So, What Happens To Iran’s Nuclear Material If There Is A Deal?

By William Teach June 21, 2025 – 6:45 am

Good question

As Iran talks get underway, expert raises alarm over lack of plan to secure nuclear material

European and Iranian negotiators ended their talks in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday without a clear breakthrough, but diplomats told The Associated Press they were hopeful of more discussions with the Iranians.

The talks with Iran come a day after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt delivered a message from President Trump, stating, “Based on the fact that there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks.”

One former Pentagon official says there is an important issue that is not being discussed.

“If Iran gives up its nuclear program as Trump has demanded, there’s another problem we’re not talking about, which is how do we get all the nuclear material outside of Iran,” Michael Rubin, an American Enterprise Institute senior fellow, told Fox News Digital.

The US doesn’t want boots on the ground in Iran. Who trusts the UN and International Atomic Energy Agency?

Rubin said he would nominate India to seize the nuclear material.

“They are trusted by the Americans, they’re trusted by the Israelis and they’re trusted by the Iranians. But we need to start not only being reactive, but also proactive,” said Rubin

Obama’s Iran deal supposedly saw Iran give up 25,000 pounds of enriched uranium, and a promise they wouldn’t make more. Which, of course, they immediately started making more. And, while Trump pulled out of the deal, because it was terrible, the other members didn’t. Well, except for Iran, which never had any intention of following. Biden put the US back in, and still Iran broke the pact.

Meanwhile

White House monitoring possible Iranian ‘sleeper cells’ in US: Source

As the Iranian supreme leader threatens “irreparable harm” if the United States joins Israel’s fight, the White House is warning of so-called Iranian “sleeper cells.” The Trump and Biden administrations have long been concerned about Iran’s ability to direct or inspire attacks within the U.S.

Sleeper cells are spies or terrorists who operate in the U.S. and Western countries and remain inactive until they are essentially ordered to act. Experts who have spoken with NewsNation said should the U.S. join Israel’s strikes against Iran, they may try to activate these cells.

A recent U.S. Department of Homeland Security threat assessment concurs, saying that the intelligence community expects Iran to remain the primary sponsor of terrorism and continue its efforts to advance plots against individuals, including current and former U.S. officials. That assessment echoed similar guidance from Biden’s Department of Homeland Security in 2024. Experts say given the recent escalation between Israel and Iran, the possibility is very real.

I wonder how many were brought in by the Biden admin and/or let in after they were caught illegally crossing the border?

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Your Fault: Calories From Foods To SOON! Plummet From Atmospheric Cancer

By William Teach June 20, 2025 – 2:58 pm

I’m pretty sure I have seen this one before, but, not sure. Regardless, it’s another in a long line of “Doom is coming SOON!”

‘Like everyone on the planet giving up breakfast’: Calories from food production set to plummet as the world heats up

climate doom yearly

Wait, I don’t have global heating on here?

Rising global temperatures are set to devastate food crops across the world, with particularly alarming impacts projected for the United States, where production of key crops could plummet 50% by the end of the century, according to a sweeping new analysis.

Of the many impacts of the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis, damage to the global food system is one of the most terrifying. But the overall impact of climate change on crops — and how much it can be offset by farmers’ adaptations — has been hard to establish and hotly debated.

The new analysis, eight years in the making, is “the first attempt to really tackle both of those problems,” said Solomon Hsiang, a study author and professor of global environmental policy at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.

The scientists analyzed six crops — maize, soybeans, rice, wheat, cassava and sorghum — in more than 12,000 regions across 54 countries. Together, these crops provide more than two thirds of humanity’s calories.

Climatic weather has always been a challenge, both positive and negative. Things do not stay the same. A big part of the French Revolution during the Little Ice Age was the inability to grow staple foods, especially wheat, causing discord amongst the peasants. Warm and cool periods have brought their own challenges. When you plant for a certain range of temperatures, water supply, etc, and things happen outside that, well, problems. Like, say, during the Dust Bowl period in the Midwest. Technology and practices get better. But, these cultists always proclaim doom from CO2

Their findings are stark. Every 1 degree Celsius the world warms above pre-industrial levels will drag down global food production by an average of 120 calories per person per day, according to the study, published Wednesday in Nature.

