If All You See…

By William Teach April 29, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible plastic straw causing the world to burn, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Animal Magnetism, with a post student loan news.

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Even CNN Notices That They Economy Is Not Good

By William Teach April 29, 2022 – 10:30 am

CNN’s Chris Cillizza isn’t particularly concerned with the problems for average Americans, it’s more about concern for Democrats retaining power

Today is a disastrous day for Democrats’ 2022 chances

Joe Biden Ice Cream AfghanistanThe news that the US economy unexpectedly shrank over the first quarter of the year is an absolute body blow to Democrats already reeling amid growing economic concerns ahead of the 2022 midterm election.

The country’s gross domestic product fell at an annualized rate of 1.4% between January and March — a stunning reversal from the 6.9% GDP growth that the US recorded in the final quarter of 2021. (The GDP is seen as a broad guide to the overall health of a nation’s economy.)

And in a decidedly ill omen, the GDP shrinkage was the worst performance of the measure since the economy went into recession amid the shutting down of the country in the spring of 2020.

Addressing recession fears on Thursday, President Joe Biden said: “Well, I’m not concerned about recession. I mean, you’re always concerned about recession, but the GDP, you know, fell to 1.4%.”

On one hand, it’s expected that presidents stay positive, as going negative can cause bad reactions in the economy. On the other hand, Biden’s not worried because it won’t effect him, nor the big shots who donate.

The GDP news comes on the heels of newly released polling data from Gallup that suggested that economy confidence is extremely low among the American public.

More than four in ten (42%) of Americans said that economic conditions in America were “poor,” while another 38% said that they were only “fair” in Gallup’s April survey. Just 2% said economic conditions were “excellent,” while 18% said they were “good.”)

More than three in four — 76% — of Americans said that the economy was getting worse, compared to 20% who said it was improving.

Considering you’d be hard pressed to find a realistic article showing that the economy is getting better, those 76% are correct, especially as they see it in their own lives.

The 7th store was the charm. A couple weeks ago I had to hit 3 Lowe’s grocery stores to try and find the Lipton decaf tea mix I like (I mostly avoid caffeine, gives me migraines, don’t need caffeine, and do not like to be that jacked up at night), ended up 25 minutes from home.

The economy — as you might expect from those desultory numbers — is a top-of-mind issue for many Americans. Around four in 10 Americans told Gallup that economic issues were the biggest problem facing the country, with inflation topping that list. (The Consumer Price Index hit 8.5% in March, the highest that number has been in 40 years.)

Add all of those factors up, and you get an absolutely toxic political environment facing Biden and Democrats as they prepare to defend their House and Senate majorities in November.

See? It’s all about how bad it is for Biden and the Democrats, not that you’re paying a lot more for food, energy, having a tough time finding products.

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Your Fault: ‘Climate Change’ Might Fuel Future Pandemics

By William Teach April 29, 2022 – 7:00 am

Of course, this is way in the future, and, you’re willing to give up your money and freedom to stop this, right?

‘Potentially devastating’: Climate crisis may fuel future pandemics

There will be at least 15,000 instances of viruses leaping between species over the next 50 years, with the climate crisis helping fuel a “potentially devastating” spread of disease that will imperil animals and people and risk further pandemics, researchers have warned.

As the planet heats up, many animal species will be forced to move into new areas to find suitable conditions. They will bring their parasites and pathogens with them, causing them to spread between species that haven’t interacted before. This will heighten the risk of what is called “zoonotic spillover”, where viruses transfer from animals to people, potentially triggering another pandemic of the magnitude of Covid-19.

The inference here is that the climate crisis (scam) had something to do with Wuhan Flu, rather than someone screwing around with coronaviruses in a lab.

“As the world changes, the face of disease will change too,” said Gregory Albery, an expert in disease ecology at Georgetown University and co-author of the paper, published in Nature. “This work provides more incontrovertible evidence that the coming decades will not only be hotter, but sicker.

“We have demonstrated a novel and potentially devastating mechanism for disease emergence that could threaten the health of animals in the future and will likely have ramifications for us, too.”

