“Climate change demands immense changes to the economic system”

By William Teach March 18, 2015 – 10:01 am

The headline is what we see at the UK Guardian, which has gone all in as The Guardian Of The Cult of Climastrology, and tells us exactly what the CoC is really all about via letters to the Guardian from other Warmists

Mark Lynas says: “Solving climate change does not mean rolling back capitalism, suspending the free market or stopping economic growth” (Save us from the miserabilists in the battle over climate change, 12 March).

This statement would have made much sense 35 years ago. The urgency for rapid action had not been established. But all this has changed. Whether or not the new “crisis” reinforces an ideological position on the left (despite splits over nuclear power and GM crops) leading to “an outright denialist position” on the right is now so much water under the bridge.

Immense changes to the economic system must be made over the next few years, and the blame game gets us nowhere. If Klein’s belief that “corporate capitalism must be dismantled’” is wrong, it is up to the right to show how the new measures required can work under the present system. Governments should play a powerful role in facilitating compromises, where these can be made, and encouraging national debates on the basis of evidence rather than belief.
David Anderson
Bingley, West Yorkshire

There are many, many, many more letters that are essentially saying the same thing. This is what the CoC is about, massive Progressive changes to economies, along with investing much, much, much more power in Government.

All while refusing to change their own lives.

I also love the part at the end stating “If Klein’s belief that “corporate capitalism must be dismantled’” is wrong, it is up to the right to show how the new measures required can work under the present system.” So, Skeptics are supposed to prove that the insane Progressive/CoC policies, which we do not want in the first place, can work in the existing governmental/economic framework?

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After Lots Of Dithering, State Confirms No Record Of Hillary Signing Exit Form

By William Teach March 18, 2015 – 7:16 am

The State Department, most particularly spokesweasel Jen Psaki, have dithered for a week or so to answer the question “did Hillary Clinton sign her exit form or not?” Rather than providing a concrete answer, this latest admission either highlights just how incompetent the Department of State is, or is another attempt to row the dithering down the stream

(Politico) The State Department has no record that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed a standard form declaring that she surrendered all official records before leaving her post in 2013, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Critics of Clinton, including the Republican National Committee, said she might have committed a crime by signing the form despite having tens of thousands of work-related emails in a personal account. She provided copies of those emails to her former agency in December.

Someone should let Politico writer Josh Gerstein that she provided less than half of the emails.

“We have reviewed Secretary Clinton’s official personnel file and administrative files and do not have any record of her signing the” form, State spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters at a regular briefing.

Psaki said there also is no record of the form being completed by Clinton’s two most recent predecessors, Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell.

With that offbeat addition, I’m more inclined to believe that this is a “let’s move this down the road” form of dithering, though we certainly have seen incompetence from State (Benghazi, for one). Psaki is not saying “she signed it, but we can’t find it” nor “she never signed it”, just that they cannot find the record to determine whether she signed it or not. Though, she does think that Clinton did not sign it

Psaki stopped short of declaring flatly that Clinton never completed the form but said that is the conclusion of state officials.

“I think we’re fairly certain she did not. We do not have record of it,” the spokeswoman said.

Here’s a question: who did the exit interview? Who made sure that Hillary surrendered all her government documents and property on the way out the door? Was there someone who did that, like in pretty much all large companies. The State Department has tens of thousands of employees, possibly as many as 69,000. Do they not have people, perhaps in HR, who do exit interviews? Perhaps people in other Executive Branch departments? What other separation forms did she sign? Do we have them on record?

We also get, via Twitchy

Allahpundit writes

So there you go. The mystery is solved. Hillary avoids a perjury charge for failing to turn over her work e-mails in a timely way because she never formally agreed to make herself accountable in the first place. What a perfectly Clintonian ending to “National Treasure 3: The Search for Hillary’s OF-109.” In fact, I’ll cop here to grudgingly respecting her political acumen in knowing from the start that she could take a steamy dump on every good-government norm of basic recordkeeping without the public batting an eye. That’s the ultimate privilege of being a Clinton: Corruption is assumed, so every discrete act of further corruption carries only the most marginal sting.

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Federal Denial For Specialized Work Visas Continues To Rise

By William Teach March 18, 2015 – 6:50 am

Work visa denial has continued to rise, and, apparently, those in the Obama administration hate Indians, French, Chinese, and Mexicans who attempt to do it the right way

(USA Today) Foreign employees of U.S. companies are having a harder time getting into the country under a specialized visa category, according to a report being released Wednesday.

