EU Elites Look To Make Lots Of Money Off Carbon Credit

By William Teach July 2, 2025 – 3:00 pm

If Reuters, and all the other Credentialed Media outlets running this, had any journalistic integrity they’d ask who is set to profit from this

EU includes international CO2 credits in climate goal for first time

The European Commission on Wednesday proposed an EU climate target for 2040 that for the first time will allow countries to use carbon credits from developing nations to meet a limited share of their emissions goal.

The European Union executive proposed a legally-binding target to cut net greenhouse gas emissions by 90% by 2040, from 1990 levels – aiming to keep the EU on course for its core climate aim to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

But following pushback from governments including France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the Czech Republic, the Commission also proposed flexibilities that would soften the 90% emissions target for European industries.

The EU has among the world’s most ambitious climate targets. So far, its emissions targets have been based entirely on domestic emissions cuts.

Reflecting Germany’s public stance, up to 3 percentage points of the 2040 target can be covered by carbon credits bought from other countries through a U.N.-backed market, reducing the effort required by domestic industries.

Now, this cash scheme would supposedly be phased in in 2036, but, would anyone be surprised if that date gets moved to a lot closer than that within the next year, and that the 3 percentage points gets significantly raised? Because someone is going to profit off the carbon credits, and this will be a huge money maker as the money is shifted around and siphoned.

Climate change has made Europe the world’s fastest-warming continent and a severe heatwave this week caused wildfires and disruption across the continent, but Europe’s ambitious policies to combat temperature rise have stoked tensions within the 27-member bloc.

Wait, I thought Asia was the fastest? Or, was that Antarctica? Africa? Or is it the Arctic, or the east coast of North America?

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 2, 2025 – 1:52 pm

…is a horrible carbon polluting 1%er pool, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Knuckledraggin My Life Away, with a post getting shot right in the nether region.

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LOL: Now The Media Conveniently Finds Native Tribe To Complain About Alligator Alcatraz

By William Teach July 2, 2025 – 10:30 am

By the way, you can purchase merchandise at the Florida GOP website

Florida tribe fights new ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ migrant facility near Everglades homes

A Florida Native American leader spoke out against a new migrant detention facility in the Florida Everglades, nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz,” raising environmental and safety concerns for local tribal communities.

President Trump, visiting the site Tuesday, said the facility will hold “some of the most menacing migrants, some of the most vicious people on the planet.”

The detention center, built on a remote airstrip in the Everglades, can hold up to 5,000 migrants in tents and trailers.

Talbert Cypress, chairman of the Miccosukee Business Council, said some tribal villages are located within 900 feet of the facility’s entrance.

“This proposed facility is surrounded on all sides by the Big Cypress National Preserve, and the tribe has been at home in the Big Cypress for centuries,” Cypress told ABC News.

Cypress pointed to the lack of environmental studies on what creating the detention center could mean for the local ecosystem.

What it could mean? Nothing. They aren’t doing anything but holding illegals, all of whom could avoid being there by self-deporting. We don’t care where they go, just leave. Of course, the Usual Suspects are now calling it Alligator Auschwitz, which is funny, because most of these same people are Jew haters.

The media is melting down over them being cages

Under Obama and Biden the illegals, including the children, slept on the floor. Here they have cots.

Unlawful crossings along southern border reach new historic low

The number of migrants caught crossing the southern border illegally set a new historic monthly low in June, continuing an extraordinary lull in illegal immigration the Trump administration has attributed to its aggressive deportation efforts, preliminary government data obtained by CBS News shows.

Last month, Border Patrol agents along the U.S.-Mexico border recorded just over 6,000 apprehensions of migrants who entered the country without authorization, the lowest monthly tally ever reported by the agency, according to the preliminary Customs and Border Protection data. The previous monthly low reported by Border Patrol was in March, when the agency recorded around 7,200 migrant apprehensions.

“Lull”? “Extraordinary”? It’s all on the Trump admin’s policies, all of which disincentivize people from coming to the U.S. illegally.