Albery said that climate change is “shaking ecosystems to their core” and causing interactions between species that are already likely to be spreading viruses. He said that even drastic action to address global heating now won’t be enough to halt the risk of spillover events.

It’s always some sort of doom with these people, bases on cult dogma and computer models.

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White House Seems Surprised That Anyone Would Oppose A Ministry Of Truth

By William Teach April 29, 2022 – 6:45 am

Seriously, who would possibly be opposed to a government “board” cracking down on the free speech of citizens that the government disagrees with?

White House defends DHS ‘disinformation’ board: ‘Not sure who opposes that effort’

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday defended a recently-announced Department of Homeland Security effort to combat “disinformation” on issues related to COVID-19 and elections.

Asked by Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich for more information what DHS’ Disinformation Governance Board would be doing specifically, Psaki said, “I really haven’t dug into this exactly, I mean, we of course support this effort but let me see if I can get more specifics.”

The White House announced its support for an effort from the DHS to crack down on what it considers to be online disinformation.

“We know there has been a range of [disinformation] out there about a range of topics, I mean, including COVID for example, and also elections and eligibility,” Psaki said, adding that she would check for additional information on what the board plans to do.

Why does the WH press secretary seem to not have much of an idea what the WH is doing? Isn’t that her job? Oh, she’s intentionally hiding what the Biden administration is doing.

Asked by Heinrich about prior statements made by Jankowicz and how the administration can “assuage concerns” over her appointment to lead the effort fairly, Psaki responded, “It sounds like the objective of the board is to prevent disinformation and misinformation from traveling around the country in a range of communities. I’m not sure who opposes that effort.”

That’s really not the government’s job, especially since we all know it will be about going after Wrongthink.

“Rather than police our border, Homeland Security has decided to make policing Americans’ speech its top priority,” Republican Sen. Josh Hawley wrote in a tweet. “They’re creating a Disinformation Board. No, really. And take a look at the views of the leftist radical running it.”

No one has a problem with a board of unelected, beyond partisan bureaucrats policing American’s speech, right?

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Climate Cult Prognosticates Double The Number Of Major Hurricanes And Typhoons By 2050

By William Teach April 28, 2022 – 3:00 pm

Pretty much all of their prognostications on tropical systems have failed, so, why not one more? Especially putting it out 28 years

Climate change could double the number of major hurricanes and typhoons by 2050, study finds

Thanks to climate change, the number of hurricanes and typhoons rated as Category 3 storms and higher could double by the year 2050, a new study concludes.

Using computer modeling, the study, which was published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, concluded that, as global air and water temperatures continue to rise due to excess greenhouse gas emissions, the increase in the number of major hurricanes and typhoons will affect a larger number of people.

Computer models? That’s a joke, right?

According to the new study, climate change will help increase the wind speeds of major hurricanes by as much as 20% over the next 28 years, as well as the overall frequency of Category 4 and 5 storms by more than 200% in some parts of the world.

“Our results also reemphasize that regions that currently have a (very) low risk could start to be really impacted by tropical cyclones under climate change,” Nadia Bloemendaal, a climate scientist at the University of Amsterdam and the study’s lead author, told CNN. “We found it shocking to see the disproportionate amount of developing countries at risk for future climate change.”

Who’s held responsible if this fails to materialize? Oh, right, no one will remember this in 2050, it’s meant to scare people now to Do Something. Things that the Warmists won’t do voluntarily in their own lives.

Meanwhile

Broken climate promises

The world observed Earth Day for the 52nd time last week, but there was a shadow on the celebration. Earlier in the month, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its latest report on efforts to stop global warming. It showed a “litany of broken climate promises” was “putting us on track towards an unlivable world,” in the words of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

The report is an indictment of governments, corporations and investors who have signed on to the “net-zero carbon” goal but have put little or no concrete effort behind their pledges. “Government and business are saying one thing and doing another,” Guterres said. “Simply put, they are lying.”

