Israel Defense Minister Says Iran Will Burn If They Continue To Lob Missiles At Civilians

By William Teach June 14, 2025 – 10:30 am

It’s something few in the Credentialed Media really mention, and, if they do, they aren’t too concerned, namely, that Israel is going after military targets, while Iran intentionally targets civilians. No opinion pieces slamming Iran (or any of their terrorist subsidiaries) for going after civilians

Israel Katz: ‘If Khamenei continues to fire missiles at Israeli civilians, Tehran will burn’

Defense Minister Israel Katz on Saturday threatened further action against Iran should more missiles be fired towards Israeli civilians.

“If Khamenei continues to fire missiles at Israeli civilians, Tehran will burn,” Katz said in a threatening message towards to Iranian Supreme Leader.

The defense minister made these statements after finishing a situational assessment with the IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, Mossad Director David Barnea, and other Israeli military leadership.

“The Iranian dictator is turning the citizens of Iran into hostages and bringing about the reality that they, and in particular the residents of Tehran, will pay a heavy price for the criminal harm to the citizens of Israel,” the defense minister added.

Iran should think heavily over their attacks, because they just cannot compete militarily

The road to Tehran has been paved: IDF secures air route for stronger strikes on Iran

The Israel Air Force is now capable of operating without obstruction as far as Tehran, following what was described as the destruction of a majority of Iran’s air defense systems, security officials said on Saturday morning.

The reported elimination of Syria’s military capabilities, including those of Hezbollah, has further expanded Israel’s operational range and shortened flight paths to Iran.

Until approximately two years ago, the IAF faced severe limitations in operating over Lebanon and Syria. IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir’s statement on Saturday, saying “The road to Tehran has been paved” reflects the IDF’s present air dominance and signals a strategic shift. According to military officials, the pace of air operations is expected to accelerate.

Israel can easily project force into Iran with almost no opposition. They can perform pinpoint strikes. If they want to decapitate the entire ruling class they can. Iran can throw some missiles and drones, but, they are limited.

Hilariously, the Washington Post editorial board, which never once considered the danger of Biden dragging the US into WWIII with Ukraine, and cheered him on, wonders what the endgame is, and ends with Trump Trump Trump

Israel struck while the moment was ripe. But the “day after” plan and the scope of U.S. involvement in shaping it are alarmingly opaque. Trump needs to proceed cautiously — and forthrightly about exactly what he might be committing the country to. A president with an avowed aversion to sending American troops into “forever wars” in the Middle East should resist being dragged into a new one.

So, a forever war in Ukraine is OK against nuclear armed Russia, but, wiping out Iran’s nuclear ambitions is not? Why? Because Trump is president. Along those lines, Excitable Max Boot’s first thought is to slam Trump “failing to be a peacemaker.” He had no condemnation for Biden over Ukraine, Syria, the Houthis, Hamas attacking Israel, and more.

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Oregon Gets Closer To Passing The Climate Cult Indoctrination Bill

By William Teach June 14, 2025 – 7:00 am

Nothing like starting early to indoctrinate the kiddies

Oregon’s climate change education bill advances further

Oregon’s House Bill 3365, which seeks to support climate change education in the Beaver State, passed the Senate on an 18-10 vote on June 12, 2025, having previously passed the House of Representatives on a 32-23 vote on April 17, 2025.

The Senate and the House versions of the bill differ somewhat. Both versions would require the state board of education to “include sufficient instruction on the causes and effects of climate change and strategies for mitigating, adapting to and strengthening community resilience to such causes and effects” in academic content standards during its regular review and revision of curriculum goals, performance indicators, and diploma requirements. But the House version (PDF) applies to “core subjects,” while the Senate version (PDF) applies only to “science, health, history, geography, economics and civics.” As originally introduced (PDF), the bill would have applied to all subjects for which academic content standards are established.

Either way, the bills are going to jam climate cult garbage into most subjects. If Bill buys 2 cheeseburgers every week, how many grandmas does he kill?

Want to Be a Climate Kid?

As a freshman, Hayden Crocker noticed that his high school in Solana Beach, California, had plenty of recycling bins around the campus but no recycling dumpsters in which to empty them. Where were all those cans, bottles, and papers going, he wondered?

