International (Climate Cult) Energy Agency Has Ideas For You To Reduce Your Energy Use

By William Teach March 21, 2022 – 7:15 am

Not for them, of course. They’ll continue to burn lots of oil as they scoot around the world to climate meetings. This only applies to you peasants (via Climate Depot and Watts Up With That?)

Russia crisis spurs push to cut oil use

The International Energy Agency just unveiled ideas for quickly cutting oil demand at a time when Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine could bring substantial loss of Russian barrels from global markets.

Why it matters: The 10-point plan comes amid IEA warnings that the war could become the biggest supply crisis in decades as countries look to isolate Russia.

It’s part of a wider reckoning in Europe — Russia’s largest market — and elsewhere over how to curb reliance on Russia while keeping markets supplied and avoiding even greater economic shocks.

Zoom in: The plan says that “immediate actions” in advanced economies could reduce global oil demand by about 2.7 million barrels per day within four months.

The US uses almost 20 million a day itself. What does 2.7 million actually mean for the globe? And the ideas?

Reducing highway speed limits by about 6 miles per hour; more working from home; street changes to encourage walking and cycling; car-free Sundays in cities and restrictions on other days; cutting transit fares; policies that encourage more carpooling; cutting business air travel; and more.

They also want to reduce your air travel, forcing you onto trains and buses. When do the elites do this? And how is this accomplished?

“Governments have all the necessary tools at their disposal to put oil demand into decline in the coming years, which would support efforts to both strengthen energy security and achieve vital climate goals,” it states.

That’s right, Government elites forcing this down your throats. Marc Morano write

“COVID 2.0 has arrived?! The 2022 International Energy Agency’s (IEA) report sounds an awful lot like an energy version of COVID lockdowns. Instead of opening America back up for domestic energy production, we are told to suffer and do with less and are prescribed the same failed lockdown-style policies we endured for COVID. It is odd how COVID ‘solutions’ also allegedly helped the climate and now the same solutions are being touted to deal with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As a bonus, IEA tells us these measures will also help ‘achieve vital climate goals.’ Let’s simplify this: The proposed ‘solutions’ to climate change, COVID, and now the Russian war are all exactly the same — hammer the poor and middle class with more restrictions on travel, less freedom, and even more surrendering of power to unelected government regulators.

This is what I’ve been saying since 2005: the entire climate crisis scam is simply a way to force their authoritarian policies down our throat, softening it as a way to “benefit” the peasants. It’s force politics. It’s Progressivism, ie, Nice Fascism. They aren’t nice, this is for your own good.

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Reports Of US Funded Lab In Ukraine Are “Dangerous”

By William Teach March 21, 2022 – 7:00 am

The modern news, folks, where certain subjects should be off limits. You know, like Hunter Biden’s laptop

Hvistendahl: Reports that U.S.-funded lab leaked COVID-19 are ‘dangerous’

Intercept reporter Mara Hvistendahl said reports that the National Institute of Health may have funded a grant for research that resulted in the release of COVID-19 from a lab are “dangerous.”

“There is absolutely no evidence to support that so I consider that a conspiracy theory,” Hvistendahl said on HillTV’s Rising.

This comes after Hvistendahl and Intercept reporter Sharon Lerner reported that Peter Daszak, who works for EcoHealth Alliance, which aims to understand and prevent infectious diseases, worked closely with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a partner on a 2014 NIH grant to research bat coronaviruses in China.

Daszak has also been tied to many debates about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic because of a research proposal that reportedly risked creating a more dangerous pathogen.

And that’s why they do not want it discussed, because it could precipitate more conversation the Wuhan lab thing, which is bad for His Majesty Fauci and others, along with all those trying to deflect away from China’s culpability and responsibility. Did Mara consider that she could do that whole Being A Reporter thing and prove or disprove it.

Project Veritas, a far right media company, has been criticized for its reporting that the NIH funded a grant into research into bat related coronavirus may have led to the pandemic, with Dr. Anthony Fauci calling the reporting, “distorted.”

Hvistendahl said Daszak maintain that research that could make coronavirus more transmissible was not funded.

Most in the media refuse to investigate.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 20, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is a fast rising sea from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Real Climate Science, with a post on Pfizer/FDA hiding data on vaccine failure.

