Climate Cult Now Taking Control Of US Treasury Department

By William Teach December 18, 2021 – 7:00 am

All this means is that they’ll want more power at the federal level to control the financial sector

U.S. regulators flag climate change, stablecoins as potential systemic risks

Climate change, the rapid growth of “stablecoins” and financial innovations that led to frenzied trading of GameStop Corp shares early this year are threats to the U.S. financial system that merit closer scrutiny, a Treasury Department-led regulatory panel said on Friday.

In its annual report, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) added that while the U.S. economy has improved since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, risks to the financial system are higher than prior to the health crisis, with the outlook for global growth still uncertain.

The report marked the first time the body, which was created in the wake of the 2007-2009 financial crisis to spot looming threats, has flagged climate change as a major risk, reflecting President Joe Biden’s push to address rising global temperatures. (snip)

Similarly, the body reiterated concerns flagged in November that stablecoins, a fast-growing type of digital asset pegged to traditional currencies, could become a threat if widely adopted.

While that market is currently only worth about $127 billion, its market value has ballooned more than 500% over the past 12 months and may be vulnerable to runs if investors lose confidence in the asset class’s reliability, the FSOC said.

The body also noted a surge of volatility earlier this year sparked by retail investors, who coordinated on social media and used zero-commission trading apps to fuel sharp rises in a handful of stocks, including videogame maker GameStop.

While many, many, many articles are chatting up the ‘climate change’ portion, it sure looks like they really want to get control over the stablecoins as well as restrict those little retail investors. Can’t have the peons controlling stuff, you know.

But, they will start making inroads into implementing more controls, controlling your money and finances, your investments, everything they can get their grubby little mitts involved in.

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COVID Authoritarian Fail: Rockettes Cancel Christmas Spectacular Shows

By William Teach December 18, 2021 – 6:45 am

I’m actually surprised that the Wokesters haven’t destroyed the all women Radio City Rockettes by forcing them to have men and the gender confused, but, anyhow, they have been a staple since forever. I remember growing up in NJ and seeing the commercials every year before Christmas about the Christmas shows. It was basically an NYC tradition, going back to the beginning in 1933. Now? Despite all the Democrat voters following all their masking and vaccinations and stuff

COVID Crushes De Blasio’s New York: Rockettes Cancel All 2021 Shows, Broadway Cancels Performances

The Radio City Rockettes have canceled its Christmas Spectacular shows at New York’s Radio City Music Hall due to breakthrough COVID-19 cases among the dance group.

“We apologize for the inconvenience and will make announcements about future shows as soon as possible,” the official Twitter account for the Rockettes said. “Tickets will be refunded at the original point of purchase.”

Radio City Music Hall requires that guests ages 12 and older provide proof that they have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in order to attend events. Children ages 5 to 11 can attend events with a vaccinated adult and are required to provide proof that they have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

So, the performers are vaccinated, all the employees are vaxxed, and the audience must be vaxxed. They must show proof of vaccination, and, unless someone is fully vaccinated (two shots, 14 days), must wear a mask (which, in fairness, is less strict than here in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area). Yet, the Chinese coronavirus is raging through the performers.

Broadway’s Moulin Rouge! also canceled its Friday show due to a positive COVID-19 test from within the show’s company.

On Broadway, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” canceled its Wednesday matinee, “Tina” canceled two shows on Wednesday and “Hamilton” has called off shows through Friday night. “Ain’t Too Proud” scrapped its Tuesday performance and “Freestyle Love Supreme” canceled two performances. “Mrs. Doubtfire,” which just opened and has been dark since Sunday, intends to resume performances Tuesday. ??

So, all the COVID authoritarianism isn’t working, eh?

Meanwhile, Brandon finally won one. For the time being

Federal appeals court reinstates Biden administration’s business vaccine and testing mandate

A federal appeals court has reinstated the Biden administration’s vaccine and testing requirement for private businesses that covers about 80 million American workers.

The ruling by the 6th U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati lifted a November injunction that had blocked the rule from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which applies to businesses with at least 100 workers.

