FBI Director Has A Problem Answering If The Country Is Safer Under Biden

By William Teach November 1, 2023 – 10:30 am

Typically when you get the Political Class answering a question they will jump in and find some sort of reason to make things sound rosy. Especially when they know things aren’t. Especially when it comes from a Democrat administration where things are going all pear shaped. One would have thought a long serving bureaucrat like Christopher Wray would be able to do it. That he doesn’t should truly concern people

WATCH: FBI director goes silent when asked if country ‘safer’ under Biden

Joe Biden Ice Cream AfghanistanFBI Director Christopher Wray went silent Tuesday when questioned over whether the country is safer since President Biden took office.

“Is the United States safer from foreign terror threats today? Are we safer than when Joe Biden took office — from the day he took office?” Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., asked Wray during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing.

Wray took an extended pause, sitting silently and appearing to be in deep thought before finally answering.

“What I would say to you is that the terror threats have elevated. But I also think there are a lot of things the country has done throughout law enforcement to be better prepared to deal with them,” he said, not directly saying whether the country has become safer under Biden’s watch.

“I asked FBI Director Wray a simple question: is the U.S. safer today than it was before [Joe Biden] took office? After nearly 10 seconds of silence, he finally admitted what we all know… ‘…the terror threats have elevated…'” Scott wrote on X, formerly Twitter, after the hearing.

During the hearing, Wray warned that the threat of a terror attack against Americans has been raised to a “whole other level” due to ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

Wray’s “thoughtful” answer was a way to minimize how bad things apparently are, and was a really bad look. Is it that bad that he wanted to avoid lying to Congress with something like “yes, it is safer, we’re in a great place, we have all sorts of measures in place”? He barely attempted to deflect the question.

Maybe it’s because the Southern border is wide open and it’s not just people from Mexico, Central America, and South America showing up, but, thousands of special interest aliens from the Middle East, with tons being released and tons that we do not know about? Or, perhaps that huge numbers of Americans and imports who expressed solidarity with a State Department designated terrorist group, Hamas, and their hatred of Jews? And many of those imports are teaching their Islamic extremism and voting in lawmakers who also sympathize with Islamic extremism? That Biden has created weakness with his failure in Afghanistan, leading to bad things happening in the world, which could end up here?

Why would terrorists be concerned? Democrats can’t even stop, nor try to stop, basic criminality like looting.

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Bummer: GM Puts The Brakes On Biden’s EV Agenda

By William Teach November 1, 2023 – 7:15 am

Perhaps Government Motors has finally realized that most people really do not want an EV at this time for various reasons?

GM Backtracks on Joe Biden’s Green Energy Agenda After Investing Billions

electric vehicleAfter investing billions to adhere to President Joe Biden’s green energy agenda, General Motors (GM) is backtracking on all fronts when it comes to Electric Vehicles (EVs).

As GM was the last of the Big Three to strike a tentative agreement with the United Auto Workers (UAW), the automaker’s green energy dreams — championed by the Biden administration — have come crumbling down.

GM CEO Mary Barra, a close ally of Biden’s, has said the automaker will not begin to attempt to produce 400,000 EVs from 2022 through mid-2024 as initially planned. GM is also delaying retooling its plant in Orion Township, Michigan, to build EV pickup trucks.

Days ago, GM had to begin offering owners of its Chevy Bolt about $1,400 to install a diagnostic program to determine if the vehicle’s EV battery is defective. The move came after GM had to recall all of its Chevy Bolts due to the EV battery issues and a class action settlement over the battery problems is anticipated in the near future.

In addition, GM executives are having to delay launching a number of their EV models such as the Chevrolet Equinox EV, the Chevrolet Silverado EV RST, and the GMC Sierra EV Denali.

I’ve said before that an EV would work for me 90% of the time. I mostly travel around town, occasionally heading down to the beach, Smithfied (go to the wonderful factory outlets), maybe Mebane for the same. Sometimes the Outer Banks or up to NJ. Perhaps the NC mountains. It’s on those times it creates a problem. Plus, since I don’t have a garage I worry about some little punk unplugging if I’m charging from home. Also, the price. None have a similar price point for my Civic Hatchback EXL.

