Goldman Sachs Exits Global Climate Cult Banking Coalition

By William Teach December 6, 2024 – 5:00 pm

Is Goldman Sachs the first to finally come to their senses over the scam? Perhaps they realized that sooner or later the cult will come for them? The old adage of “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last.”

Goldman Sachs quits global climate coalition for banks

Goldman Sachs, opens new tab said it has quit a sector coalition aimed at aligning bank lending and investment activities with global efforts to fight climate change, becoming the most high-profile member to leave the group.

The U.S. investment bank’s decision comes against a backdrop of pressure from some Republican politicians who have suggested that membership of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) could breach anti-trust rules.

Goldman Sachs gave no explicit reason for its departure, but focused on its strategy for the future and a growing push by regulators to make sustainability efforts mandatory.

“We have the capabilities to achieve our goals and to support the sustainability objectives of our clients. Goldman Sachs is also very focused on the increasingly elevated sustainability standards and reporting requirements imposed by regulators around the world,” it said in a statement on Friday.

In other words, kowtowing to the Cult of Climastrology isn’t worth the effort anymore. It’s not worth dealing with the cultists governments, bureaucrats, and politicians, nor is it worth it to patronize the climate cult activitists.

While it remains unclear what will happen to U.S. rules around climate-related company disclosures under President-elect Donald Trump, many large U.S. firms including Goldman Sachs will have to disclose under European Union rules.

Banks joining the voluntary NZBA agree to align with the world’s aim of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050, set targets to help get them there and publish progress on their efforts each year, something Goldman Sachs said it would continue to do.

“We have made significant progress in recent years on the firm’s net zero goals and we look forward to making further progress, including by expanding to additional sectors in the coming months,” it said.

They make the right cult noises, but, in practice, they’re seemingly go to significantly scale back the adherence to the cult.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 6, 2024 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on a wackjob shooting two Jewish kids in California to support Palestinians.

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Mexico Wants Deal With Trump To Keep Non-Mexican Illegals From Being Dumped In Mexico

By William Teach December 6, 2024 – 10:30 am

Remember how liberals were saying that Mexico’s new president was going to Resist Trump? Like she’s a Trump deranged activist, not the president of a sovereign nation? Well, the real world politics happen

Mexico seeks deal with Trump to avoid deported migrants from other countries

Mexico is seeking an agreement with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to ensure it does not receive deportees from third countries in case of large-scale deportations of migrants from the United States, President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Thursday.

The Bahamas rejected (like they could stop it) taking third-country deportees if Trump carries out his promised vast crackdown on immigrants in the U.S. illegally after he comes to office on Jan. 20. Trump’s incoming vice president, JD Vance, has floated the possibility of deporting 1 million people a year.

The Trump transition team has discussed deporting migrants to places other than their home country if those nations will not accept them, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The possible destinations could include Panama, Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas, and Grenada, one of the sources said, confirming an NBC News report. In late October, Trump’s border czar Tom Homan told Reuters that Mexico could be an option.

So, Sheinbaum is looking to make a deal to avoid getting these illegals. I don’t blame her. Perhaps she should be stopping the caravans which travel through Mexico as part of it.

Mexico is looking to strike a deal with Trump, Sheinbaum told a press conference.

“We hope to reach an agreement with the Trump administration so that, in case these deportations happen, they send people from other countries directly to their countries of origin,” she said. Sheinbaum did not outright say that her government would refuse migrants from other countries.

NBC had reported, citing sources familiar with the matter, that Trump could use the threat of slapping Mexico with tariffs to get the Latin American country to comply.

How about just sticking them on flights of military transports, landing, and kicking them off at the airport before anyone can stop them, then taking off if their home countries won’t take them? Or, telling the illegals to pick a nation for a flight or we’ll drop them off in the Sahara?

The funniest part is if we go to the NBC article used for the above Yahoo News article

The plans could mean that thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of migrants would be permanently displaced in countries where they do not know any of the people or the language and have no connection to the culture.

Really? Did no one truly consider the implications of writing that paragraph?

Hey, how about we drop them off in EU countries, considering the politicians are happy to take them?

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Your Fault: ‘Climate Change’ Putting Strain On Christmas Trees

By William Teach December 6, 2024 – 7:15 am

Well, the climate cult is starting the doomsaying for Christmas a bit early this year. Usually the doomy prognostications start around the 15th

Climate Matters: Climate change puts a strain on local Christmas trees

Christmas trees in Mid-Missouri have been changing with the climate, and Wayne Harmon with Starr Pines has had to change with it.

