European Media Turning On Giorgia Meloni Over Ukraine Support

By William Teach March 26, 2025 – 10:30 am

Anyone who isn’t 100% down with supporting Ukraine will see themselves turned on. They best be flying Ukraine flags, have them in their profile, and make the appropriate responses as we are slowly led into WWIII

Europe has a Meloni problem

She was feted as the “Queen of Europe”, the pragmatic nationalist leader dragging Brussels to the Right on migration while acting as the EU’s bridge to Donald Trump’s White House.

But Giorgia Meloni’s crown has started to slip as Mr Trump’s Ukraine policy forces her to pick sides between the Americans and Europeans.

Until recently a staunch supporter of Ukraine, Ms Meloni has become a thorn in the side of European leaders, dragging her feet as they push for a massive rearmament to deter Russian aggression.

Last week, the Italian premier branded Franco-British plans for a European peacekeeping force in Ukraine “risky, complex and ineffective”.

Isn’t it? Putting NATO member troops in Ukraine, even as a supposed “peacekeeping” force, isn’t exactly safe. It would be rather provocative.

Ahead of a fresh summit of the “coalition of the willing” in Paris on Thursday one European diplomat said: “So far, she’s managed to straddle the fence a bit, but that’s increasingly becoming more difficult.”

“As the rest of Europe considers this an issue of existential importance, she risks placing herself squarely outside of the European mainstream,” the envoy warned.

Ms Meloni’s challenge is to preserve her status as a major EU power broker, while keeping an increasingly Moscow-friendly White House onside.

Oh, Lord, they’re doing this Putin-Trump thing again. I’d say they never learn, but, they just really do not care. Anyhow, she does still support arming Ukraine but without decimating Italy’s economy. She said so at CPAC. But, she’s not willing to put send her soldiers into Ukraine and she’s not for expanding EU support through military members in Ukraine. She’s not necessarily down with Trump’s peace plane, hence, she is not sufficiently pious to the Cause. The Cause which has no actual plan

She is a ruthless and canny negotiator.

“She has this pink pencil case, she gets it out and it makes everyone think she’s like a little girl at school,” a Brussels source told The Telegraph.

“And then,” the insider added, making a gesture across his throat, “she kills them”.

She is not to be played with, and she won’t take kindly to the media coming after her for not trying to drag Europe into WWIII. And she’ll stop being an ally. Yes, it would be great if Russia would get out of the small portion of Ukraine it has taken, but, is that going to happen? If so, how? Do we just keep feeding money and arms in a hope that Russian doesn’t widen the war?

Not mentioned in the article is that she is also a big supporter of Israel and Jews, not Palestinians and Hamas, and the Corporate Media doesn’t like that.

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Supreme Court Declines To Heart Yout Climate (scam) Case

By William Teach March 26, 2025 – 7:00 am

I’m sure the youts won’t give up in trying to force their beliefs on Everyone Else, just like they won’t give their own use of fossil fuels and their big carbon footprints

US Supreme Court will not hear novel youth-led climate change case

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by 21 young people to revive a novel lawsuit claiming the U.S. government’s energy policies violate their rights to be protected from climate change.

The justices denied a request by the youth activists to hear their appeal of a decision by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals directing a federal judge in Oregon to dismiss the case after holding they lacked legal standing to sue.

The decision marks the end of Juliana v. United States, one of the longest-running climate change cases that youth activists have filed nationwide and one that the plaintiffs’ lawyers say helped sparked a broader youth-led movement for climate rights.

“The Supreme Court’s decision today is not the end of the road and the impact of Juliana cannot be measured by the finality of this case alone,” Julia Olson, a lawyer for the plaintiffs at Our Children’s Trust, said in a statement.

Our Children’s Trust and its youth clients have filed a series of lawsuits accusing state and federal governments of exacerbating climate change by adopting policies that encourage or allow the extraction and burning of fossil fuels in violation of their rights.

Completely astroturfed cases driven by adult climate cultists using children as brainwashed props. And, they will file more and more. Most cults leave other people alone.

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Bummer: DHS Stops Processing Green Card Processing Temporarily

By William Teach March 26, 2025 – 6:45 am

I’m sure some wimpy wackadoodle Biden appointed judge will have a fit and Give A Ruling on this

DHS suspends green card processing for refugees, asylees

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it is pausing review of green card applications for some refugees and asylees, leaving in limbo those who came to the U.S. after fleeing unrest.

The directive from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) would impact refugees already approved to come to the United States, as well as those who were granted asylum after petitioning for the protection in immigration court.

While both groups are thoroughly vetted, DHS said it would press pause on those seeking to become lawful permanent residents for “additional screening.”