It’s wing-women week!

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach March 20, 2022 – 9:49 am

Patriotic Pinup Maxine Stevens

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in the Once and Future Nation of America. The Sun is shining, the birds are singing, and Spring is in the air. This pinup is by Maxine Stevens, which is a pseudo-name for Edward Runci and his wife, Maxine, who helped him paint it and posed, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. neo-neocon discusses Ukraine and Biden family corruption
  2. Noisy Room wonders why the NY Times finally validated the Hunter Biden laptop story
  3. Outside The Beltway has an interesting post on daylight savings time
  4. Pacific Pundit covers NBC altering a photo on fake woman swimmer Lia Thomas
  5. The First Street Journal discusses Free Speech at the NY Times
  6. The Last Refuge features Lara Logan and the reality of Ukraine
  7. The OK Corral notes that a Texas robber chose poorly
  8. The Other McCain delves into the Jan 6 witch hunt committee
  9. The Right Scoop covers AOC doing the Biden whisper and being her usual dumb self
  10. This ain’t Hell… highlights fearmonger Fauci calling for more lockdowns
  11. Legal Insurrection discusses a UK hospital covering up rapes by a gender confused “woman”
  12. IOTW Report notes ESPN’s creepy moment of silence
  13. Geller Report covers a bill from Democrats that could allow killing a baby up to 28 days after birth
  14. GeeeZ discusses Tulsi Gabbard being censored for opinions on Ukraine
  15. And last, but, not least, Dissecting Leftism features 10 biggest COVID mistakes

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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Bloomberg: Nobody Said Inflation Would Be Fun, Peasants

By William Teach March 20, 2022 – 7:00 am

Y’all need to just give up things like eating meat and health care for your pets

From this insane “let them eat cake” bit (yes, I know what was really meant, but, we know the modern meaning)

(Bloomberg) For those earning much less, it’s a different story. Those at the median, with income of about $50,000, spend more than 3% of it on gas and motor oil. Low-income households making between $7,000 and $19,000 spend about 9%. The latest inflation numbers show gas prices jumped 6.6% in February from a month earlier — even before President Joe Biden banned U.S. imports of Russian oil.

Economists say the overall share of income spent on gas is lower than it used to be, and despite the increases, prices are still relatively low by historical standards. That’s true, but it offers little consolation these days for someone on the lower end of the income distribution who drives to work.

Food prices are also up, posting their biggest monthly increase since April 2020. There, too, those making less than $19,000 spend much more of their income — almost 15% — compared with higher earners, whose total food spending is just 4% of their income. Households with income of about $50,000 spend 8.5% of it on food.

So, really, the $300K number was just a canard. Those making a lot less, which is more the norm, are suffering.

To deal with gas prices, it’s worth reconsidering public transportation if it’s an option where you live. Fares are up about 8% compared with 38% for gasoline. Now may even be the time to sell your car. It certainly isn’t the time to buy a new or used one. Prices have stabilized a bit, but used-car prices are still up more than 40% from a year ago, and new ones are up 12%.

So, just sell your cars, peasants, and take the bus. And definitely give up your weekly helicopter flight to your beach house in Delaware or wooded camp.

When it comes to food, don’t be afraid to explore. Prices for animal-based food products will certainly increase. Ukraine and Russia supply a significant amount of corn and barley to the world market, mainly to feed livestock for human food. Meat prices have increased about 14% from February 2021 and will go up even more. Though your palate may not be used to it, tasty meat substitutes include vegetables (where prices are up a little over 4%, or lentils and beans, which are up about 9%). Plan to cut out the middle creature and consume plants directly. It’s a more efficient, healthier and cheaper way to get calories.

Suffer, peons

If you’re one of the many Americans who became a new pet owner during the pandemic, you might want to rethink those costly pet medical needs. It may sound harsh, but researchers actually don’t recommend pet chemotherapy — which can cost up to $10,000 — for ethical reasons.

You can always eat them, right?

Try to be as flexible and creative as possible. Scientists tell us our brain plasticity will improve by trying novel things. There’s an advantage to mixing up what you consume to cope with unusual price spikes: You become more resilient as you create a locus of control and interrogate your habits.

Or, the government could do the exact opposite of what they’re doing now to allow the economy to surge.

