Minneapolis Looks To Replace Police Dept With “Public Safety Dept”

By William Teach July 23, 2021 – 10:30 am

Those darned Republicans running the city of Minneapolis, always looking to defund their police. That’s what we’ve been told, right, that it isn’t Democrats trying to defund, it’s Republicans, right?

Minneapolis city council wants to shut down police despite skyrocketing gun crime

The Minneapolis City Council is pushing to dismantle its police force despite skyrocketing gun violence in which 20 children have been shot this year alone.

In its latest drive, the city council is voting on a plan to replace the police department with a “public safety department”.

Under the proposed plan the so-called “public safety department” would respond to emergency calls with a “comprehensive public health approach”.

The Minneapolis City Council tried abolishing the police force last year but was blocked by the city’s charter commission which pointed out the city’s municipal charter requires it have a division of law enforcement.

In response, the Yes 4 Minneapolis Committee is tabling a measure – approved by all 13 Minneapolis city council members – that would give voters the option to amend the charter to move towards implementing a “public safety” department.

Local new outlet Fox 9 Minneapolis reports the measure if approved “would give the voters power to replace the city police department” and “call for public safety to have a ‘comprehensive public health approach’ but does not explain what that means.”

Well, it should be interesting to see the results when the vote is held. Will the citizens vote for this plan, or nix it? Will it be close, or a blowout either way? My bet is on at least 65% against this insane plan, especially since no one actually will know what the “comprehensive public health approach” means.

Kare 11 reported in June 2021 that there had been 34 homicides by the end of May, an increase of 89 per cent over 2020.

A large component of the violence involves guns with 187 shootings up to June this year.

The spike in violent crime has become so bad a group of eight residents sued the city to force the city council to “refund” the police and expand the police force to the numbers required by the city’s charter.

The police department has seen a wave of retirements and resignations, along with police taking a very soft approach and not getting too involved, as they do not want to deal with the false accusations from simply doing the job. And this allows the criminal community to be more brazen. This isn’t about the guns, it’s about people willing to use them in crimes. And, with fewer officers, the priority will be to patrol the rich and middle class neighborhoods first. With the way the city council and leftists are treating the police, why would anyone want to join the Minneapolis force?

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Olympics Go “Climate Positive”, Because No Sport Can Escape Or Something

By William Teach July 23, 2021 – 7:09 am

Doom is a 1.5F increase in global temperatures since 1850, you know

‘No sport can escape’: Tackling climate change at the Tokyo Olympics

climate change joke

No sport can escape the impacts of a changing climate. Less snow and ice, higher temperatures, and extreme weather events such as storms and heatwaves, all affect competitors and spectators alike.

“Climate change is one of the biggest challenges humanity has ever faced, affecting sport alongside so many other human activities,” says Marie Sallois, IOC Director for Corporate and Sustainable Development.

“Sporting events must constantly adapt to the impacts of climate disruption, and the Olympic Games are no exception. As a global event with a huge visibility, the Games also carry the responsibility to take effective action to address it.”

Committed to a more sustainable future, the Olympic Movement has already taken significant steps to reduce its own footprint and contribute to a climate-friendly society. Both Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022 are aiming to be carbon neutral.

I wonder if they will be nagging the people tuning in? Especially since TV coverage seems to be focused more on the competitors and their Life Stories (especially if they had a tiny bit of hardship) than on showing live competition. You can bet there will be lots of COVID discussion this year…showing even less live competition. Will they add climate crisis (scam) coverage?

In March 2020, the IOC decided that from 2030 onwards all Olympic Games will be required to be ‘climate positive’.

This means that they will reduce their carbon emissions in line with the Paris Agreement, compensate more than 100 per cent of their remaining emissions and use their influence to drive effective climate action. (snip)

Short-term adaptation, however, is no substitute for long-term climate action. As part of its bid to host the Olympic Games, one of the three pillars of Tokyo 2020’s sustainability strategy was to achieve “carbon-neutral Games by reducing energy and resource consumption and carbon emissions, using renewable energy, public transport, and low-energy vehicles, and zero-waste policies.”

So, how many athletes are coming to the island nation of Japan on a fossil fueled flight? The so-called carbon footprint of the games will certainly be less since there are no fans in attendance, meaning fewer flights (which I’m sure they’ll laud), but, all the athletes, trainers, politicians, etc, will still be taking long fossil fueled flights from around the world.