The numbers stand in stark contrast to the record levels of apprehensions made by Border Patrol under the Biden administration, which faced a humanitarian, political and operational crisis of unprecedented proportions at the southern border until it implemented restrictive asylum measures last year.

During many months of former President Joe Biden’s tenure, Border Patrol recorded more than 6,000 apprehensions each day. At their peak in late 2023, daily illegal crossings at the southern border topped 10,000 on some days.

Biden and his people and all the liberal groups invited them to come, so, they did. Suck it, liberals. And keep paying the massive amount of money in your sanctuary jurisdictions to pay for the ones that are here.

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So Sad: Trump Admin Shuts Down Major Government Climate (scam) Website

By William Teach July 2, 2025 – 7:15 am

Cue the crying, gnashing of teeth, screaming at the sky

Trump administration shutters major federal climate website

A major federal climate website has been shut down by the Trump administration, multiple agencies have confirmed with ABC News.

The website of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which hosts numerous climate change reports and resources, including the comprehensive and often cited National Climate Assessments, is no longer operational, according to a NASA spokesperson.

The U.S. Global Change Research Program’s website was taken offline, along with all five editions of the National Climate Assessment and a wide range of information detailing how human-amplified climate change is impacting the United States.

The great thing here is that by doing this Trump is reducing the carbon footprint of NASA. Websites put out carbon pollution, and, you know, every bit of reduction helps

The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), comprising 15 federal member agencies, was managed by the White House through the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

NASA will now take over, Victoria LaCivita, communications director at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, told ABC News.

“All preexisting reports will be hosted on the NASA website, ensuring compliance with statutorily required reporting,” LaCivita said, referring ABC News to NASA for more information.

A NASA spokesperson wrote in response to an ABC News inquiry, “The USCGRP website is no longer active. All preexisting reports will be hosted on the NASA website, ensuring continuity of reporting.”

And the wacko cultists will not have free reign to include their brand of cult on the website nor in the potentialNational Climate Assessment. Which was due in April, but, that sure didn’t happen.

Although much of this information may end up on various other federal agency websites, many climate scientists are voicing their concern and disappointment, stating that these actions are making it more challenging to find climate change information.

They can go pound cult sand, and go peddle their cult in the private sector.

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Here We Go Again: Wacky Federal Judge Blocks Early Termination Of TPS For Haitians

By William Teach July 2, 2025 – 7:00 am

Seriously, why bother fighting Trump on this: TPS for those from the failed state (can Haiti actually be considered a state at this point?) of Haiti ends September 2nd. They’re gone at that point

Judge blocks Trump’s early termination of temporary protections for Haitian immigrants

A federal judge in New York has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to strip immigration protections from Haitians fleeing instability in their country.

The ruling Friday from U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan preserves, for now, the Biden administration’s 2024 extension of the protections, known as “temporary protected status,” for up to 500,000 Haitians living in the United States.

Cogan’s 23-page decision is the latest legal development in the administration’s efforts to roll back TPS designations and other immigration programs that allow immigrants from countries facing humanitarian crises to live and work here legally. In a separate case, the Supreme Court in May lifted a lower-court ruling and allowed the administration to revoke a Biden-era TPS designation for about 350,000 Venezuelans.

Cogan’s decision came just four days after Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced that the TPS designation for Haitians would expire effective on Sept. 2. Under the Biden administration’s extension, the designation was scheduled to expire on Feb. 3, 2026.

The initial 18 month designation was scheduled to end September 2nd. Biden, well, his people who made all the decisions, decided to throw a wrench into the Trump admin by extending it. And, here we go again with a federal judge deciding to make a nationwide decision. He can rule in his little fiefdom, which is from Brooklyn to the end of Long Island. And, let’s be clear, Cogan was appointed by Bush 43, so, probably a Trump hater. Let’s also not forget Bush was a big supporter of a pathway to citizenship, ie, amnesty.

The judge noted that Haitian TPS recipients have enrolled in schools, taken jobs and began medical treatment in reliance on the U.S. government’s previous representations about the duration of the protections.

