Climalawfare: Puerto Rico’s Racketeering Lawsuit Greenlighted By Federal Magistrate

By William Teach February 22, 2025 – 7:00 am

So, when does the island of Puerto Rico give up their own use of fossil fuels? How will manufacturing sector do without them, considering it is 43% of the GDP? What about the $8.9 billion in tourism dollars? Will they be able to import TVs, computers, phones, etc, on sailing ships?

Lawsuit Survives Dismissal – Milberg Moves Forward in Groundbreaking Climate Change Racketeering Case Against Big Oil

In a major victory for climate accountability, a federal magistrate judge has ruled that the landmark lawsuit filed by Puerto Rico’s municipalities against the fossil fuel industry will proceed, sustaining claims under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) and antitrust laws. This decision marks a monumental leap forward in climate litigation, placing some of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies on track to face trial for their role in deliberately misleading the public about climate change while suppressing clean energy alternatives.

The lawsuit, led by Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman, PLLC, on behalf of 37 Puerto Rican municipalities, alleges that ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP, and other major oil producers engaged in a coordinated, decades-long deception campaign to conceal the true dangers of fossil fuel consumption. Through dark money funding and industry-backed disinformation campaigns, these corporations manipulated public perception, influenced policy, and delayed the transition to clean energy—despite possessing particularized knowledge of climate change’s catastrophic effects.

Once again, I recommend that these fossil fuels companies cut off all supply to the involved municipalities. They won’t, but, come on, if someone is suing you you wouldn’t provide them service, right?

Puerto Rico has long been on the frontlines of the climate crisis, suffering unprecedented destruction from extreme hurricanes and rising sea levels. The municipalities bringing this lawsuit have been left to rebuild communities devastated by climate change-fueled disasters, a direct result of the fossil fuel industry’s fraudulent suppression of climate science and obstruction of renewable energy development.

You know what the tide gauge shows for San Juan, Puerto Rico? “The relative sea level trend is 2.11 millimeters/year with a 95% confidence
interval of +/- 0.33 mm/yr based on monthly mean sea level data from 1962 to 2024 which is equivalent to a change of 0.69 feet in 100 years.” Which is exactly average for the Holocene, but should be much more for a warm period, based on averages between warm and cool periods. Hurricanes happen. PR is rather in that zone.

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SCNY Sues To Get $80 Million Back For Illegals

By William Teach February 22, 2025 – 6:45 am

Yeah, well, that was money the Biden-Harris admin gave them as illegals were pouring over the border, and being flown in, thanks to the Biden-Harris admin. Then were sent to sanctuary cities just like Sanctuary City New York by Greg Abbott

New York City sues Trump administration over $80M FEMA migrant funding clawback

New York City is suing the Trump administration after FEMA revoked more than $80 million in migrant funding, citing concerns over “illegal activities” at a hotel.

The lawsuit argues that the federal government violated regulations and seeks to prevent future clawbacks of approved funds.

What we know: The lawsuit claims that FEMA unlawfully withdrew $80 million in approved funding meant for migrant assistance. The funds were initially disbursed on February 4, 2025, but were removed from a city bank account on February 11, 2025, without prior notice.

The money was originally awarded under the Shelter and Services Program to assist with the city’s efforts in housing and supporting migrants.

City Comptroller Brad Lander raised concerns over the legality of FEMA’s move, stating that his office had no knowledge that the federal government could access and remove money directly from the city’s account. FEMA officials later cited “illegal activities” at a hotel as a justification for the clawback, though details remain unclear.

Go cry to Biden-Harris. Raise the taxes on SCNY residents. And ask Americans who saw the IRS yank money from their bank accounts.

“Without a doubt, our immigration system is broken, but the cost of managing an international humanitarian crisis should not overwhelmingly fall onto one city alone,” Adams said. “With very little help from the federal government, our administration has skillfully managed an unprecedented crisis, which has seen over 231,000 people enter our city asking for shelter. The $80 million that FEMA approved, paid, and then rescinded—after the city spent more than $7 billion in the last three years—is the bare minimum our taxpayers deserve.”

Go cry to Biden-Harris.

