New “Report” Says Climate Doom Is A Health Emergency

By William Teach October 28, 2026 – 7:15 am

This is all about providing some gloom and doom ahead of the next UN IPCC in Turkey, the 9th thru 20th (where 50K+ will take fossil fueled trips), which, unusually, no one is talking about. Hey, maybe Turkey can be asked about the LGBT cruise ship that was blocked from docking a few months ago?

Climate change is a ‘global health emergency,’ new report says

climate doom yearly

Wait, I don’t have global heating on here?

When the Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015, then-President Barack Obama said, “This agreement represents the best chance we’ve had to save the one planet that we’ve got.”

But a decade later, a new report, led by University College London in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), finds that while progress has been made, many detrimental health indicators linked to climate change are moving in the wrong direction. The report’s authors are also warning that problems aren’t just increasing — they’re accelerating.

“A decade after the Paris Agreement, our findings are unambiguous: the health harms of climate change are growing faster than the world’s response to them, and in many cases even accelerating,” said Marina Romanello, a professor at University College London and the executive director of the Lancet Countdown in a statement.

So, what they’re saying is that the HISTORIC PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT!!!!!! was complete BS? That most of the countries failed to keep to their pledge? Huh.

The 2026 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change includes findings from 146 researchers at more than 100 institutions in more than 30 countries. Researchers found evidence that heat was linked, on average, to more than 540,000 estimated deaths per year from 2016, when the Paris Agreement went into effect, through 2023, the latest year with available data. The researchers attribute 68% of those fatalities to climate change.

First off, this is the same Lancet that had a complete BS study on civilian deaths in Iraq during the war. Second, this study is all about scaring politicians and political wonks to get them to institute taxes, fees, and more governmental control over the peasants. And more government money to the Lancet and climate cult groups.

The authors say countries and global institutions need to make climate and health a top priority and they call for cutting greenhouse gas emissions quickly and fairly to protect people’s health. In addition, the researchers recommend creating a shared pool of climate and health data that everyone can use and having wealthier countries provide more grants and low-interest loans.

“We have not really managed to tackle climate change 10 years after the Paris Agreement, and we’re seeing these escalating health harms that have made climate change now a very severe, very grave global health emergency that requires an urgent emergency response to be adequately addressed,” Romanello said.

More government.

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Scam Robberies Help Illegals Stay In US As “Crime Victims”

By William Teach October 28, 2026 – 7:00 am

Someone needs to go to jail for this

Hundreds of staged armed robberies helped thousands pose as crime victims in US immigration scam: DOJ

A “ringleader” has been sentenced and several other suspects charged in Illinois in connection with a widespread conspiracy to defraud the federal immigration system by helping noncitizens seek visa protections reserved for crime victims who assist law enforcement.

Parth Nayi of Illinois was sentenced Thursday to two years in federal prison for participating in hundreds of staged armed robberies at small businesses and eateries in and around Chicago and helping “coach” the supposed ” victims” through plans to apply for U visas in exchange for cash.

“[Nayi] was the main organizer and at the center of almost every single one of the hundreds of staged robberies that were perpetrated. [The] defendant significantly corrupted the federal U-Visa program, designed to provide a benefit to a particularly vulnerable group—foreign nationals who are victims of serious crimes while visiting the United States,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Saqib Mohammad Hussain wrote in the case’s sentencing memo.

Thousands of people posing as crime victims paid Nayi to participate in the scheme, prosecutors said.

They were paying $5K to $30K “so that they could later apply for Nonimmigrant U-Visas, which are set aside for foreign nationals who are victims of certain crimes and are helpful to law enforcement in the investigation.”

Alleged co-conspirators Bhikhabhai Patel, Nilesh Patel, Ravinaben Patel and Rajnikumar Patel reached out to Nayi to pose as victims of the staged robberies so they could apply for U visas, which were created under a 2000 law meant to protect trafficking victims and “battered immigrant women.”

Is Nayi even a US citizen? Looks like this is mostly going through the Indian culture.

“Defendant was the main organizer and at the center of almost every single one of the hundreds of staged robberies that were perpetrated,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Saqib Mohammad Hussain argued in the government’s sentencing memorandum.  “Defendant significantly corrupted the federal U Visa program, designed to provide a benefit to a particularly vulnerable group—foreign nationals who are victims of serious crimes while visiting the United States.”

Maybe that is something we shouldn’t have. Why are we giving away legal status because some was a victim of a crime here? Maybe there are too many workarounds.