“If the climate warms by 3 degrees, that’s basically like everyone on the planet giving up breakfast,” he said. The world is currently on track for around 3 degrees Celsius of warming by the end of the century.

It’s a measly 1.5C since 1850. People mostly seem to be doing OK.

If humans keep burning large amounts of fossil fuels, maize production could fall by 40% in the grain belt of the US, eastern China, central Asia, southern Africa and the Middle East; wheat production could fall by 40% in the US, China, Russia and Canada; and soybean yields could fall 50% in the US.

And, yet, most Warmists, from CNN who wrote the article to the people involved with the “study” to the base Warmists have most not given up their own use of fossil fuels. Go figure.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 20, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is an ocean that is going to rise dozens of feet Soon!, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Greatness, with a post on Trump’s careful, America first approach to Iran.

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Humanitarian Groups Super Upset Over US Military Vets Delivering Aid To Gaza And South Sudan

By William Teach June 20, 2025 – 10:30 am

Isn’t the whole idea to get aid to the people who need it? They should be happy. I wonder why they aren’t

Firms led by US military veterans deliver aid in Africa and Gaza, alarming humanitarian groups

Swooping low over the banks of a Nile River tributary, an aid flight run by retired American military officers released a stream of food-stuffed sacks over a town emptied by fighting in South Sudan, a country wracked by conflict.

Last week’s air drop was the latest in a controversial development: private contracting firms led by former U.S. intelligence officers and military veterans delivering aid to some of the world’s deadliest conflict zones, in operations organized with governments that are combatants in the conflicts.

The moves are roiling the global aid community, which warns of a more militarized, politicized and profit-seeking trend that could allow governments or combatants to use life-saving aid to control hungry civilian populations and advance war aims.

That would be horrible!

In South Sudan and Gaza, two for-profit U.S. companies led by American national security veterans are delivering aid in operations backed by the South Sudanese and Israeli governments.

The American contractors say they’re putting their security, logistics and intelligence skills to work in relief operations. Fogbow, the U.S. company that carried out last week’s air drops over South Sudan, says it aims to be a “humanitarian” force.

“We’ve worked for careers, collectively, in conflict zones. And we know how to essentially make very difficult situations work,” said Fogbow President Michael Mulroy, a retired CIA officer and former senior defense official in the first Trump administration, speaking on the airport tarmac in Juba, South Sudan’s capital.

But the U.N. and many leading non-profit groups say U.S. contracting firms are stepping into aid distribution with little transparency or humanitarian experience, and, crucially, without commitment to humanitarian principles of neutrality and operational independence in war zones.

How dare they not have a commitment to helping out Hamas and working strongly with them! How dare they want profit! Seriously, how’s that humanitarian experience working for those complaining? Where’s their transparency? What we’ve seen so far is that it looks like a pyramid scheme from those complaining, where the government/UN gives them oodles of money to do a job, they take a nice big cut for farming it out to other groups, who then take their cut to farm it out, and, eventually a small percentage of the money makes its way to buying and delivering aid. In the case of Gaza, it ended up in the hands of Hamas, where video shows them working with and hanging with Hamas. I’m sure something similar is happening in South Sudan.

Seriously, the AP article gives excuse after excuse after excuse, ending with

Private military contractors “have even less sympathy for a humanitarian perspective that complicates their business-driven model,” he said. “And once let loose, they seem to be even less accountable.”

But, is the aid getting to these people? Is a large percentage of the appropriated money being used to buy goods to deliver? Are they forcing Hamas, warlords, etc, from getting their hands on the aid and making sure the people who need it get it? That’s all that matters. And being ex-military makes sure that the bad people cannot take the aid.

The whining groups just do not like that their money trains of skimmed taxpayer money is ending.

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NC GA Send Bill To Governor To End Need For 2030 Climate (scam) Deadline

By William Teach June 20, 2025 – 7:00 am

Too bad it doesn’t just end the whole kit-and-kaboodle.

Emissions bill headed to governor, it would allow Duke Energy to avoid 2030 climate change deadline

Duke Energy would be allowed to avoid a fast-approaching climate change goal and charge North Carolina customers now for future power plants under the terms of a bill on the way to Gov. Josh Stein.

