Surprise: Bolivia Wants To Abolish Capitalism To Save Us From ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach November 11, 2015 – 4:56 pm

Members of the Cult of Climastrology are mostly far left leaning people, who profess a hatred of capitalism…though, of course, so many of them like practicing it in their own lives in terms of the products they purchase and the services/goods they themselves offer. While they used to be more circumspect about their motives (these are people James Delingpole calls “Watermelons”: green on the outside, red on the inside), they are becoming more brazen and outspoken about what they are looking to do. Witness this from the Weekly Green Left

The Bolivian government’s national contribution to the COP 21 climate talks scheduled to start in Paris on November 30 contains a series of radical proposals for safeguarding the future health of the planet,Euractiv.com said on October 14.

Bolivia’s contribution insists that capitalism is responsible for “consumerism, warmongering and […] the destruction of Mother Earth”. (snip)

Bolivia, whose constitution (WT note: that constitution is 177 pages long in Spanish. Go figure) guarantees the respect of Mother Earth, holds “the failed capitalist system” responsible for climate change. Euractiv.com said its contribution says: “For a lasting solution to the climate crisis we must destroy capitalism.”

Huh. How about that? This is an official document from the government of Bolivia

A key Bolivian proposal is to establish an “International Court of Justice for the Climate and Mother Earth”, which would ensure that all countries fulfill their climate obligations.

Wait, I thought we were told that no one was pushing that?

(I thought I had posted this the other day, apparently, not)

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 11, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is a beach soon to be flooded by carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Raised On Hoecakes, with a post on Veterans Day.

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Congress Punks Obama On Moving Gitmo Detainees To US

By William Teach November 11, 2015 – 12:14 pm

Obama has long wanted to close Gitmo, which house many stone cold Islamic jihadis. Why? Based on his directly post 9/11 writing, he seems to blame the US, and he apparently wants to give the little darlings civilian trials

(WRAL)  Congress sent President Barack Obama a $607 billion defense policy bill Tuesday that bans moving Guantanamo Bay detainees to the United States — something Obama has been trying to do since he was sworn in as president.

The Senate’s 91-3 vote gave final legislative approval to the measure. The House overwhelmingly passed it last week, 370-58.

Obama does not like the Guantanamo provisions, but White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Obama will sign the bill.

Of course he will sign it, because there’s no way he wants to look the fool in vetoing a defense bill with massive Congressional support over Gitmo, nor fight what would easily be overridden by Congress. It’s a fight he would lose, and Democrats are surely thinking of their next election in 2016.

However, I think Republicans missed a prime chance in recommending that a facility be built to house the jihadis in Chicago’s Hyde Park area.

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Warmist Wants Obama To Stop All Oil Production On Public Lands

By William Teach November 11, 2015 – 7:24 am

What is one of the best ways to help the lower and middle class? Cheap, reliable, affordable energy. Why is the Cult of Climastrology against this? Here’s Lydia Millet in the NY Times

Obama Should Let Fossil Fuels Lie

PRESIDENT OBAMA’S rejection of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline last week had the ring of a great victory for the environment. But even as he declared the United States a “global leader” in the transition to cleaner energy, he revealed a challenge that neither he nor his administration has confronted: “If we’re going to prevent large parts of this earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes,” the president said, “we’re going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground, rather than burn them and release more dangerous pollution into the sky.”

The logic is clear. If we don’t extract them, we can’t burn them. Even better, this is a change the president can actually make, without the approval of Congress. With the climate summit meeting in Paris near, and the Keystone decision fresh, the United States can truly take the lead on these fuels by stemming their production, not just their consumption.

Most climate debates have focused on cutting the use of fossil fuels. But besides a few high-profile scuffles over fuel extraction in vulnerable wild places like the offshore Arctic, political leaders have ignored fossil fuel production as a necessary piece of climate strategy.

Globally, we will have to use far less of our already proven reserves of oil, gas and coal in the next 35 years if we are to even have a shot at avoiding the most disastrous warming effects. Some say we need to keep a third of the earth’s oil reserves, half its gas and 80 percent of its coal unused. We need to lock up those fuels that would push us past the tipping point. And the most logical place for the United States to start is on our public lands.

This is the extremist view of the CoC. What happens when energy costs skyrocket? Who gets hurt? Not the very rich. What happens when people can no longer afford to drive to work? Who gets hurt? Not the rich.