So what? It’s called TPS, which means it ends. They should have been ready. And how many of them can speak English? How many act like they’re still in 4th World Haiti? How many are on the public dole, taking money from Americans who need it? Regardless, the order cannot apply beyond the Eastern District of NY. And, there will soon be a higher court ruling telling Cogan to take a seat, the TPS ends September 2nd.

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Moonbats: SCOTUS Decision On Judges Not Being All Powerful Is Like The Dred Scott Decision

By William Teach July 1, 2025 – 3:44 pm

This is so stupid it’s possible that Ketanji Brown Jackson and her Gen Z interns actually wrote it

Opinion – The Supreme Court’s injunctions decision returns America to the constitutional horrors of Dred Scott

In ordinary times, someone could read the Supreme Court’s decision on the legality of so-called “universal injunctions” as just the latest example of an old dispute: the proper way to interpret the Constitution and the jurisdiction of federal courts. Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s majority opinion saying the federal district courts do not have the authority to issue such injunctions is a classic in the genre of “originalism.”

In contrast, the dissenting opinions by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson read the law through the lens not just of its origins but with an eye to how an interpretation would affect the world beyond the courtroom. They understand that these are not ordinary times and do not want to disable the judiciary from responding when fundamental rights are at stake, in the face of an ongoing assault on the rule of law itself.

To put it simply, with its decision in Trump v. Casa, the court has become an accomplice in President Trump’s ongoing assault on our constitutional republic. The decision has effectively removed the federal courts as a check on the Trump administration.

BTW, this decision could help future Democrats from being the recipients of nationwide injunctions. But, here we go

But it also does grave damage to the court itself — Trump v. Casa now takes its place among the high court’s most infamous rulings. As Stephen Lubet says, it returns us to the world of its discredited Dred Scott decision, which found that the rights of Black people depended on where they lived. Just like Blacks in the antebellum world who had one status in free states and another in slave states, immigrants and others may now find themselves in a legal nether land.

To thoroughly appreciate the impact of Trump v. Casa, it is important to remember that “universal injunctions” allow courts to grant immediate relief that benefits not only the party who requests them but also anyone harmed by an action of the government. Individuals or organizations can go to court seeking such orders while they pursue further legal action.

Except, that is not the way the U.S. Constitution is set up. What if, say, a Republican federal judge in Alabama decided to rule against abortion on demand and instituted a federal injunction, saying that abortion is now illegal in the entire U.S. until such time as a higher court rules differently? Or that every citizen 18 and up now has the right to concealed carry? Or that environmental reviews on projects are no longer necessary? You’d be fine with that, right, Democrats?

As Sotomayor argues, the majority now holds that “No matter how illegal a law or policy, courts can never simply tell the executive to stop enforcing it against anyone.” Sotomayor condemns her colleagues’ attachment to a “rigid historical test” that allows “a grave and unsupported diminution of the judicial power of equity,” and chastises the majority for its “complicity” in the president’s “‘mockery’ of our constitution.”

We’re either a nation of Law, based on the Constitution, or a nation of Men, based on feelings. Also, this is why the federal government shouldn’t have so much damned power over states and citizens, something the Constitution never called for and never wanted.

Her opinion conjured the jurisprudence of the Dred Scott era when it warned that the court’s new decision creates a “two-tiered scheme” in which someone’s citizenship status depends on whether they live in a state where an injunction has been issued or a state where no court ruling has been made. Jackson echoed Sotomayor in her worry that the court is acquiescing in the administration’s desire “to operate in two different zones moving forward: one in which it is required to follow the law (because a particular plaintiff has secured a personal injunction prohibiting its unlawful conduct) and another in which you can choose to violate the law with respect to certain people (those who have yet to sue).”

But, citizenship is not determined by federal judges, it is determined by the laws as passed by the duly elected Congress. Birthright citizenship is not settled: if you are a member of a foreign diplomatic group, any child you have born in the US will not be a US citizen. That was determined by US law, pretty much following the way most Western nations viewed it prior to the Constitution and the 14th Amendment, the latter of which was never meant to apply to foreign citizens visiting the US who are subject to the jurisdiction of being citizens of another country.