His Christmas tree farm near Boonville has been in business for over three decades and grows several species of trees. “The pines, they can weather the type of weather we have here in Missouri. The hot, dry weather, if it gets moist, the pines are real hardy.” Harmon said, but others are a bit more of a challenge. “The firs, they’re used to kinda being up in the mountains and getting good rain and having really good soil. So we’re at a lower elevation, hotter, drier weather.”

While firs may not be as suited for Missouri’s climate, they are popular among consumers. “The customers love the firs. It’s become the number one tree in the United States. So we have tried very diligently to provide the firs for our customers.” Harmon said.

That means using a lot more water to keep the more sensitive fir trees satisfied. “We’ve learned over the last 20 some years in order to keep the firs alive you have to baby them, you have to give them water.” Harmon explained, and he says this has been a challenge recently.

“With growing this season, this year it was a little of a challenge. It was dry when we planted and our fir trees, we started irrigating within several weeks of planting. And we kept the irrigation running until about the middle of October.” Harmon said that is the longest time he’s had to run irrigation on the fir trees, except for possibly in 2012 during those drought years.

ZOMG, you mean the weather can change from year to year, and there can be warmer and cooler, wetter and drier periods that last for years? That the weather is not the same every year? This is the kind of anti-science garbage you get from a cult.

Future years may be tough on Missouri’s Christmas tree businesses. The growing season is lengthening, bringing more bugs and exposing budding plants to late-season cold snaps. Dry spells are getting longer, while the wet days in between are getting extremely wet. This combination strains trees with drought while exposing them to mold and diseases after heavy rain events.

So, what would have happened during the Little Ice Age? Or, how about the Medieval Climate Optimum? Roman Warm Period? Oh, right, those were normal and caused by nature, unlike today’s warm period, per cult doctrine.

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Your Tax Dollars At Work: Only 6% Of Federal Workers Come In To Work

By William Teach December 6, 2024 – 7:00 am

So, does this help or hurt the bureaucrats from enacting burdensome regulations on Americans?

Top DOGE Elon Musk, House speaker balk at Senate report showing only 6% of federal workers show up in person on full-time basis: ‘Absurd’

They’re being remote-ly professional.

A paltry 6% of the federal workforce “report in-person on a full-time basis” while almost one-third of federal workers are remote on a full-time basis, in a sharp turn-around from the pre-pandemic era in which only 3% teleworked daily, a report from Sen. Joni Ernst’s office found.

Ernst (R-Iowa), who has long crusaded against the rise in remote federal work, is planning to reveal the fruits of her office’s year and a half inquiry to Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) co-heads Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy during their visit to the Capitol Thursday.

“The nation’s capital is a ghost town, with government buildings averaging an occupancy rate of 12[%],” Ernst wrote in the blistering report. “If federal employees can’t be found at their desks, exactly where are they?”

How many can we promote to customer? If they do not want to do their jobs, well, it’s time to terminate. And this goes with supervisors all the way up the food chain who fail to make the employees come in. You can’t seriously hold them accountable if you rarely see the employees and cannot watch them work.

The Hawkeye State senator concluded that “taxpayers are getting ripped off” and claimed that her constituents were troubled by the lack of responsiveness from various government entities such as the Social Security Administration, the Food and Drug Administration, and more

The report rattled through a handful of anecdotes to describe the lack of competence from the federal government.

She cited an example of a whistleblower report at the FDA that was unread for months warning about bacteria spreading in baby formula, which ultimately culminated in a national shortage back in 2022.

We’re forcibly having money taken from our paychecks to cover the operations of the federal government and the employees aren’t providing the service we’re forcibly paying for.

To further her point about taxpayers “getting ripped off,” Ernst cited findings that some federal workers are cashing in on higher pay rates from localities where they are not actually working.

“My audits are finding as many as 23[%] to 68[%] of teleworking employees for some agencies are boosting their salaries by receiving incorrect locality pay,” her report found. “Some employees live more than 2,000 miles away from their office and one ‘temporary’ teleworker collected higher locality pay for nearly a decade.”

That seems like a little charge called “defrauding the federal government.” Perhaps it’s time to start prosecuting. After terminating.