“The American public is not ready for the broad adoption of electric vehicles. There are maybe 10 percent to 12 percent of people who really want an electric vehicle … the remainder still want internal combustion,” former GM executive Bob Lutz said this week.

Few ask about them except as conversation. I talk with sales reps from numerous different dealerships, and their customers are not interested. Hybrids? Yes, acceptance is way up. EVs? Nope. That 10-12% is a bit high. The highline dealers, who’s manufacturers went all in, are seeing their sales of new tanking. Those who wanted EVs got them, and the rest aren’t interested, and will go elsewhere to get a non-EV. And those still looking will mostly get Teslas, because many of the others are, per customers, total trash. The market is making clear what it wants to happen.

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Bolivia Cuts Ties With Israel Over Killing Hamas Terrorists

By William Teach November 1, 2023 – 7:00 am

Will other nations follow?

Bolivia becomes first country to sever ties with Israel over war with Hamas

Bolivia has become the first country to cut ties with Israel since the start of its latest conflict with Hamas, with the South American nation’s leftwing government attributing its decision to alleged war crimes and human rights abuses being committed in the Gaza Strip.

The decision was announced at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon by María Nela Prada, a minister in President Luis Arce’s administration. “We demand an end to the attacks on the Gaza Strip which have so far claimed thousands of civilian lives and caused the forced displacement of Palestinians,” the minister told reporters in her country’s de facto capital, La Paz.

Bolivia’s deputy foreign minister, Freddy Mamani Machaca, said the decision represented “a repudiation and condemnation of the aggressive and disproportionate Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip and its threat to international peace and security”.

Bolivia’s move comes after the former president Evo_Morales called for his country to sever ties with Israel because of the “horrific situation facing the Palestinian people”. Writing on X, formerly known as Twitter, earlier this month, Morales demanded Israel be classified as a “terrorist state” and for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and “his accomplices” be denounced to the international criminal court for genocide and war crimes.

Will Bolivia cut off ties with the Palestinians, at least in Gaza? They barely condemned the terrorist attack. This has made the hyper-leftist UK Guardian, who’s support of Palestinians and denouncement of Israel over the years, it’s support of BDS, right up to the line of Jew hatred, very happy. So happy they forget to mention some really important information: Bolovia and the Islamists in Iran are damned good buddies

(US News and World Report) The Argentine government and members of Bolivia’s opposition demanded answers Monday following the sealing of an opaque defense agreement between Iran and Bolivia that raised concerns in South America’s Southern Cone it could be a way for Tehran to boost its influence in the region.

The deal reached last week has particularly raised concerns in Argentina, where prosecutors have long alleged that Iranian officials were behind the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people. Iran has denied any involvement in the attack.

I wonder if Bolivia realizes that the Islamist government of Iran still hates Bolivia, and would love to turn it in an Islamist caliphate.

(UK Express) Yemen’s Houthi rebels have entered the war with Israel after it launched drones and missiles at the south of the country earlier today.

The Houthis are part of Iran’s “Axis of Resistance” and have rallied behind Hamas since the October 7 attacks. They have been at war with Yemen’s internationally recognised government since 2014 and control the capital city of Sana’a.

Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said the group launched a “large number” of missiles and drones toward Israel and that it would continue to attack “to help the Palestinians to victory”. While the Houthis have launched missiles at Israel since Tel Aviv declared war on Hamas, this is the first time the group has publicly claimed credit for the attacks.

Funny how, despite the unhinged claiming Trump would start WWIII, things were relatively quiet. With Biden around, everything’s going to crap. And the Jew haters have no problem saying exactly what they believe

Every Jew in Philly should leave, and take their companies with them. I wonder how many voted Democrat and are now realizing Democrats really do hate them?