According to the recently published update to the Tokyo 2020 pre-Games sustainability report, Japan’s decision – taken earlier this year – not to allow entry into Japan for overseas spectators for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 due to the prevailing worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, will lead to an estimated reduction of emissions of 340,000 tonnes of CO2. However, athletes, coaches, staff, officials and media in Tokyo for the Olympic and Paralympic Games will still need to move between venues.

See?

Nothing is immune from the input of the Cult of Climastrology, they’ll attempt to ruin everything with their cult beliefs.

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COVID Today: NC Hospital Systems Mandate Vaccinations, JabNags Coming Door To Do, FDA Approval No Excuse

By William Teach July 23, 2021 – 6:54 am

It seems as if most of the hospital systems in the state are going to require employees to get the vaccine. I wonder how many will quit, especially those who have skill sets that will work in other areas? Especially when they’re already short of employees

Duke, UNC, other NC hospital systems requiring workers to be vaccinated

Major hospital systems across North Carolina, including Durham-based Duke University Health System and Chapel Hill-based UNC Health, announced Thursday that all staff and physicians must be vaccinated to continue working there.

The moves come on the heels of the North Carolina Healthcare Association’s decision backing mandatory vaccinations for health care workers. The association represents 130 hospitals and health systems statewide.

“Protecting patients, visitors and health care personnel from COVID-19 continues to be of paramount importance. Hospital and health system employee vaccination against COVID-19 is vital to safely care for patients by protecting them from infection and to mitigate the spread of the virus within health care facilities and among clinicians, patients and their families and friends,” the association said in a statement.

Duke Health and UNC Health have set a Sept. 21 deadline for staff to get fully vaccinated, and employees will have to show proof of vaccination to their supervisors. Anyone seeking a medical or religious exemption from getting the vaccine must request it by Sept. 7.

Anyone who doesn’t meet the deadline will get a warning and then, if they still aren’t vaccinated, will face termination, said Dr. Tom Owens, senior vice president of Duke Health and president of Duke University Hospital.

About a quarter of Duke Health’s more than 22,000 employees remain unvaccinated, a spokeswoman said.

The same types of liberals demanding this typically screech about “my body my choice.” A lot of people do not trust the vaccine for various reasons. I respect their choice. Mine was to get vaccinated early. Come the end of September, will we be reading stories about hospital and health systems being even more short of employees as people get fired/quit?

Wake County to target low vaccination neighborhoods with door-to-door canvassing

Wake County officials are making yet another push to increase the county’s vaccination rate.

Health officials are expanding the county’s vaccine outreach program by launching a door-to-door canvassing event.

Wake County’s eligible population has about a 70 percent vaccine rate–relatively high for the state and county. However, there are still areas in the county where the rate is much lower.

Canvassers will be out in those lower vaccination rate neighborhoods to pass out information and request forms. They will not be doing home vaccinations at this time.

Did anyone at ABC11 ask pertinent questions like “under what state law is it authorized to use private health data to find out who is and isn’t vaccinated, then give that information to individuals?” “Doesn’t this break HIPAA law?”

UNC immunologist says waiting for full FDA approval before getting COVID-19 vaccine is a bad excuse

“As you know, tens of millions of people have received this vaccine. There are enormous numbers of studies both in the U.S., the United Kingdom, Israel, and others, demonstrating this vaccine is highly effective and very safe,” said UNC School of Medicine immunologist David Weber.

Weber said the argument to wait until full FDA approval to get a shot isn’t a good excuse.

“Well, first of all, we know more about the safety and effectiveness of this vaccine than any other vaccine we knew about before it was FDA approved,” he said.

But, isn’t it their choice what to put in their body and when? I trust the vaccine, but, many don’t.

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Good News: San Francisco Board Of Supervisors To Concentrate On Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach July 22, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Crime? Poop, urine, and used drug needles in the streets? Rampant homelessness? Stores closing/cutting hours due to rampant shoplifting? Cost of living sky high? Meh. Here’s the real issue

San Francisco Supes Adopt New Goals to Battle Climate Change

San Francisco has new targets for the cutting back on greenhouse gas emissions after the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a set of climate change goals Tuesday.