About 35% of petitions by American companies to bring to the U.S. employees working overseas who have a “specialized knowledge” in their fields were denied in 2014 by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the fourth straight year that figure has risen. The denial rate for those visas, known as L-1B visas, was as low as 6% in 2006, according to the report from the National Foundation for American Policy, an immigration advocacy group.

The biggest increase in denials affected Indian nationals trying to get into the USA. Applications for Indians were denied 56% of the time, compared with 22% for Chinese, 21% for Mexicans and 19% for French, according to data obtained by the foundation through a Freedom of Information Act request.

This is supposedly due to the start of the Great Recession. Here’s the kicker

Stuart Anderson, executive director of the foundation, said the steady rise in denials started in 2008, when the United States plunged into a deep recession. He said that has led to a “protectionist” culture at the immigration enforcement agency in favor of American technology workers.

On one hand, we have 35% of specialized workers being denied work visas. On the other hand, we have Mr. Obama attempting to provide a pseud-amnesty to millions and millions of illegal aliens, which will lead to more and more of their family members being given long term visas. A goodly chunk of these illegals are low skill, un-educated, and malcontents, who will demand that the United States provide them with all sorts of taxpayer funded benefits. Oh, and they demand that we cater to them, and change the country for them.

Hell of a thing, eh?

Of course, a reduction in visas is not necessarily a bad thing. I’m not blaming the Obama administration for reducing those, just noting how they treat one group, which does it legally, over another group, which doesn’t, and the latter group harms wages, especially for those in the lower wage segment

“The program (H1-B) was intended to serve employers who could not find the skilled workers they needed in the United States,” committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said. “Over the years the program has become a government-assisted way for employers to bring in cheaper foreign labor, and now it appears these foreign workers take over — rather than complement — the U.S. workforce.”

Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, said similar abuses extend to the L-1B visa, which is designed for U.S. companies to bring their workers with “specialized knowledge” to the United States from branches overseas. Instead, she said American companies, such as Cognizant Technology Solutions, and Indian companies, such as Infosys, have abused the system to import everyday technology workers to push out higher-priced American workers.

Let’s also not forget that, depending on the study, 30-40% of illegals are people who have overstayed their visas, be they work, school, or visitor visas.

At the end of the day we need to protect American workers first, and that includes against those who the Obama admin would give pseudo-amnesty.

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Study Recommends Redistribution To Poor Nations For Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach March 17, 2015 – 5:40 pm

Any surprised that one of the goals of “climate change” exactly matches what Progressives are pushing?

Poor nations need $400 billion a year in climate aid, study says

Richer nations need to plow at least $400 billion a year into the developing world by 2050 to help cut greenhouse gases and fight climate change, according to a study that would require a quadrupling of aid pledged.

The annual sum required may even be as high as $2 trillion, according to the study by academics at two divisions of the London School of Economics. By comparison, wealthier countries including the US, Japan and European Union members have promised to deliver an annual $100 billion by 2020. (Snip)

Developing countries argue they need the cash to take expensive measures needed to both cut emissions and fight the effects of rising temperatures that are already being seen. Those include higher sea levels, more frequent droughts and heat waves.

So, developed nations are supposed to transfer vast gobs of taxpayer money to 3rd world shitholes developing nations to ….. make sure that they stay in the 7th  century, forgoing all modern energy and development? Hell, they’ve been “developing” for centuries, and never get beyond. Why should that cost anything?

But, this is the Cult of Climastrology in action, a subset of the overall Progressive movement. Which is also interesting, due the fact that Warmists want to control population in these same developing nations, comprised mostly of minorities, especially Blacks.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 17, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible sea that will rise up and swamp the land, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lonely Conservative, with a post on another strategy to fight Obama’s amnesty.

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Lilly White Starbucks Serving Up Discussion On Raaaaacism With Coffee

By William Teach March 17, 2015 – 10:11 am

When I think of Starbucks, I think of stores that are about as diverse as the NY Times Editorial Board, Organizing For America, and all manners of typical liberal groups. In other words, not much

(Washington Post) In partnership with USA Today, Starbucks has launched a week-long campaign under the banner “Race Together” to get staff and customers talking about race. In a video message, Schultz urges “partners” to write the phrase on their paper cups “to facilitate a conversation between you and our customers.” A USA Today supplement, set to be published March 20, includes a number of “conversation starters,” including the fill-in-the-blank question: “In the past year, I have been to the home of someone of a different race ___ times.”

The idea for “Race Together” apparently came from employee forums Schultz launched last December. The first was impromptu, inspired by the killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner and the conversations about racial inequality that surrounded them. It went so well, Schultz said, that the company organized similar events in five other cities.

