Sac Bee: Gavin Newsom Is Failing The PRC On ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach May 13, 2024 – 3:36 pm

Weirdly, the Sacramento Bee’s Tom Philp is missing a big point (non-paywalled here)

As he heads to the Vatican, Gov. Newsom is failing on climate change | Opinion

Gov. Gavin Newsom is flunking a key climate change test within a stone’s throw of the Capitol. A freeway widening project on parts of Highway 50 and Interstate 80 is moving forward under his leadership that is in blatant defiance of the Sacramento region’s climate change strategy to dramatically move motorists into carpools.

When the governor visits the Vatican later this week to attend an international climate change summit, he has reason to confess a Sacramento sin. Instead of doing the hard work of real leadership, risking the annoyance of some commuters by compelling them to use carpool lanes that produce less emissions, Newsom has instead ducked this issue for months.

Team Newsom is siding with the road builders of the California Department of Transportation and ignoring his own Air Resources Board and their two blistering critiques of the coveted Caltrans project to widen freeway lanes between Sacramento and Davis. The Air Resources Board says this project will worsen the effects of climate change, but Caltrans and Newsom and trying their damndest to ignore them. Oh, and they are also ignoring the six-county Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG), who want more carpool lanes.

Newsom is no Jerry Brown, a governor who was willing to take on CalTrans from his very first term, when necessary. When it comes to road building, Newsom has far more in common with Donald Trump, pretending that unpopular moves to tackle the globe’s biggest challenge aren’t really necessary.

But, um, is Gavin listening to what the citizens of the People’s Republik Of California want with the road? Are they in favor of the road widening project? Should Gavin be listening to the citizens more than the unhinged Air Resources Board?

There is nothing popular about reversing the effects of climate change. It will demand some big changes in human behavior to reduce the gas emissions that contribute to trapping the sun’s heat and causing drier rainy seasons and temperatures to rise.

This is one of the perfect climate cult sentences: it doesn’t matter if you like it, the Elites will force you to comply. Sit down, shut up, and do what you’re told.

Philp actually forgot to mention two things: that Newsom is taking a long, fossil fueled flight all the way to Italy, and you can bet it isn’t a commercial flight. Second, Philp forgot to mention what actions he’s taken in his own life.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 13, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is a weird looking sun from what is obviously carbon pollution driven wildfires, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Scoop, with a post on another Democrat breaking with Biden on Israel.

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Pro-Hamas Demonstrators Turning To Pro-Hamas Al Jazeera For News On Gaza

By William Teach May 13, 2024 – 10:30 am

Now, if it was Republicans turning to seriously hardcore news outlets, the NY Times would be apoplectic

Frustrated by Gaza Coverage, Student Protesters Turn to Al Jazeera

Nick Wilson has closely followed news on the war in the Gaza Strip since October. But Wilson, a Cornell University student, is picky when it comes to his media diet: As a pro-Palestinian activist, he doesn’t trust major U.S. outlets’ reporting on Israel’s campaign in Gaza.

Instead, he turns to publications less familiar to some U.S. audiences, such as the Arab news network Al Jazeera.

“Al Jazeera is the site that I go to to get an account of events that I think will be reliable,” he said.

Many student protesters said in recent interviews that they were seeking on-the-ground coverage of the war in Gaza, and often, a staunchly pro-Palestinian perspective — and they are turning to alternative media for it. There’s a range of options: Jewish Currents, The Intercept, Mondoweiss and even independent Palestinian journalists on social media, as they seek information about what is happening in Gaza.

Al Jazeera has always been a pro-Islamist and anti-Israel outlet. Jewish Currents is a very hard left Jewish outlet. The rest are simply Jew haters and supporters of Palestinians, who all fail to note that no Arab nation wants them because of their penchant for violence.

Their preferences embody a broader shift for members of Generation Z, who are increasingly seeking out news from a wider array of sources and questioning legacy outlets in a fragmented media ecosystem.

Israel’s recent ban on the local operations of Al Jazeera has only elevated the network’s status among many student protesters. They prize coverage from reporters on the ground, and Al Jazeera has a more extensive operation in Gaza than any other publication. Students also noted the sacrifices it has made to tell the story there. Two Al Jazeera journalists have died since the start of the war.

That’s because Al Jazeera has no harsh words for Hamas, designated a terrorist organization by the US, EU, and UN.

While many Western media outlets, with few if any journalists in Gaza before the war, have struggled to gain access to the territory, Al Jazeera has been recognized for its raw, searing portrayals of the death and destruction there. A typical report may show video of Israeli tanks rolling into cities, alongside drone shots of leveled buildings in Gaza City and Palestinians fleeing their homes.

