennedy has restricted access to COVID-19 shots, boosted support for state vaccine exemptions, dismantled the vaccine review process, and expanded a national advisory board with like-minded critics of COVID shots.

The hardcore Democrats can still get their worthless 15th COVID booster, and then cry when they get COVID. Again.

They’re all wackadoodle. Just celebrate Halloween and relax.

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Bummer: Poll Shows Climate Scam Support Collapsing

Now that the media is spending most of their time going TDS they aren’t spending as much time yammering about climate doom, which leads to

CNN Data Guru Delivers Harsh Truth on Issue Dividing the Aisle

CNN’s data guru Harry Enten delivered bad news for Democrats: most Americans just don’t care about climate change.

The chief data analyst revealed on the network Wednesday that fewer than half of Americans are concerned about one of Democrats’ signature issues.

“The worry in terms of climate change, simply put, hasn’t shifted; it has not reached the majority of Americans,” Enten said.

Enten cited a Gallup poll that found just 40 percent of Americans worry a “great deal” about “global warming or climate change.”

He added that the new figure is the “same number as we had 25 years ago, back in 2000, and then only just five points higher than we had back in 1989.”

But, see, that worry is really only theoretical, not real world, because, as usual

Enten said that polls showed that only 2 percent of Americans feel climate change is the top issue facing the U.S., the same as 2023 and down from 3 percent in 2021.

When matched against real world issues, climate doom is always low.

Enten, 37, wrapped up the segment, explaining that the distress call sent out by climate activists has seemingly fallen on deaf ears.

“The bottom line is that the climate change message that folks who, of course, believe that climate change is real and is quite worrisome, simply put, has not really worked with the American people,” he said.

Well, how can it really work when the people pushing it the hardest are climahypocrites, and rarely practice what they preach? Also, that so many of them are wackos who glue themselves to things, attack paintings, and so forth.

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Biden DOJ Was Spying On Lots Of Elected Republicans

Weirdly, the NY Times and Washington Post are not covering this

In fact, you will barely find any mention of Arctic Frost in most of the big American media outlets

Biden-era FBI may have investigated over 160 Republicans as part of ‘Arctic Frost’ probe, documents show

More than 160 Republicans, including current Trump administration officials, may have been investigated by the FBI under former President Joe Biden, as part of the bureau’s sweeping Arctic Frost probe, documents show.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino, US Pardon Attorney Ed Martin and White House trade adviser Peter Navarro are among the prominent GOP figures named in FBI files released by the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, detailing the massive scope of the Biden-era Justice Department’s investigation into allegations of 2020 election interference.

“What we’ve learned is it was much broader, much more expansive, than we ever thought,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan told Fox News host Sean Hannity.

“This is why we want [former special counsel] Jack Smith in front of our committee in a deposition format,” Jordan (R-Ohio) continued.

“‘Was this a political operation you guys were running against President Trump? …. How many other members of Congress did you spy on?’ …. Those are the kind of questions we want to ask Jack Smith, to see what kind of answers we get from the guy who ran this whole operation,” the congressman added.

Now, imagine it was the Trump DOJ spying on 20% of Senate Democrats. Or, heck, just 1. This would be the lead story in every Credentialed Media outlet, Democrats would be throwing subpoenas left and right, and would be looking for a way to jail Trump. Cruz is calling this worse than Watergate, and he’s possibly correct, especially since the media wants to bury this

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Huh: PRC Pension Fund Lost $332 Million On Green Energy

Obviously, those in the People’s Republik Of California won’t say how or where it went

From the link

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System for state employees lost 71% of its $468 million investment in a clean energy and technology private equity fund, state records show, but CalPERS won’t explain how.

These losses are a major problem for California taxpayers, who at least for now are the backstop for underfunded state pensions, but also for state employees who trust CalPERS to responsibly manage their retirement plans.

