Bummer: New Zealand Pulls Out Of Global Coalition For Phasing Out Fossil Fuels

By William Teach June 28, 2025 – 7:00 am

Maybe the powers that be realize they need fossil fuels for their own jaunts around the world? For their limos/SUVs? For airplanes and big ships bringing in tourists and goods, as well as exporting them?

From the link

The New Zealand government has quietly pulled out of an international coalition for phasing out fossil fuels.

The move follows the announcement of $200 million funding to support new drilling for fossil fuel fields at the Budget.

WWF NZ said it was a “shameful retreat from international climate leadership”.

“This isn’t just backsliding – it’s an international embarrassment,” chief executive Kayla Kingdon-Bebb said.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wonder how many of the people complaining still use fossil fuels themselves

Climate Change Minister Simon Watts said the catalyst for leaving the alliance was the government’s decision to repeal the previous government’s ban on new offshore oil and gas exploration.

Watts said the government was committed to its climate targets.

“As we undertake our energy transition towards lower emissions fuels, natural gas will play an important role in the stability of this system until viable alternatives are in place.

“With falling domestic production presenting as a real risk to our future energy needs, the government has been looking at all options to extend the supply of gas as a critical energy source. This includes repealing the current ban on offshore oil and gas exploration and the setting aside of a tagged contingency of $200 million over four years for co-investment in new gas fields through Budget 2025.”

I’m guessing they realized that “going green” was creating some serious problems for the Elites in New Zealand. They didn’t really care about the average Kiwi.

The Green Party said the move was the latest sign the government cared little for the climate crisis or its impacts on the cost of living.

Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick said the coalition’s fossil fuel subsidies helped secure profits of fossil fuel executives but made life harder for regular people.

Hmm, those two paragraphs do not really jibe, do they?

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Dem Resolution On War Powers Act Crashes

By William Teach June 28, 2025 – 6:45 am

Funny, because I don’t remember Democrats trying to do the same when Biden was bombing Syria and the Houthis in Yemen. Or Obama with Syria, Libya, and more. But, you know, Trump

Senate shuts down Kaine’s attempt to check Trump’s war powers

A Senate Democrat’s push to put a check on President Donald Trump’s powers and reaffirm the Senate’s war authority was shut down by lawmakers in the upper chamber Thursday.

Sen. Tim Kaine’s war powers resolution, which would have required Congress to debate and vote on whether the president could declare war, or strike Iran, was struck down in the Senate on a largely party-line vote, save for Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., a staunch advocate of Israel who supported Trump’s strike on the Islamic Republic, and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who has been vocal in his thoughts about congressional war powers in recent days.

Earlier in the week, the Virginia Democrat vowed to move ahead with the resolution despite a fragile ceasefire brokered between Israel and Iran following weekend strikes on the Islamic Republic’s key nuclear facilities that were not given the green-light by Congress.

Kaine argued that the ceasefire gave his resolution more credence and breathing room to properly debate the role that Congress plays when it comes to authorizing both war and attacks abroad.

He said ahead of the vote on the Senate floor that he came to Washington to ensure that the country does not again get into another “unnecessary” war, and invoked the rush to approve war powers for President George W. Bush over two decades ago to engage with Iraq.

Yeah, lots of those Democrat Senators never had a problem when Obama embroiled the U.S. in Libya. And, the resolution is hilarious, since Trump basically bombed the bejesus out of Iran’s nuclear sites and then stopped. And got a ceasefire. And lambasted both Iran and Israel when it was broken. And is working to get a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. And got a peace deal between Congo and Rwanda.

Indeed, his resolution became a focal point for a debate that has raged on Capitol Hill since Israel began its bombing campaign against Iran: whether the strikes like those carried out during Operation Midnight Hammer constituted an act of war that required congressional approval, or if Trump’s decision was under his constitutional authority as commander in chief.

One none of these Democrats cared about under Obama or Biden. And the War Powers Resolution of 1973 gives POTUS the ability to engage in military operations like just occurred against Iran.

McConnell used instances where Democratic presidents over the last three decades have used their authority for limited engagements in Kosovo, Libya, Syria and Yemen, and questioned why “isolationists” would consider the strike on Iran to kneecap its nuclear program a mistake.