Secretary Jewell’s circular argument won’t get us anywhere we need to go. No one in the “Keep It in the Ground” movement was suggesting the immediate cessation of fossil fuel extraction — merely an end to new leases on federal public lands. Existing leases, stretching decades into the future in some cases, already cover some 67 million acres of public land and ocean — 55 times bigger than Grand Canyon National Park — whose fuels contain the potential for up to the equivalent of 43 billion tons of carbon dioxide pollution.

Actually, some are. And those who aren’t now, will be if they get Obama to deny any new leases. That’s what they do. Ask for an inch, take a mile, then come back for another inch. This is being pushed by 350.org, the extremist ‘climate change’ group, which does indeed want to stop all fossil fuels extraction on federal lands and offshore.

Who gets hurt? Not that Warmists seem to care in the least. Progressive revolutionaries aren’t worried about that.

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Ted Cruz: Journalists Wouldn’t Be So Blase’ On Illegal Immigration If Their Jobs Were Being Taken

By William Teach November 11, 2015 – 7:07 am

Ted Cruz had one of the best answers during the Tuesday night debate

(Breitbart) During the November 10 Republican presidential debate, Senator Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) suggested that reporters and news anchors who do not see illegal immigration as a threat would change their tunes if the people crossing the Rio Grande had journalism degrees and threatened to destroy the financial livelihood of those who work in the mainstream press.

He observed: “When the mainstream media covers illegal immigration they do not see it as an economic issue, but I can tell that for millions of Americans watching this [debate] at home it is a very personal economic issue.”

He said, “I will say, the politics of it would be very, very different if a bunch of lawyers or bankers were crossing the Rio Grande. Or if a bunch of people with journalism degrees were coming over and driving down the wages in the press, then we would see stories about the economic calamity that is befalling our nation.”

Cruz added, “And I will say for those who believe people ought to come to this country legally and [that] we should enforce the law, we’re tired of being told [that that position] is anti-immigrant.” He said “it’s offensive” to be told upholding legal immigration and enforcing the law is somehow “anti-immigrant.”

Illegal immigrants are helping deflate wages for American citizens. They commit crimes like rape and murder. Many are involved in identity theft. By one report, illegal aliens cost the United States #113 billion per year, with an annual cost of $1,117 per legal born citizen. Roughly $52 billion is spent on education for illegals, money that could be spent for the education of US citizen children. And, let’s face it, most illegals do not pay income tax, and the few who do receive refunds to zero their costs out.

John Kasich had the worst, playing the “think of the children” card

“Think about the families; think about the children,” Mr. Kasich said. “Come on, folks, we know you can’t pick them up and ship them across the border. It’s a silly argument. It’s not an adult argument.”

How about thinking about the children of those who are here legally, who are citizens? They come first.

On the economy, Rubio had one of the best lines

The debate was also a prime opportunity for the Republicans to distinguish themselves as economic thinkers with new ideas to create jobs or lower the national debt, $18 trillion and counting. But few of them left powerful impressions. Mr. Trump and Mr. Carson staked out their opposition to a $15 minimum wage but offered no new proposals to help poor and working-class people. Mr. Rubio agreed with them on the minimum wage but argued that higher education and vocational training must become more accessible and be aimed specifically at increasing wages.

“Welders make more money than philosophers,” Mr. Rubio said. “We need more welders and less philosophers.”

Too many are spending tens of thousands of dollars to receive 4 year college degrees in soft disciplines, degrees akin to the mythical “basket weaving” degree. However, at least a basket weaving degree has value. You’ve learned a marketable skill. You can make very nice baskets which can be sold for money. What do people do with anything ending in “studies”? Hiring managers will see those degrees and say “humm, that looks like a lawsuit waiting to happen. Time to send out the “thank you for applying, but we’ve gone a different direction” email.” It’s nice that everyone is being pushed to get an education, but, maybe they should be pushed to learn something that will get them a job.

Jeb! was halfway decent, and the debate avoided the typical attacking each other that was featured in the previous debates. Chris Christie wisely spent quite a bit of time attacking Hillary during the undercard debate, doing himself a big favor. Overall, it was a much better debate, focused on the issues, rather than personalities and gotchas.

