Biden To Waive Sanctions So Russia Can Build Iran A Nuclear Power Station

By William Teach March 17, 2022 – 10:30 am

Why is Biden, along with his people, so desperate to get a deal with Iran? Does he think this will make him look good? It didn’t really help Obama. Does he think it will help his poll numbers? Does he think the American people are clamoring to do a deal with Iran? Most Americans understand that Iran will backslide on the deal the minute the ink dries. And, he’s helping Russia

From the link

Russia’s top state-controlled energy company is set to cash in on a $10 billion contract to build out one of Iran’s most contested nuclear sites as part of concessions granted in the soon-to-be-announced nuclear agreement that will guarantee sanctions on both countries are lifted.

Russian and Iranian documents translated for the Washington Free Beacon show that Rosatom, Russia’s leading energy company, has a $10 billion contract with Iran’s atomic energy organization to expand Tehran’s Bushehr nuclear plant. Russia and the Biden administration confirmed on Tuesday that the new nuclear agreement includes carveouts that will waive sanctions on both countries so that Russia can make good on this contract.

“We, of course, would not sanction Russian participation in nuclear projects that are part of resuming full implementation of the JCPOA,” State Department spokesman Ned Price confirmed on Tuesday, referring to the original 2015 nuclear accord. Russia’s foreign ministry made a similar statement on Tuesday, saying that “additions were made to the text of the future agreement on JCPOA restoration to ensure that all the JCPOA-related projects, [especially] with Russian participation, as well as Bushehr [nuclear power plant], are protected from negative impact of anti-Russian restrictions” by the United States and European Union.

The removal of these sanctions will provide Moscow’s Rosatom company with a critical source of revenue as American and European sanctions crush Russia’s economy in response to its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. The concessions to Moscow have generated frustration on Capitol Hill, with top Republican leaders accusing the Biden administration of weakening penalties on Russia to secure an agreement with Iran. Moscow has served as the United States’ top interlocutor in talks, even as the country’s war machine rolls across Ukraine. The Free Beacon first reported on Tuesday that a policy document circulating among lawmakers exposes how the new nuclear agreement will create a “sanctions evasion hub” for Russian president Vladimir Putin.

Good job, Brandon! You’re helping Russia and Iran. In the article this is called “throwing a life line” to Russia, as most 1st World nations have isolated Russia economically. Why is this deal with Iran so damned important? How does this help the United States? Does he think Iran will suddenly stop chanting “Death To America”?

If it was Trump pushing the deal we’d be hearing about him being a Russian asset, right? Biden is literally trying to enrich Russia while demonizing them for invading Ukraine. He’s actively working to make our enemies stronger.

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Oops? What’s Joe’s stake in this?

Oh, and, apparently, Joe wants to remove sanctions in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

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New And Hot: Electric Vehicle Owners Need To Pay Their Fair Share

By William Teach March 17, 2022 – 7:15 am

You knew this was coming, right? Back when Obama was president, he and the other Warmists were pushing hybrids hard, but, because they used a lot less gas, there was a big loss of gas tax revenue, so, they were pimping all sorts of fees and schemes to nail those hybrid owners who were saving money at the pump. Now we get the same thing for EVs

Electric vehicle owners have to contribute their fair share for roads

Electric vehicleMinnesota has seen yearly increases in electric vehicle sales, with the main selling point of these cars being that owners don’t have to pay for gas, they don’t have to pay added fees for charging and gas taxes will never affect them. That has led to a decrease in transportation revenue as the use of gas vehicles drops. We know that electric vehicles are the trend of the future, and they are already benefitting from our roads and bridges — electric vehicle owners simply need to pay their fair share for doing so.

Last year I introduced a bill that taxes charging stations, treating these charges as “electric fuel.” This would allow us to collect fuel tax dollars from electric vehicles just like we do our gas counterparts. Gas taxes are currently collected at the refinery, not the pumps. It only makes sense that we take this model and apply it to electric vehicle charging as well. This is an issue that will have long-term effects on our infrastructure funding as we head into the future. We need to start thinking about this now, before we see a rapid increase of charging station installations throughout the state.