In the decision Friday, the 6th Circuit noted that OSHA has historical precedent for using wide discretion to ensure worker safety and “demonstrated the pervasive danger that COVID-19 poses to workers—unvaccinated workers in particular—in their workplaces.”

The only good part of the rule is that it says that if you’re vaccinated you have zero need to wear a mask indoors. Of course, that would probably require people showing their proof of vaccination. But, you can pet this is heading to the Supreme Court. The question is, how quickly?

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 17, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible carbon pollution infused beer, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jo Nova, with a post on the freedom protests scheduled for Saturday in Australia.

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Biden Economy: Shelves Are Continuing To Empty

By William Teach December 17, 2021 – 10:30 am

Hey, remember when this happened?

Besides forgetting that milk mostly comes from inside America, CNN refuted the idiotic, Elitist tweet. Of course, lots of Leftists took his side, trying to protect Brandon. A tiny bit over a month later, here’s USA Today (here’s the Yahoo link in case it’s behind the paywall)

Grocery store shelves bare? These products may be hard to find amid supply chain disruptions

Can’t find what you need at the store again? You’re not alone.

As the world reaches the two-year mark of the COVID-19 pandemic, more items are becoming scarce because of a supply chain shortage across the globe.

Supply chain concerns are a result of “record-level congestion at the Port of Los Angeles/Long Beach that has spread to the East Coast, the widespread power outages across China, shortages of truck drivers and service workers, and COVID-19-fueled infections and restrictions,” Tinglong Dai, a business professor at Johns Hopkins University, told USA TODAY in an email.

Shipping prices have skyrocketed, and demand for items has outpaced supplies.

Obvioiusly, they’re going to avoid any blame towards Biden. In fairness, the main culprit is China, for releasing, intentionally or unintentionally, COVID19 from their research facility. But, Biden’s not doing a damned thing to help, and is making things worse. So, what’s short? Most have explanations if you want to read it

  • Cream cheese shortage: Supply chain problem has reached bagels, cheesecakes(they’re literally asking people to make stuff that doesn’t use cream cheese)
  • Ben & Jerry flavors (who cares)
  • Carbonated drinks
  • Chicken
  • Coffee
  • Diapers
  • Fish sticks (this is due to a customs dispute between the US and Canada)
  • Frozen meals
  • Heinz ketchup packets
  • Marie Callender’s pot pies
  • McCormick Gourmet spices
  • Rice Krispie Treats
  • Sour Patch Kids (and other products from the company)
  • Toilet paper

And that’s to go with so many other products, like new and used automobiles. People are still shocked they can almost never walk in and buy a new car, living in 2019. We have tons of orders for January, February, and even March. We tell people if they want something, get on the list now. You can’t just go and test drive vehicles to make that choice like you used to, and this will not change anytime soon. It’ll be a long time before production catches up when the majority in production status are spoken for. My Walmart never seems to have the Sam’s Choice regular and cheese bagels (love those). Lidl only seems to make jelly donuts now. There are never chocolate or others. The convenience store I hit on the way to work is out of little bottles of chocolate and regular milk quite often.

What are you seeing shortages of?

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Climate Crisis And Crossing A Desert In The Summer Is Killing Illegals, But, Mostly ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach December 17, 2021 – 7:00 am

Perhaps deciding to make a long trek to enter a nation illegally, with too little food and water, via a desert area is a bad idea? Nope, has to be the climate emergency

The climate crisis is killing migrants trying to cross the US border, study finds

Undocumented migrants who attempt to cross the border from Mexico to the US are disproportionately dying in a harsh stretch of desert that is becoming deadlier due to the climate crisis, a new research has found.

Migrants and asylum seekers trying to enter the US are often forced to traverse the harsh environment of the Sonoran desert in order to avoid border patrols and fortified crossing points. This hazardous journey is putting many of them under severe physical stress, according to researchers, with many dying in the heat due to dehydration and organ failure.