“To better identify fraud, public safety or national security concerns, USCIS is placing a temporary pause on finalizing certain Adjustment of Status applications pending the completion of additional screening and vetting,” DHS said in a statement, pointing to two different executive orders by Trump.

One of the orders referenced calls for the administration to “vet and screen to the maximum degree possible all aliens who intend to be admitted, enter, or are already inside the United States, particularly those aliens coming from regions or nations with identified security risks.”

Why do we need to take in every sad sack fleeing supposed strife, who so often end up being mooches on the US taxpayer, who take but don’t give, oh, and many who are gang members and Islamists?

Judge blocks immigration officials from arresting Columbia student

A federal judge has ordered immigration authorities to halt, for now, their efforts to detain a Columbia University student who claims she is being targeted for her involvement in pro-Palestinian protests.

Manhattan-based U.S. District Judge Naomi Buchwald issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday at the request of lawyers for Yunseo Chung, 21, a Columbia junior who was born in Korea and holds a green card after coming to the U.S. as a child.

These judges just keep ruling in favor of people wishing death on Jews and Americans.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 25, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a building that will soon be inundated by the rising seas, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Chicks On The Right, with a post on Pam Bondi warning Excitable Jasmine Crockett.

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CNN Is Very Concerned Over Trump Looking To Cut FEMA

By William Teach March 25, 2025 – 10:30 am

To be clear, Trump is not trying to eliminate FEMA. He couldn’t if he wanted to, it was created by Congress. He is trying to seriously cut it back, though

As Trump works to cut FEMA, data shows there was a major disaster declaration every four days in 2024

Deanne Criswell has spent years sounding the alarm about busier disaster seasons. Just days before the former chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency stepped down at the end of the Biden administration, Criswell was directing the federal response to the deadly and destructive wildfires in Los Angeles.

“We’re seeing hurricane season last longer, we’re seeing spring severe weather season get more significant and we’re seeing the fire season go year-round now,” Criswell told CNN at the time. The agency is “more engaged in wildfire response than we ever have been before.”

It’s not just FEMA’s perception that threats are increasing — there were 90 declarations of “major disasters” in 2024.

Declaring disasters quickly is not the same as actually having them. Why? Because governors are quick to declare disaster in order to get that sweet, sweet federal money, and presidents are happy to follow along in order to look good and spread their benevolent money around to help with re-election.

Researchers also found that 41% of the US population lived in a county where a major disaster or emergency was declared — about 137 million people.

“Our analysis of FEMA data shows the agency has been responding to a growing number of climate-driven disasters over the past few decades. This is in line with what scientists warned us would happen,” said Sejal Patel, senior climate finance researcher at IIED, in a statement to CNN.

Again, the problem is that FEMA is way too involved and way too bossy. That is not their purpose. They’re also way to politicized and incompetent. Remember the failure of all those FEMA trailers after Hurricane Katrina? How many were left unused? And the rest with things like formaldehyde? They’ve failed other times, including in Western NC.

It comes as the Trump administration plans for deep staff cuts at FEMA.

“As global temperatures continue to rise, all levels of government will have no choice but to help people adapt to the realities of climate change,” Patel said, adding political leaders should be focusing on how to adapt and build resilience against climate change threats, including solutions like stronger building codes, early warning systems, reenvisioning the homeowners insurance industry and infrastructure like flood barriers.

Sigh. And that’s one of the ways they have been politicized.

The US president can declare a major disaster or emergency for any natural event, such as hurricanes, storms, tornados and landslides, when they determine an event is severe enough to surpass the ability of state and local government to respond. It provides access to federal funding for emergency needs and permanent repairs.

But, they are making that declaration for just about everything. Was a federal one necessary for the Malibu fires? No. But, FEMA would be helpful in coordinating resources coming from outside of California to help. That’s what FEMA does: coordinate. Not take control. Or determine who gets help due to politics, like when FEMA officials were telling helpers to skip Trump supporting houses.

Let FEMA do what it was meant to do, not be in full control. It’s literally about “we’re here to help” not “step back, we’re in charge.” A lot of disasters have little need of federal disaster declarations: we didn’t get them after a big tornado 40 years ago. Now we get one after everything. How much are they helping? The Maui homes have barely been seen any rebuilding. Not much is going on in Malibu. It took Trump surging resources the Army Corps Of Engineers into Western NC. Take a scalpel to FEMA, let it go back to doing the base job.

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Teslas Targeted In Raleigh Area: Where’s Deborah Ross

By William Teach March 25, 2025 – 10:16 am

Where is Representative Deborah Ross (D-NC2)?