That being said, we don’t want to double-tax folks either. With this plan, we will also repeal the $75 surcharge on electric vehicles. We also plan to exempt transit providers, medical assistance providers and ambulances.

Save money by not using gas! Give government money after they forced you into an EV that you can’t afford! This is by state senator Jeff Howe, R-Rockwell.

In fairness, I have no idea what he thinks on the subject of anthropogenic climate change. He doesn’t seem to have a webpage other than Facebook, which tells us nothing. He has voted against many climate scam bills in the Minnesota legislature. Maybe he’s trying to make a subtle point about the EV push? That said, sooner or later the Warmists themselves will start pushing the same thing, as the money for roads and bridges and such dries up as gasoline tax dries up, and someone has to piny up, right? This is inevitable, especially since all that tax money leads to lots of pork projects, graft, hooking frinds and family up, right?

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Good News: Media Exposes Secret CIA Program In Ukraine (which Biden scuttled)

By William Teach March 17, 2022 – 7:00 am

This is a Yahoo News exclusive, which, interestingly, no one else is really picking up. Could it be due to a responsibility to not broadcast secret material, or something else?

Exclusive: Secret CIA training program in Ukraine helped Kyiv prepare for Russian invasion

Ukrainian snipers had a problem: Russian forces in eastern Ukraine were trying to blind them.

As the Ukrainians were looking through their scopes in order to find their targets, the Russians had begun pinpointing their location using the glare of the glass, and were shooting high-energy lasers into them, damaging the snipers’ eyesight.

The two sides were squaring off in close proximity. In early 2014, Russia had already invaded and annexed Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula. Shortly thereafter, pro-Russia insurgents in the eastern Donbas region began a grinding secessionist war against Kyiv.

Russian troops soon entered the fray. So, quietly, did the CIA.

As the battle lines hardened in Donbas, a small, select group of veteran CIA paramilitaries made their first secret trips to the frontlines to meet with Ukrainian counterparts there, according to former U.S. officials.

CIA paramilitaries soon concluded that, in Russia and its proxies, the agency was facing an adversary whose capabilities far outmatched the Islamist groups that CIA had been battling in the post-9/11 wars. “We learned a lot real quick,” says a former senior intelligence official — including about the Russians’ laser-blinding techniques. “That s*** wouldn’t happen with the Taliban.”

The Ukrainian military has claimed to have killed three Russian generals, including at least one reportedly eliminated by sniper fire. (Yahoo News could not independently verify whether the Russian commanders were killed by CIA-trained troops.)

The CIA was spending a lot of time in Ukraine training snipers, working to overcome the obstacles presented by well trained Russian troops with high tech capabilities, and more

As part of the Ukraine-based training program, CIA paramilitaries taught their Ukrainian counterparts sniper techniques; how to operate U.S.-supplied Javelin anti-tank missiles and other equipment; how to evade digital tracking the Russians used to pinpoint the location of Ukrainian troops, which had left them vulnerable to attacks by artillery; how to use covert communications tools; and how to remain undetected in the war zone while also drawing out Russian and insurgent forces from their positions, among other skills, according to former officials.

Sounds like a good operation. It’s certainly helped Ukraine fight back, eh? Perhaps Yahoo News should have scuttled essentially telling the Russians all about the secret program, which they say was verified by many, many unnamed sources. The piece spends many, many paragraphs describing all the training the CIA provided, well worth the read. Good of Obama to greenlight the program (if he even knew about it, since he seemed to find out most things from the media). The job was to train and advise, not engage Russians, to make the Ukrainians more effective. The Trump admin was concerned about the potential for direct confrontation, but, still kept it. But

The Ukraine-based CIA program operated for years, according to former officials. But as the threat of a large-scale Russian invasion became increasingly acute last month, the Biden administration, still feeling the sting of the Afghanistan withdrawal, pulled all CIA personnel out of the country, including war-zone-hardened agency paramilitaries, according to a former intelligence official in close touch with colleagues in U.S. government.

The administration was “terrified of even clandestine folks being on the frontline,” says the former official.

Run away, run away! I wonder of Biden even knew about it till last month?