“I have not heard the frequent flyers on War Powers resolutions reckon seriously with these questions,” he said. “Until they do, efforts like this will remain divorced from both strategic and constitutional reality.”

In other words, you can’t have a hissy fit when Trump does it but not when Democrats do it.

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German Minister Upset Bon Climate (scam) Talks Did Not Include Spending More Taxpayer Money

By William Teach June 27, 2025 – 3:09 pm

Said taxpayer money would be spent in Other Countries, of course

German minister criticizes outcome of Bonn climate talks

German Environment Minister Carsten Schneider on Friday criticized the meagre outcome of this month’s international climate conference in the German city of Bonn, arguing that the result does not do justice to the seriousness of the situation.

The 10-day negotiations, which involved more than 5,000 delegates, were part of preparations for the UN Climate Change Conference set to take place in Brazil this November. The talks ended on Thursday without any significant progress.

Schneider lamented that old lines of conflict, such as north versus south and energy transition drivers against fossil fuel blockers, still dominate.

Hmm, 5,000 people who took some sort of fossil fueled travel?

“However, we can only get to grips with global warming if we work together. That’s why we need to leave the old conflicts behind us,” Schneider said.

Who says we want to, chump? Mind your own business.

Environmental organizations expressed disappointment at the sluggish pace of the negotiations in Bonn.

“I don’t want to sugarcoat it – we still have a lot to do before we meet again in Belem,” said UN Climate Chief Simon Stiell, referring to the World Climate Conference in Brazil.

Funny that this is the result of almost every climate meeting. But, hey, they get good working vacations which other people pay for, right?

Jeff Bezos sparks backlash after nearly 100 private jets arrive for Venice wedding: ‘A billionaire’s playground’

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez are getting married in Venice, and the three-day wedding celebration will bring in nearly 100 private jets and a guest list full of billionaires and celebrities, including Oprah and Leonardo DiCaprio, Mercury News reports.

Streets have been closed, boats rerouted, and security teams stationed across the city for the event, taking place from June 26-28. Now, people who live there — and plenty of others online — are calling the whole thing over-the-top and extremely out of touch.

Protesters from Greenpeace and the group “No Space for Bezos” have taken to the canals with a life-sized Bezos dummy and potentially some floating crocodiles, according to GB News. In St. Mark’s Square, the protestors hung a banner reading, “If you can rent Venice for your wedding, you can pay more tax.”

I wonder how many of those other folks flying in on private jets, aside from Bezos, DiCaprio, and Oprah, are Warmists? How about asking them for the money for the climate scam?

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 27, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is an area flooded by carbon pollution Bad Weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on an Iranian general getting all big and bad about Trump and Israel.

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SCOTUS Says Federal Judges Cannot Implement Nationwide Injunctions

By William Teach June 27, 2025 – 10:39 am

Before Democrats freak on this, they should remember that Republican federal judges could do this for Democrat presidents, and, do you really want that to happen?

Supreme Court limits nationwide injunctions, but fate of Trump birthright citizenship order unclear

A divided Supreme Court on Friday ruled that individual judges lack the authority to grant nationwide injunctions, but the decision left unclear the fate of President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship.

The outcome was a victory for the Republican president, who has complained about individual judges throwing up obstacles to his agenda.

But a conservative majority left open the possibility that the birthright citizenship changes could remain blocked nationwide. Trump’s order would deny citizenship to U.S.-born children of people who are in the country illegally.

Federal judges should only be allowed to rule for their areas, not make full nationwide pronouncements. That is the job of the Supreme Court. So, good ruling.

And, I have written before that it is really up to Congress to set the terms of birthright citizenship, not the Executive.

Oh, and

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DOGE Working With ATF To Remove Regulations, Gets A Full Audit Of USAID

By William Teach June 27, 2025 – 10:30 am

Donald Trump has never liked unnecessary regulations, regulations for the sake of regulations, and ATF is now up

DOGE enters ATF with mandate to slash gun regulations

The U.S. DOGE Service has sent staff to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives with the goal of revising or eliminating dozens of rules and gun restrictions by July 4, according to multiple people with knowledge of the efforts, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss plans that have not been made public.

The initial target was to change 47 regulations, an apparent reference to Donald Trump’s status as the 47th president of the United States, two of the people said. But ATF and DOGE staffers are now poised to exceed that goal, with upward of 50 changes planned.