Crocker asked his school administration about it. He learned that everything was ending up in the trash. So, he and some classmates called their city’s school district to complain. It worked, and soon thereafter, there were recycling dumpsters on every campus so the custodians could properly separate the recyclables from the waste.

Except, that has zero to do with ‘climate change’.

Here’s what student leaders from the East Coast to the West Coast have to say.

1. Start with your school, says Amaya Williams, a high school senior in Brooklyn. (I’m skipping the details, you can read if you want)

2. Join (or start) a club.

3. Suggest new tools. Teachers can use websites like the Climate Action Hub to get ideas for climate-focused lessons.

4. Tailor your solutions. At Go Greenish, Crocker and his team have taken a school-specific approach. Sustainability solutions can’t be one-size-fits-all, he says, because each school has a different set of resources, challenges, and needs.

5. Call your local officials, Spikes urges. Share your personal story with politicians, and tell them why climate education matters to you as a young person.

Start them young. Also, 6. make your own lives carbon neutral.

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Is Israel’s Endgame With Iran Regime Change?

By William Teach June 14, 2025 – 6:45 am

I’m not sure if this Politico article is meant to slam Israel, since liberals usually take that line, or just information

What’s Israel’s Endgame?

Israel’s attack on Iran will no doubt set back Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. But among many Middle East obsessives, there’s a growing sense that the Israeli operation has the potential to lead to something much bigger: toppling Iran’s Islamist government.

Yeah, I’ll say it. Regime change.

It’s a phrase that normally sends shudders through a Washington and a Middle East chastened by the U.S. experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s a concept that has long left President Donald Trump extremely wary; his administration has already put out word it played no role in the attack. And the Israeli government hasn’t declared that regime change is its official objective.

Still, as I’ve listened to Israeli comments on the strikes and learned about their scope, including assassinations of top Iranian military officials, I’ve been struck by how they’re not dismissing the possibility of regime change, either. When you put the moves in the context of Israeli military actions since fall 2023 — strikes that have ousted, helped oust or decimated multiple Iran-allied “regimes” in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria — it doesn’t seem that far-fetched.

Ousting, or at the very least severely weakening, Iran’s regime also is something Israel can arguably do on its own; it doesn’t necessarily need American help on the offensive end.

Would it be such a bad things to get the hardcores out of control of Iran? It would end quite a bit of funding for terrorism in the Middle East. Most of the other nations in the ME would have no problem with calming Iran down. It’s something that should have been done decades ago, and the West had a chance with the Green Uprising, but, the Obama admin blew that off.

In his many-layered initial remarks about the early Friday strikes, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the operation against Iran “will continue for as many days as it takes to remove this threat.” He never limited the definition of that threat to Iran’s nuclear program.

That’s because the Israeli government sees Iran’s regime itself, not merely its nuclear and military infrastructure, as the real danger. Given that Iranian leaders, many of them fervent believers in extreme Shia Islamist ideology, have long threatened to annihilate Israel, that’s an unsurprising conclusion.

Well, there it is. A little underwhelming of an explanation. Iran wants Israel destroyed, so, what is the problem with Israel going after Iran? The question is, where does Israel stop? Destroying Iran’s nuclear ambitions is the clear target. Anything after that is a bonus.

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Are PRC Democrats Turning On Gavin Newsom’s Climate Scam Policies?

By William Teach June 13, 2025 – 3:23 pm

Let’s not forget, the same Democrats in the People’s Republik Of California supported and voted for this stuff, they just didn’t practice what they forced on all the Comrades in the PRC

Gavin Newsom Faces a Climate Revolt—From Democrats – Former backers of his policies now running away from their consequences

climate cowCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom must be grateful for the ugly divorce between President Trump and Elon Musk. It’s a useful public distraction from a crack-up in his own party over the state’s burdensome climate policies, which are driving energy costs up and jobs out of the state.

Democratic lawmakers in Sacramento experienced a political awakening of sorts after two major refineries recently announced they will shut down. A study last month by a University of Southern California business school professor projected that gasoline prices could rise to more than $8 a gallon because of the constricted supply.

Now the lawmakers who backed the Newsom climate diktats that brought about the refinery shutdowns are up in arms. “We have a crisis on our hands that may have been self-created by the actions perhaps taken by the state, by regulators,” Assemblyman David Alvarez huffed at a legislative hearing last month with the governor’s energy regulators.