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Secretary Granholm Pimps “Clean Energy” Because Of War In Ukraine

By William Teach March 16, 2022 – 3:00 pm

Democrats know how to take advantage of a crisis, and the climate cultists even more so. It matters not a whit if it hurts citizens, because this is Progressivism, ie, nice Fascism. They’re doing this For Your Own Good, whether you want it or not

Well, that’s interesting, and, might have some power if these people ever practiced what they preached

(Energy.gov) On Friday, March 11, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm traveled to Mid Michigan to highlight the importance of achieving energy independence through clean energy, strong and secure domestic supply chains, and American manufacturing. The Secretary was joined by U.S. Representative Dan Kildee (MI-05), Chief Deputy Whip of the House Democratic Caucus, to tour Xalt Energy and Hemlock Semiconductor Operations. The visit highlighted the Biden Administration’s ongoing efforts to lower energy costs for American communities, combat the climate crisis, and generate clean energy jobs through an equitable clean energy transition.

And how did she travel there? Surely she took the train, right? It’s a mere 21 hours or so to get there, then she could bike or take the bus to get around, right?

Later, Granholm told reporters solar is the cheapest form of energy. As an example, she compared electricity costs to the current high gas prices to fill up her car.

“It would cost me, if I had to fill it up at a gas station, it would cost me 65 bucks. Maybe,” said Granholm, “If I plug it into my garage, it would cost about $12 to go the same distance.”

Does Granholm actually drive an EV? She supposedly leases Chevy Volts. But, they are not an EV. They are a plugin hybrid. Which were discontinued in 2019. So, what now? Who wants to bet she traveled around Michigan in a fossil fueled SUV? Let’s also not forget that she has vast investments in an EV battery company.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 16, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…are tropical plants which will soon grow in Greenland from climate crisis, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Climate Change Dispatch, with a post on a study showing that the “CO2 drives warming” theory is obsolete and inaccurate.

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FSB Whistleblower Says China Had Plans To Invade Taiwan

By William Teach March 16, 2022 – 10:30 am

Is this real? Is it something? Could it still be on, since Joe is rather ineffective?

Ukraine war upended China’s plan to invade Taiwan, alleged FSB whistleblower says

China Votes BidenRussia’s invasion of Ukraine upended Chinese President Xi Jinping’s timetable to invade Taiwan, according to documents purportedly written by a Russian intelligence analyst in one of Moscow’s security agencies.

“Xi Jinping was at least considering taking over Taiwan in the fall – he needs his own little victory to get re-elected for a third term – there the struggle within the elite is colossal,” an agent in Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor agency to the KGB, allegedly wrote on March 9. China will hold its 20th Communist Party Congress this fall, and Xi has said it will be a “major event.” Analysts have predicted that Xi will either be re-elected as the general secretary of the Communist Party or be elected to the chairmanship of the party, a position that has not existed since 1982.

“Now, after the Ukrainian events, this window of opportunity has been closed to him, which gives the United States the opportunity to both blackmail Xi and negotiate with its competitors on favorable terms,” the FSB agent added. “It was in this case that we launched a trap mechanism for China with our actions.”

The agent added that the FSB is “seriously considering” claiming that “the battle on Ukrainian territory is a US war against China, in which the Americans simply set us up and used us.”

“The global clash between the US and China was inevitable,” the agent wrote. “After the war with Ukraine (although I may avoid using the term ‘operation’ here), the cost of resources in the world, especially energy ones, has gone up. The main victim of such actions becomes China, to which (I can confirm) were given guarantees that everything will end quickly. Therefore, China behaved tolerant in the past. But that was before that.”

Many in the intelligence community are saying this is real

Vladimir Osechkin, founder of the Gulagu.net human rights group, published the report on his Facebook page last week. He claimed that the same FSB agent wrote this document and the March 5 report that claimed a Russian victory in Ukraine had become a near impossibility.

Christo Grozev, who works for the Netherlands-based investigative journalism group Bellingcat, tweeted that he showed the March 5 letter to two FSB contacts, one current and one former employee. They had no doubt that the author was a colleague, he said.

The question now, if this is real, is “does China scuttle their plans, or go ahead with them?” Because Joe doesn’t seem to have the backbone or ability to stop China from invading Taiwan, just like with Ukraine. And, does the U.S. want to go to war for Taiwan?