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“Forty years of global warming hysteria never has been about the globe getting warmer, or saving the planet”

By William Teach November 10, 2015 – 3:21 pm

Hmm, does this look familiar? Here’s Mark Landsbaum writing in the OC Register

Expect global warming rhetoric to heat up

Let’s be blunt. Forty years of global warming hysteria never has been about the globe getting warmer, or saving the planet. It’s always been about control and money. Their control. Your money. If you need to be told who “they” are, you haven’t been paying attention.

They are a cabal of intertwined common interests that include government regulators who stand to gain power, financial opportunists who stand to profit and ideologues whose mission is to separate you from your money, and from control over your lives. They are socialists or progressives. They like to be called “environmentalists,” tarring the reputation of an otherwise well-intentioned group. (snip)

A compliant mainstream media, which never views a progressive movement with a critical eye, is about to treat us to another furious round of headlines as the real alarmists gather this month in Paris to concoct a scheme to “save” you from global warming. Scratch the surface of this international divide-up-the-booty gathering, and you will see that, even if all their schemes, regulations, taxes, penalties and wealth redistributions are enacted, there’s no guarantee the Earth’s temperature will be affected at all. That’s a pretty costly gamble.

It’s good to see that more and more people are recognizing what the ‘climate change’ movement is all about, and writing about it.

As Christopher Booker of the U.K.’s Sunday Telegraph reports, schemers convening in Paris have three goals: 1) to collectively reduce emissions worldwide by imposing costly regulations and banning cost-effective alternatives (aka big government); 2) to take money from some to give to others to pay for this (aka socialism); and 3) to impose costs on those unwilling to pay up, which is to say, big government and socialism. (I assume Landsbaum is referring to this piece)

People often ask me why I do not focus that much on the actual science of climate change. Well, I actually do: it’s just a different type of science. Political science. Sociology. What are referred to as ‘soft sciences”. Because that’s what this is really all about. Every policy prescription to “solve” anthropogenic global warming/climate change matches perfectly with every other far left policy prescription, those which are noted in the cited article, so I won’t repeat them again (at least in this post. You can bet you’ll see them again and again, lather, rinse, repeat).

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If All You See…

By William Teach November 10, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is an ocean that has totally swamped every Florida from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Red State, with a post on “Four Reasons the Missouri Football Strikers are Cowardly Liberal Lazy Douchebags.”

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Man With Largest Carbon Footprint In World Joins Facebook, Yammers About Climate Change

By William Teach November 10, 2015 – 10:15 am

Gosh, if only the President Of The United States Of America had some sort of website in which he could address the American People, he wouldn’t have to do this

(Newsweek) The White House launched a Facebook page on Monday for President Barack Obama and used the social media platform to send a message on climate change.

Organizing for Action, the political organization that helped elect Obama, has long used an account under the name “Barack Obama.” But the new page allows the president to speak in the first person, much like the Twitter account the White House launched for Obama in May.

Striking a conversational tone, Obama’s first post was a video message on climate change that depicted the president walking around the South Lawn of the White House and marveling at the beauty of nature.

Here’s the first post

Hello, Facebook! I finally got my very own page. I hope you’ll think of this as a place where we can have real conversations about the most important issues facing our country – a place where you can hear directly from me, and share your own thoughts and stories. (You can expect some just-for-fun stuff, too.)

I’m kicking it off by inviting you to take a walk with me in my backyard – something I try to do at the end of the day before I head in for dinner. I say this often, but that’s because it’s always at the front of my mind: We’ve got to preserve this beautiful planet of ours for our kids and grandkids. And that means taking serious steps to address climate change once and for all. Now, we’ve made a lot of progress to cut carbon pollution here at home, and we’re leading the world to take action as well. But we’ve got to do more. In a few weeks, I’m heading to Paris to meet with world leaders about a global agreement to meet this challenge.

I hope you’ll join me in speaking out on climate change and educating your friends about why this issue is so important. At a time when nearly three in four adults online use Facebook, this feels like a great place to do it. Share your thoughts in the comments, and pass this message on to folks you think need to see it.

If we’re all in this together, I’m confident we can solve this and do right by future generations.

First off, this is a great way for him to feed his massive ego, what with all the welcomes and adoration in the comments. Second, what, exactly, is he doing in his own life to reduce his own carbon footprint?

BTW: “Comments and messages received through this account may be archived:wh.gov/privacy.” Huh. If only he had the same policy for Hillary. Oh, wait, he did, she just chose to break it.