The North Carolina Senate gave final approval of Senate Bill 266 on Thursday.

Supporters of the bill believe it will keep power bills from becoming even more expensive. Critics say it could do the exact opposite, potentially leaving North Carolinians paying billions of dollars for power plants that never actually get built.

The measure makes changes to a law passed in 2021 with bipartisan support, intended to decrease carbon emissions from North Carolina energy production by 70% by 2030, and down to net zero by 2050.

It was a stupid bill to start with

Four years later, Duke Energy now says meeting those carbon reduction targets will cause consumers’ power bills to rise. The measure eliminates the intermediate deadline, freeing Duke from meeting the 70% target set for 2030.

On Thursday, Duke Energy provided a statement about the bill.

“We appreciate bipartisan efforts by policymakers to keep costs as low as possible for customers and enable the always-on energy resources our communities need,” a Duke Energy spokesperson wrote. “Policies which build on our state’s strong customer protections while helping meet growing energy demands from population growth, business expansion and a resurgence of manufacturing can play a critical role in supporting North Carolina’s thriving economy.”

Obviously, the cultists are not happy with this, while the climate cult apostates are all for it. Anyhow, will it raise rates or essentially keep them the same, with slow rises? It will depend on what Duke does, namely, make sure they build new power plants for real. The scam requirements made energy more expensive when it did not need to.

Will the Governor sign it? There were a few Democrats who voted for this bill.

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Trump Sets 2 Week Window For Discussions To Stop Iran-Israel War

By William Teach June 20, 2025 – 6:45 am

As we’ve seen in the past, Trump is going to do all he can to avoid war, but, he will strike if necessary

Trump’s new two-week negotiating window sets off scramble to restart stalled Iran talks

President Donald Trump’s decision to open a two-week negotiating window before deciding on striking Iran sets off an urgent effort to restart talks that had been deadlocked when Israel began its bombing campaign last week.

The hope among Trump and his advisers is that Iran — under constant Israeli attack and having suffered losses to its missile arsenal — will relent on its hardline position and agree to terms it had previously rejected, including abandoning its enrichment of uranium, according to US officials.

The deferred decision, which came after days of increasingly martial messages from the president suggesting he was preparing to order a strike, also gives Trump more time to weigh the potential consequences — including the chance it could drag the United States into the type of foreign conflict he promised to avoid.

But negotiating a diplomatic solution in Trump’s condensed timeline appeared to face significant early hurdles.

Yeah, there are, starting with it being Iran and their insane, ultra-Islamist leaders. I hope they realize that Donald Trump is not a typical politician. He doesn’t really have that whole moderation thing down. He won’t lean into a proportional attack. Just like he wacked Qasem Soleimani where no one else would, he will hit Iran hard.

In putting off a decision, Trump appears to be placing more stock in a diplomatic solution that only a day earlier he appeared to suggest was out of reach.

“I think the president has made it clear he always wants to pursue diplomacy. But believe me, the president is unafraid to use strength if necessary,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday after relaying Trump’s new two-week timeline. “And Iran and the entire world should know that the United States military is the strongest and most lethal fighting force in the world, and we have capabilities that no other country on this planet possesses.”

See?

The new, within-two-weeks time frame for talks was not universally welcomed. An Israeli intelligence official expressed dismay that Trump would not make a decision – one way or the other.

“This is not helping,” the official said.

Yeah, well, we certainly want to support Israel, but, we would like to avoid a new war, even if it would involve bombing parts of Iran back to the stone age.

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Wait, Only Two Years Left To Save The Planet From Global Boiling

By William Teach June 19, 2025 – 3:19 pm

Earlier this morning I had the cultists saying there was maybe possibly as little as 3 years left. The climahysteric UK Guardian says

Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn

The planet’s remaining carbon budget to meet the international target of 1.5C has just two years left at the current rate of emissions, scientists have warned, showing how deep into the climate crisis the world has fallen.

Breaching the target would ramp up the extreme weather already devastating communities around the world. It would also require carbon dioxide to be sucked from the atmosphere in future to restore the stable climate in which the whole of civilisation developed over the past 10,000 years.