Mayor London Breed announced the passage Tuesday evening of the ordinance, which she co-sponsored with supervisors Rafael Mandelman and Ahsha Safai.

In her news release, Breed said the city has long been a leader on climate policy.

“Now we must build on these successes and push even further, because our future depends on it,” Breed said. “These new, bold targets put us on track to reduce our emissions more quickly — with the urgency that climate change demands and with social and racial equity at the forefront of our work.”

The ordinance updates the city’s environment code, targeting six areas, according to Breed’s office: energy, transportation, housing, buildings, zero waste and roots.

When does the city ban fossil fueled vehicles, especially those used by the city? Get rid of air conditioning? Restrict the instillation of AC in new housing?

The ordinance requires the city to prepare a climate action plan by the end of the year, a roadmap for achieving the goals passed Tuesday.

So, they don’t actually have one? No fossil fuels, shut down the airport, limit the gallons of water used by citizens daily, ban all use of natural gas. No sales of phones and TVs in the city, since they use lots of electricity. No new clothing stores. Sales of meat in the city are banned. Shut down the convention hall and other places for big meetings (not that the poop and urine and drug needles haven’t done a great job at reducing conventions and meetings in the city. Jack up taxes. This is what they’re worried about, rather than the real issues.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 22, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is an area turned to desert from ‘climate change’, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Raised On Hoecakes, with a post on why Becca Meyers has left the Olympics.

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Boebert, 10 Republicans Demand To Know Why Capitol Protesters Treated Differently From Antifa

By William Teach July 22, 2021 – 10:30 am

I know a lot of people treat Lauren Boebert as a bit crazy, and, at times, she gets a little wonky, but, she tends to be right. And she’s 100% correct on this

Boebert Demands to Know Why Biden Regime Keeping Capitol Protesters in Lockdown While Antifa Rioters Go Free

A group of Republican lawmakers led by freshmen Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado are demanding that the Biden administration explain the alleged unequal treatment of Black Lives Matter and Antifa protesters, many of whom have never spent a night in jail, and those who have been incarcerated for months following the Jan. 6 Capitol breach.

In a letter, Boebert and 10 other House Republicans asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to address “the apparent inconsistent application of the law with respect to rioters across the country,” according to the Washington Times.

“The foundation of our criminal justice system requires that all defendants are treated equally before the law, but the Biden regime is not living up to this solemn obligation,” said Boebert, in a statement.

The lawmakers say that prosecutors in Oregon have signed off on at least 12 “deferred resolution agreements in federal felony cases” resulting from clashes during last year’s protests in Portland, while some rioters from Jan. 6 are being held in solitary confinement.

“Reports are circulating that the Biden regime has held January 6th rioters in solitary confinement, while at the same time, they are letting BLM rioters that attacked federal buildings off with just a few hours of community service,” Boebert said.

It’s surprising that the lawyers for the 1/6 defendants aren’t arguing this more, that their clients are being treated very differently from those who attacked federal buildings, trying to set them on fire (since there were people inside, isn’t that attempted murder?), attacking federal employees, damaging the buildings, and so forth, things that are much worse than what the Capitol protesters did. Yet, there is a vast difference in the way they are being treated.

How can anyone trust the federal justice system? Hillary and her Comrades weren’t even sent to a trial for gross violations of federal law, including national security laws. Hunter Biden is let off the hook for lying on his firearm application. How does anyone trust it? The Constitution demands equal treatment under the law, and, does the treatment of the 1/6 protesters not violate the 8th Amendment? “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”

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Uh Oh: California’s Push For EVs Could Be Bad For The Environment

By William Teach July 22, 2021 – 8:12 am

We’ve seen this before: as climate cultists push to solve a tiny increase in the world’s global temperature, something entirely expected during a Holocene warm period, their solutions create actual environmental issues. The push for biofuels leads to clearcutting jungles in Asia, with animals like orangutans intentionally hunted. Solar panel manufacturing leads to environmental messes, such as with Solyndra, and with all the areas that are mined for precious metals. The LA Times is running multiple pieces, the first of which is a video with the headline and subhead

Is California’s electric car revolution bad for the planet?
By 2035, California will ban the sale of gas-powered cars in an effort to address climate change and push drivers toward electric vehicles. But that means we’ll need more raw materials to build electric car batteries – like lithium, which is typically sourced and refined abroad – until now.