Let’s look at the WRAL article I mentioned, which is also where that video in the tweet comes from

Tesla cars targeted around the Triangle as vandalism, backlash against company ramps up

As vandals damage Tesla cars, set fire to charging stations and protesters set up shop at dealerships, local Tesla owners feel on edge getting behind the wheel of their vehicles.

Across the country, we’ve seen cars and charging stations set on fire, and hundreds of protests outside of showrooms across the country – including in our area.

Jese Martinez says someone shot his driver-side window as he drove his Tesla Model S late Sunday in Zebulon.

“I look to my left and see all the glass shattered,” he told WRAL News outside his home. (snip)

WRAL News previously spoke with a Tesla owner from southern Wake County who found the word ‘Nazi’ etched in his car

He said he is unfairly targeted, considering he purchased his car back in 2019.

“Driving around previously I’ve had folks roll coals on me or give me the middle finger or cut me off aggressively on purpose,” Jeremy told WRAL.

That seems a bit more than “backlash”, and using backlash is more akin to blaming a woman for wearing a short skirt. And WRAL and Deborah Ross both blasted the limited violence on J6. Now? Not a peep in decrying this targeted violence. Ross’s district encompasses most of Raleigh, but, only a tiny bit of Zebulon. Still, not a peep.

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Uh Oh: EPA Watchdog Looking At $7 Billion Biden Solar Program

By William Teach March 25, 2025 – 7:00 am

They should be looking at lots of projects, see where the money goes. How it is spent. Is the project viable? Did it get completed? How much ended up in people’s pockets? (via Watts Up With That?)

EPA Internal Watchdog Peeks Under The Hood Of $7 Billion Biden Solar Program

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is opening an audit into a $7 billion Biden-era solar deployment program, the OIG said in a Wednesday letter.

The OIG is auditing the Solar For All program, which is part of the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) created by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The Biden EPA used the program to route massive checks to sixty recipients — primarily state governments —around the country so that awardees could finance solar panel deployment in low-income areas. The Trump EPA is now following up on the program’s funding.

“Our objective is to describe the status of funds, top recipients, and potential risks and impacts of the EPA’s Solar for All program within the Office of the Administrator’s Office of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund,” the letter reads. “We plan to conduct work at headquarters and regions, if necessary.”

That looks like political speak for “you best have covered your asses, because we’re about to be proctologists.”

Some of the states that received massive checks from the Solar for All program happen to be among the least-sunny states in the U.S.

For instance, the Executive Office of the State of New Hampshire received approximately $43.5 million from the program, and the Vermont Department of Public Service reaped nearly $62.5 million while the Maine Governor’s Energy Office raked in $62.1 from the Solar for All program. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s National Solar Radiation Database Physical Solar Model indicates that New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine are among the least-sunny states in the U.S.

What have they done with the money? There’s been time to get projects off the ground. Or, was it just money to pass around to Democrat donors?

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NY Times Pimps For Illegal Aliens Wishing Death On Jews And Americans

By William Teach March 25, 2025 – 6:45 am

I mean, it really is playing to the far left moonbat base. First, though, consider this by John Kass

HOW THE NEW YORK TIMES IS KILLING AMERICA

When I was starting out as a Chicago City Hall reporter for that big metropolitan paper—when we could smoke in newsrooms on deadline, curse, tell jokes, laugh and wore jackets and ties to work—I had one rule.

I’d often discuss this rule with my political sources, elected officials, cops, city workers and others:

Lie to me just once, just once, and I’ll burn you to the ground. (long, long snip of people lying to him and burning them)

But in the 21st Century an amazing thing happened to the media. Even as they mouthed their cliches about “speaking truth to power,” America’s corporate media began to openly revel at their participation in the power structure alongside their classmates and elites in the increasingly dominant managerial class. They became the willful tip of the spear for Deep State censorship and misinformation operations against populist challenges.

The Chicago political world was all about accountability not to the people, but to their fellow warlords. But the New York Times was accountable to no one.

Because of its dominant position in corporate journalism, the New York Times has never been held accountable. It leverages corporate media but has never taken responsibility for misinformation and malfeasance. The newspaper’s lies have been rewarded with dominant market position and those Pulitzer Prizes based on lies were wrapped adulation based on fear.

It’s worth the read for the entire thing. Let’s go to this at the Times

Immigrants and Freedom of Speech

The Trump administration has tried in recent weeks to deport several immigrants who spoke out against Israel. First, it arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a green-card holder who’d joined pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University. Officials also arrested a Georgetown University researcher with an academic visa. They deported a nephrologist at Brown University, even though she had a valid visa. Another student activist at Columbia fled to Canada after immigration officials came to her home.