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Biden Admin Touts Nuclear Fusion To Help Solve Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach March 19, 2022 – 3:00 pm

Well, good on them. Some major Warmists are all for nuclear energy, such as Michael “Robust Debate (and I’ll block you)” Mann. Most, though, will disagree with Biden and his Comrades. And there’s one tiny tiny problem

To Help Tackle Climate Crisis, White House Touts Nuclear Fusion

President Biden wants the warmth of many suns to power American homes and businesses.

The White House held a summit yesterday on fusion, which could someday become a major source of carbon-free energy. Fusion is made by pressing atoms together to create heavier ones. Nuclear fusion is the energy process that powers stars, with a low radiation and tremendous energy output.

Critics have long claimed that fusion energy, scientifically possible but commercially challenging, is decades away from powering homes or businesses. But the Biden administration, and a growing cadre of risk-taking investors, see fusion as an important tool on the path to an economy with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

“We can lead the world with new energies and innovation and that is exactly what we are doing and why we are gathered here today,” White House climate adviser Gina McCarthy said. “We have to act on climate change so our country can win the 21st-century economy, and that’s what fusion helps to present us with—tremendous opportunities as well as challenges we know.”

Can you see the problem? Yeah, it doesn’t exist yet. It would be decades away. Provided the Usual Suspects do not sue to stop construction. And even experiments. I’ll give Brandon, Gina, and the others the benefit of the doubt that they’re serious, however, in the mean time, we need to be constructing Gen 5 and 6 nuclear power plants. If they’re serious about reducing fossil fueled power, especially coal (which I am not a fan of), let’s go nuclear. It will provide a heck of a lot more power, and be stable and reliable, than wind or solar, and take up a whole lot less land to do so.

The latest $1.5 trillion appropriations bill from Congress included $45 million for a new fusion program in which private companies will partner with DOE to build new fusion energy devices. It’s part of a record investment in fusion that will send more than $700 million to DOE’s Fusion Energy Sciences program.

Doesn’t seem like much, but, at least it’s something. But, consider that Solyndra received a $535 million loan (which pretty ended up flushed down the toilet, with a huge environmental mess left behind).

A Chinese project achieved fusion reactions for 17 minutes at 126 million degrees Fahrenheit, which is five times hotter than the sun, according to the White House. DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved a “burning plasma” reaction, which demonstrated for the first time in any research facility a fusion reaction in which more energy was generated from the process than was required to initiate it (Energywire, Jan. 27). A European effort achieved a five-second, high-power pulse, which broke a 24-year-old record by doubling it.

How about just regular nuclear power plants?

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 19, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is an Evil gas powered grill causing the seas to rise and hurricanes to be worse, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jihad Watch, with a post on women in hijabs learning to ride bikes.

Doubleshot to clear the folder below the fold, check out Moonbattery, with a post on Brandon fans having trouble naming his accomplishments

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Brandon Threatens China With Sanctions And “Global Backlash” If It Backs Russia Against Ukraine

By William Teach March 19, 2022 – 10:30 am

He’s trying to get all big and bad, you know

Joe Biden warns Xi Jinping of ‘consequences’ if China backs Russia

Joe Biden spoke for nearly two hours with Xi Jinping as the US sought to dissuade China from backing Russia’s war on Ukraine.

A White House account of the call on Friday said that the US president “described the implications and consequences if China provides material support to Russia as it conducts brutal attacks against Ukrainian cities and civilians”.

A senior administration official said there would be consequences “not just for China’s relationship with the United States, but for the wider world”, but would not give more details on whether Biden had gone into specifics on possible sanctions, other than to point out what had happened to Russia as an example.

“The president really laid out in a lot of detail the unified response from not only governments around the world, but also the private sector to Russia’s brutal aggression in Ukraine,” the official said. “The president made clear that there would likely be consequences for those who would step in to support Russia at this time.”

The problem with getting all big and bad is that the person you’re fronting up to might be big and bad, as well, and not care, finding you actually weak. Russia didn’t care. Those supporting Russia didn’t care. The Taliban sure didn’t care about any threats from Biden. They all see the weakness.

That would be his 36th trip to his home for the weekend. Rather hard to take Joe serious when he doesn’t take the job serious.