Meanwhile

Trump Plans to Use Military Sites Across the Country to Detain Undocumented Immigrants

The Trump administration is ramping up plans to detain undocumented immigrants at military sites across the United States, a significant expansion of efforts by the White House to use wartime resources to make good on the president’s promised mass deportations.

President Trump’s team is developing a deportation hub at Fort Bliss, near El Paso, Texas, that could eventually hold up to 10,000 undocumented immigrants as they go through the process of being deported, according to three officials familiar with the plan.

Good. The more migrants realize they won’t be staying in luxury hotels and provided phones and more, that things won’t be cushy as they are processed the fewer will come.

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Bummer: Trump Disallows Federal Scientists From Working On IPCC (scam) Report

By William Teach February 21, 2025 – 4:32 pm

The doomsday cult scientists are more than welcome to resign their jobs and go work elsewhere. They do not run the federal government. They really do not have a say in the matter. They are just employees

Trump bars federal scientists from working on pivotal global climate report

The Trump administration told US government scientists working on a vital global climate report to stop their work, according to a scientist involved in the report – the latest move to withdraw the US from global climate action and research.

The US had been highly involved in planning for the next installment of the report due out in 2029 from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s leading scientific authority on climate change.

The IPCC assesses how the climate crisis is affecting the planet according to the latest science. Its reports take thousands of scientists many years to produce and are used to inform policymakers across the world of the risks posed by global warming.

In a sense, all of the world’s current, accepted knowledge about climate change stems from the IPCC and its reports, the first of which was published in 1990.

An international meeting of IPCC authors that was scheduled to take place in China next week is now in limbo. Kate Calvin, NASA’s chief scientist and senior climate advisor, was supposed to co-chair the discussion but was impacted by the stop-work order, according to the scientist involved in the report. The meeting was planned to talk about next steps in the development of the report.

Bummer, they won’t get an all expense paid vacation to China, where they will stay at the InterContinental Hangzhou, a 5 start hotel. To be honest, it really isn’t all that expensive to stay there, I’m seeing prices of an average $137, but, it is a swanky hotel. And flights average $1377 round trip. Think the scientists will look for the cheapest flights, or, the most comfortable? Why can’t this be a Zoom meeting? Why are scientists from all over the world who are unhinged over fossil fuels driving global warming taking long fossil fueled flights?

“The IPCC is the backbone of global climate science, providing the world with unbiased, evidence-based insights needed to confront the climate crisis,” said Harjeet Singh, a climate advocate and founding director of Satat Sampada Climate Foundation.

OK, that is one of the funniest things I’ve read from the cult in a while. “Unbiased.” Regardless, just like if someone doesn’t like what a company is telling them to do as an employee they can leave, so can these “scientists.”

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 21, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is what could be a horrible fossil fuels drilling platform, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Watts Up With That?, with a post £62 Million for wooden bottles

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Biden Appointed Judge Orders Trump Admin To Resume Wasteful Foreign Aid Spending

By William Teach February 21, 2025 – 10:30 am

You just have to love how one unelected judge is demanding that stupid foreign aid be taken off of pause and spent right now

Judge warns Trump administration not to dodge court order unfreezing foreign aid

A federal judge delivered a stern warning to the Trump administration that it must abide by a court order to unfreeze foreign-aid funding, but he stopped short Thursday of holding administration officials in contempt of court for continuing to hold up some of the money.

In a seven-page order, U.S. District Court Judge Amir Ali seemed troubled by complaints from aid groups that much of the funding remained on hold despite his Feb. 13 order suspending the blanket freeze put in place by the Trump administration.

An official overseeing the administration’s foreign-aid revamp, Peter Marocco, filed a declaration with the court Tuesday that seemed to confirm the bulk of payments remained suspended. Marocco said, however, that the administration was not invoking the across-the-board freeze to suspend those payments; rather, he insisted, officials had separate authority stemming from the aid contracts or federal law to halt those payments.

That prompted aid groups to seek to hold Marocco and his boss, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in contempt for what the groups called the officials’ “brazen defiance” of the court’s order.

