IDF Forces A Whole Bunch Of Hamas Members To Surrender

By William Teach December 8, 2023 – 7:00 am

At least 150 of them felt pretty good when they were attacking civilians, but, when it’s an actual fighting force?

Footage shows numerous Gaza terror suspects who apparently surrendered to IDF troops

Several clips and photos circulating on social media Thursday showed dozens of Palestinians rounded up by the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza after apparently surrendering to troops, as the military pressed its campaign in the territory.

The men, suspected of involvement with Hamas and other terror groups, were seen stripped down to their underwear, blindfolded, and with their hands tied behind their backs, being held by Israeli troops in Palestine Square in Gaza City, in Jabaliya, and in other areas in the northern Strip.

In one clip, a group was seen being transported in the back of Israeli military vehicles.

IDF Spokesperson Daniel Hagari appeared to confirm in his evening briefing that the men had surrendered to the army, in response to a question on the matter.

Raping, torturing, and killing unarmed women and babies is easy, makes them feel tough. Then they face armed soldiers

Of course, all the Hamas supporters and Jew haters are claiming these men are actually civilians, some dragged out of schools (you know, the schools hiding Hamas weapons and control centers). If they’d all surrender and release the hostages unharmed this could all end.

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Surprise: UN Climate Scientists Demand Power To Implement Whatever The Hell They Want

By William Teach December 7, 2023 – 3:00 pm

I remember back in 2004 and for quite a bit after that people said I was nuts to focus on the authoritarian politics of anthropogenic global warming, which was redubbed ‘climate change’. They said “this is about science, and the Warmists say it is mostly/solely caused by Mankind, and we say it’s not.” I said “it doesn’t matter causation, the global left is using the issue to attempt to force their Stateism on everyone. It’s about power, just like most things from the left. They will force you to comply.” And here we have more proof

We need power to prescribe climate policy, IPCC scientists say

Senior climate experts are calling for an overhaul of the structure and powers of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in despair at the slow pace of climate action.

Five lead authors of IPCC reports told the Guardian that scientists should be given the right to make policy prescriptions and, potentially, to oversee their implementation by the 195 states signed up to the UN framework convention on climate change (UNFCCC).

Their call came after it emerged that the United Arab Emirates had been planning to use its position as Cop28 host to strike oil and gas deals .

Sonia Seneviratne, an IPCC vice-chair and coordinating lead author since 2012, said: “At some point we need to say that if you want to achieve this aim set by policymakers then certain policies need to be implemented.

“As climate change becomes worse and worse, it is becoming more difficult to be policy relevant without being prescriptive.”

Let’s go to the dictionary

A prescriptive approach to something involves telling people what they should do, rather than simply giving suggestions or describing what is done.

Do you need more evidence as to what this is really about?

Gert-Jan Nabuurs, a coordinating lead author on three IPCC reports, said: “The IPCC’s critical, independent and guiding roles seem to be less and less evident. As they decline, countries seem to be exerting a larger and larger influence.”

The problem for authors was that “we can’t be policy prescriptive, so we can’t make hard statements on what should be done”, he said.

How dare countries have their own policies. Kinda gives the One World Government folks something to hang their hat on, eh? The Left is not really on the left of the political scale: the further left you go the less government. These folks are to the far, far right, wanting dictatorial government.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 7, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is hazy day due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Theo Spark, with a post on a cartoon roundup.

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USA Today Worries Biden’s Support Of Israel Could Cost Him 2024

By William Teach December 7, 2023 – 10:30 am

Why is Biden supporting Israel over the terrorist supporting Palestinians? Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt and say he knows who the good guys are and who the bad guys are

Biden’s seemingly one-sided support of Israel could cost him the election in 2024

President Joe Biden’s reelection prospects could be tied to how Democrats – in particular progressives – and Arab and Muslim Americans view his performance during and after the Israel-Hamas war that erupted on Oct. 7.

While Arabs and Muslims in this country have all along been supportive of Palestinians, mainstream Democrats have become more sympathetic to Palestinians than Israelis only over the past decade.

