Surprise: Climate (scam) Czar John Kerry Hides All Names Of Employees

By William Teach January 9, 2024 – 3:00 pm

It’s not a heck of a lot of money in government terms, but, these are government employees, not secret police

John Kerry’s Climate office costs taxpayers $4.3M a year, yet he refuses to divulge names

John Kerry climateJet-setting climate czar John Kerry doles out six-figure salaries to all but one lone “policy analyst” in his office who just misses the lofty mark in the first public records release to the Herald from the notoriously secretive presidential envoy.

It’s a rare glimpse into Kerry’s fiefdom that hits up taxpayers for $4.3 million in pay per year, according to records obtained using the Freedom of Information Act.

Kerry, however, does not reveal the names of anyone on his staff and redacts the titles of eight top aides paid up to $186,680 a year.

The 27 entries include brief titles — from “policy analyst” to “senior advisor” — and bi-weekly pay. It’s unclear if Kerry is on the list. Kerry’s Climate website does list Rick Duke and Sue Biniaz as as deputy special envoys, yet the FOIA release does not.

An equally reticent State Department told the Herald they “considered the foreseeable harm standard” in exempting names of government employees and some titles.

That standard did not stop former Labor Secretary Marty Walsh from sharing his staff names, titles, and pay this summer. Walsh, the former mayor of Boston now NHL Players’ Union executive director, earned $203,100 as Labor Secretary.

Pretty much every other federal employee is named, excepting certain intelligence agency employees, like those for the CIA, DIA, and NSA. Are we equating these employees the same as intelligence employees?

James Rosenbaum, branch chief of Statutory Compliance for the State Department, cites the exemption that argues adding names of Kerry’s employees “would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of an individual’s personal privacy.”

Federal government watchdog Michael Chamberlain, director of Protect the Public’s Trust, said it all is in lockstep with Kerry’s disdain for transparency.

“Once again, the lack of transparency from John Kerry’s secretive State Department Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate is not only stunning but, sadly, par for the course,” said Chamberlain.

“What little information this document does reveal is that the median salary of folks who work for him hovers around $170,000 per year. And what does the American public get for that?” he added, saying that Kerry’s “disturbing level of influence on foreign policy to powerful left-leaning special interests” should not go unchecked.

This also makes it a lot harder to track where all the other money for this group is going to. What are they spending, and spending it on? Not just salaries. What deals and such are they negotiating with other countries that we know nothing about? What are they doing overall? We do not know. It’s all secret. Why?

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 9, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…is a ski resort that will soon have no snow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Da Techguy’s Blog, with a post on COVID for the 2024 election.

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Voters Are Totally Worried About “Losing Our Democracy” In New Hampshire Or Something

By William Teach January 9, 2024 – 10:30 am

USA Today is super excited about this being a bad thing for Donald Trump, coming from third least diverse state in the U.S., one which is not being over-run by illegal aliens and crime like other Democrat run states

Exclusive: It’s not the economy, stupid. In NH, democracy is the top issue for Dems, independents

For Democratic and independent voters in New Hampshire this year, the most important issue facing the United States isn’t the economy, the sort of kitchen-table quandaries that more often than not determine presidential elections.

It’s the future of democracy.

A new USA TODAY/Boston Globe/Suffolk University Poll two weeks before the Granite State’s pivotal primary finds half of Democrats (49%) and nearly three in 10 independents (29%) rank that solemn and even philosophical issue well above such concrete concerns as health care or crime ? defying the conventional political wisdom of decades, “It’s the economy, stupid.”

The survey was taken amid a series of stress tests for the nation’s democratic institutions, including a federal appeals court hearing slated for Tuesday to consider whether Donald Trump should be immune from criminal prosecution for actions he took while president. A few weeks later, the Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments in a case that considers whether Trump can be bumped off state ballots because of a constitutional ban on insurrectionists.

On Monday, President Joe Biden delivered his second speech in four days on concerns about democracy and freedom, speaking from the pulpit of the historic Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., site of mass shooting by a white nationalist.

Democracy is doomed is Biden’s theme for the election, provided he doesn’t get replaced, because he looked lost before, during, and after the speech. And then he left in his 28 fossil fueled vehicle motorcade.

“It’s really just all morphed into saving democracy,” Christine Hayes, 50, a nurse from Rochester, N.H., said in a follow-up interview after being called in the survey. An independent, she plans to vote for former UN ambassador Nikki Haley in the Republican primary and then President Joe Biden in the general election. “We need democracy to be protected in this world, and so that then we can fight for reproductive freedom, so that we can work on climate change, so that we can have conversations.

Well, it just shows that there are a bunch of morons who vote Democrat, not know we are a federal republic, and advocating for ever increasing governmental power, especially at the federal level

Overall, from a list of nine issues, democracy was chosen by 30% as the most important, followed by immigration by 24% and the economy by 17%. No other issue broke into double digits.