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Huh: Study Shows Paper Straws Are Bad For The Environment

By William Teach October 27, 2026 – 3:00 pm

So, this means that the Enviroweenies/Warmists will make Everyone Else use metal ones

Paper straws worse for the environment than plastic ones: study

This scientific study might be the last straw.

A damning study out of South Korea has revealed that paper straws might actually be worse for the planet than plastic ones, especially when their life cycle is traced from the factory floor to the landfill.

The findings suck the air out of some long-winded environmental protests, which claimed for a decade that plastic straws were on par with toxic fumes or forest fires — and fought to make iced lattes nearly impossible to drink through a soggy, wilted tube of cardboard.

The research comes from South Korea’s Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment, which analyzed four types of straws — paper, plastic, biodegradable plastic, and sugarcane-based — across 16 environmental categories.

Traditional plastic straws showed the lowest environmental footprint in 10 of the 16 categories, including human toxicity, particulate matter, and overall climate change impact.

Meanwhile, paper straws were found to generate over six times more carcinogens than standard plastic, along with double the impact on environmental acidification.

OK, so what about the others?

As for “Bio-PE” straws — the kind made from renewable sources like sugarcane — they produced 16 times the carcinogenic impact of standard plastic straws, along with six times the acidification damage (the metric scientists use to measure changes in ocean and soil pH levels).

And, whoops, paper straws rarely get recycled. And paper straws often do not degrade well, either.

Confronted with the findings, South Korean lawmaker Kim Wi-sang criticized domestic environmental groups and his own government for prioritizing feel-good narratives over hard science.

Is it feel good stuff or just cult business? Not that I think plastic straws are great for real environmental concerns, such as ocean and land pollution, but, the alternatives that they force on people aren’t the best, either.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 27, 2026 – 1:00 pm

…is an area seeing extreme rain creating rivers, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Climate Depot, with a post on “U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Approves Construction of Nation’s First Small Modular Reactor”

Sorry about all the downtimes, the host upgraded their server and getting nailed with bots and stuff, trying to put stuff on the backend to limit this.

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You Know What’s Ruining Haunted Houses? AI

By William Teach October 27, 2026 – 10:30 am

We’re not quite at doomsday cult status like with ‘climate change’ and fourth wave Feminism, but, it’s moving that way. Right now we’re just at derangement. You know, they see something and go “this is bad because of AI! Arrrrgle barrrrgle”

AI is Ruining Haunted Attractions

In 2005, I launched two major projects. The first was Plagiarism Today, the site you’re reading this on right now. The second was Bernie Baxter’s?Traveling?Sideshow, a home haunted attraction I run with my partner, Crystal. Both projects are still going on to this day.

In many ways, the two projects are polar opposites to one another. Plagiarism Today is a digital?first project that grew to become my full?time job. Bernie Baxter is an almost purely meatspace project that is completely an avocation.

But that’s what I love about haunting. It’s a creative outlet that built with lumber, paint, and actors. Despite all the walkthrough videos on the internet, there really is no way to experience a haunted house digitally. It’s an analog experience that truly does not have a digital equivalent. Haunts are a safe place to unplug and simply live in a truly unique moment.

So, imagine my disappointment when I walked up to my first haunted attraction of the year and was immediately greeted by low?quality AI art. One of the images was so bad that it even included the Gemini diamond in the lower?right corner of the page.

How horrible! It’s almost like a betrayal!

It shouldn’t really come as a surprise. In an age of AI menus and AI event flyers, why wouldn’t haunts use AI to generate their work? Why would haunted attractions be immune to the same pressures and temptations that other businesses face?

But somehow the betrayal feels even worse.

Told ya!

But it’s not just the promotional materials. AI art has also seeped into the actual haunted houses themselves. AtmosFX, one of the largest providers of digital projections to the haunt industry, has admitted to using AI to create some of their characters. Haunts, like the one I went to, have also used AI to generate props and other items that are part of the attraction itself.

Terrible! The worst! Seriously, you don’t blame the AI, you blame the people who are creating this stuff on the cheap and easy, and deciding that the crap is fine.

Anyhow, here are some of my favorite movies for haunted houses, the type that are built for Halloween season

  • Hell House LLC (watch the original cut, not the directors. Also, the 2 follow ups are great)
  • The Houses October Built 1 and 2
  • Haunt
  • Hell Fest
  • Scarehouse (more of a slasher)
  • House Of Fears

There’s a lot fewer that are good than you’d think.