Regardless, there is no authority given to these judges to implement nationwide injunctions because they do not like a president’s policies, and, you know Democrats are losing badly when they have to trot out comparing it to Dred Scott, a case that ended in 1857, when times were vastly different. Doesn’t mean it was a good decision, just a different time. And 99% of US citizens have no idea about the details, just that It Was Bad.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 1, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a very hazy day from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Gates Of Vienna, with a post on Greater Idaho.

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Bummer: Jew Hating Rap Group Has U.S. Visas Cancelled

By William Teach July 1, 2025 – 10:30 am

The U.S. is under no obligation to let just anyone in, and when it comes to people who support Hamas and want Jews killed, bye!

U.S. revokes U.K. band’s visas over anti-Israel chant at Glastonbury

The BBC has said it regrets not pulling down its live stream of a performance at the Glastonbury music festival over the weekend that included what the broadcaster calls “utterly unacceptable” chants against Israel’s military.

The taxpayer-funded BBC said in a statement Monday that it regrets not cutting short its live streaming signal after punk-rap duo Bob Vylan started leading a chant of “Death, death to the IDF,” during their Saturday performance, referring to the Israel Defense Forces.

“The BBC respects freedom of expression but stands firmly against incitement to violence,” the statement from the broadcaster said. “The antisemitic sentiments expressed by Bob Vylan were utterly unacceptable and have no place on our airwaves… The [BBC broadcasting] team were dealing with a live situation but with hindsight we should have pulled the stream during the performance. We regret this did not happen.”

Oh, please, the BBC has been, like most leftist media outlets, on the bandwagon of hating on Israel, which turns into hating on Jews. Don’t forget, all Israeli citizens must serve a term in the IDF, so wanting to kill the IDF is wanting to kill all Israelis.

The reaction from the Trump administration appeared to be significantly harsher, with Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau saying in a social media post on Monday that U.S. entry visas already issued to Bob Vylan’s members had been revoked “in light of their hateful tirade at Glastonbury, including leading the crowd in death chants.”

The band’s website shows more than a dozen scheduled tour dates in the U.S., from coast to coast, starting in late October.

“Foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country,” Landau said in the post.

Hamas and Hezbollah are US State Department designated terrorist groups. If they want to support them, they can do it elsewhere

On Sunday, Bob Vylan posted a lengthy statement on their Instagram page, with the caption: “I said what I said.”

In other words, they’re proud of wanting to kill Jews.

Local police have launched an investigation into the chants to determine whether any criminal offenses may have been committed.

Really? What will come of it? Many people have been prosecuted and jailed for mild ant-Palestinian memes. Will these two scumbags get the same treatment? The rap duo hides their real names, one going by Bobby Vylan and the other Bobbie Vylan, but, the singer’s name has been uncovered, being Pascal Robinson-Foster. Will other Western nations also ban the group for their pure hatred?

Meanwhile

Zohran Mamdani says mayors shouldn’t ‘police speech’ when asked to condemn ‘globalize the intifada’ slogan

Zohran Mamdani, the presumptive Democratic nominee in New York City’s mayoral race, on Sunday again sidestepped an opportunity to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada,” saying that mayors shouldn’t “police speech.”

“That’s not language that I use,” Mamdani said when asked if he condemns the phrase, which is widely viewed by Jewish groups as offensive and antisemitic, on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.” “The language that I use and the language that I will continue to use to lead the city is that which speaks clearly to my intent, which is an intent grounded in a belief in universal human rights.”

Mamdani added, “Ultimately, that’s what is the foundation of so much of my politics, the belief that freedom and justice and safety are things that have meaning, have to be applied to all people, and that includes Israelis and Palestinians.”

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He has no condemnation for those calling for the murder of Jews. That’s who New Yorker’s are potentially electing a mayor. If they do, the rich folks will leave and be replaced with poor Islamic extremists. It’ll soon look like fallen London.