This risk will only intensify as the world heats up further due to human activity, with the research finding that in the next three decades migrants will become so dehydrated in the desert that they will have to carry 34% more water with them in order to survive.

Maybe they shouldn’t do this? If they cross the border without permission they are, by federal law, illegal aliens, and they put themselves in the life threatening situation. If you go to certain neighborhoods in Detroit, Baltimore, or Chicago – heck, Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco – and get mugged, robbed, beat up, well, you put yourself in that bad situation knowing that it is dangerous.

An estimated 350 people a year, many fleeing violence and persecution at home, die attempting this crossing, with some of these deaths due to suicide, exposure or car accidents. Researchers found, however, that a significant risk is the loss of fluids in a region where summer temperatures can reach 48C (118F).

Using a model that factored in the physical toll of making a journey from Nogales, a Mexican border city and Three Points, Arizona, the study found that people can succumb to the conditions within just a few days, with migrants often ill-prepared for the journey. The stress is highest for pregnant women and children, with the research finding that a pregnant women needs nearly 12 liters of water a day to survive making the trek in June.

I’m really not having any sympathy for this, no matter how emotional the UK Guardian is trying to make it. If you voluntarily climb K2, the mountain in Pakistan, well, 1 in 4 die trying to reach the summit. That’s right, a 25% death rate. It’s way more dangerous than Everest, and considered the most dangerous in the world. No one made you. You did this. It wasn’t ‘climate change’.

Oh, and Democrats, who entice people to make a dangerous, life threatening trek to enter the U.S. illegally. And it just goes to show that the cult of climastrology will do and say anything to push their cult.

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Surprise: Omicron Is Breaking Through Vaccines A Lot

By William Teach December 17, 2021 – 6:45 am

This is not really a good thing in the least, though, the vast majority of cases are like a low level cold. But, the Powers That Be keep telling us that vaccines stop the Chinese Coronavirus. You can be tagged with a disclaimer at Twitter and Facebook for daring to go against the Approved Doctrine, and even be suspended and even banned

‘Virtually every’ COVID omicron case at NY college was in fully vaccinated, official says

Cornell University is seeing an uptick in coronavirus cases and has detected the “highly contagious” omicron variant on campus, particularly in fully vaccinated individuals, according to campus officials.

Between Dec. 7 and 13, the Ivy League school in Ithaca, New York, reported 883 students testing positive for COVID-19, its online dashboard shows.

“Virtually every case of the Omicron variant to date has been found in fully vaccinated students, a portion of whom had also received a booster shot,” Joel M. Malina, the school’s vice president for university relations, said in a statement provided to McClatchy News.

On Dec. 13, Cornell’s COVID-19 testing lab found “evidence of the highly contagious Omicron variant in a significant number of Monday’s positive student samples,” university President Martha E. Pollack said in a letter to the campus community.

Out of the students infected with COVID-19, the school has “not seen severe illness” as of Dec. 14, Pollack assured.

Yup, even ones who had been boosterized. And you know this is replicating at plenty of places. And, because of this, all exams will no be online, rather than in the classroom. Vaccination is mandatory for all students.

In sports, despite the vast majority of professional players being vaccinated, all the majors are being hit hard. NFL, NBA, and NHL right now.

It’s still much better to be vaccinated, because the chance of you getting a bad case are significantly lower than if you aren’t. But, you do you. I’m just tired of the obfuscation and lying. Also, Cornell has a mask policy for when anyone is indoors. Not helping, eh?

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Climate Doom Is Coming To Red States Or Something

By William Teach December 16, 2021 – 3:31 pm

Right on cue, the climate cult ghouls at The Week are using bad weather events, which saw people hurt and killed, to push their climate cult agenda

Climate change is coming for the red states — but will it matter?

Extreme weather doesn’t really bother me. I’ve lived in Kansas most of my life, have witnessed tornadoes and flooding, love nothing more than a good gullywasher rain storm. You respect the danger of such events, but you also get used to them. It’s part of the landscape here, as familiar as grain silos.

Wednesday felt different.