These voters have been angered by Biden’s seemingly one-sided support of Israel and his refusal to call for a permanent cease-fire in the fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

The majority of those supported Biden’s presidential bid in 2020.

So the choice is between supporting Israel, an ally and a nation that is continually attacked by Islamic terrorists with the stated goal of kicking out all Jews and turning it into a caliphate, or the people that want to turn it into a caliphate?

Based on an analysis by The Washington Post, “Biden’s handling of the war threatens to diminish enthusiasm for him among young voters ahead of the 2024 election.”

These are Generation Z (born between 1997 and 2012) and millennial voters (born between 1981 and 1986). If we are to combine those voters with Arab and Muslim American voters as well as progressives, Biden could lose his reelection bid.

Another survey from Democratic pollster Lake Research Partners, found that only 16% of Arab and Muslim Democrats in the key swing state of Michigan would vote for Biden if the presidential election were held today, according to NBC News.

But, will they really stay home and not vote for Biden and, by extension, the other Democrats on the ballot? Or just vote for the other Democrats and not Biden? Will they push to replace Biden with someone friendlier to Islamic extremists? Will Biden do something like bring in a ton of Palestinians “refugees”, including those who support a State Department designated terrorist organization, to shore up his support? I have my doubts. Democrats will get out and vote for their candidates no matter what. Especially if Trump is his opponent.

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Episcopals Super Excited To Force Other People To Be Part Of Climate Cult

By William Teach December 7, 2023 – 7:00 am

Is it allowable for Protestant denominations to worship God and also be part of a cult?

Episcopal delegates share, seek solutions at UN conference to solve climate change crisis

St. GretaThe United Nations is six days into its annual climate change conference, and Episcopal delegates have been busy advocating for stronger public and private actions to help solve the global climate crisis.

Since Nov. 30, a record 90,000 registered world leaders, policymakers, climate scientists, activists, corporate executives and interfaith representatives have been participating in the 28th U.N. Conference of Parties of the Framework Convention on Climate Change, or simply, COP28. Of the 21 Episcopal delegates participating on behalf of Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, nine of them are attending the conference in person. The remaining 12 delegates are participating virtually. COP28, underway in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, will conclude on Dec. 12.

Wait, 90K? I remember the days just 15 years ago when it was only about 10K. And, how did these 9 delegates travel to Dubai?

Susie Faria, policy analyst for the church’s Washington, D.C.-based Office of Government Relations, is traveling to Dubai to attend the second half of COP28 in person. She said she’ll be paying particular attention to what U.S. State Department officials and members of Congress attending the conference will say.

“I’m going to be keeping an eye on what the United States is doing … and then seeing how we can then find out the middle ground between what they speak on, and then what the church believes in, and working towards helping shape policy to reflect those goals ultimately,” she told Episcopal News Service.

Shouldn’t the church be focusing on Bible stuff, not a cult?

COP28 is the first conference to include a faith pavilion, where participants can engage in faith-based sessions with stakeholders, political delegations and other leaders to promote climate action. The Episcopal Diocese of California is one of more than 50 faith organizations that collaborated to establish the faith pavilion.

Oh, good, more religions forgetting what they’re about, buying into what the cult is selling.

Episcopal delegate Logan Crews, a seminarian at Yale Divinity School who served this summer as an Episcopal Church Ecojustice Fellow, will virtually participate in the second half of COP28. Crews told ENS he’s particularly interested in joining any event that involves young people’s voices.

“I think that the other delegates and I have a sense of urgency that is severely lacking in a lot of places within environmental justice work and climate work,” Crews said. “Everyone who is paying any attention to COP28 hopefully has an understanding that the climate is unraveling at a speed that we’re struggling to catch up with — and hopefully they know that that’s a big concern for humanity — but I don’t think anyone knows it like the young people who are preparing for a long future ahead that is going to be marked by climate change like no other generation. I think that gives us a sense of urgency, a sense of responsibility that is slightly different.”

Essentially, they’re driving parishioners away by forgetting to worship God. It’s not even a case of “Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and to God what belongs to God.” They are giving what belongs to God to Caesar, ie, the climate cult and it’s links to Government.