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Climate Cult Super Concerned With Shipping

By William Teach October 31, 2023 – 3:00 pm

I wonder if they are considering that a goodly chunk of their goods come on ships? Autos and auto parts. Their smartphones. Computers. Routers. TVs. Their fast fashion for selfies. The NY Times is Very Concerned, and will manufacture this issue, rather than, you know, actually just covering the news

Shipping Contributes Heavily to Climate Change. Are Green Ships the Solution?

climate cowOn a bright September day on the harbor in Copenhagen, several hundred people gathered to welcome the official arrival of Laura Maersk.

Laura was not a visiting European dignitary like many of those in attendance. She was a hulking containership, towering a hundred feet above the crowd, and the most visible evidence to date of an effort by the global shipping industry to mitigate its role in the planet’s warming.

The ship, commissioned by the Danish shipping giant Maersk, was designed with a special engine that can burn two types of fuel — either the black, sticky oil that has powered ships for more than a century, or a greener type made from methanol. By switching to green methanol, this single ship will produce 100 fewer tons of greenhouse gas per day, an amount equivalent to the emissions of 8,000 cars.

The effect of global shipping on the climate is hard to overstate. Cargo shipping is responsible for nearly 3 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions — producing roughly as much carbon each year as the aviation industry does.

Figuring out how to limit those emissions has been tricky. Some ships are turning to an age-old strategy: harnessing the wind to move them. But ships still need a more constant source of energy that is powerful enough to propel them halfway around the world in a single go.

No, really? They need constant power? Kinda like citizens forced to deal with unreliable solar and wind?

The Laura Maersk is the first of its kind to set sail with a green methanol engine and represents a significant step in the industry’s efforts to address its contribution to climate change. The vessel is also a vivid illustration of just how far the global shipping sector has to go. While roughly 125 methanol-burning ships are now on order at global shipyards from Maersk and other companies, that is just a tiny portion of the more than 50,000 cargo ships that ply the oceans today, which deliver 90 percent of the world’s traded goods.

Depending on the source, methanol ships can be 12% to 54% more expensive than traditional fossil fuels. I do like that it is a whole lot less polluting than fossil fuels, from an environmental stance, not a climate cult stance. Regardless, this means the cost of goods will go up.

Yet that easy consumption has come at the price of a warmer and dirtier planet. In addition to affecting the atmosphere, ships burning fossil fuel also spew out pollutants that reduce the life expectancy of the large percentage of the world’s people who live near ports, said Teresa Bui, policy director for climate at Pacific Environment, an environmental organization.

That pollution was particularly bad during the Covid-19 pandemic, when supply chain bottlenecks caused ships to pile up outside of the Port of Los Angeles, producing pollution equivalent to nearly 100,000 big rigs per day, she said.

“They have been under regulated for decades,” Ms. Bui said of the shipping industry.

Funny how they always want more government, eh?

But the world today does not yet produce much green methanol. Maersk has committed to using only sustainably produced methanol, but if other shipping companies end up using methanol fuel made with coal or oil, that will be no better for the environment.

Surprise? Plus, there isn’t that much. Which would drive up the price, which would then drive up the price of goods. All for a scam.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 31, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…are leaves falling from dying trees due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Victory Girls Blog, with a post noting that the Left was never a friend of Jews.

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Anti-Jew Posts Lead To Police Involvement At Cornell University

By William Teach October 31, 2023 – 10:30 am

A lot of people seem surprised by the Jew hatred, especially on college campuses run and staffed by Democrat voters. Now it’s finally leading to a police response

Calls for raping and killing Jewish students at Cornell bring police response, condemnation

Anti-Semitic threats posted to a Cornell University fraternity and sorority forum over the weekend, including to kill Jews on campus, have prompted a police response and intervention by the governor of New York.

At least one of the posts threatened a shooting of “pig jews” (sic) at Cornell’s Center for Jewish Living and kosher dining hall, according to the university’s Hillel chapter.