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USA Today: It’s Totally Appropriate To Vet Presidential Candidates Named Ben Carson

By William Teach November 10, 2015 – 8:05 am

The Editorial Board of USA Today says “He shouldn’t be immune from tough scrutiny or be able to play fast and loose with the facts.” Not how they set the vetting process up

Ben Carson has much to commend him. He was raised in poverty by a single mother and rose to the pinnacle of medicine, becoming an accomplished pediatric neurosurgeon. He and his wife have established a scholarship fund for needy kids. And his low-key way of speaking is a pleasant change from some of the loudmouths who are seeking the Republican presidential nomination and other political offices.

But none of this means that Carson, who heads into Tuesday night’s GOP debate in first or second place in national polls, is either immune from tough scrutiny or entitled to play fast and loose with the facts.

Because Carson, like Donald Trump and Carly Fiorina, has no prior experience in government but now seeks the nation’s highest office, the need for careful vetting is even greater for him than for someone who has long been in the political arena. While politics is not as technical as medicine, there is something to the argument that handing the White House to a political neophyte is like being operated on by an untrained surgeon.

Political neophyte, eh? I know what you’re thinking. We’ll get to that in a minute

Carson has a habit of saying things that are outrageous (such as that Obamacare is the worst thing since slavery), weird (Egypt’s pyramids were actually built for grain storage) or just plain wrong (his claim that he was offered a full scholarship to West Point, which he in fact never applied to).

The USATEB should probably get out more, because that Politico story on West Point has already been destroyed.

It’s entirely appropriate for journalists, competitors and voters to examine the record carefully and determine whether Ben Carson — and everyone else seeking the world’s most powerful position — tells the truth, makes decisions based on facts and has the right experience for the job.

OK, then, we eagerly await the vetting of Hillary. We’ll await the belated vetting of Barack Obama, which the USA Today, like most media outlets, refused to do, and still refuses to do. Obama was given a pass on almost everything, and when some issues, like Reverend Jeremiah Wright, arose, and media outlets were forced into covering them, they were either dismissed or the news outlets provided cover for Obama.

Will the USA Today provide deep detail on previous Clinton scandals (personally, I do think the Vince Foster issue is a true conspiracy theory, yet, if this was linked to a Republican, the media would be digging as deep as they did into Sarah Palin’s emails)? Will they dig deep into the dealings of the Clinton Foundation, and what Hillary may have done while serving as Secretary of State, a cabinet level position? Will they change up and start looking into Benghazi and her emails, rather than mostly providing cover? Her spotty resume? The spectacular greed? All the women she helped destroy who had accused Bill of sexual assault and/or rape?

We eagerly await the USA Today doing in-depth reporting on these subjects.

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Court Once Again Blocks Obama Immigration Plan For Illegals

By William Teach November 10, 2015 – 7:44 am

No worries, I’m sure Team Obama has plans to circumvent this court order

(AP) President Barack Obama’s plan to protect from deportation an estimated 5 million people living in the United States illegally suffered another setback Monday in a ruling from a New Orleans-based federal appeals court.

In a 2-1 decision, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Texas-based federal judge’s injunction blocking the administration’s immigration initiative.

Republicans had criticized the plan as an illegal executive overreach when Obama announced it last November. Twenty-six states challenged the plan in court.

The administration argued that the executive branch was within its rights in deciding to defer deportation of selected groups of immigrants, including children who were brought to the U.S. illegally.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott praised the ruling.

“President Obama should abandon his lawless executive amnesty program and start enforcing the law today,” Abbott said in a news release.

Of course, the problem here isn’t just prioritizing deportation of, as Obama constantly calls them, “the worst offenders’….let’s not forget that the illegal who cold-bloodedly murdered Kate Steinle was one of them, who was protected by liberal San Fransisco….it’s that, as Politico notes, giving “quasi-legal status and work permits to millions of illegal immigrants”. Stealth amnesty.

Hey, look, another one of Obama’s “worst offenders”

Ramon Jaime Horta was deported from the United States six times, but still the Mexican national was somehow able to come back into the country and is now accused of a hit and run accident that left a man dead.

Horta (who was identified in some other reports as Ramon Horta-Jaime) was arrested this week and charged with killing Marcello Bisarello. Police said Hort did not have a valid license and was under the influence when he struck and killed the man in Santa Ana, then fled the scene.

He has multiple convictions for drug offenses, battery, and others. How did he end up back in the country?

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