The revisions are part of a seismic shift unfolding at ATF as the Trump administration proposes slashing the law enforcement agency’s budget and dramatically reducing the number of inspectors who ensure that gun sellers are in compliance with federal laws. Some Republicans in Congress have called for abolishing the agency altogether, and Attorney General Pam Bondi has said she wants to merge ATF with the Drug Enforcement Administration.

If the plans are enacted, it would be a major win for pro-gun advocacy groups, who have long claimed ATF is an agency with too many gun regulations that tramples on Second Amendment rights. Gun-control advocates fear that the changes afoot at ATF will more easily allow potentially dangerous people to obtain weapons with little recourse.

“As Attorney General Bondi has made clear, ATF is working hard to reduce regulatory red tape that burdens lawful gun owners and to ensure agents are doing real police work hunting down criminals and gang members — not knocking on the doors of lawful gun owners in the middle of the night,” said Chad Gil Martin, a spokesman for the Justice Department, which oversees ATF.

What regulations get slashed? I guess we’ll see. The Washington Post tried a bit of fear mongering, but, really, ATF was created in 1972. We didn’t need it before that. Let states inspect gun stores and stuff.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump admin takes action after massive fraud uncovered at agency Dems tried to protect from DOGE

Following the uncovering of a massive bribery scandal at USAID, the Small Business Administration (SBA) is ordering a full audit of all government contracting officers who have exercised grant-awarding authority under the agency’s business development program over the last 15 years.

In a letter obtained by Fox News Digital, SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler said the scale of the USAID fraud is a “damning reflection of systemic failures in oversight and accountability.” She further said that the fraud “was not an isolated incident.”

In response, Loeffler instructed Associate Administrator Tre Pennie, who oversees government contracts awarded by SBA, to “act decisively” to crack down on any potential similar abuses in the agency.

Loeffler instructed Pennie to immediately initiate a full-scale audit of the agency’s awarding officers back to 2010.

A lot of people, both USAID employees and those who received money from USAID, better lawyer up. The auditors are most likely going to find lots of fraud and graft. People putting lots of money in their pockets, as well as shifting the money where it was not meant to go.

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Climate Cult Trying New Type Of Climalawfare Against EPA

By William Teach June 27, 2025 – 7:00 am

Why don’t these Warmists just spend their own money? There are lots of rich Hollywood and tech folks who say they care, right?

Climate movement strikes back with first-of-its-kind class action lawsuit against EPA

When Donald Trump won reelection, Jennifer Hadayia knew she’d need a good lawyer. As the executive director of Air Alliance Houston, an environmental nonprofit advocacy organization that works to reduce the risks of air pollution on public health, she had fought the first Trump administration in court already on a variety of issues.

But when Lee Zeldin, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, began terminating environmental justice grants awarded by the Biden-era EPA in January and announced “the greatest day of deregulation” in mid-March to dismantle dozens of environmental policies, Hadaiya was gobsmacked: “We are in the very worst possible situation to couple regulatory rollbacks with funding decimation.”

Hadayia isn’t the only one in this position. Zeldin’s immediate termination of some $3 billion from the Environmental and Climate Justice block program impacted 350 environmental organizations, cities and tribes that all saw their grants evaporate without warning.

The law didn’t say WHO would get the money, and the Trump admin is under no obligation to dole it out to these groups that Biden and his people loved. Maybe Trump’s EPA will give the money to companies that won’t palm a boatload of the money before doling it out to other groups who take their cut before giving it to other NGOs who can actually do the work.

Rather than sue the agency on its own, as many others are currently doing, Air Alliance Houston will be trying a new legal tactic: joining a first-of-its-kind proposed class action lawsuit against the EPA and Zeldin to restore funding.

“We’re not in it just for us,” Hadayia told CBS News, “Communities across the country that were  selected for these funds all have needs. The class action benefits the greater good.”

Projects get cancelled. They are not entitled to the money. The money does need to be spent, how about picking a company which can actually do the work and use the vast majority for the intended recipients. Actually help some, instead of using taxpayer money as a slush fund.