President Trump has said that more arrests will come — a test of the government’s ability to deport people with views that he disagrees with.

How is this legal? The First Amendment, after all, protects freedom of speech in nearly absolute terms. It allows people to espouse even the most unsavory views, including support for genocide, and face no criminal penalty as a result.

I have to wonder, how many moonbats will stop reading and go “yeah, all those visa holders deserve free speech!” Of course, German Lopez has been taking the side of the violent Palestinians and their wanting to kill Jews for a while now, so, he fails to mention that the visa holders (they are not immigrants) have advocated for killing Jews and Americans, destroying America, Israel, and the West, and have abused other students who were Jews, along with illegally taking over campus buildings. But, hey, what’s this

The Supreme Court has said that the First Amendment applies to noncitizens in the United States when it comes to criminal and civil penalties. But those protections don’t necessarily apply to deportations, the court has found. The federal government has nearly absolute power over immigration, including its ability to deport noncitizens; it gets to decide who comes and then stays in this country, potentially at the expense of constitutional rights.

In 1952, for example, the Supreme Court ruled that the government could deport immigrants for Communist Party membership without violating the First Amendment. (I experienced this firsthand: A government official asked me if I was a communist during my interview to become a U.S. citizen in the 2000s.)

So, yeah, all those Islamists on visas can have their legal status revoked and repatriated to their shithole jihadi countries.

This approach leaves immigrants with no practical free speech rights, Nadine Strossen, former president of the A.C.L.U., told me. The First Amendment allows us to speak freely without fear of legal retribution. But if an immigrant’s political advocacy gets him deported, he does have to worry about retribution — and may choose not to speak at all.

They are guests in the United States: wishing death on people is rather frowned upon, and should end with deportation in every case. When you are visiting someone’s house don’t be an asshole. Same when you visit the U.S.

In the meantime, immigrants have reason to worry. Already, college officials have warned immigrant students that nobody can protect them. In that sense, the Trump administration’s approach is already working: It has likely persuaded immigrants to stay quiet about causes that the president disagrees with.

I’m fine if Trump disagrees with wishing death on Jews and Americans.

(Update: Forgot a word in the headline)

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Warmists Super Concerned Over Invisible Threat Or Something

By William Teach March 24, 2025 – 3:00 pm

We’re not on to invisible threats!

Officials sound alarm as invisible threat creeps closer to major U.S. city: ‘An issue of concern for all of us’

Pennsylvania is one of the few states in the U.S. to have a Constitutional amendment stipulating the people’s right to clean water. However, rising sea levels threaten to flood the state’s drinking water with a salt front.

The Delaware River Basin Commission is working hard to manage the river and prevent seawater from approaching its intakes — the structures that collect and channel water. As Carol Collier, former executive director of the DRBC, recently told Inside Climate News, “It should be an issue of concern for all of us.”

Millions of residents living in the areas of Philadelphia and southern New Jersey could see their drinking water contaminated with seawater if sea levels continue to rise, Inside Climate News reported.

The previous plan to stop salt water from entering the drinking water intakes — referred to as the Trenton flow objective — may not be enough to protect the supply if the seawater levels are not kept under control.

Rising sea levels threaten coastal cities and those who live in them. According to The Washington Post, in just the past decade, sea levels have risen faster than anticipated along the southern and southeastern coasts of the U.S — five inches total from 2010 to 2022.

Which is BS, not born out by actual gauges. The Philly station shows 1.03 feet per 100 years, and no acceleration. Damned sure not 5 inches in 12 years. They are making things up, and the WP article fails to provide any substantive science for that figure.

The scientific consensus is that human activity has exacerbated these conditions. Human-caused pollution — which sends far more carbon dioxide, methane, and other gases into the atmosphere than would naturally occur — has supercharged the problem. This has led to more frequent and more powerful weather events around the world that are triggered in some way by heat. One such example: hurricanes and the flooding they can cause.

And there it is: your fault. The seas are always going to rise during a Holocene warm period. Then you combine that with the land subsiding and older infrastructure, and, yes, you have a problem. Which we can solve with technology. Because it is not a thousand years ago during the Medieval Warm Period.

Finally, using renewable energy sources like solar and geothermal energy can help to reduce the heat-trapping pollution from gas-powered energy. All of these actions can add up to reinforce our drinking water systems and our communities.

OK, let’s switch Philly, a mostly Democrat city, to 100% renewables. Ban all fossil fueled vehicles. Shut down the airport. Shut down the sea ports. They’re good with that, right?

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 24, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a fast rising sea because Other People won’t ride bikes instead of cars, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post on a rich Warmist who wants to tax the wealthy (but not himself).

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