CalPERS says its pension benefits are only 79% funded, leaving the state, and its taxpayers, on the hook for the other 21%. According to a recent report from Reason Foundation, CalPERS’ pension shortfall is approximately $180 billion. (snip)

CalPERS committed $465 million to the private equity CalPERS Clean Energy & Technology Fund (CETF) in 2007, ultimately paying in $468,423,814.

Since then, the cash out and remaining investment value of the investment fund has declined to $138,045,373, as of March 31,2025.

That’s a loss of 71%, or more than $330 million, for which private equity firms were paid at least $22 million in fees and costs.

Now, imagine the government investigations if a private firm lost this money

The Center Square filed a public records request seeking more details into the fund’s losses, including management contracts with the firms investing CalPERS’ money, and the investments made with CalPERS funding by those firms. CalPERS declined to release the information, aside from sharing already-public records, citing a state law exempting many records for alternative investments — such as private equity — from many public disclosure requirements.

“The public should have a right to know how public money is being invested,” said David Loy, legal director for First Amendment Coalition, a government transparency and free speech nonprofit, in an email to The Center Square. “This is a serious transparency concern if the public doesn’t have visibility into how public money, especially pension funds, are being invested and to what degree of risk.”

Anyone else thinking the money went to hook up good Democrat donors? Disappeared into pockets? If the Credentialed Media had any integrity they would be asking pointed questions, investigating, and asking Newsom questions.

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If All You See…

…is horrible carbon pollution beer, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on Australia being a defenseless-victim zone.

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NY Times: Trump Suggests He Can’t Run For A Third Term

The Fish Wrap thinks they’re on to something with a front page article

Trump Suggests He Knows He Can’t Run Again: ‘It’s Too Bad’

President Trump seemed to concede on Wednesday that he was not eligible to serve a third term, lamenting that it was an unfortunate result of the constitutional prohibition that he has mused about violating for months.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One en route to South Korea, the last leg of his three-country diplomatic tour across Asia, Mr. Trump said it was “too bad” that he couldn’t run in 2028.

“We have the greatest economy we’ve ever had, I have my highest poll numbers that I’ve ever had,” he boasted (his approval rating remains low, at 43 percent, according to a New York Times average). “And, you know, based on what I read, I guess I’m not allowed to run. So we’ll see what happens.”

The remarks came after House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Tuesday there was no path around the Constitution’s two-term limit.

There really isn’t a path.

Since retaking the White House, Mr. Trump has repeatedly teased that he may never leave. For several months, Mr. Trump has discussed serving a third term, vacillating between joking to goad his critics and signaling that it would be one of many ways he would seek to test the bounds of his constitutional authority.

Even as recently as Saturday, Mr. Trump said, “I would love to do it,” when asked about serving another four years.

While I’m sure Trump would love to serve another term, mostly what he’s doing here is trolling Democrats, and, like most things he says, it drives them full on barking moonbat. They take everything he says at full value, with no cognition that he’s winding them up. Even the people in the media who cover Trump and should know better are wound up like a jack in the box, popping up with apoplexy.

Asked on Wednesday whether he had been “trolling” or serious about serving, Mr. Trump indicated that he had come to terms with the 22nd Amendment, which states that no one can be elected president more than twice (consecutively or not).

“If you read it, it’s pretty clear — I’m not allowed to run,” he said. “It’s too bad.”

And the Times doesn’t think he’s trolling them. And what’s going to happen now is that Trump will continue to tweak the noses of Democrats over this, and they will run on Crazy, even the NY Times after publishing this.

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Canadian Youts Sue Pensions Over Climate (scam) Risks

I wonder how many big monied cult groups are backing this, astroturfing it, and, if the youts have given up their own use of fossil fuels and made their lives carbon neutral?

Canada Pension Fund Sued by Young People Over Climate Risks

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board was sued by a group of young people who claim the pension fund is putting their benefits in jeopardy by mismanaging climate-related financial risks.