Realistically, Trump will not win New Hampshire for the general election. Not even close. Democrats have won the last 5, and 7 of the last 8. Though, Trump did make it close in 2016. New Hampshire’s motto is “Live Free Or Die”, yet, they are advocating more governmental control over their lives. What Trump needs to stop doing is his revenge tour schtick, drop the smears and insults, and focus on the issues. Focus on solutions. And turn the “democracy is doomed” meme from Biden and his Democrat Comrades around. Tell people how Biden’s version of Democracy means more and more governmental control of their lives.

Take EVs, for instance. Trump could talk about how they are the future, but, that it should be the choice of individual citizens to get one, not the federal and state governments forcing citizens to get one.

But, Trump won’t. Which is the danger. He hasn’t changed his campaign style since 2016. He hasn’t learned.

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NYC Youts Demand City Speed Up Retrofitting Schools For Global Boiling

By William Teach January 9, 2024 – 7:00 am

I’m just wondering if those students are paying property and income taxes, along with lots of sales tax, which primarily funds the schools?

Students say NYC school buildings need a climate change

A group of New York City teens are launching a campaign urging Mayor Eric Adams to speed up plans to retrofit school buildings to make them safer, healthier and more climate-friendly.

The teens – part of a student-led environmental coalition called TREEage – are asking peers across the city to post videos to social media about why their schools urgently need green energy upgrades. The group is also asking students to grade how green their school is from A to F.

Zuzu Qadeer, a student at Beacon High School, has already submitted a video highlighting problems at their school.

They said polluted air from a taxi garage next to the school has caused the building’s basement to have such poor air quality that it had to be evacuated 18 times last year. Students have complained of headaches and nausea due to the fumes.

Well, that’s understandable. And has zero to do with ‘climate change’. What do the students recommend be done? They aren’t. Complaining without ideas is called whining.

In October 2022 the Adams administration announced a $4 billion plan to begin retrofitting 100 schools to all-electric heating and build only electricity-powered new school buildings by 2030. The mayor also pledged to end the use of polluting No. 4 heating oil in schools and upgrade hundreds of lights to LED bulbs.

Where’s that money coming from?

Kathryn Gioiosa is a sophomore at CUNY and co-executive director of TREE-age, said those initiatives are “a good starting point … but it’s definitely not enough.”

Before CUNY, Gioiosa attended Forest Hills High School. She said during her time there the school had issues with lead in the water. In the winter, the heat was too high, and in the summer there wasn’t enough air conditioning. She ran track right next to traffic on Grand Central Parkway.

Again, that has nothing to do with climate doom. Perhaps if the city wasn’t spending so much money on illegal aliens and driving away businesses and all their tax revenue?

She noted that students her age and younger have been feeling the climate crisis even more intensely after smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed the city last spring and torrential rains flooded commutes this fall. She hopes the social media campaign will help students elevate the issues at their individual schools and connect with each other.

It’s always easy to spend Someone Else’s money, eh?

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Sanctuary City New Jersey Looks To Restrict Buses Bringing Illegals From Texas

By William Teach January 9, 2024 – 6:45 am

First it was the mayor of Sanctuary City Chicago, then the mayor of Sanctuary City New York, now we have a governor failing to understand what interstate commerce means, who is allowed to regulate it, and the Constitutional right to travel

New Jersey Gov Seeks To Restrict Bus Companies Used By Greg Abbott For Migrant Transports

Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy sent a letter to bus companies used by Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to transport migrants, seeking to restrict their arrivals to his state.

The charter buses have been arriving in New Jersey after Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams signed an executive order to require they provide 32-hour notice of their arrivals and subsequently sued bus companies over the transports. Murphy asked that the bus companies provide the same amount of notice, number of passengers, location and other details regarding the transports and their arrivals and departures.

“As we continue to see more migrants arrive to our state at the hands of the Governor of Texas, who is reportedly funding the passengers’ transportation with taxpayer funds, notice to New Jersey officials in advance of these individuals’ anticipated arrival is critical to ensuring the health and safety of passengers once they arrive in New Jersey,” Murphy said in a statement Monday.

“Additionally, because we know the vast majority of these individuals are intending to travel to New York City, this information will be shared with our colleagues across the Hudson to ensure the passengers’ health and safety there,” Murphy added.

Well, it’s softer than the others, without all the threats, but, I’m wondering, by what right does SSNJ think they can dictate these terms for a private charter? And why should anyone notify SSNJ, when border states are not notified? Or all the small towns around the country who are the recipients of illegals/migrants dropped off by the Biden Regime?

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Huge Winter Storms Are Your Fault, You Know

By William Teach January 8, 2024 – 3:00 pm

How dare you!