In normal times the NY Times would note that Al Jazeera is providing propaganda for Hamas. And the kiddies are downloading the Al Jazeera app in huge numbers

Hussein Ibish, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, described the network’s Arabic-language channel as more outwardly pro-Palestinian than the English one, which he said has a more subtle slant.

Critics say its coverage veers into support of the armed resistance to Israel. The Israeli government, which has accused Al Jazeera of acting as a “mouthpiece” for Hamas, last Sunday seized its broadcast equipment and shut down its operations in the country for at least 45 days.

The majority of people named in the article have names which would suggest that they support Islamic terrorist groups and hate Jews. If they were Republicans the Times would be calling them racists and terrorist supporters

The protesters rattle off a list of mainstream U.S. publications as having coverage they find objectionable, including CNN, The Atlantic, the BBC and The New York Times, among many others. Although major news outlets have reported extensively on Israel’s campaign in Gaza, the death toll and the damage, the coverage in the view of student protesters doesn’t assign enough blame to Israel for Palestinian deaths, or thoroughly fact-check Israeli officials. And they said protest coverage has focused too much on antisemitism on college campuses instead of Islamophobia.

The protesters are upset that Credentialed Media outlets are actually covering the Jew hatred and support of Hamas. Pretty wild to think with these outlets, eh?

Part of what doomed the network back then was “a distinctly anti-American bent” to its coverage, Ibish wrote in a 2016 guest essay for the Times. But now, broadcast from a different country, the network’s tone is finding its audience on university campuses, he said.

“There’s a third-worldist, anti-imperial point of view, and that’s also the view that many college kids have adopted,” he said.

They’re play-acting at being revolutionaries while going back to their dorm rooms and meal plans, having access to reliable water, clean clothes, electricity, then home to their parents homes when school is out. They wear their Intifada keffiyehs as fashion for the camera, having no understanding of their meaning. These students need to go to Gaza, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Yemen, etc. to see how well they are received with open arms by the people they advocate for so much, especially the women and LGBT folks. See how that goes.

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Who’s Up For Floating Cities To Save Us From Sea Rise (that’s your fault)?

By William Teach May 13, 2024 – 7:00 am

The NY Times, rather than investigating government, checking out wrong doing, protecting citizens from government, decides this is a better use of their time, because, they’re part of a cult

Are Floating Cities the Solution to Rising Seas?

Worldwide, rising sea levels and increasing urbanization represent a formula for disaster, with more and more people seeking to live on land that will, at some point, be swallowed up by the sea. But a futuristic-sounding solution — the construction of full cities on top of the water — is poised to become a reality.

One project in particular, off Busan, South Korea, is roping in a combination of high and low technology to create a large-scale, on-water town, which will be able to house more than 10,000 people.

Strictly defined, floating communities already exist in the Netherlands, Thailand and elsewhere in Southeast Asia. But these are typically clusters of houseboats moored close to one another. What sets the new concepts apart is a matter of scale. Rather than comprising an agglomeration of smaller vessels, each of these cities is designed to be built on enormous concrete platforms suspended on the water.

Weirdly, South Korea has plenty of unused land. But, really, if climate cultists were so concerned about sea rise they wouldn’t be moving to so many coastal areas. Nor would the Elites who like to buy beachfront homes, eh?

But, hey, surprisingly, ‘climate change’ in any form isn’t mentioned. Nor do they mention actual sea rise data. Most South Korean tide gauges are well below expected sea rise during a Holocene warm period. Some are about average. But, you know what? I think it would be great if climate cultists lived on floating cities. That’d keep them away from the non-cult people.

But, um, what happens when the Earth’s climate flips back into cooling? How do they survive?

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Good News: Biden Admin Has Been Withholding Key Intelligence That Would Help Israel Defeat Hamas

By William Teach May 13, 2024 – 6:45 am

With allies like this who needs enemies?

That top tweet continues:

Keeping Israel’s hostages kidnapped

Keeping Israel under threat of rocket attacks

Keeping Gazans endangered

Perpetuating the war ON PURPOSE.

Further, it kept U.S. hostages kidnapped. Rep. Corey Mills needs to add this to the articles of impeachment

U.S. cites intelligence, offers Israel supplies to limit Rafah operation

The Biden administration, working urgently to stave off a full-scale Israeli invasion of Rafah, is offering Israel valuable assistance in an effort to persuade it to hold back, including sensitive intelligence to help the Israeli military pinpoint the location of Hamas leaders and find the group’s hidden tunnels, according to four people familiar with the U.S. offers.