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Electric Bikes Are Causing “Lime Bike Leg”

By William Teach July 1, 2025 – 7:00 am

It’s a small price to pay to save the world from global boiling, you know

Rise of ‘Lime bike leg’: That’s the epidemic of shattered limbs and mangled knees caused by the 86lb bikes. Now doctors and victims reveal the danger and say: ‘I’m NEVER going on one of those again’

On a warm Saturday afternoon in west London, Theo thought he had found the perfect shortcut home to avoid waiting for the bus from Paddington station.

Minutes later, he was lying on the pavement in agony – not a victim of a traffic accident but of the electric bike he’d hired for £1.
‘I was hurtling down what I thought was an empty and quiet residential road,’ he told the Mail. ‘I could hardly see the scooter when it pulled out from the corner of my eye just ahead and I panicked.’

Theo, 27, grabbed the brakes and tried to swerve. He remembers skidding along the road then toppling to the ground, followed by a searing pain as the neon-green Lime bike – all 86lb of it – landed on his legs.

Residents heard the crash and called for help, after which Theo was ‘hauled into an ambulance and taken to St Mary’s Hospital. After many painful hours and scans, it emerged I had fractured my tibia’.

I certainly hope the ambulance was an EV and the hospital ran on wind and solar

This particular injury – now popularly referred to as ‘Lime bike leg’ – is among dozens of serious traumas being linked to a surge in e-bike use across the capital and beyond, as the green revolution sweeps towns and cities from Cambridge, Manchester and Milton Keynes to Nottingham, Slough, Liverpool and Derby.

What initially began as an initiative for clean, convenient transport has become, for a growing number of users, a one-way trip to A&E.

In orthopaedic wards across London, surgeons are seeing an increase in otherwise healthy young people arriving in emergency units with tibia and femur fractures, mangled knees and crushed wrists. (snip)

‘E-bike injuries are in general very common now – we are seeing them on a daily basis,’ [Jaison Patel, a trauma and orthopaedic knee consultant] says.

‘I see broken bones, wrist fractures, collarbones, femur and a few tibia fractures as well as open fractures (when the bone has come through the skin). It definitely feels like an upward trend – a lot of my colleagues have mentioned that they too have seen an increase.’

We’re saving the planet, Jaison. Might want to focus on that, instead of all the broken bones. Sheesh!

Oh, and, being a Daily Mail piece, the broken bones and injuries keep going on and on.

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Heartache: Trump DOJ Sues Los Angeles Over Sanctuary Policies

By William Teach July 1, 2025 – 6:45 am

Democrats should be grateful that the Supreme Court ruled that federal judges/courts cannot implement nationwide rulings, as an LA loss could have meant all sanctuary jurisdictions ended

Trump administration sues Los Angeles over sanctuary policies

The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles over its immigration policies, the Justice Department announced Monday, claiming sanctuary policies limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities clash with federal law.

The filing marks an escalation in the Trump administration’s feuding with California over immigration, and is the latest strike by DOJ against sanctuary-city laws in various states.

“Sanctuary policies were the driving cause of the violence, chaos, and attacks on law enforcement that Americans recently witnessed in Los Angeles,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in the press release. “Jurisdictions like Los Angeles that flout federal law by prioritizing illegal aliens over American citizens are undermining law enforcement at every level – it ends under President Trump.”

The filing, which names the city, Mayor Karen Bass and the City Council, follows a wave of protests in Los Angeles over immigration raids targeting farms and businesses. It comes as the Trump administration is locked in separate litigation with Gov. Gavin Newsom, who sued the administration to block the deployment of the National Guard in the city in response to the upheaval.

The latest lawsuit argues that the city’s “refusal to cooperate with federal immigration authorities” has led to “lawlessness, rioting, looting, and vandalism.” Los Angeles had lifted a curfew placed in response to the protests after a week as protesting died down.

The filing also said that the city’s policies are “designed to and in fact do interfere with and discriminate against the Federal Government’s enforcement of federal immigration law in violation of the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution,” an argument the administration has long used in its attack on sanctuary-city laws.

It’s assigned to an Obama appointed federal judge. I guess we’ll see. But, according to previous lawsuits, such as Obama suing Arizona over SB1070, the federal government has primacy, and, states/cities must follow federal law when it comes to immigration.

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