Fierce windstorms battered my state throughout the day, starting large-scale wildfires, blowing off roofs, knocking out power to tens of thousands of people, and generating images out of a disaster movie. The late part of the day brought tornado warnings and severe thunderstorms. We hunkered down. And for most of the day I felt uneasy — not just because of the power and size of the storms, but because of the timing: We were getting May weather in December.

That happens. Always has. Always will.

Climate change has come to my red state. (I know that it’s difficult to attribute any one weather event to warming, but c’mon: The high temperatures here were in the 70s on Wednesday.) And it’s not just mine: Kansas windstorms came hot on the heels of last weekend’s deadly tornadoes that battered Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, and Illinois. With the exception of the last, these are all states that vote reliably for Republicans and side with candidates who at best treat global warming a secondary concern to sustaining a carbon-fueled economy — or at worst deride it as a “hoax.”

And the majority of the Red State voters in Kansas and the others will attribute this to nature doing nature. They aren’t going to blame witchcraft, er, anthropogenic causation. If climahysteric Joel Mathis wants to, well, OK, give up your own use of fossil fuels and make your life carbon neutral. The rest of us will simply chalk it up to weather happening, and that this is a typical Holocene warm period.

But while their politicians might mock a “Green New Deal,” GOP-voting states won’t be able to avoid the pain of climate change. Until recently, those of us who live in “flyover country” have largely avoided the kind of singular, in-your-face events that plague coastal regions — the drought-fueled wildfires that scorched Oregon and California this last summer, the red tides and flooding that afflict Florida, the massive storms like Hurricane Ida that battered Louisiana before unleashing tornadoes and flash floods in Maryland, New Jersey, and New York in September. Getting tornadoes in December, however, is pretty unusual for the interior states.

Weather happens. Wildfires happen when dumbasses set fires, intentionally or unintentionally. You aren’t going to make us buy into your cult.

There is another possibility, though. Kansas has always been reliably Republican, but in 1931, a severe drought hit the state, which was already groaning under the Great Depression. It was the start of a decade-long Dust Bowl that created misery even worse than what we saw Wednesday. The next year Kansas gave its Electoral College votes to one Franklin D. Roosevelt.

What caused that warming, which was, before they fucked around with the data, warmer than today? When CO2 was much lower? Answer that one, sparky. Regardless, we aren’t buying what you’re selling.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 16, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is an Evil fossil fueled vehicle which should be banned in Progressive Warmist cities, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on slave labor being used to make green energy products.

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Brandon Pushes Gun Control On 9th Anniversary Of Sandy Hook Or Something

By William Teach December 16, 2021 – 10:30 am

None of this would have stopped the nutjob who shot up the school, nor most shootings. But, the tragedy 9 years ago was a method to push his Build Back Better idiocy, which has been postponed till next year, and might never see a vote at this point

Biden pushes gun control agenda on ninth anniversary of Sandy Hook shooting

President Biden marked the ninth anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting with a renewed push for gun control.

“There are three common sense bills to reduce gun violence that the Senate should pass now right away, long overdue. One requires more extensive background checks for gun sales. One is to keep guns out of the hands of more abusers,” Biden said Tuesday.(snip)

The president also used the speech to tout his budget and Build Back Better legislation, which he noted include provisions aimed at combating gun violence.

“In my budget, I’m calling for doubling the funding for gun violence prevention research, including examining gun violence as a public health threat, which it is in my view,” Biden said.

“My build back better legislation … would make a landmark $5 billion investment in community violence prevention and intervention programs.”

Or, Democrats could stop coddling criminals, stop releasing hardcores, arrest them, jail them. But, none of what Biden suggests would have stopped the Sandy Hook nutjob, who stole the gun from his mom. Better background checks? Nope. Stopping abusers? Nope? Build Back Better? Nope. He really was just using the murders to push his bill. Meanwhile, more Fail

Opinion | The Israel-Emirati Rapprochement Won’t Solve Biden’s Problem in the Middle East

This week, a right-wing Israeli prime minister paid a state visit to the United Arab Emirates for the first time ever. A day later, in an unrelated but also surprising move, the United Arab Emirates appeared to back away from a major arms sale with the United States, its most important benefactor.