American officials have also offered to help provide thousands of shelters so Israel can build tent cities — and to help with the construction of delivery systems for food, water and medicine — so that Palestinians evacuated from Rafah can have a habitable place to live, said the officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to disclose secret diplomatic talks.

President Biden and his senior aides have been making such offers over the past several weeks in hopes they will persuade Israel to conduct a more limited and targeted operation in the southern Gaza city, where some 1.3 million Palestinians are sheltering after fleeing there from other parts of Gaza under Israeli orders. Israel has vowed to go into Rafah with “extreme force,” and this week Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took a number of steps that raised fears at the White House that the long-promised invasion could be materializing.

So, the Biden admin has been sitting on this information and is essentially using it to protect terrorists. Israel could have used it weeks or months ago to minimize casualties and take out Hamas, which, in case no one told Biden, is a U.S. State Department designated terrorist organization. Perhaps Biden should be playing to his non-terrorist loving voters, eh? And

(NY Post) But Biden’s “f–k up” doesn’t end there. It also simultaneously undercuts America’s relationship with other allies who have new reason to worry they could be next on his hit list.

Can Saudi Arabia really trust an administration that mercilessly undercut America’s closest ally?

Should European allies be worried that they, too, will somehow run afoul of a White House that treats its enemies better than its friends?

Then there’s Ukraine, which has another reason to worry, while Russia and China must be delighted to see American weakness in action.

How do our allies take it? Can they actually trust the U.S.?

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 12, 2024 – 2:31 pm

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

The blog of the day is Pacific Pundit, with a post on Jew hating students walking out of the Duke graduation.

It’s short shorts week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach May 12, 2024 – 9:48 am

Patriotic Pinup

Happy Sunday! Another great day in the Once And Future Nation Of America. This Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Carolina Hurricanes live to play another game (they’re my second favorite team after the Devils). This pinup is by David Uhl, a bit more modern, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Greenie Watch notes what the media won’t tell you about the “green” energy transition
  2. Jo Nova covers what lived in the high Arctic 9,000 years ago
  3. Not A Lot Of People Know That shows foxes eating eco-friendly brake lines
  4. Watts Up With That? shows that NOAA’s latest data shows there is no climate emergency
  5. American Greatness covers St. Greta and the greatest of all heresies
  6. Chicks On The Right wonders why Woke people say Gaza in a weird way
  7. Climate Depot has Polish farmers marching against “green poison”
  8. Cold Fury discusses the band Rockpile
  9. Dissecting Leftism covers a study that shows how well COVID vaccines worked
  10. GeeeZ has your Sunday faith blog
  11. Geller Report discusses why Biden is betraying Israel
  12. LMAO says to beware of guys on green bikes
  13. IOTW Report notes the three Bob Fergusons running for governor
  14. Irons In The Fire covers not wanting to investigate voting fraud by the government
  15. And last, but, not least, Jihad Watch (who’s feed is finally working), explains why pro-Hamas protesters wear masks

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014, so, most are hosted internally). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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Suddenly, Reuters Is Upset That Pro-Hamas Agitators Are Being Named And Shamed

By William Teach May 12, 2024 – 7:00 am

The pro-Hamas dhimmis, who are part of the leftist crew that is usually happy to name and shame those who oppose Leftist causes, aren’t particularly happy about it either

Name and shame: Pro-Israel website ramps up attacks on pro-Palestinian student protesters

unintended consequencesWeeks after attending a pro-Palestinian demonstration, Egyptian-American student Layla Sayed received a text message from a friend drawing her attention to a website dedicated to exposing people it says promote hatred of Jews and Israel.

“I think they found you from the protest,” the friend wrote.

When Sayed visited the site, called Canary Mission, she found a photo from the Oct. 16 rally at the University of Pennsylvania with red arrows pointing to her among the demonstrators. The post included her name, the two cities she lives in, details about her studies and links to her social media accounts.

Canary Mission later posted a photo of her on its X and Instagram accounts labeled “Hamas War Crimes Apologist,” a reference to the Palestinian militant group’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel in which around 1,200 people were killed and 253 taken hostage, according to Israeli tallies.

Bummer

Although Sayed has long supported Palestinian causes, she said it was the first time she had participated in a pro-Palestinian demonstration at Penn, and Canary Mission did not flag any other activities.