Mr. Newsom claimed the Legislature needed to give his regulators more power to punish refineries for price-gouging. “I don’t hear today any evidence” of such gouging, Mr. Alvarez said. Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris asked: “If California companies were raking it in, why did we have two refineries announce their intent to close?”

Could it be that these Democrats are getting more than the normal earful from their constituents, especially the monied ones, who are not happy with the results of the policies they used to support?

Assemblyman Mike Gipson mused that increasing fuel imports once the refineries are closed could increase pollution. California Air Resources Board Chairman Liane Randolph concurred. But when asked whether the board considered costs of its regulations, Ms. Randolph demurred: “We don’t analyze a retail cost” of gasoline or “specific costs to specific consumers.”

After the hearing, Assemblywoman Jasmeet Bains demanded Ms. Randolph’s resignation: “CARB has been given so much power, they were prepared to ban gas and diesel cars and trucks single-handedly. It is outrageous that the director would pursue such policies without even trying to analyze the impact on prices.”

Now she notices. In fairness, she was first elected in 2022, so, she wasn’t in office when CARB, a group of unelected bureaucrats who do not drive EVs, mandated Comrades in the PRC drive EVs. Hilariously, after Trump signed the resolution as passed by the duly elected House and Senate, with many Democrats voting for it

California sues Trump administration for blocking state’s 2035 ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars

California is taking the Trump administration to court again, this time over the administration’s blocking of the state’s 2035 ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars.

The state’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, announced his office and 10 other states filed this latest lawsuit minutes after President Donald Trump signed a resolution that blocked the ban. The lawsuit will be considered by the U.S District Court.

State leaders have said the federal government is violating the law, as California has had the authority for decades to set its own clean air rules.

“It’s been a disaster for this country,” Trump said as he signed the resolution. “We officially rescue the U.S. auto industry from destruction by terminating the California electric vehicle mandate once and for all.”

The PRC was given the ability to pass the mandate due to a Biden regime waiver. Should the PRC have the ability to mandate EVs? IMO, yes, as long as it does not involve interstate commerce, which is the bailiwick of Los Federales. But, it does, and, Los Federales have primacy on this issue.

Neither California voters nor California’s state lawmakers voted specifically for the clean air rule that would ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035. The governor signed an executive order in 2020 that empowered the state’s unelected California Air Resources Board to set the rules.

So, no one actually voted for this. I wonder what would happen if the Comrades in the PRC were allowed to vote on an initiative, what would they want? How often does a state sue the federal government over what has been passed and signed into law by the POTUS? Further, is Rob driving an EV? How about those in the other states?

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 13, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible Bad Weather clouds from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on an appeals court ruling Trump can control the National Guard in LA.

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Israel Attacks Iran’s Nuclear Program, NY Times Goes TDS And NDS

By William Teach June 13, 2025 – 10:30 am

Israel has had enough of Iran and their nuclear program, since it was recently announced Iran had enough material to make about 9 (or 11 or 15) bombs

Israel hits the ‘heart’ of Iran’s nuclear program in Natanz facility strike

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that one of Iran’s top nuclear facilities had been hit in Thursday night’s strike against the regime.

“Iran has produced enough highly enriched uranium for nine atom bombs, nine,” Netanyahu said. “In recent months, Iran is taking steps that it has never taken before, steps to weaponize this enriched uranium. And if not stopped, Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time.”

Hours later, officials confirmed that Iran launched approximately 100 retaliatory drones toward Israeli territory, which the IDF was working to intercept.

The Natanz Nuclear Facility – one of Tehran’s key nuclear sites and which has been flagged by security experts that in coordination with the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, could produce enough weapons-grade uranium to produce 11 nuclear weapons within a month – has been hit in the strikes, though the extent of the damage remains unknown.

Israel targeted all sorts of Iran’s nuclear scientists and top military officials, as well. Trump was warned. And where does Excitable Nicholas Kristof immediately go? Trump and Netanyahu Derangement Syndrome

Will Trump Show Restraint in the Middle East?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has bombed Iran in what may lead to yet another war in the Middle East, and the challenge for President Trump will be to protect American troops in the region and to stay out of this mess.