Air Alliance Houston was awarded a $3.1-million “community change grant” by the Biden EPA in 2024 to expand a program it created to bring more transparency to the Texas state environmental permitting process. The program, called Air Mail, tracks permits for pollution and alerts communities in Harris County, Texas, when a company requests a permit, so people know what may be emitted into the air and water near their home. Hadayia planned to expand the program to 10 other counties in Texas.

Now, seriously, that is a complete bullshit waste of taxpayer funds. This really does nothing. It really helps no one. Looks like a shell game. And I really wish the EPA would audit those who already got their funds.

Jillian Blanchard, a vice president at the Climate Change and Environmental Justice program at Lawyers for Good Government, called the termination of the EPA grants “unconstitutional” and said in a statement it was “not only destabilizing local projects addressing pollution, public health, and climate resilience,” but also violates “core principles of administrative law and the separation of powers.”

There’s nothing in the Constitution that says general appropriations have to go to specific companies. Again, the law says it has to be spent, but, not whom.

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SCOTUS Rules Illegals Have 30 Days To Appeal After Final Repatriation Order

By William Teach June 27, 2025 – 6:45 am

I’m not sure why illegals/fake asylum seekers have any time at all to appeal once there is a final order

Supreme Court sides against migrant in deportation case

The Supreme Court installed a tighter timeline for removable migrants to challenge their deportations as part of its decision on Thursday in a case involving a Jamaican immigrant who had tried to avoid being sent back to his home country.

The Supreme Court found that once migrants receive a final order of removal, a 30-day window for them to seek review of that order is triggered.

The ruling was roughly 5-4, with the three liberal justices dissenting and Justice Neil Gorsuch joining most of the dissent.

Pierre Riley, the Jamaican national at the center of the case, had followed the law and challenged his final removal order in the immigration court system. But when he attempted to seek review from the appellate court of the immigration court findings, the appellate court said its hands were tied because it had been more than a year since Riley had received his initial removal orders.

IMO, once they have a final order, they should be deported, and, if they want to appeal being unlawfully present in the U.S. they can do it outside of the U.S.

Riley came to the United States on a six-month visa three decades ago. He never left, was arrested and convicted of drug felonies, and served in prison until 2021.

What the heck is there to appeal? Overstayed his visa. Civil crime for which the penalty is deportation. Convicted of felonies. Deportation. What else can he say? The law is pretty clear.

In this case, Riley argued to an immigration court that although he was removable, returning to Jamaica would put his life at risk, because a drug kingpin there had killed two of his cousins and would likely go after him, too.

First, that is not our problem. Second, pick a country and go if you do not want Jamaica.

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UN Climate Cultists Agree To 10% Increase In Budget

By William Teach June 26, 2025 – 3:04 pm

I can guarantee they aren’t getting it from the Trump administration

Countries agree 10% increase for UN climate budget

Countries agreed on Thursday to increase the U.N. climate body’s budget by 10% for the next two years, a move the body welcomed as a commitment by governments to work together to address on climate change, with China’s contribution rising.

The deal, agreed by nearly 200 countries – from Japan to Saudi Arabia, to small island nations like Fiji – at U.N. climate negotiations in Bonn, comes despite major funding cuts at other U.N. agencies, triggered in part by the U.S. slashing its contributions, and political pushback on ambitious climate policies in European countries.

Countries agreed to a core budget of 81.5 million euros for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) over 2026-2027, up 10% from 2024-2025. The core budget is funded by government contributions.

The deal includes an increase in China’s contribution, reflecting the country’s economic growth. China, the world’s second-biggest economy, would cover 20% of the new budget, up from 15% previously.

Only the United States, the world’s biggest economy, was allocated a bigger share, of 22%. However, President Donald Trump quit the U.N. Paris climate agreement and halted international climate funding. Bloomberg Philanthropies has pledged to cover the U.S. contribution to the UNFCCC budget.

Yeah, they can think Trump is going to do that, they’ll be lucky if they get 1%. A big question is “what is being done with the money?” Because they really do not like to say where it goes. Is it actually helping the people it’s supposed to, or, does it just end up in the pockets of people, with a pittance being spent on the intended purpose?

Meanwhile, the U.N. Secretariat, the global body’s executive arm, is preparing to slash its $3.7 billion budget by 20%, according to an internal memo.

Maybe they should spend less on the scam.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 26, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a bush that will soon grow in the Arctic, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post on the BBC celebrating the sale of heat pump.

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