Who’s surprised? Most Warmists fail to keep to their pledges. Citizens might clamor for them, but, once instituted, they are not happy with the effects on their own lives. They thought all the bad stuff would apply to Other People. Corporations and investors are going to care about their bottom lines.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 28, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea that’s rising and flooding the land, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jo Nova, with a post on China boosting their coal use despite ‘climate change’ pledges. Who saw that coming, right?

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Moonbat Group Petitions FCC To Block Musk’s Twitter Purchase, Gets Shot Down

By William Teach April 28, 2022 – 10:30 am

I guess the Federal Communications Commission could sorta maybe have something to do with a social media platform in terms of purchases, but, as usual, a Leftist group went bat guano insane

FCC commissioner shoots down ‘absurd’ claim that the federal government can block Musk’s Twitter purchase

Brendan Carr, a commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), rejected a left-leaning organization’s claim that the FCC has the authority to block Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, in part because Musk also owns Starlink.

After Twitter accepted Musk’s $44 billion offer Monday, the Open Markets Institute warned that the deal represents a threat to “American democracy and free speech,” suggested the deal is illegal, and argued that the federal government has the power to block it.

“The Open Markets Institute believes the deal poses a number of immediate and direct threats to American democracy and free speech,” OMI Director Barry Lynn said in a statement. “Open Markets also believes the deal violates existing law, and that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have ample authority to block it.”

A threat to democracy? Really? This has become a kneejerk response from American moonbats to anything they disagree with, even though a) we do not have a democracy and b) there’s zero threat except in their moonbat minds. Take a look at the news media in other countries. You aren’t seeing the same hysteria about the purchase of Twitter in Britain, France, Germany, or anywhere else. A threat to free speech? Yes, Progressives do see having more free speech as a threat to free speech.

Lynn ended the letter by encouraging the federal government not just to block Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, but to regulate Facebook, Google, and Amazon by firmly reestablishing “clear bans on any manipulation of communications by essential platforms, and to eliminate all business models that rely on such manipulation.”

See, what OMI really wants is government control of those companies, meaning that far left bureaucrats will set the terms for manipulation.

Brendan Carr, a Trump-appointed FCC commissioner, shot down Lynn’s claim as “absurd.”

“The FCC has no authority to block Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, and to suggest otherwise is absurd,” Carr said in a statement Wednesday. “I would welcome the full FCC making it clear that we will not entertain these types of frivolous arguments.”

It is absurd, it is frivolous. OMI barely makes a decent argument, you can feel Lynn screeching while typing it. The article includes some of the letter, but, really needed this whole paragraph

The most obvious problem is that the deal would give to a single man – one who already wields immense political and economic power – direct control over one of world’s most important platforms for public communications and debate. As has been true from the Founding, the American people have an absolute right to ensure the full openness and neutrality of all essential public infrastructure. Specific to communications, we see this in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, in the Telegraph acts of 1860 and 1866, the Mann-Elkins Act of 1910, the Communications Act of 1934, and many other federal and state laws. Americans have also repeatedly used our antitrust laws to prevent concentrations of power over communications, speech, debate, and news.

Interestingly, the same moonbats, including OMI, have had no problem with the way Twitter and others censor those they disagree with. The bigger one is calling Twitter, and the others, “public infrastructure.” They really do think it’s essential to government. That it should be run by government. Loony tunes.

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John Kerry, Who Served In Vietnam, Wants World Leaders To Step Up On Climate Crisis (scam)

By William Teach April 28, 2022 – 7:15 am

World leaders are welcome to practice what they preach in their own lives

Kerry warns world will blow through critical climate change threshold unless global leaders step up

John Kerry climateUS Climate Envoy John Kerry warned Wednesday that world leaders will blow through a critical climate-change threshold unless they dramatically accelerate the transition to clean energy.

“Let me be absolutely clear: we’re heading to well over 2 degrees right now — 2.7, or something like that,” Kerry said, speaking at Foreign Policy magazine’s Climate Summit.

Kerry added that if the commitments made at COP26 in Glasgow are implemented over the next eight or nine years, “the International Energy Agency tells us we would be at 1.8 degrees of warming by 2050, and that’s a huge step forward.” (big snip to end)

Kerry said that the private sector needs signals and investments from the government to speed the energy transition.