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White House Still Scaremongering On Wuhan Flu As Spending Bill Cuts COVID Money

By William Teach March 16, 2022 – 9:22 am

I’m not sure why Brandon and his people, along with Congressional Democrats, want to keep the doom and gloom from COVID going: more Americans died under Biden’s watch than Trump’s, and infection rates skyrocketed twice, one way higher than while Trump was president, despite knowing way more than in 2020, forcing masking, and all the vaccines, and way more infections than during 2020. You’d think would want to forget about that. But, he doesn’t

White House warns of ‘severe consequences’ as Congress cuts COVID aid

Biden Brain SlugAfter a prolonged back and forth, Congress passed a $1.5 trillion government spending bill last week but dropped from the final package $22.5 billion in pandemic relief that Democrats wanted to include.

On Tuesday, the same day as President Joe Biden signed the 2,741-page bill into law, his aides warned that the omission could “have severe consequences as we will not be equipped to deal with a future surge.”

The U.S. could soon run out of funding for COVID responses such as booster shots, treatments efforts, and tests if the legislation remains stuck in Congress, officials warned. The warning — which came in the form of a letter to Congressional leadership and a press release — focused on the possibility of future variants as current caseloads have dropped since the record-breaking omicron-fueled numbers from over the winter.

Vaccine “shortages will be even more acute if we need a variant-specific booster vaccine,” the White House noted. Moreover, Biden aides warned, a lack of funding could thwart efforts to develop a “pan-COVID vaccine” to stop a range of variants.

This is all being blamed on Republicans, of course, because that’s politics, forgetting that Democrats can pass just about anything they want in the House, as they have the majority, and same in Senate, as long as every Democrat votes “yes”.

The White House announced other consequences Tuesday including the canceling of plans to purchase additional monoclonal antibody treatments and the expiration of a fund that reimburses doctors caring for uninsured individuals.

That’s just spiteful, because he didn’t get his way. There’s certainly plenty of funds left from all the previous bills.

Republicans have been largely unified in opposing the funds. Sen. Richard Shelby (R- AL) sounded skeptical to Punchbowl News on Monday, saying: “If there’s a need for it and they can show there’s a need, you’d get — I think — overwhelming votes up here. But there’s a doubt there that they need this money, with a lot of us.”

Do we need it? How about getting rid of a lot of the wasteful spending in the bill. Most of the ‘climate change’ garbage could have been cut. If we need it, Congress does know they are able to pass a stand alone bill, right? Without all sorts of stupid stuff and pork?

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Helping: Democrats Want Brandon To Ban Drilling On Federal Land For Climate Scam

By William Teach March 16, 2022 – 9:00 am

Tone deaf, clueless, out of touch. Yet, none of the elected Democrats are giving up their own use of fossil fuels, eh? Oh, sure, a handful, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, bought electric vehicles (because they make a lot of money), but, they still take lots of fossil fueled flights

House Dems want Biden to declare national ‘climate emergency’ and ban oil drilling on federal lands

Progressive Democrats in the House of Representatives are reportedly planning to publicly urge President Biden to ban oil drilling on federal lands amid record gas prices and a war in Ukraine that has disrupted oil markets.

According to a report from Politico,  the Congressional Progressive Caucus is planning to demand that Biden use his executive power to declare climate change an emergency and ban drilling on federal lands.

“Progressive Caucus member @JaredHuffman told me calling on Biden to declare a climate emergency is one of the ‘centerpiece’ actions to headline their EO plan,” Politico reporter Joshua Siegel tweeted Tuesday. “A draft of the plan I saw also calls for Biden to ban oil/gas drilling on public lands and end fossil fuel subsidies.”

Siegel added that House Democrats will also call on Biden to manufacture more heat pumps to “ease the strain in oil and gas markets that has been caused by Russia’s war in Ukraine.” Some of those heat pumps would be donated to Europe, according to the House Progressives’ plan.

Can you ban drilling when the permits have already been approved? When they were essentially given a contract to do so? Does Brandon have the authority to unilaterally do so without Congress passing a law? Also, as you know, they are not subsidies, they are tax breaks, and almost all of them are not fossil fuels specific, but, are used by other countries.