The carbon budget is how much planet-heating CO2 can still be emitted by humanity while leaving a reasonable chance that the temperature target is not blown. The latest assessment by leading climate scientists found that in order to achieve a 66% chance of keeping below the 1.5C target, emissions from 2025 onwards must be limited to 80bn tonnes of CO2. That is 80% lower than it was in 2020.

As far as I can tell, this is the exact same report as the one from this morning, for which most articles are saying “as little as 3 years.” Will the rest start going with 2 years?

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 19, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible low MPG fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Sultan Knish, with a post on Israel killing Gaza with obesity.

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Moonbats Put Up “Dictator Approved” Statue On National Mall

By William Teach June 19, 2025 – 10:30 am

This has made the Washington Post giddy

Eight-foot-tall ‘Dictator Approved’ sculpture appears on National Mall

Remember the poop statue? The curly-swirly pile of doo that sat atop a replica of former House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-California) desk? The work of protest art placed on the National Mall last October in mock tribute to the Jan. 6 rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election?

Well, the artists responsible for the political poo plop appear to have struck again. This time with a work called “Dictator Approved,” an 8-foot-tall sculpture showing a gold-painted hand with a distinctive thumbs-up quashing the sea foam green crown of the Statue of Liberty. It sits at the same location on the Mall near Third Street NW as the poop statue did last fall.

The artwork’s creators intended “Dictator Approved” as a rejoinder to the June 14 military parade and authoritarianism, according to a permit issued by the National Park Service. The parade, the creators wrote in the application, “Will feature imagery similar to autocratic, oppressive regime, i.e. N. Korea, Russia, and China, marching through DC.” The purpose of the statue, they continued, is to call attention to “the praising these types of oppressive leaders have given Donald Trump.”

Now, imagine someone put a statue up making fun of Putin, Xi Jinping, or Kim Jong Un: what would those dictators do? At best, they’d be simply arrested and thrown in jail for life. Most likely, they’d disappear and be killed. Or be used as a public example and be killed or do some seriously hard labor. What will “dictator” Trump do? Nothing. In Trump’s dictator land they were able to get a permit. The contradiction of what these wackjobs are saying and doing versus what would actually happen in a dictatorship is wild.

“If these Democrat activists were living in a dictatorship, their eye-sore of a sculpture wouldn’t be sitting on the National Mall right now,” Abigail Jackson, a White House spokeswoman, wrote in an emailed statement. “In the United States of America you have the freedom to display your so-called ‘art,’ no matter how ugly it is.”

If this was a dictatorship Jackson would be talking about the creators having been arrested. But, you know, instead of having a real platform Democrats have to fearmonger

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Bummer: Three Years Left To Save The World From Climate Doom

By William Teach June 19, 2025 – 7:00 am

Here we go again

Three years left to limit warming to 1.5C, leading scientists warn

The Earth could be doomed to breach the symbolic 1.5C warming limit in as little as three years at current levels of carbon dioxide emissions.

That’s the stark warning from more than 60 of the world’s leading climate scientists in the most up-to-date assessment of the state of global warming.

Nearly 200 countries agreed to try to limit global temperature rises to 1.5C above levels of the late 1800s in a landmark agreement in 2015, with the aim of avoiding some of the worst impacts of climate change.

But countries have continued to burn record amounts of coal, oil and gas and chop down carbon-rich forests – leaving that international goal in peril.

Oh, OK, they’re hedging their bets on this one. “As little as 3 years.” Remember this?

Greta Thunberg tweeted in 2018 that humanity would go extinct within five years unless fossil fuel use was immediately halted. The prediction came from an article she shared, quoting a “top climate scientist.” By 2023, not only was humanity still here, but global emissions continued and population growth persisted. The tweet was later deleted. (snip)

Al Gore was paraphrased in a 2006 Associated Press article warning that if greenhouse gas emissions weren’t drastically reduced within 10 years, the Earth would reach a point of no return. That put the supposed deadline at 2016. But 2016 came and went without any irreversible cataclysm. Despite rising emissions, the global economy and climate remain intact. (snip)

The head of the UN’s climate panel stated in 2007 that if action wasn’t taken by 2012, it would be too late to stop catastrophic change. The claim was described as a defining moment in the fight against climate change. But no collapse occurred in 2012. The date came and went with minimal consequence.

Those are just a smattering of world is going to die from carbon pollution claims that never happened.

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