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Israel Haters In UN Try And Force Ceasefire As Israel Finds Massive Hamas Weapons Stockpile

By William Teach December 7, 2023 – 6:45 am

And you’ll never guess where they found it….well, you probably can guess, since you know what the terrorists do

IDF finds one of the largest Gaza weapons stockpiles ever near school, hospital

The IDF engaged hundreds of Hamas terrorists and terror targets and discovered one of the largest weapons stockpiles ever found in the Gaza Strip over the past twenty-four hours the military said on Wednesday.

The IDF said that it had found one of the largest weapons stockpiles in the history of its operations in Gaza, an arsenal containing hundreds of missiles, launchers, long-range rockets, anti-tank missiles, UAVs, and explosives.

The massive weapons cache was located near a hospital and a school, the IDF reported. (snip)

The IDF stated that all of the ordnance was found in the vicinity of densely populated civilian areas, citing the discovery as “further evidence of the cynical use that the Hamas terrorist organization makes of the residents of the Gaza Strip as human shields.”

So, of course the UN chief does this

The head of the United Nations has invoked a “rarely used” rule in an attempt to avert a “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza.

In a Dec. 6 letter, Secretary-General António Guterres invoked Article 99 of the U.N. Charter, which allows him to refer urgent matters to the Security Council, made up of member states.

It is the first time Guterres, a Portuguese diplomat, has used the article since he took office in 2017.

“Since the start of Israel’s military operation, more than 15,000 people have reportedly been killed, over 40 percent of whom were children,” Guterres wrote in the letter addressed to the Security Council.

“Facing a severe risk of collapse of the humanitarian system in Gaza, I urge the Council to help avert a humanitarian catastrophe (and) appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire to be declared,” Guterres added.

So, who would vote for this? Would the US, Canada, UK, or France? China and Russia would most likely vote against Israel. Japan may well vote in Israel’s favor. Same with Switzerland. But, what about the rest, being Albania, Brazil, Ecuador, Gabon, Ghana, Malta, Mozambique, and the United Arab Emirates? And, if there are enough votes to demand a ceasefire, and none of the permanent members squash it, will Israel say “piss off”?

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Good News: $7.5 Billion Results In Exactly Zero EV Chargers Built

By William Teach December 6, 2023 – 3:00 pm

I didn’t expect much, but, I expected at least a few built. Mostly in low income areas where no one car afford an EV

Congress provided $7.5B for electric vehicle chargers. Built so far: Zero.

electric vehicleCongress at the urging of the Biden administration agreed in 2021 to spend $7.5 billion to build tens of thousands of electric vehicle chargers across the country, aiming to appease anxious drivers while tackling climate change.

Two years later, the program has yet to install a single charger.

States and the charger industry blame the delays mostly on the labyrinth of new contracting and performance requirements they have to navigate to receive federal funds. While federal officials have authorized more than $2 billion of the funds to be sent to states, fewer than half of states have even started to take bids from contractors to build the chargers — let alone begin construction.

Consumer demand for electric vehicles is rising in the United States, necessitating six times as many chargers on its roads by the end of the decade, according to federal estimates. But not a single charger funded by the bipartisan infrastructure law has come online and odds are they will not be able to start powering Americans’ vehicles until at least 2024.

Is anyone surprised in the least about all the bureaucratic BS that’s slowing this down? Meanwhile, Tesla started work on a bunch of chargers in Knightdale, NC out near the Lowe’s Foods, and it only took them less than a month. Perhaps there aren’t enough kickbacks being paid out?

Getting chargers up and running across the country is essential to reaching President Joe Biden’s goal of having half the vehicles sold in the United States be electric by the end of the decade — a key cog of his climate agenda. Americans consistently say the lack of charging infrastructure is one of the top reasons they won’t buy an electric car.

I suspect that even if there were enough chargers the sales would still lag, because most are not interested. Heck, even Joe doesn’t drive one. Nor do all those in his giant convoys. Kamala isn’t traveling in one, nor most of the high end, rich Warmists

In a June study, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory projected the U.S. will need 1.2 million public chargers by 2030 to meet charging demand, including 182,000 fast chargers.