Huge storms highlight ‘very weird’ winters in climate change era. ‘From a selfish side it’s like kind of nice to not have snow’

stop global warmingA major winter storm bringing heavy snow and freezing rain to some communities spread across New England on Sunday, sending residents scurrying for their shovels and snowblowers to clear sidewalks and driveways.

Winter storm warnings and watches were in effect throughout the Northeast, and icy roads made for hazardous travel as far south as North Carolina.

The Northeast snow came as a Sierra Nevada storm packing heavy snow shut down a stretch of interstate Saturday and briefly knocked out power to tens of thousands in Reno, Nevada.

More than 11,000 electric customers in California were without power Sunday afternoon.

Some communities in Massachusetts had recorded more than a foot (30 centimeters) of snow by Sunday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. Nearly 13,000 electric customers in the state were without power Sunday afternoon.

The entire article by the Associate Press, all 26 paragraphs, is primarily just reiterating what happened with the storm, except for

“I think it’s funny because everyone’s been freaking out about it,” said Alison Conley, 26, a consultant. “We’ve been betting as to how much snow we’re actually going to have and it’s looking like not that much is going to stick.”

Conley, who was out walking her dog Sunny, said the possibility that climate change is contributing to relatively warmer winter days in the region — the temperature in Boston is expected to be in the 50s on Wednesday, melting much of the snow — is a concern.

That’s it. This is the AP’s proof of “”very weird” winters”. Because science.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 8, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible fossil fueled vehicles causing heatsnow, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Greatness, with a post on a culture in collapse.

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Small Wisconsin Town Complains About Inflow Of Illegals

By William Teach January 8, 2024 – 10:30 am

For a chance, Whitewater, Wisconsin, is not a sanctuary city (or is it?). This town of 14K Americans is now over-run. Greg Abbott wasn’t shipping the illegals there, so, who did?

Wisconsin city asks Biden for help with 1,000 migrants that put ‘great strain’ on resources

Americans before illegalsA small city in Wisconsin is appealing to the White House for help with the influx of approximately 1,000 migrants who have come in since 2022, with issues ranging from housing to crime affecting the small community.

City leaders of Whitewater, Wisconsin, have prepared a letter to President Biden, saying they have seen a “rapid increase in the population of immigrants arriving from Nicaragua and Venezuela.”

“Each individual has a different reason for coming here; some are fleeing from a corrupt government, others are simply looking for a better opportunity to prosper. Regardless of the individual situations, these people need resources like anyone else, and their arrival has put great strain on our existing resources,” the letter, led by Police Chief Dan Meyer, states, according to Wisconsin Radio Network.

Well, that sounds like the city approves of all the illegals, they just want lots of money, because, surprise, services for actual taxpaying citizens is strained.

They note that some of the migrants are in the country illegally, while others are not.

“As a municipal government, our focus is not on legal status, but rather ensuring we are providing the resources expected of a municipality to all residents of the City. Unfortunately, we are increasingly finding it difficult to do that,” the letter adds.

So, if the city is not going to do anything about those there illegally, then they are a de-facto sanctuary city

“Finally, our law enforcement staff have responded to a number of serious crimes linked to immigrants in some manner, including the death of an infant child, multiple sexual assaults and a kidnapping.”

This is what you get with unfettered immigration, regardless of whether they came illegally or showed up at the border demanding asylum at which point the Biden regime let them in and shipped them off. The proper response is to arrest the illegals and deport them, and require all asylum seekers to apply outside the U.S.

Meanwhile, the mayor of Sanctuary City Chicago says Texas shipping illegals/migrants to Sanctuary City Chicago is “evil-spirited”

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Youts May Abandon Biden Over The ‘Climate Change’ Issue Of The Gaza War

By William Teach January 8, 2024 – 7:00 am

No, no, this is definitely not a cult, how dare you suggest that!

Young voters helped Biden to victory. They may abandon him this year

Elise Joshi stumped for Joe Biden as a college freshman, motivated in no small part by her sense of urgency about climate change. The environmental policy student campaigned before the 2020 election as part of TikTok for Biden, in hopes of persuading other young people to show up to the polls. (snip)

But as the Israeli bombing of Gaza has killed more than 22,000 Palestinians to date, Joshi is feeling disillusioned with the president she once “happily” voted for. She’s not alone. With US military support for Israel holding steady, Joshi says that the White House’s current handling of the situation in Palestine is alienating young people – the very demographic Biden will need to win re-election in 2024.