“At the end of every open forum partners have come up to me and said ‘We must do more,’” Schultz said in his video. “… The fact that you have asked me, encouraged me, is why I have so much faith that this is the right decision for our company.”

I know Glenn Beck was talking about this on the radio (I saw the story earlier in the AM), telling people to go in to the stores. I’d suggest you ask why there are so few Starbucks in Black urban areas. But, hey, nothing like a discussion of race inside a lilly white coffee shop, eh? And getting nagged. No biggee for me, I stopped going to Starbucks and other premium coffee shops years ago, realizing how much money I was pissing away.

The Washington Post provides a few tweets for context

https://twitter.com/NewaHailu/status/577718920448086016

https://twitter.com/vidalwuu/status/577731504501055488

But, let’s remember that Starbucks is a private company, and can do what they want. They’ve already alienated legal gun owners and those who support traditional marriage. Of course, if Starbucks really wanted to talk about race they’d move their corporate headquarters from one of the Whitest cities in America to someplace like Detroit, Birmingham, or Baltimore. Or, hey, how about Ferguson!

Kemberlee Kaye at Legal Insurrection: Schultz’s efforts seem noble, but might be viewed as more legitimate were his reasons for entering the contentious race arena not predicated on blatant falsehoods and astroturfed race hustling.

Stephen Kruiser: They’re ruining sports for me. Now they’re ruining coffee. If Archer does a “very special episode” about global warming, I’m outta here.

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NC Fracking Rules Take Effect Today, State Doesn’t Explode

By William Teach March 17, 2015 – 9:41 am

People who want to push their narrow and rigid cultish dogma and force Other People to pay more for energy protect the environment are Very Concerned

(Fayetteville Observer)  Rules governing the hydraulic fracturing method for drilling natural gas are expected to take effect today, creating the potential for drilling to start later in the year.

The set of 120 rules that govern issues including well construction, water testing and buffer zones was developed by the state Mining and Energy Commission over nearly two years and approved in December by a separate state panel.

With the fracking rules in place, companies interested in finding natural gas can begin applying for fracking permits. A member of the Mining and Energy Commission, James Womack, said a company interested in fracking would first have to acquire the mineral rights for several hundred acres to create what’s known as a drilling unit. (snip)

Opponents include the Southern Environmental Law Center, which filed a lawsuit arguing that the formation of the Mining and Energy Commission violated the state constitution. A panel of judges hasn’t been selected yet to hear the case, said Mary Maclean Asbill, one of the center’s lawyers.

“We hope that permits will not issue any time soon, as many of the rules are not protective of the environment or human health in North Carolina,” she said.

Well, as a Raleigh, NC resident, I can positively state that the land has not exploded, the rivers are not on fire, and everything is fine.

Funny that the SELC hasn’t filed suit against Obama and the EPA for their unconstitutional over-reaches, eh? It’s also funny that the nations with the most energy tend to have the best lives.

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Good News: Obama’s “Amnesty” Could Cost Up To $484 Million A Year

By William Teach March 17, 2015 – 8:13 am

All to make sure that people who broke federal law, either by coming to the country illegally or overstaying their visas, can take jobs from Americans, soak up our “safety net” programs, and keep wages low, among others

(CNS News) If President Barack Obama’s immigration plan gets past a federal court injunction, and if 60 percent of illegals apply for deferred action protection under the plan, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency projects that it may have to hire an additional 3,100 employees, with a total program cost of up to $484 million a year.

I know, I know, Democrats/Liberals will proclaim that $484 million is a pittance, when compared to the federal budget. I know, I know, that is an absurd rationalization, especially considering that they say that people who make $250000 a year or more are “rich”.

In a detailed response to questions from Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee about the cost of processing the illegals at a newly rented facility in Arlington, Va., the USCIS said “planning was based on the assumption that 60 percent of all individuals who may be considered for DACA or DAPA would elect to file a request.” (See Responses to Questions from Grassley-Johnson-Sessions 02.26.15 (3).pdf)

“Should that initial planning estimate hold true and the injunction were lifted, USCIS might ultimately need to increase its hiring plan up to a total of 3,100 new employees at an annual cost of $184.3 million, and total program costs of between $324 and $484 million per year,” said the agency in its response to Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), and Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.).

All to help people who shouldn’t be in the country in the first place, and many do not seem like they actually want to be a part of America. Instead, they want to tell America to change to accommodate the illegals. It would cost almost nothing to pass a law that makes it a heavy criminal act, with jail time and heavy fines, to any company that knowingly hires illegals. That allows them to rent apartments and homes. That allows them to attend college. Stop all incentives to illegals (border jumpers and visa overstayers). Increase work visas, and make companies responsible for providing healthcare. Make all hiring companies and colleges responsible for keeping track of immigration status, under penalty of law. These are the things that happen in most other countries, including Mexico.