Netanyahu justified his latest military campaign by saying that Iran was a “clear and present danger.” And it’s true that Iran was enriching uranium to worrisome levels. It’s believed to be just weeks from having enough fissile material to make several bombs (although creating bombs and a way to deliver them would take much longer).

But a key reason for Iran’s increasingly dangerous course was the past colossal misjudgments by Netanyahu and Trump in their dealings with Iran. With strong backing from Netanyahu, Trump in 2018 pulled out of the nuclear agreement that President Barack Obama had reached that largely contained Iran’s nuclear program.

This would be the deal that would have allowed Iran to start building nuclear weapons 15 years after signed. So, about now. Kristof has no condemnation for Iran

In the coming hours or days, Iran is likely to respond militarily against Israel; an open question is whether or to what extent it will also target American troops in Iraq, Bahrain or elsewhere in the Middle East. The risk is that we see a cycle of escalation leading to a regional war that no one wants. American troops and embassies will be at risk, and the best way Trump can protect them is to stay out of this fight and try to resurrect a nuclear deal.

Senator Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, warned that Netanyahu had undertaken “a reckless escalation that risks igniting regional violence,” and that seems right to me. To his credit, Trump has seemed wary of getting into foreign wars, and let’s hope he shows restraint this time instead of wading into a fight with Iran.

Don’t forget, Kristof and the rest of the NY Times wackos have been all in on escalating in Ukraine against Russia. They kept pushing Biden to give Ukraine more and more, and even putting US troops as “peacekeepers” in Ukraine. But, against Iran? Protecting Israel? Nope. The same Iran who funds terrorist groups who kill Americans. I’m sure there will be plenty more pieces Blaming Trump.

And, yes, I do not want a big war in the Middle East. But, I doubt it will take long to bomb Iran to oblivion. It won’t be WWIII. No one else except terrorist groups will join in on Iran’s side.

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Your Fault: San Francisco’s Fog Could Maybe Possibly Disappear

By William Teach June 13, 2025 – 7:00 am

It would be a real shame, because the fog hides the poop and drug needles in the streets

A fog-free San Francisco? Scientists ponder California’s climate future

As most of the U.S. sweltered in mid-July 2022 ? when temperatures in many major cities reached the high 90s and even triple digits ? a national weather map showed San Francisco topping out at 65 degrees.

It was just a typical foggy summer day in the city by the bay, which averaged 62 degrees that month, about the same as the next two Julys.

Now the advent of climate change raises the question of whether summertime visitors will stop rushing out to buy sweatshirts upon arrival and instead feel perfectly comfortable in shorts and T-shirts.

The future of San Francisco’s iconic fog has been debated in media stories during recent years, and some experts note a diminished cloud cover along the California coast that could lead to a warming trend.

But few if any detect signs that San Francisco’s summer chill is going away like the once-celebrated Fog City Diner, which shut down at the end of May.

Um, what? What does the closing have to do with anything? The owners never gave a reason why they closed. It probably had something to do with being near the area of SF where everything was closing, because it was too filthy and too dangerous.

“From the data, I can’t foresee it any time soon,’’ said Rachel Clemesha, a project scientist with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, who studies the state’s coastal climate. “There are years when there’s more or less cloud cover. The last couple of years have been within that range. It is a very foggy place, so it would be very dramatic to get you a fog-free city.’’

So, paragraph six says there was no need for the article at all.

Peter Weiss, a faculty researcher and lecturer at the UC Santa Cruz department of environmental sciences, said that despite a growing narrative of waning fog along the California coast, the data to support it is “very spotty,’’ with few academic studies in the past decade.

So, it’s all a big nothingburger

“Under climate change, we know the land is warming much faster than the ocean, so that temperature difference across the land and ocean interface is increasing, which could drive stronger winds, which could help preserve this cloudiness,’’ Faloona said. “So there are two arguments you could make about what we theoretically think should happen, and which one’s winning out I think is still an open scientific question.’’

Sara Baguskas, an assistant professor at San Francisco State University with a specialty in coastal fog, said the lack of conclusive evidence that it’s ebbing should not induce complacency but rather stimulate funding to study and predict its patterns.

No data, but, plenty of fearmongering.