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New York To Appeal Climate (scam) Law Court Losses

By William Teach October 27, 2026 – 7:15 am

Why? They’re just going to spend a lot of taxpayer money and lose again. Oh, right, cult

NY will appeal federal rulings striking down Climate Change Superfund Act

The state attorney general’s office is appealing two recent federal court decisions that struck down New York’s Climate Change Superfund Act and determined the statute which seeks to punish companies deemed responsible for greenhouse gas emissions is preempted by federal law.

The notice of appeals were filed by the attorney general’s office in a case challenging the statute that was brought against the state in U.S. District Court in Manhattan by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, American Petroleum Institute, National Mining Association and the Business Council of New York State.

The second case, filed in New York’s Northern District in Albany, was brought by more than 21 states. Several industry groups, including the West Virginia Coal Association, Alpha Metallurgical Resources and the Gas and Oil Association of West Virginia, are also parties to that litigation.

Last month, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Brenda K. Sannes stopped short of declaring the statute is unconstitutional, but ruled that it is preempted by federal law and cannot be legally enforced. She also found the statute is “simply beyond the limits of state law.”

Too bad all the fossil fuels companies won’t simply stop selling their products to the State Of NY while the appeals are going on.

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NYC’s DA’s Force Prosecutors To Downgrade Charges For Illegals

By William Teach October 27, 2026 – 7:00 am

Absolutely no one is surprised by this, right?

NYC’s sanctuary DAs ordered prosecutors to downgrade charges to keep illegal immigrants in US, House GOP report finds

New York City’s elected Democratic district attorneys are bending over backwards to keep illegal immigrants in the US, instructing prosecutors to downgrade charges to those considered “a non-deportable offense,” according to a stunning House Judiciary Committee report shared with The Post.

The GOP-led panel found that Bronx DA Darcel Clark trains her subordinates “to conceal facts from the record of conviction” and “pursue alternative charges” that would keep non-citizens free to roam in America.

Not even cases involving child sex crimes are off-limits — with Clark’s office asking assistant DAs in a 2019 guide to “immigration-conscious plea bargaining” to “[o]ffer something that does not have the child’s age as an element of the crime.”

Meanwhile, in Queens, DA Melinda Katz has told her prosecutors to “exercise extreme caution” and “not get caught up in the label of [f]elonies, [m]isdemeanors” for illegal aliens, according to the report published five months after the committee sent requests for information on the Big Apple’s so-called “sanctuary” policies to prosecutor’s offices in all five boroughs, as well as the NYPD and Department of Correction.

The report found versions of the practice in every borough. The Brooklyn DA’s office has explicitly sought an “immigration-neutral” disposition since 2017, having staff trained “to avoid disproportionate collateral consequence, such as deportation, while maintaining public safety.”

In some cases, prosecutors in Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez’s office are instructed to offer “a plea for a lesser offense in light of the disproportionate immigration consequences a higher level offense may result in.”

If this were you or me they’d throw the book at us, but, they go soft on illegals so that they hopefully do not show up on ICE’s radar. Also, then their pet media can say that the people are not bad criminals.

“When did protecting a criminal’s immigration status become a part of a DA’s job description?” asked New York City Council Member Joann Ariola.

“Our DA’s are entrusted with upholding the law and protecting the public,” Ariola told The Post. “If that’s not their priority, then they’ve got it backwards.”

That’s the Democratic Party in a nutshell.

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Courts Rule On Constitutionality Of Certain Knives And Body Armor

By William Teach October 26, 2026 – 3:43 pm

Arms are not just guns

Second Amendment fight moves beyond guns with Supreme Court poised for big ruling

Two federal court rulings Wednesday extending Second Amendment protections to switchblade knives and body armor have fueled optimism among gun-rights advocates ahead of a major Supreme Court showdown over bans on AR-15-style rifles.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a federal law restricting the interstate commerce of switchblade knives violated the Second Amendment, while a federal judge in the Western District of New York struck down New York’s restrictions on personal body armor. In both cases, the courts determined that switchblades and body armor qualify as constitutionally protected “arms.”

I’m not so sure that body armor is part of “arms”, but, also not sure where a state has the authority to ban a lawful goods like that just because they feel like it. Body armor doesn’t hurt anyone else, right? Switchblades, though, are arms. Dumb arms, the blades tend not to be very strong, better off getting a butterfly or even a gravity knife, but, Los Federales shouldn’t be able to ban interstate transport of them

The twin rulings come as the Supreme Court prepares to hear oral arguments in Viramontes v. Cook County, a case that could determine whether AR-15-style rifles qualify as “arms” protected by the Second Amendment.