“They need signals from the government — a tax credit, an incentive,” Kerry said. “They need to know the demand is real and it’s going to be implemented. This is an exciting, transformational moment where we’re really at the brink of a new industrial revolution.”

By signals, he means Government implementing all sorts of restrictions and taxes on companies and citizens while the big wigs run around the world on private jets, drive around in big gas guzzling limos, and generally live the good life they’ll deny to the peons.

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LGB Sets Up Disinformation Governance Board

By William Teach April 28, 2022 – 7:00 am

It was set up in secret. For all those liberals cheering this, just remember, this could be used against you, Comrade.

Did Congress authorize this?

Biden sets up toothless ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ to combat midterm fake news headed by Russia ‘expert’ who called Hunter’s laptop a ‘Trump campaign product’ and spoke out AGAINST free speech

President Biden has set up a toothless ‘disinformation’ board headed-up by a woke so-called expert who’s against free speech and tried to pour cold water on the Hunter laptop scandal.

Nina Jankowicz will head The Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board as executive director, Politico Playbook reported Wednesday morning.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandor Mayorkas did not disclose any powers that would be granted to the dystopian-sounding board while addressing lawmakers on Wednesday.

He explained that the board would work to tackle disinformation ahead of the November midterms, particularly in Hispanic communities.

But Mayorkas did say that the new board would come under the Biden-era Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3), meaning it would have no powers to crack down on disinformation and will instead try to combat it by throwing money at what it sees as problems.

Yes, it is rather dystopian. Sounds like something China or Russia would come up with. The Government has no Constitutional authority to regulate free speech. Have these people read the 1st Amendment?

The (CP3) program provides communities with resources and tools to help prevent individuals from radicalizing to violence. Last year, CP3 awarded about $20 million in grants through its Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program.

Yeah, most of the violence came from the same people voting Democrat.

Jankowicz also suggested last week that she opposes the The First Amendment because she thinks it is bad for ‘marginalized communities’ and called Elon Musk a ‘free speech absolutist’ because he wants to make Twitter more open to all voices.

Shouldn’t someone in charge of a “board” like this need to be confirmed by Congress? The GOP is going to have quite a bit on their plate when investigating the Biden admin, including this bit of insanity. I wonder if any Free Speech group will sue over the creating of this board?

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Good News, There’s Only Eight Years Left

By William Teach April 27, 2022 – 3:00 pm

Say, what happens in 8 years if Doom doesn’t arrive? Who gets held responsible for the scaremongering prognostications?

“Eight years left to turn the ship”: Scientists share how climate change could change daily life

Earlier this month, more than 300 people in South Africa were killed as record rainfall washed away buildings and infrastructure in the Kwa-Zulu Natal province. A day earlier, dozens were killed in the Philippines after tropical storm Megi spurred landslides and floods.

The world is rapidly shifting — and the impact of human-caused climate change is increasingly evident.

“We’re in a very different place now from where we were even just a couple decades ago,” atmospheric physicist Alex Hall, director of the UCLA Center of Climate Science, told CBS News.

Just wondering, how does this compare to the previous Holocene warm periods? It’s rather important information to know for comparison. Further, there’s always going to be some sort of record rainfall, and putting buildings in areas means the water has nowhere to go, creating landslides.

This is why experts say carbon emissions must be addressed immediately. Carbon dioxide is the most abundant of the greenhouse gases — a set of gases that in large quantities create a sort of heavy blanket in the atmosphere that traps heat on Earth. In 2020, carbon dioxide accounted for roughly 79% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S., according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Failure to limit this gas over the next eight years, the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warned, will bring about so much warming that the 2030s will bring “extreme events unprecedented in the observational record.”

And it’s a grim future in store if we don’t take action swiftly.

Grim! It’s so grim that almost no climate scientists have given up their fossil fueled travel, moved into tiny homes, etc and so on. And, what will they say when Doom doesn’t arrive in 2030?

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