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Lead In Gas Made People Dumb And Crazy Or Something

By William Teach December 5, 2024 – 3:00 pm

This isn’t quite a climate doom article, but, the underlying thread is that Fossil Fuels Are Bad (even though NBC News and Warmists use a lot themselves)

Lead in gasoline tied to over 150 million excess cases of mental health disorders, study suggests

Exposure to lead in gasoline during childhood resulted in many millions of excess cases of psychiatric disorders over the last 75 years, a new study estimates.

Lead was banned from automobile fuel in 1996. The study, published Wednesday in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, looked at its lasting impact in the U.S. by analyzing childhood blood lead levels from 1940 to 2015. According to the findings, the national population experienced an estimated 151 million excess mental health disorders attributable to exposure to lead from car exhaust during children’s early development.

The exposure made generations of Americans more depressed, anxious, inattentive or hyperactive, the study says.

Interesting. But, most lead was taken out of gasoline voluntarily by 1986. For one thing, lead destroyed catalytic converters. The petroleum companies also knew lead was bad, and there was very few leaded gasolines by the mid-1970s in the U.S.. Say, I wonder what the dangers of all these precious metals like lithium in EVs will be?

The researchers — a group from Duke University, Florida State University and the Medical University of South Carolina — found that the exposure also lowered people’s capacity for impulse control and made them more inclined to be neurotic.

Lead-associated mental health and personality differences were most pronounced for people born between 1966 and 1986, according to the study. Of that group, the greatest lead-linked mental illness burden was for Generation Xers born between 1966 and 1970, coinciding with peak use of leaded gasoline in the mid-1960s and mid-1970s.

Horseshit. Gen X is a pretty darned stable generation. I’d suggest that removing lead has created more of a problem with Millennials and GenZ, who seem batguano wackadoodle, always yammering about needing mental health days and being traumatized by having to do simple homework and their jobs.

“Studies like ours today add more evidence that removing lead from our environment and not putting it there in the first place has more benefits than we previously understood,” Reuben said.

In fairness, all that lead was actually bad for people, just like asbestos. But, baby boomers and Gen X are a hell of a lot more mentally stable than the follow on generations.

Reuben, who was the lead author of that study, said the new research “doesn’t create new information about whether lead causes harm, nor do we say this is a study that proves causation — we’re really just taking existing evidence and applying it to the whole U.S. population.”

So, we already knew lead was bad, and have already mostly banned it. So, what was the point of the study?

I wonder, though, what will a study in 20 years will say about the COVID vaccines, masking, and all the Crazy that came with the over-reaction to the Chinese coronavirus? How it stunted growth, made people mental messes, and such?

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 5, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible pigs and their massive carbon footprints, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Gates Of Vienna, with a post wondering if Trump will support the Greater Idaho movement.

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Dumbest Supreme Court Justice Says Dumb Things During Gender Transition For Kids Hearing

By William Teach December 5, 2024 – 10:30 am

Is she this dumb or this brainwashed into the Progressive cult?

Supreme Court justice sparks social media fire storm for her comments on gender transitions for minors

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was slammed on Wednesday after she compared a Tennessee law banning gender transitions for minors to past laws banning interracial marriage.

Jackson and the other justices heard over two hours of oral arguments during the U.S. v. Skrmetti case, which involves the constitutionality of state laws banning gender transition medical procedures for minors.

U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar argued that state laws have the effect of “sex discrimination,” since the minor’s gender is key when determining specific medical treatments for those seeking to transition.

Prelogar is a wackjob, as well

After Prelogar’s remarks and exchanges with the other justices, Jackson said that she saw a “parallel” between U.S. v. Skrmetti and the landmark Loving v. Virginia case in 1967.

“Interesting to me that you mentioned precedent, because some of these questions about sort of who decides and the concerns and legislative prerogatives, etc., sound very familiar to me,” Jackson said. “They sound in the same kinds of arguments that were made back in the day—50s, 60s—with respect to racial classifications and inconsistencies. I’m thinking in particular about Loving v. Virginia, and I’m wondering whether you thought about the parallels, because I see one as to how this statute operates and how the anti-miscegenation statutes in Virginia operated.”

Jackson also said there was a “potential comparison” between the Loving case and Skrmetti and wondered if Virginia could have banned interracial marriage by following Tennessee’s reasoning.

Got that? She compared banning giving children all sorts of drugs and mutilating their bodies to banning interracial marriage. Now, just imagine a President Harris packing the Court with a bunch of barking moonbats like KBJ.