Aliya Hirji, Travis Olson, Ravneet Singh and Chloe Tse, who don’t plan to retire until after 2050, allege in the lawsuit that the country’s largest pension fund breached its legal duties to them by failing to “prudently identify, assess or manage climate-related risks.” The suit, filed in Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice, also calls out the pension plan for its continued investments in fossil fuels.

CPPIB is “flying blind to the real risks of climate change and failing to protect the pensions of young Canadians,” Karine Peloffy, a lawyer and sustainable finance lead at Ecojustice who’s representing the investors with attorneys from Goldblatt Partners LLP, said in a statement.

CPPIB said in a statement that it intends to take whatever steps are necessary to uphold the interests of all Canadians who contribute to the pension plan. Climate change is “one of many material factors we consider in managing risk and pursuing opportunities across the whole economy over the long term,” CPPIB added.

But, they aren’t considering the scam enough for the youts. I hope the CPPIB lawyers ask the 4 plaintiffs, two of whom don’t even look to be Canadians, if they have stopped using fossil fuels in their own lives. And lawyer Peloffy. Sadly, they won’t.

The four Canadian workers, all under the age of 33, are seeking a range of declarations, including that CPPIB act “in the best interests of all contributors and beneficiaries,” and an order that CPPIB disclose more information about the climate-related risks in its investment portfolio.

It’s wild how these “young people” in their 30s/late 20s think that just because they have a been in their burr they are allowed to sue to force companies to comply. Why don’t they put their money in a fund that accords with their beliefs? Climalawfare to force compliance. What if the vast majority of investors do not give a flying shit about “climate-related risks”? And people wonder why I call the cult authoritarian.

Ecojustice said the case against CPPIB is 100%-funded by organizations and individuals who share the Canadian nonprofit’s vision as the country’s largest environmental law charity.

In other words, astroturfed.

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Chicago Area Federal Judge Apparently Thinks She’s In The Legislative Branch

Under what federal statute does she have the authority to interfere and demand oversight over legally authorized immigration operations?

Judge intensifies oversight of agents in Trump’s Chicago immigration crackdown

A U.S. judge on Tuesday intensified her monitoring of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in Chicago, requiring a top official to appear daily in court and ordering his agency to detail the use of force by its agents including firing tear gas at protesters and bystanders and to hand over body-camera video.

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis during a hearing chastised Border Patrol commander-at-large Gregory Bovino over his agency’s actions in the third-largest U.S. city and told him to get a body camera to wear himself. Ellis had summoned him to appear at the hearing after he was seen on video last week tossing a tear gas canister at protesters during an enforcement action in a neighborhood with many immigrants from Mexico.

The judge is presiding over a lawsuit challenging the legality of the tactics used by officials carrying out Trump’s Chicago crackdown called “Operation Midway Blitz.”

Really, all this is is a method to jam up immigration official, keep them from being able to do their jobs, and she keeps adding more and more on the pile

The judge’s order required the agents to wear visible identification and restricted their use of anti-riot weapons such as pepper balls and tear gas. The judge subsequently required federal officers with body cameras to turn them on while conducting immigration enforcement and during interactions with the public.

Ellis on Tuesday ordered Bovino, who also played a lead role in Trump’s immigration crackdown in Los Angeles over the summer, to come to court each weekday at 6 p.m. before a November 5 hearing to discuss the day’s immigration enforcement operations.

The judge also told Trump’s administration by Friday to hand over its reports on the use of force against protesters and bystanders in Chicago and corresponding body camera video dating to the beginning of the operation on September 2, and to provide this material going forward for any future instances.

I’m placing my money on Ellis creating a new hearing sometime in late December with more restrictions, like she’s making up legislation. And the more she does this the more the Trump admin will go after illegals in Sanctuary City Chicago. He’ll surge more federal agents. Trump loves when judges go rogue, because, sooner or later, a higher court will shut Judge Pro-Illegals down, and, perhaps at some point Ellis will be charged with violating federal law as it pertains to helping illegal aliens.

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