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Bummer: DHS Starts Terminating Those On Biden’s TPS

By William Teach June 13, 2025 – 6:45 am

There’s a reason it’s called temporary protected status: it’s temporary, hence, those on CHNV, most of whom were given extensions by the Brandon admin, will need to go home

DHS Begins Terminating Biden’s Migrant Parole Scheme, Warns Illegal Aliens They Should Self-Deport

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has started terminating former President Joe Biden’s mass migration parole pipeline, warning illegal aliens they ought to self-deport from the United States.

On Thursday, DHS officials announced that Biden’s parole migrants had started receiving termination notices informing them that their parole and work permits had been revoked, effective immediately.

In March, the Trump administration announced that DHS would revoke the legal status of more than 530,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela who were allowed into the United States interior via a Biden-era parole pipeline known as the CHNV program.

Two Soros-linked groups sought to stop the Trump administration, but the Supreme Court ruled that DHS could move forward with ending the program.

The programs were pretty much scheduled to end, so, it is time to go home

DHS is urging the parole migrants to self-deport from the United States, advertising that those using the CBP Home phone application will receive cost-free travel out of the country and a $1,000 bonus once they have proved they self-deported.

Similarly, this week, DHS announced that illegal aliens who self-deport using the mobile app will be forgiven for any civil penalties or fines that they incurred from being illegally in the United States.

Of course, the really bad ones, whom were pretty much barely checked by the Biden admin, will need to be escorted out.

Meanwhile, the citizens, even the Dem voters, in the People’s Republik Of California might not quite be on the side of the politicians supporting the riots and illegals, such as Gavin

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Say, Why Are The Mostly Peaceful Rioters Targeting Waymos?

By William Teach June 12, 2025 – 3:08 pm

This is very bad for the environment, you know

Why Waymos Have Been Vandalized by Protesters

As protesters and police clash across Los Angeles and beyond, a striking image from the mayhem has been that of graffiti-strewn white cars engulfed in flames.

But these aren’t ordinary cars. They’ve got sensors protruding from the top and sides—and, critically, they’ve got no drivers.

Waymo, a robotaxi company, found itself at the center of the demonstrations against the Trump Administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids after a group of protesters over the weekend, according to the Los Angeles Times, approached a parked row of the autonomous vehicles and smashed their windows, slashed their tires, spray-painted them with anti-ICE slogans, and set them on fire.

While eye-catching, the trend is also extremely dangerous. Electric vehicles, like those in Waymo’s fleet, have lithium-ion batteries, and in a post on X, the L.A. Police Department warned: “Burning lithium-ion batteries release toxic gases, including hydrogen fluoride, posing risks to responders and those nearby.” According to Scientific American, first responders exposed to the fumes of burnt lithium-ion batteries without protection historically “have developed throat burns and breathing difficulties upon arriving,” and, depending on the hydrogen fluoride levels, individuals can start coughing up blood within minutes of exposure.

So…….EVs are dangerous and bad for the environment? Huh. Who knew!

Anyhow, why are they being targeted by the hardcore lefties, who are surely members of the climate cult?

The Wall Street Journal reported that part of the reason the cars were vandalized was to obstruct traffic—a traditional, albeit controversial, protest tactic.

Some social media users have suggested that self-driving vehicles in particular have become a new target because they are seen by protesters as “part of the police surveillance state.”

Waymo’s cars are equipped with cameras that provide a 360-degree view of their surroundings, a tool that has been tapped by law enforcement, according to reports.

True? Or, just burned because they happened to be there, and the Democrat base is inherently violent and destructive?

“There are people on here saying it’s violent and domestic terrorism to set a Waymo car on fire,” racial justice organizer Samuel Sinyangwe posted on X. “A robot car? Are you going to demand justice for the robot dogs next? But not the human beings repeatedly shot with rubber bullets in the street? What kind of politics is this?”

“There is no human element to Waymo,” climate and labor organizer Elise Joshi similarly posted on X. “It’s expensive and bought-out politicians are using it as an excuse to defund public transit. I pray on Waymo’s downfall.”

I bet you they’d feel different if it was their own property. Also, I wonder how often Elise takes public transit?

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 12, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a world killing dog, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on Thursday tanlines.

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