And a long piece. A really long piece (available at Yahoo News if you get the firewall)

California’s electric car revolution, designed to save the planet, also unleashes a toll on it

electric vehicleThe precious cargo on the ship docked in San Diego Bay was strikingly small for a vessel built to drag oil rigs out to sea. Machines tethered to this hulking ship had plucked rocks the size of a child’s fist from the ocean floor thousands of miles into the Pacific.

The mission was delicate and controversial — with broad implications for the planet.

Investors are betting tens of millions of dollars that these black nodules packed with metals used in electric car batteries are the ticket for the United States to recapture supremacy over the green economy — and to keep up with a global transportation revolution started by California.

Alongside his docked ship, Gerard Barron, CEO of the Metals Company, held in his hand one of the nodules he argues can help save the planet. “We have to be bold and we have to be prepared to look at new frontiers,” he said. “Climate change isn’t something that’s waiting around for us to figure it out.”

The urgency with which his company and a handful of others are moving to start scraping the seabed for these materials alarms oceanographers and advocates, who warn they are literally in uncharted waters. Much is unknown about life on the deep sea floor, and vacuuming swaths of it clean threatens to have unintended and far-reaching consequences.

That’s interesting. I hadn’t heard they were scraping the bottom of the sea for the materials, potentially destroying the habitat, one which we know little about.

The drama playing out in the deep sea is just one act in a fast unfolding, ethically challenging and economically complex debate that stretches around the world, from the cobalt mines of Congo to the corridors of the Biden White House to fragile desert habitats throughout the West where vast deposits of lithium lay beneath the ground.

The state of California is inexorably intertwined in this drama. Not just because extraction companies are aggressively surveying the state’s landscapes for opportunities to mine and process the materials. But because California is leading the drive toward electric cars.

Interestingly, the people in California who are pushing this are mostly not driving EVs themselves. Go figure.

The sprint to supply automakers with heavy duty lithium batteries is propelled by climate-conscious countries like the United States that aspire to abandon gas-powered cars and SUVs. They are racing to secure the materials needed to go electric, and the Biden administration is under pressure to fast-track mammoth extraction projects that threaten to unleash their own environmental fallout.

In far-flung patches of the ocean floor, at Native American ancestral sites, and on some of the most pristine federal lands, extraction and mining companies are branding themselves stewards of sustainability, warning the planet will suffer if digging and scraping are delayed. All the prospecting is giving pause to some of the environmental groups championing climate action, as they assess whether the sacrifice needed to curb warming is being shared fairly.

“Front-line communities affected by mining are asking the rest of us: What sacrifice are you making?” said John Hadder, executive director of Great Basin Resource Watch, a Nevada group fighting a proposed massive lithium mine at Thacker Pass, near the Oregon border. “You are asking us to have our community and environment permanently disrupted. All you are doing is maybe driving a different car.”

So, even with the environmental destruction they still drag their Leftist politics into it. Anyhow, it is a really long piece, if you want to read it, which softly highlights the amount of environmental destruction will be caused on the land and in the sea, and that so many environmentalists, who also believe in ‘climate change’, are having second thoughts. Not mentioned is the environmental issue from used lithium batteries: what do you do with them when they are at end of life?

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Dementia Joe Admin Considering Pushing For Mask Mandates Again

By William Teach July 22, 2021 – 7:49 am

If Joe and his Comrades attempted to reinstate mask mandates, how would that go over? Would there be a lot of sadly resigned people, as we see in LA County? Or lots of rebellion? Because masks do not work. Fauci said so. That Bat Soup Virus saw more infections and deaths than the pre-mask period highlights that they’re ineffective.

White House weighs pushing masks as COVID cases increase

The Biden administration is reportedly weighing whether to formally urge vaccinated Americans to once again mask up as the country experiences an increase in the number of COVID-19 delta variant cases.

White House aides are in talks with officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about proposed messaging to the public, the Washington Post reported.

People familiar with the discussions told the Post that the White House is hesitant to implement policies that would explicitly mandate people show proof of their vaccination status. One idea reportedly thrown around was to ask Americans to wear masks when vaccinated and unvaccinated people not to congregate in crowded places.

The question here is “how much of this is spitballing and how much is super serious?” If they were smart, they’d push the original guidance, which was social distancing, wash your hands, don’t touch your face. If they start telling the vaccinated to wear masks they’re going to get even lower vaccination rates, because those who are on the fence will say “what’s the point?”