The postings are the latest in a series of incidents on college campuses across the nation since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, which followed the terrorist attacks on Oct. 7 that killed more than 1,400 people in Israel and resulted in more than 220 being kidnapped by Hamas and brought to the Gaza Strip.

“Earlier today, a series of horrendous, antisemitic messages threatening violence to our Jewish community and specifically naming 104 West — the home of the Center for Jewish Living — was posted on a website unaffiliated with Cornell,” Cornell President Martha E. Pollack said in a statement Sunday.

Pollack said the FBI had been informed of a potential hate crime, and that the Cornell University Police Department would remain at the Center for Jewish Living to ensure the safety of community members.

Such is the reality for Jews in America, as has been taught in America’s universities. Over the years it went for light-hearted support of Palesinians, wanting to be cool with their protests, to hatred of Israel and Jews. What did they think the whole BDS (boycott, disinvestment, and sanction) movement would lead to? Now college kids look and sound like Nazis and KKK members.

The threats were posted to Cornell’s Greekrank forums on Saturday and Sunday, according to the school newspaper, the Cornell Sun, which said some of the posts eventually were taken down.

The Sun said one post threatened to rape female Jewish students and behead Jewish babies in front of their parents. Another called for students to follow Jewish students home from campus and slit their throats.

Of course, all the previous Jew hatred hasn’t brought much of any condemnation from the school. If calls had been about wiping out Muslims in Gaza and replacing it with a Jewish state those students would have been booted from school already.

“We will not tolerate threats or antisemitism or any kind of hatred that makes people feel vulnerable and exposes people and makes them feel insecure in a place where they should be enjoying their campus life, without fear that someone could cause them harm,” Hochul said.

If the perpetrators are found, she added, “They will be prosecuted. That is the message people across the state need to hear loud and clear. There will be no tolerance here in the State of New York.”

It’s sad that I have to wonder if NY Gov Kathy Hochul is saying this because those people are horrible, or because there are a lot of Jews in the state of NY who vote Democrat and donate a lot of money. Anyhow, free speech ends when one calls for violence and criminality, and whomever sent out those messages should have their names posted, be kicked out of Cornell, and potentially be prosecuted.

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UN Head Takes Long Fossil Fueled Flight To Demand That The Madness Stop

By William Teach October 31, 2023 – 7:15 am

Does anyone think he took a commercial flight, followed by some other fossil fueled travel from Kathmandu in the form of prop planes, helicopters, and/or SUVs?

‘Stop the madness’ of climate change, UN chief declares

Nepal has lost almost a third of its ice volume in 30 years, with glaciers melting 65 per cent faster in the last decade than in the previous one.

“The rooftops of the world are caving in,” the UN chief said, warning that the “disappearance of glaciers altogether” looms even larger.

“Glaciers are icy reservoirs – the ones here in the Himalayas supply fresh water to well over a billion people. When they shrink, so do river flows,” he added. (snip)

The Secretary-General said his mission to the Everest region, was to “cry out from the rooftop of the world.”

“Stop the madness,” he emphasized, underscoring the need to end the age of fossil fuel to protect people on the frontlines of climate change induced destruction.

“We must act now to…limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C, to avert the worst of climate chaos. The world can’t wait,” he concluded.

If every member of the Cult of Climastrology went and made their own lives carbon neutral this whole thing would be solved, per their dogma.

You can see a much bigger and wider version at the link. Notice the district: it includes many very high peaks, including Mt. Everest at the border with China. I can’t quite tell if that is Everest in the back, I think it is, but, regardless, it is quite a trek to get from Kathmandu up into that region. There’s almost no roads, so, he either flew a fossil fueled prop plane to Lukla airport and took a fossil fueled helicopter, or took one from Kathmandu. You can bet he’s not going to do all that walking and trekking for many days, not at that altitude.

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Reuters Seems Upset Kids Are Exposed To Pro-Israel Ads In Games

By William Teach October 31, 2023 – 7:00 am

Granted, the ads are somewhat graphic

Graphic pro-Israel ads make their way into children’s video games

Maria Julia Assis was sitting down to a meal in her terraced home in north London when her 6-year-old son ran into the dining room, his face pale.