In fairness, others aren’t doing so well, either

France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, and Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, both had hour-long conversations with Putin on Friday morning,

According to Scholz’s office, the German leader had “put pressure on [Putin] to introduce a ceasefire as soon as possible, to improve the humanitarian situation and to make progress in the search for a diplomatic solution for the conflict”.

The solution should be that Russia leaves Ukraine and pays reparations for their invasion, at a minimum.

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DOD Wastes $2.6 Million On Climate Scam Study

By William Teach March 19, 2022 – 7:15 am

Oh, sure, it’s only $2.6 million. Of taxpayer money. For silly stuff. That could have been used for military equipment and training

$2.6M in DOD Grants to Fund Studies of Climate Change Impact on Security

Two University of Maryland researchers have received awards totaling $2.6 million to study how national security and climate change intersect in the United States and around the world.

Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, professor and co-director of graduate studies in the Department of Government and Politics, and Distinguished University Professor Arie Kruglanski in the Department of Psychology were among 17 researchers nationwide to be named recipients of the grants from the Department of Defense’s Minerva Research Initiative, a university-based social science research program.

Cunningham received about $1.6 million to lead a three-year project to study the role that state and non-state actors play in a country’s management of climate change. The focus is Mozambique, an East African nation that has a diverse array of environmental hazards along with a history of non-state actors, ranging from non-governmental organizations to rebel groups, engaging with the population in different ways.

The study will examine people’s understanding of the risks of climate change and how non-state actors involve themselves in governing such issues, said Cunningham, who is working with researchers from Emory University, Texas A&M, Penn State and Carleton University.

Good grief, that is a huge waste of money, basically pet projects of no value.

“We’re also interested in explaining the conditions under which actors, state or non-state, try to leverage the idea that different agencies, people, and organizations are responsible for managing the hazards of climate change—when is it that a rebel group might be able to use government failures of managing climate change to their advantage; who do they assign blame to when things go wrong; and who do they reward when things go right?” she said.

How does this actually help the US Military defend the U.S.A.?

“It’s exciting to see people studying climate change from different angles,” said Cunningham of their fellow Minerva grant recipients. “This will hopefully lead to some interesting cross-pollination.”

So, do it with your own money. Get private funding.

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Democrats Vote On Important Stuff: Hair Discrimination

By William Teach March 19, 2022 – 7:00 am

Because the interest groups which run the party care about this stuff, and, they need to patronize their base

House Democrats Vote on Alleged Anti-Hair Discrimination amid Ukraine Crisis, Rising Inflation

House Democrats voted on legislation on Friday that would combat alleged anti-hair discrimination while there remains a war in Ukraine and Americans grapple with soaring inflation and gas prices.

The House passed H.R. 2116, the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair (CROWN) Act of 2021, 235-189.

Democrats overwhelmingly supported the legislation, and Republicans opposed the bill.

The legislation would prohibit alleged discrimination based on a person’s hair texture or hairstyle that is commonly associated with a particular race or national origin.

As Republicans pointed out, federal law already prohibits discrimination, but, you know, Democrats Are Serious People. The best part is “alleged discrimination”, which actually appears in the text of the bill. In other words, all it would take is someone having a feeling. They wouldn’t need to prove anything.

“Black women are 1.5X more likely to be sent home from work because of their hair. Discrimination against Black women and girls because of their natural hair is far too common in our workplaces and schools. I’m proud to sponsor the #CROWNAct, which would ban this racist practice,” Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) wrote.

Well, if they aren’t in compliance with company policies, yeah.

Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) said on the House floor ahead of the vote that the CROWN Act may prevent employers from regulating hairstyles for safety purposes.

It may mean that employers will pass on hiring women who’s hair could be a problem within existing corporate policy.

SEC. 6. EMPLOYMENT.

(a) Prohibition.—It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer, employment agency, labor organization, or joint labor-management committee controlling apprenticeship or other training or retraining (including on-the-job training programs) to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against an individual, based on the individual’s hair texture or hairstyle, if that hair texture or that hairstyle is commonly associated with a particular race or national origin (including a hairstyle in which hair is tightly coiled or tightly curled, locs, cornrows, twists, braids, Bantu knots, and Afros).

But, they’ll have to prove it. It’ll mean lots of black women will be passed over for jobs.

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