Biden: Get Ready for Mask Mandates for School Children Under 12

President Joe Biden warned parents of children under the age of 12 Wednesday that they will be forced to wear masks when they return to school in August.

“The CDC is going to say that what you should do is everyone under the age of 12 should probably be wearing masks in school,” Biden said. “That’s probably what’s going to happen.”

The president commented on mask mandates during a CNN town hall in Cincinnati, Ohio, after a school board member asked him if his administration would mandate masks for children in schools when they reopen in August.

Biden said parents of students over 12 need to get their children vaccinated before they come to school.

Gotta teach the kids to be good Compliant Comrades, right? As they’re taught that white people are evil, of course. And the CDC could have the power to do this, because Los Federales are so involved in telling schools how to operate via the Dept of Education and all the federal money. How many schools will say “nope, not happening. No masks”?

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NY Times Says To Start With Your Air Conditioning To Solve Climate Emergency (scam)

By William Teach July 21, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Interestingly, Hope Jahren fails to mention that she’s given up her own use of air condition, nor that the NY Times building will turn theirs off. Weirdly, this is all in the book reviews section

To Battle Climate Change, Begin With Your Air-Conditioner

AFTER COOLING
On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort
By Eric Dean Wilson

In his prelude to “After Cooling,” Eric Dean Wilson tells us that he started his research not knowing “a tank of Freon from propane.” It’s a subtle chemistry joke, but a good one. By the end of the first 20 pages, however, the reader realizes beyond a doubt that the author is very aware of everything there is to know about what we call air-conditioning. After his deftly persuasive opening argument that cutting back on machine-made cooling is the most pressing environmental task of our generation, Wilson walks us through the science of chemical coolants in detail, both the chemistry and physics of these miracle molecules, and the horrifying discovery of the havoc they wreak within the thin protective layers of the Earth’s atmosphere. (big snip)

Wilson’s research for “After Cooling” was ambitious. “I needed to become more intimate with climate violence,” he writes in his prelude, and proceeds to tackle several controversial themes. He describes how the history of cooling personal and professional spaces is entwined with the history of racism and the institution of slavery. Before mechanical coolers were invented, enslaved children living in intemperate climes were forced to fan their oppressors for long hours, or to move air across containers of water in an effort to cool whole parlors and palaces. “One life was comforted at the expense of another,” Wilson writes with powerful simplicity. Today, he explains, the global socioeconomic gap between those who can effectively cool their surroundings and those who cannot is widening rapidly.

“Climate violence”. I don’t even know what to say with that 2nd paragraph, it’s just so nuts. But, then, this is a cult.

One issue that Wilson does not address, and that I wish he had: how changes in the Western diet have (or have not) influenced our perceived need for air-conditioning, as well as its use. Admittedly, the measurable increase in average personal insulation over the last 50 years is a prickly subject, but surely it’s relevant to any discussion of the ways we modify our personal space.

Interestingly, the same people who yammer about this one are the same who yammer about body positivity, which has morphed from not being shameful to embracing obesity as a good thing (serendipity, Bored Panda has a piece on this today)

“After Cooling” has its greatest impact when it asks us to think deeply about the reasons humans wish to change the temperature of their surroundings. At one time, occasional sweating was simply accepted as a way of life, Wilson postulates, but now we regard comfort as a prerequisite for work and play. But what does it really mean to be comfortable? Is it merely the absence of discomfort, or is it something more? Is it a bodily experience or an emotional state? Wilson invites the reader into deep existential discussions by invoking broad themes of culture and philosophy — an unusual and delightful trait for a book on climate change.

Or, Wilson could mind his own f’ing business. Why do these cultists always want to force their beliefs on Everyone Else?

Wilson dares to state plainly that lasting climate solutions hinge on our capacity to redefine what makes our lives meaningful, not on new technologies or better products. The first baby step may be as simple as experimenting with an air-conditioner on a hot July day, setting the room a few degrees higher than usual, and asking ourselves at bedtime whether we even noticed.

Yeah, mind your own f’ing business. You Warmists want to do this, go for it.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 21, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is the need to live way up on a hill to avoid carbon pollution caused sea rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Proof Positive, with a post on Fleebagger hypocrisy.

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