National Association for Gun Rights President Dudley Brown, whose organization filed an amicus brief in Viramontes, said a Supreme Court ruling against AR-15 bans could influence future legal challenges to restrictions on ammunition magazines, automatic knives, body armor and other defensive equipment.

“The interesting thing about both of these cases is that they’re both going to be really decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Viramontes decision,” Brown told Fox News Digital.

I do not see the Court ruling against the rifles. And, per the Supremacy Clause, the 2nd applies to all states.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 26, 2026 – 1:25 pm

…is a horrible fatty food place causing obesity which is bad for ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Flopping Aces, with a post on “Obama nurtured the Muslim Brotherhood and gave it life”

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Bummer: International Students Reconsidering Staying In The US After Graduation

By William Teach October 26, 2026 – 10:30 am

Really, the purpose of a visa is you do your thing, be it work or school, and then leave when it is over. You aren’t just supposed to stick around and stick around and stick around, then bring your whole family over

International students weigh futures in US amid Trump’s visa, immigration crackdown

International students at GW said they are reconsidering whether to remain in the United States after graduation or pursue educational and career opportunities abroad as President Donald Trump continues to tighten immigration policies.

Students said uncertainty surrounding post-graduation work authorization and stricter visa requirements have prompted them to rethink plans to build careers in the United States, pursue graduate degrees abroad or finish their undergraduate degrees at GW. The hesitation comes as GW faces declining international student enrollment in the wake of Trump’s continued visa and immigration restrictions, including a new policy threatening international students’ employment opportunities.

Since taking office in January 2025, Trump has made it more difficult for international students to study in the United States by enacting policies like a travel ban impacting international student applications from 38 countries and Department of Homeland Security rules shortening the time frame that international students can stay in the United States for their education.

This is the way it is supposed to be. They don’t just get to decide on their own that the US is going to let them stay to build their careers. You graduate and then you return to your home country (or another country) and then re-apply for a visa. Which shouldn’t be a career. It should be a time period for said visa and then you leave. What the US has been doing though is constantly approving extension after extension for visas. And, yes, then they bring over the rest of their families, and demand voting rights, free stuff, and citizenship.

This is how you get problems like Mahmoud Khalil, who came over with a student visa, immediately started being an anti-Israel/Jew protester at Columbia, graduated, but, never left, and the leftist judges just let him stay.

This month, the Trump administration proposed a rule requiring universities to pay a $70,000 fee for each student’s initial application to the optional practice training program, which allows students to work in jobs in their field during or after their studies. The fee is in addition to last year’s proposed $100,000 fee employers would have to pay for each new H-1B visa, which federal courts struck down in October.

Yeah, that’s not going to fly, either. Maybe there should be some sort of deposit, depending on a student’s income status, that would be void if they refuse to leave when their visa is over. Plus, I’ve always maintained that the schools and companies that host legal aliens on visas should be held responsible for over-stays.

The Hatchet spoke to five international students, all of whom requested anonymity over fears their visa could be at risk or of deportation. All five described uncertainty about their futures in the United States, with some considering graduate school or employment abroad and others questioning whether GW had adequately supported them through changes to immigration policies.

They aren’t supposed to have futures, unless they go through the whole citizenship process, if approved to try it.

University President Ellen Granberg said during a September Faculty Senate meeting that GW enrolled nearly 1,000 fewer international students this year — a number she said she anticipates to continue declining over the coming years. Vice President and Dean of Enrollment Management and Student Success Jay Goff told the Faculty Senate in December that GW enrolled 392 fewer international students in fall 2025 than in 2024, which came after he said in August 2025 the University could face a $10 million decrease in revenue because of declining international student enrollment.

And that’s why schools do not like Trump’s rules: money. They can get a lot more out of international students than Americans. Meaning lots of Americans, including those in-state, are not considered. Skipping all the way to the last paragraph

“For decades, this experiential education program has served as a critical pipeline of international talent for the U.S. economy—especially in STEM fields where there is a worker shortage—and as an essential component of a U.S. higher education for international students,” Stewart said in an email.

But, let’s be honest: a goodly chunk of these foreign students are doing STEM, while so many of today’s Yutes are getting degrees in things that end with Studies, or might as well end with Studies, which are virtually worthless.

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