Oh, and

How did it become so important to mutilate children to Democrats?

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NY Times Is Upset Trump Will Have Enormous Power Over Climate (scam) Action

By William Teach December 5, 2024 – 7:00 am

I’ve been told that elections have consequences

Trump Will Have Enormous Power Over Climate Action. Here’s Why.

Why? Because he’s president is my guess

Walking away from treaties. Redrawing the boundaries of national monuments. Repealing pollution regulations.

As Coral Davenport and Lisa Friedman reported, when Donald Trump returns to the White House next month, he is expected to unleash a series of executive actions and other moves that will radically overhaul America’s approach to energy, the environment and climate.

Shockingly, people knew this when they voted for him. A lot of people voted for him to do exactly this. Why can’t Warmists practice what they preach and leave the rest of us alone.

Some of the moves have been well telegraphed. Trump intends to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord, as he did during his first term. He is also likely to open up lands in the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments to drilling and mining. And he is planning to repeal parts of the Inflation Reduction Act that benefit electric vehicles.

I can see Trump leaving the tax rebates alone, but, taking a chainsaw to the EV mandate. He’s said it many times: if you want one, get one. Government should not force you to get one.

Trump is able to make all of these changes because, in a government designed to have checks and balances, modern-day presidents have an unusual amount of autonomy to shape climate and energy policy.

Suddenly the NY Times is not happy with the Unilateral President. They were constantly blowing a gasket over this when Bush43 was president, but, had no problem when Obama and Biden were in office. Perhaps Biden shouldn’t have gone so far in his use of executive power that allows Trump to roll it back.

During Trump’s first term, he used executive actions to undo much of President Barack Obama’s climate work. President Biden then followed suit, using executive actions to reinstate some Obama policies.

This tit-for-tat exchange has left the United States with a scattershot approach to climate policy during a decade when the effects of global warming have become increasingly clear.

Hopefully Trump will buckle down and forget about all the stuff he did in his first term and just focus on getting things done, like crushing the climate cult in the federal government.

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Too Good To Check: Biden Regime Discusses Pre-Emptive Pardons For Certain People

By William Teach December 5, 2024 – 6:45 am

Being the Biden regime this is probably happening. Whether they will do it, that’s the big question

Biden White House Is Discussing Preemptive Pardons for Those in Trump’s Crosshairs

President Joe Biden’s senior aides are conducting a vigorous internal debate over whether to issue preemptive pardons to a range of current and former public officials who could be targeted with President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House, according to senior Democrats familiar with the discussions.

Biden’s aides are deeply concerned about a range of current and former officials who could find themselves facing inquiries and even indictments, a sense of alarm which has only accelerated since Trump last weekend announced the appointment of Kash Patel to lead the FBI. Patel has publicly vowed to pursue Trump’s critics.

The White House officials, however, are carefully weighing the extraordinary step of handing out blanket pardons to those who’ve committed no crimes, both because it could suggest impropriety, only fueling Trump’s criticisms, and because those offered preemptive pardons may reject them.

If they’ve committed no crimes then why do they need pardons? Perhaps Democrats shouldn’t have tried the Lawfare scheme against Trump and others.

Those who could face exposure include such members of Congress’ Jan. 6 Committee as Sen.-elect Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming. Trump has previously said Cheney “should go to Jail along with the rest of the Unselect Committee!” Also mentioned by Biden’s aides for a pardon is Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who became a lightning rod for criticism from the right during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The West Wing deliberations have been organized by White House counsel Ed Siskel but include a range of other aides, including chief of staff Jeff Zients. The president himself, who was intensely focused on his son’s pardon, has not been brought into the broader pardon discussions yet, according to people familiar with the deliberations.

Hmm

Hunter can be compelled to answer questions for the time period covered in the pardon, from January 1, 2014 thru December 1, 2024. He cannot be prosecuted for crimes committed during that time period, so, if people want to put him on the stand he must answer. For people like Fauci, he would be required to answer any and all questions about COVID without the ability to take the 5th. Sure, he would be one of the main targets, but, we’d find out quite a bit about what he did and what others did. And, if he lies, well, that’s a criminal offense not covered by the pardon.

It would be tougher with Schiff, since he is still elected, but, Cheney is now a private citizen, and should be hauled up in front of Congress to answer questions. Republican prosecutors should haul her in to court to answer questions.

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