Of course, this being government, the reality of the cost will surely be much more than the high end of $484 million.

Blacks in poor communities, who support the Democrats at a 90% plus rate at the polls, should remember that the amnesty push is going to hurt them more. All to legalize people who were exported from their native countries, who tend to be the poorest, least educated, and most disgruntled.

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Obama Tells Young People They Should Worry Less About Marijuana Decriminalization

By William Teach March 17, 2015 – 7:53 am

They should worry more about “climate change”, and things over which the Obama administration has shown their utter lack of competence

(Breitbart) President Obama discussed the legalization of marijuana during an interview with VICE News, but lectured young people, suggesting that they should be more worried about other problems in the world.

VICE CEO Shane Smith noted during the interview that if Obama legalized marijuana it would be the “biggest part of your legacy.”

“Well first of all, it shouldn’t be young people’s biggest priority,” Obama said sternly. “Let’s put it in perspective. Young people, I understand this is important to you but you should be thinking about climate change, the economy, jobs, war and peace.”

“Maybe way at the bottom you should be thinking about marijuana,” he said.

I find myself in agreement with Obama on this. Those are issues young people should be concerned with more than marijuana legalization. They should worry about being duped by the Cult of Climastrology (CoC), which looks to lower the standard of living for Everyone Else, while increasing government confiscation of money (taxation, fees) and control of individual lives and private entities. They should worry about being told that they must go to college, rack up lots of debt, and graduate into a poor jobs market that moves more and more into being about part time jobs, often to avoid Obamacare requirements. They should worry about the political party, Democratic, that the tend to support more than any other, which has a miserable track record when it comes to economic activity, and likes to spend willy nilly for no return.

War and peace? They should worry about the every growing threat from radical Islam. They should worry about Obama give the store away to Iran. They should worry about the crummy way Obama treats our allies.

Obama admitted that he was interested in “decriminalization” of the use of marijuana, pointing out that it had a terrible effect on communities of color by making people unemployable due to their criminal records.

Without being snarky, on this I agree, as well. If alcohol is going to be legal, why keep marijuana illegal as a felony, due to its federal status as a Schedule I drug? Alcohol is much worse, both physically and psychologically, than marijuana. That said, there certainly needs to be a concern over the ever increasing power of THC, a main component of What Makes Marijuana Fun. When it’s getting to the same power as typical hallucinogenics (LSD, blotters, micro-dots, ‘shrooms, etc), there needs to be a concern.

Overall, though, young folks should be much more concerned over the massive damage Democrats, and Obama, have done to this country’s well being. The massive increase in the debt, massive increase in economic woes, poor economic conditions, pushing for amnesty which would keep pay low, spying on Americans, and so much more.

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Hotcoldwetdroid Brings “Disasters On Steroids” Or Something

By William Teach March 16, 2015 – 2:07 pm

This follows on the heels of the previous post on Cyclone Pam striking Vanuatu, but definitely deserved it’s own separate post regarding the Cult Of Climastrology (CoC)

Climate change brings disasters on steroids

Australia’s $5 million contribution to address the devastating impacts of Cyclone Pam is a much-needed and welcome act. But remedial responses like this are not enough. Governments must also develop more proactive tools to help mitigate the impacts of disasters in the first place, including the displacement of people from their homes.

Climate change-related displacement is happening now. It is not just a future phenomenon. Reportedly 45 per cent of Tuvalu’s population has been displaced by Cyclone Pam (um, they live on islands that are frequently hit by strong storms, and have been for millions of years). More frequent and more intense extreme weather events are consistent with climate change: disasters become disasters on steroids. While history shows that many Pacific island communities are highly resourceful and resilient in the face of adversity, traditional coping mechanisms are being challenged by what the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator has called the “new normal”.

The CoC always finds a way to bring their cult into the discussion. Then we have this

Majority of natural disasters climate related – Laurent Fabius

A senior French political leader, foreign minister Laurent Fabius, has told an international conference on how to reduce the risk from natural disasters that 70% of them are now linked to climate change, twice as many as twenty years ago.

Fabius is the incoming president of this year’s round of negotiations by member states of the UN climate change convention, to take place in Paris in December.

He said disaster risk reduction and the struggle against climate change went hand in hand: “It is necessary to tackle these problems together and not separately.”

Nowhere in the article do they have a quote that matches the headline, but, hey, that is what the CoC is pushing. Now if only Fabius and hundreds of others, if not thousands, took fossil fueled flights to a conference in Japan which makes most natural disasters climate related.

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