“My initial reaction was just absolute shock,” Sayed, a 20-year-old sophomore, told Reuters. “I wasn’t there to say I supported Hamas. I wasn’t there to say I hated Israel. I was there to say what’s happening in Palestine is wrong.”

She said she did not realize at the time that a chant Canary Mission took issue with, “When people are occupied, resistance is justified,” is considered by some as an expression of support for Hamas’ killings. She joined in the chants, she said, to show support for demonstrations.

First, why is she upset that she was exposed? She was in public, she took a public stand, and had no shame being there. Second, if you’re going to take up a chant it might be wise to understand what you are chanting. The context. The meaning. That’s on you, chump.

Canary Mission is one of the oldest and most prominent of several digital advocacy groups that have intensified campaigns to expose Israel’s critics since the war broke out, often leading to harassment such as Sayed experienced. The people behind the site have kept their identities, location and funding sources hidden.

Reuters reviewed online attacks and abusive messages directed at scores of people targeted by Canary Mission since Oct. 7.

The site has accused over 250 U.S. students and academics of supporting terrorism or spreading antisemitism and hatred of Israel since the start of the latest Gaza conflict, according to the Reuters review of its posts. Some are leading members of Palestinian rights groups or were arrested for offenses such as blocking traffic and punching a Jewish student. Others, like Sayed, said they had just stepped into campus activism and were not charged with any crimes.

Reuters is very upset that a group would do this. Doesn’t Canary Mission understand this right is reserved for the Credentialed Media and should only be used against those who go against Credentialed Media beliefs?

This is a very long piece, worth the read, and, it really just comes down to “if you’re chanting anti-Jew slogans, if you’re propagating material calling for the destruction of Israel and replacing it with a Palestinian caliphate state run by a terrorist organization, if you’re truly taking the side of Israel, and just being a Jew hater, calling for a global intifada, wearing an Intifada keffiyeh, well, that makes you a terrorist nation supporter and a believer in genocide of the Jews and should be exposed. You put yourself in the public arena, even if you tried to wear a mask to hide your extremist beliefs.”

Seriously, the First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech from interference by the government. It doesn’t guarantee that you can exercise this right without consequences. If you’ll notice, none of the people who wrote and signed the Bill Of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, or the Constitution hid their faces.

If the college students, who are adults, and the teachers do not know what they are wearing, chanting, and what their signs mean, well, that’s on them. You can bet if it was a bunch of Republican college kids agitating for a terrorist group Reuters would be working hard to expose them, just like with the J6 crowd.

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UN Warns World On Edge Of Climate Abyss Or Something

By William Teach May 11, 2024 – 6:54 pm

Is there some big climate conference coming up? Usually the UN doesn’t make these dire prognostications of ruination unless there is a conference coming up. Or, it could be due to many polls showing that people are caring less about Doing Something because inflation is rocking the 1st world and the cost of food and everything is hurting their pocketbooks. Including energy, for which the climate scam actions are exasperating the costs

‘The stakes could not be higher’: world is on edge of climate abyss, UN warns

The world is on the verge of a climate abyss, the UN has warned, in response to a Guardian survey that found that hundreds of the world’s foremost climate experts expect global heating to soar past the international target of 1.5C.

A series of leading climate figures have reacted to the findings, saying the deep despair voiced by the scientists must be a renewed wake-up call for urgent and radical action to stop burning fossil fuels and save millions of lives and livelihoods. Some said the 1.5C target was hanging by a thread, but it was not yet inevitable that it would be passed, if an extraordinary change in the pace of climate action could be achieved.

The Guardian got the views of almost 400 senior authors of reports by the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Almost 80% expected a rise of at least 2.5C above preindustrial levels, a catastrophic level of heating, while only 6% thought it would stay within the 1.5C limit. Many expressed their personal anguish at the lack of climate action.

If they have this much despair and anguish perhaps they should live a net zero life, and convince their climate cult brethren to do the same, and leave the rest of us the fuck alone. Stop trying to be Fascists, stop trying to get government to be Authoritarian, and practice what they preach

“The goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C is hanging by a thread,” said the official spokesperson for António Guterres, the UN secretary general. “The battle to keep 1.5C alive will be won or lost in the 2020s – under the watch of political and industry leaders today. They need to realise we are on the verge of the abyss. The science is clear and so are the world’s scientists: the stakes for all humanity could not be higher.”

I don’t usually curse when blogging, but, they can fuck right off.

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 11, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible carbon pollution bad weather rain causing flooding, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on St. Greta going anti-Jew.

This is also a silly one. Put on a barely there dress, no bra, to go stand in the rain for some social media photos.

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