The puzzle game on his Android phone had been interrupted by a video showing Hamas militants, terrified Israeli families and blurred graphic footage. Over a black screen, a message from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs told the first grader: “WE WILL MAKE SURE THAT THOSE WHO HARM US PAY A HEAVY PRICE.”

Assis, a 28-year-old barista from Brazil, said that the ad left her son shaken and she quickly deleted the game.

“He was shocked,” she said in a telephone interview last week. “He literally said, ‘What is this bloody ad doing in my game?'”

Is this one of those “my 6 year old spoke like they’re 20” things?

Reuters has not been able to establish how the ad came to her son’s video game, but her family isn’t alone. The news agency has documented at least five other cases across Europe where the same pro-Israel video, which carried footage of rocket attacks, a fiery explosion, and masked gunmen, was shown to gamers, including several children.

In at least one case, the ads were played inside the popular “Angry Birds” game made by SEGA-owned developer Rovio.

Rovio confirmed that “somehow these ads with disturbing content have in error made it through to our game” and were now being blocked manually. Spokesperson Lotta Backlund did not provide details on which of its “dozen or so ad partners” had supplied it with the ad.

ZOMG, a whole 6 instances? These same people at Reuters have zero problem with exposing children to all sorts of LGBT propaganda, including explicit sexual stuff, but, a pro-Israel ad? That’s just too much for them. It couldn’t possibly be due to them being haters of Israel and Jews and supporters of a designated terrorist group, could it?

He said the footage was part of a larger advocacy drive by the Israeli Foreign Ministry, which has spent $1.5 million on internet ads since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on civilians in southern Israel ignited war in Gaza. He said officials had specifically instructed advertisers “to block it for people under 18”.

Saranga defended the graphic nature of the ad campaign.

“We want the world to understand that what happened here in Israel,” he said. “It’s a massacre.”

Unfortunately, there are a lot of Israel and Jew haters out there who won’t care even if they are given the full, brutal, graphic evidence of how horrible Hamas is.

Reuters contacted 43 advertising firms that Rovio listed on its website as “third-party data partners” to try to ascertain who placed the ad in the games.

Is this really that important that they do this? These same people couldn’t even take the time initially to learn that Hamas bombed their own hospital.

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Climate Lunatics Warn Of World Wide Societal Breakdown

By William Teach October 30, 2023 – 3:00 pm

At what point does their scaremongering, their apoplexy, just become too much for people to even take them seriously? Kinda like with Miley Cyrus when she just ramped up the insane. Do you hear much about her anymore?

Alarmists Threaten ‘Worldwide Societal Breakdown’ from Climate Crisis

A group of climate researchers warned this week that billions of people could find themselves in uninhabitable conditions by the year 2100 thanks to climate change.

“By the end of this century, an estimated 3 to 6 billion individuals — approximately one-third to one-half of the global population — might find themselves confined beyond the livable region, encountering severe heat, limited food availability, and elevated mortality rates because of the effects of climate change,” the authors wrote in their “2023 state of the climate report” published in BioScience.

The researchers, led by Oregon-based climate activists William J. Ripple and Christopher Wolf, stated that the effects of global warming “are progressively more severe, and possibilities such as a worldwide societal breakdown are feasible and dangerously underexplored.”

“Big problems need big solutions,” the authors declared. “Therefore, we must shift our perspective on the climate emergency from being just an isolated environmental issue to a systemic, existential threat.”

This sounds totally sciencey, right? If people in your life start getting hysterical, over-yammering about conspiracy theories, going all doom and gloom, do you start tuning them out? Staying away from them? I do.

But, hey, we can fix this with a tax and taking away all your life choices.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 30, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is the notion of Native Americans living in harmony with nature, which should be required for Everyone Else, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Real Science, with a post on a decline in U.S. flooding.

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