Administration officials insist the pace at which they are rolling out the infrastructure law’s charging funds is to be expected, given the difficulty of creating a brand-new program in every state and marshaling the private sector to meet complex reliability and performance requirements for each federally-funded station.

Is that like how they were going to get the high speed train in California built quick, and now it is about a decade behind and costs over $100 billion more? Speaking of trains

Why would most go to Richmond from Raleigh? I cannot think of one time I said “hey, I think I’ll go to Richmond!” I might be willing to take it to D.C., lots of cool things to see and do there, besides being mugged. And, hey, you can’t be carjacked if you do not have a car, right? I always take the metro and walk around when I visit there, sometimes a bus. Usually stay in Arlington. But, Richmond? And you know it will end up costing tens of billions and never, ever, come anywhere close to breaking even.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 6, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is an area turned to desert from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell…, with a post on your feel good stories.

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PRC Cancels Christmas Tree Lighting Over Pro-Hamas Protests

By William Teach December 6, 2023 – 10:30 am

Funny how it’s necessary to cancel events because of threats from the religion of peace and their Useful Idiot supporters

California Gov. Gavin Newsom Cancels Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony over Pro-Palestinian Protests

Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom canceled a Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the state capitol on Tuesday due to pro-Palestinian protests.

Newsom made the move for fear of the safety of children and families that would be present at the ceremony. Last month, for instance, a cadre of pro-Palestinian protesters overwhelmed security at the California Democratic Convention. Pro-Palestinian groups had planned to descend on the tree lighting ceremony in the same way they did the Rockefeller Center ceremony in New York City last week.

A spokesperson for the governor said that Newsom will hold a virtual ceremony and distribute a pre-recorded version on Wednesday.

“As we continue to see protests across the country impacting the safety of events of all scales — and for the safety and security of all participating members and guests including children and families — the ceremony this year will be virtual,” the spokesperson said.

Wait, now he’s worried about children, as his party, and his state, supports showing kids trans porn and strippers? Anyhow, what does it say about Democratic Party supporters that he has to cancel the tree lighting because of “peaceful protesters”? Nothing good. Now, imagine the media response, and Gavin’s response, if it was a bunch of Jews, Christians, or Republicans that were going to protest.

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Climactivists Demand Fossil Fuels And After Taking Long Fossil Fueled Trips To Fossil Fueled Nation

By William Teach December 6, 2023 – 7:15 am

Not a one seems capable of processing their own hypocrisy

Activists demand end to fossil fuels at COP28 climate summit

Activists protested over the presence of the oil, gas and coal industry at the COP28 U.N. summit in Dubai on Tuesday, while demanding an end to the use of fossil fuels, which are the major source cause of climate change.

Several dozen activists called for “climate justice”, and carried banners that read “Just + Equitable, Fossil Fuel Phase Out, Stop Fueling the Fire” at the demonstrations, where participants were typically outnumbered by onlookers.

OK, let’s end the use of fossil fuels for the protesters. How will they get home?

While past U.N. climate talks have sparked huge protest rallies, including 2021’s COP26 in Glasgow and 2015’s COP21 in Paris, this year’s demonstrations have been muted in host United Arab Emirates, where freedom of expression is limited.

The U.N. and UAE are allowing pre-approved protests to take place at the COP28 venue and there have been none so far outside the site. Activists taking part in COP28 demonstrations have said they feel stifled and have commented on a lack of presence from any grassroots, local civil society.

“We want to demand an end to all fossil fuels, including abated and unabated,” Zimbabwean activist Lorraine Chiponda, 37, told Reuters after speaking at one of the demonstrations.

Will she be walking or riding a bike back to Zimbabwe?

Colombian activist Andres Gomez, 47, travelled from South America to take part in COP28. He said the transition had to be “equitable” which meant big polluters acting first.

Indigenous activist Thomas Joseph from California said he was worried that the fossil fuel industry was “leading the negotiations” towards a “business as usual” result.

Meanwhile, Filipino activist Jainno Congon, 24, said carbon capture technologies advocated by some were a “dangerous distraction” and a “fake solution” to tackle climate change.

How are they getting home? How’d they get there?

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