“My generation is appalled. There’s a lot of people who are not willing to put their votes towards this administration as a result of their actions in Gaza,” she said. (big snip and here we go)

While many big green groups and climate-focused news organizations in the US have been slow to address Israeli attacks on Gaza, the youth climate movement globally has overwhelmingly expressed solidarity with Palestinians, and staunchly rejected the idea that criticizing the actions of the Israeli government is inherently antisemitic. From Greta Thunberg posting a picture of herself holding a “Stand with Gaza” sign to activists at COP28 staging pro-Palestine rallies, climate-focused youth have made clear that they see the war as an environmental justice issue.

For climate activists used to raising the alarm about the ways that climate change is causing displacement and forced migration, increasing food and water insecurity and ravaging beloved landscapes and ecosystems, it’s not hard to draw a parallel to the way that Israel’s bombing is having the same impacts on Gaza and its inhabitants. That’s not to mention the emissions associated with military operations, nor the symbolic connection many environmentalists, whom some call “tree huggers”, might feel to Palestinians who have been photographed hugging olive trees after their orchards were attacked by Israeli settlers.

Yes, yes the climate cultists are expressly linking the war that the designated terrorist group Hamas started with the climate crisis (scam).

“We are a nonviolent movement that is fighting for the safety and well-being of all people in their communities,” said Michele Weindling, the political director of the Sunrise Movement. “We feel a direct link and a stake in what’s happening in Gaza in that we believe that no people should lose access to life-sustaining resources like water.”

And their wacko cultish beliefs have made them side with a terrorist group, which would do terrible things to the cult members with their beliefs in LBGTQ, feminism, abortion, and many other things. None of them dare go there. Have you noticed that none are showing up to be human shields, like happened 20 years ago?

If Biden wants to lure more young people back to the voting booth come November, he may still have time to course-correct, the young activists said, but he needs to act decisively, and soon.

“The first step toward preventing a Trump administration is calling for a ceasefire right now,” said Joshi. “Climate voters and voters that care about Palestinians – they’re one and the same.”

Wackjobs.

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Fears Of Tripledemic Are Surging Or Something

By William Teach January 8, 2024 – 6:45 am

The Credentialed Media and their authoritarian lockdown Comrades are still trying to make this happen

Why fears over a ‘tripledemic’ are surging

Cases of three major respiratory viruses — the flu, COVID-19 and RSV — are surging in the U.S., pushing the country toward a feared “tripledemic” during its first post-pandemic respiratory viral season.

Optimism was high this autumn as the U.S. headed into the viral season. The national arsenal against these viruses had vaccines against RSV for the first time, newly updated COVID-19 vaccines, and the flu “immunity debt” that plagued children in 2022 was history.

But now, confidence is waning. Accessing the vaccine for RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, has been a struggle for many, and enthusiasm for the new COVID-19 vaccines turned out to be abysmal. COVID-19 hospital admissions have been rising since November and wastewater detection indicates most sites — 69 percent — are seeing large increases in virus levels.

Flu activity across the country is currently “elevated and continues to increase in most parts of the country,” according to the latest update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And vaccine uptake for the flu seems to be lagging, with the CDC saying nearly 8 million fewer people got the shot by mid-December compared to the same period in 2022.

Most do not care. COVID was just the flu for most people. The flu happens. RSV is a concern, but, because of they way The Powers That Be pushed COVID vaccines there is low trust in them. Most are not getting the COVID vaccine, because it doesn’t work. It does not stop people from getting COVID, which is the point of a vaccine. I get the flu vaccine every year (I got the RSV one at same time, giving it a shot, no pun intended) because it stops me from getting what they think will be the prevalent flu versions. COVID is no big deal for most people, just like the flu is no big deal. You feel bad for a time, then move on. You are more likely to spread the flu or a cold from touching stuff than COVID.

Only about a fifth of U.S. adults say they’ve received the newest COVID-19 shot, according to polling from KFF. Uptake for the previous bivalent shots was similarly low and many Americans likely haven’t been immunized since receiving their first doses in 2020 or 2021.

I suspect the actual numbers are lower. They should ask those some people around 6 months later if they contracted Wuhan Flu.

And RSV vaccine uptake among seniors appears rather lackluster, with CDC data suggesting only about 10 percent of nursing home residents had gotten immunized against the virus by mid-December.

“The numbers are not looking good,” said Marcus Plescia, chief medical officer for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, of the three circulating viruses.

People do not trust it, because the Bat Soup Virus “vaccine” destroyed trust. I only got mine because I was getting the flu shot because I was at the doctors for what turned out to be a ear and chest infection, they had RSV, I said “why not?”

Masking has also become rare once again, though Plescia noted many hospital systems are bringing back mask requirements amid the rise in respiratory viruses. These hospital-enacted requirements may be more easily accepted by communities than those issued by the government, and Plescia expects to see more like them in the future.

Even though they know that the masks make little to no difference. How do we trust them? But, folks will still try and scaremonger, because scared people are easily controlled by government.

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