Clearly, the Middle East is changing. As the Biden administration has made good on its promise to focus less on the historically troublesome region and more on China, Middle Eastern states are taking notice. Israel, Saudi Arabia and the UAE are forging new relationships and hedging their bets, driven by a shared concern that a Washington, D.C. hyper-focused on China and domestic travails may not be there for them when it comes to dealing with Iran’s ambitions in the region, tensions with the Palestinians or other security threats.

But although President Joe Biden wants to reduce U.S. involvement in the Middle East, it isn’t necessarily good news for him that the region is preparing for a future where America looms smaller. The rebalance he sought is happening — but not on his terms and not in a way he can easily control, especially given his faltering goal of inking a new nuclear deal with Iran. It’s certainly a welcome development that Middle Eastern states are casting aside their historic enmities. But the thaw between Israel and the UAE won’t make the Iran nuclear conundrum, or the Middle East in general, much more manageable. It’s a reminder that — as previous presidents have learned — the region will remain a serious headache for the United States despite its best efforts to move its priorities elsewhere.

Apparently, the beheamoth that is the U.S. government cannot focus on more than one spot under Brandon. He’s already backed away from the historic peace bargains made by the Trump admin, so, Israel and Middle East nations are simply doing it on their own, especially since Biden keeps wanting to get Iran back in the failed nuclear deal. And this will all give China and Russia a chance to jump back into the ME, try and have influence.

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Who’s Up For “Structurally Higher Inflation” From The Green Transition?

By William Teach December 16, 2021 – 7:00 am

This is the green transition that Warmists were enthused about in theory, not practice. If they thought it was so great they would have done it voluntarily in their own lives. Let’s not forget that poll after poll after poll showed that most people do not want to spend much of their own money to Do Something

The green transition will lead to ‘structurally higher inflation,’ Principal Chief Strategist Seema Shah says

While much of the focus lately has been on the inflationary environment, some investors are preparing for environmental inflation caused by economies transitioning to green energy.

With the earth’s climate on track to exceed an alarming 2 degrees of warming, governments and companies are under increasing pressure to clean up their business models to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

On track? Who says? Cranks, computer models, and people invested in pushing the doomsday scam?

The premise of this so-called en-flation holds that as sectors scramble for skilled labor, green innovations, and carbon credits, it will cause a chain reaction leading to higher energy — and, eventually, consumer — prices.

“As companies, as countries are trying to deal with the infrastructure that they need, then unfortunately, that does mean a lead to almost a supply shortage,” Principal Global Investors Chief Strategist Seema Shah said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “Then you start to see the energy inflation. And en-flation, this transition to green energy, is of the reasons that we do see structurally higher inflation over the coming years over the future.”

In November, inflation increased by the highest rate in 39 years, though it was in line with estimates, according to the Labor Department’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) released on Friday.

Shah suggested that the effects of en-flation are already beginning to take hold — particularly when it comes to energy prices, which were up 3.5% in November as demand outstripped supply.

Of course, most of the people who are forcing this to happen are rich folks, so, this really doesn’t effect them. Particularly since many have government fossil fueled transportation.

Another factor in driving up prices is that regulators may have less patience for companies who drag their feet on net-zero initiatives, especially as governments come under scrutiny around their own nationally-determined targets. As a result, laggards could face higher penalties if they don’t move quickly enough to decarbonize, according to Shah.

So, government artificially inflating energy, goods, food, etc, while also driving businesses to cut staff, offices, and even going out of business.

While tech innovation and investment have created a deflationary effect on prices in the past, Shah argued that green investment, in contrast, may very well cause upward pressures on prices.

“It’s one of the reasons that we don’t see inflation going back down to the 2% level,” she said. “We’re seeing it being higher than what we’ve had over the last decade.”

Sounds great, right? Funny how all the policies from the climate cult end up costing people more money, to go with the loss of freedom, liberty, and choice.

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