The Progressive Caucus reads as a list of the nuttiest members of Congress, who fail to practice what they preach.

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California Apparently Has A “Criminal Tourism” Industry

By William Teach March 15, 2022 – 6:30 pm

Well, sure, why not? Their laws are extremely soft on crime, and unhinged leftist prosecutors will most likely let the perps go….but, there’s actually something else going on. The perps, if caught, will still be let go, though

“Criminal tourism” apparently plaguing well-off Northern California towns

Hillsborough, California — This quiet town has seen an increase in burglaries over the past four months and, reports CBS San Francisco, police say a specific group could be responsible.

Many of the sophisticated burglary crews are coming from South America for “criminal tourism” and targeting wealthy communities, according to a community alert sent Sunday.

Residential security video shows a suspect dropping to the ground before looking around at about midnight on March 11.

A getaway car pulls up as burglars carrying stolen property load up the vehicle. Police say the thieves also stole an SUV from the garage. Detectives announced Sunday they’d recovered the stolen car and processed it for evidence.

Did you catch that?

Police believe South American Theft Groups (SATG) often enter the U.S. legally and rotate members out of the country in a matter of weeks. Such crime rings were first investigated in Hillsborough in 2018. Suspects often use luxury cars to easily blend into their target communities, police said.

Because Democrats have made the border so easy to cross, so easy to enter the country, these groups come in, burglarize rich areas of California, and scoot. If caught, they can simply claim asylum, be released, and then leave the country. It is strange to blame them, though: that’s a long trip from South America to way up near San Francisco. Are they flying in? Driving across the border? Have any been caught? But, are all the groups from South America, or, just some? Could the rest be Americans looking to take advantage of the lax prosecution and “hate the rich” policies of the Democrats?

“I’ve been seeing more policemen driving around at night, people being more concerned recently; because I’m very young and drive a black van. Recently I was stopped by a woman thinking I was a burglar — thief — and asking me what I’m doing here,” said Hillsborough resident Matt Gouley.

And, because this is an affluent area (it’s just south of Poop City, er, San Francisco), there are more law enforcement officers deployed to the area.

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Green Push To Help Skyrocket UK Power Bills 14 Times Faster Than Wages

By William Teach March 15, 2022 – 3:00 pm

The green push isn’t 100% at fault, but, mostly at fault

UK Energy Bills to Rise 14 Times Faster than Wages Amid Green Push, Sanctions War

British energy bills look set to increase some 14 times faster than British wages in 2022, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has warned.

“[G]as and electricity bills are set to increase by 54 per cent when the price cap set by Ofgem is increased in April,” the umbrella organisation said at the weekend, referencing Britain’s Office of Gas and Electricity Markets regulator.

“[B]y contrast average weekly wages are set to rise by just 3.75 per cent per cent in 2022,” they added, suggesting that “record-high” bills could effectively wipe out people’s pay rises.

“[Y]ears of wage stagnation, and cuts to social security, have left millions badly exposed to sky-high bills,” commented the union body’s general secretary, Frances O’Grady.

“With households across Britain pushed to the brink, the government must do far more to help workers with crippling energy costs,” the trade unionist went on, suggesting a “windfall tax on oil and gas profits” and an increase in welfare benefits to tackle the crisis.

Britain’s oil and gas industry is not the cash cow it once was, however, with a notionally right-wing government increasingly obsessed with green policies and achieving “net-zero” having already allowed regulators to block the development of a major gas field in the North Sea.

So, of course the Progressives want to redistribute Other People’s money, rather than actually looking to fix the root causes.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson, going against his pre-premiership principles, has also continued the effective ban on the exploitation of Britain’s rich on-shore shale gas reserves instituted by fellow Conservative Party prime minister Theresa May — although Brexit minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has signalled that this may finally be reversed as the energy crisis worsens.

All the little people advocating that Government Do Something about the climate crisis scam should take a hard look, because this is what the policies lead to: sky high energy prices, which cause the cost of food, goods, and everything else to rise, while their wages and buying power decline.

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