In the new ruling, Ali said his Feb. 13 restraining order was “clear.” He warned officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department not to attempt to use other labels or directives to avoid the court’s order.

Is this what they want to continue?

The judge wants the Congressional authorized spending to continue right now. Did the budget, er, continuing resolutions specify a time frame? Because there is plenty of time in the government calendar to spend it. I doubt the continuing resolutions authorized for “$15 million for ‘contraceptives and condoms’ in Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan” specifically. Is any of the crazy spending time sensitive? They don’t need money for transgender puppet shows in Ukraine immediately, right? Is it that important that the left wing groups get their slush funds immediately? How about giving it a chance to audit exactly how the money is being spent, whether it is going where it’s supposed to go.

Judge denies unions’ request to block mass firing of probationary employees, buyout offer

A federal judge has denied federal labor unions’ request to temporarily block the Trump administration from carrying out mass firing of probationary employees and deferred resignation offers, saying the court “likely lacks subject matter jurisdiction” over the matter.

Instead, Judge Christopher Cooper, overseeing the matter, wrote in his ruling that the matter should be brought before the Federal Labor Relations Authority.

“The Court will now deny the motion because it likely lacks subject matter jurisdiction over the unions’ claims,” the judge wrote.

“They must pursue their challenges instead through the scheme established by Congress in the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute (‘FSLMRS’), which provides for administrative review by the Federal Labor Relations Authority (‘FLRA’) in the first instance, followed by judicial review in the courts of appeals,” he added.

If the Chief Executive cannot do Chief Executive things, they, why do we actually have a Chief Executive? At least this judge ruled using law.

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Interesting: $2 Billion In Climate Scam Money Linked To Stacey Abrams

By William Teach February 21, 2025 – 7:15 am

Funny how so much of the money isn’t really for solving problems but spreading around

‘Extremely Concerning’: EPA Uncovers $2 Billion Set Aside for Climate Group Linked to Stacey Abrams

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has uncovered $2 billion set aside for a climate group linked to Democrat Stacey Abrams –Power Forward Communities — despite the fact the organization reported just $100 in total revenue, raising eyebrows.

The organization itself was founded in October 2023 as part of a coalition led by the leftist group Rewiring America, and Abrams quickly made her involvement known.

“Thrilled to be part of @rewiringamerica and the Power Forward Communities coalition. This is how we expand access to clean energy —by prioritizing housing, equity and resilience,” Abrams wrote on October 15, 2023.

“We are building a future where everyone, regardless of income or place, can thrive,” she added.

Have they actually received the money yet?

Despite reporting merely $100 in revenue in its first few months, the Biden administration — championing Green New Deal policies — awarded the group a $2 billion grant the following year, in 2024. According to the Washington Free Beacon, only eight of these Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grants were distributed by the Biden-era EPA.

“Stacey Abrams’ Power Forward Communities received $2 BILLION to be a pass through entity for Biden EPA’s $20 billion ‘gold bar’ scheme,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said on X. “They reported just $100 in total revenue after their founding in late 2023.” (snip)

“When we learned about the Biden Administration’s scheme to quickly park $20 billion outside the agency, we suspected that some organizations were created out of thin air just to take advantage of this,” he continued.

“As we continue to learn more about where some of this money went, it is even more apparent how far-reaching and widely accepted this waste and abuse has been,” Zeldin said, emphasizing how “extremely concerning” it is that “an organization that reported just $100 in revenue in 2023 was chosen to receive $2 billion. That’s 20 million times the organization’s reported revenue.”

What does Abrams know about any of this? Was it a scam? Would the money have been spent correctly? The company, such as it is, doesn’t seem viable for even a small loan.

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Illegals Sent To Panama Whining About Being Put Up In Luxury Hotel

By William Teach February 21, 2025 – 7:00 am

I have the sniffles. How about you?

From the BBC sob story

In a room at the luxury Decápolis Hotel in Panama City, two girls hold a piece of paper to the window with a written message. “Please help us,” it reads.

The hotel offers its clients rooms with sea views, has two exclusive restaurants, a swimming pool, a spa and private transportation. But it has now become a “temporary custody” centre housing 299 undocumented migrants deported from the US, the Panamanian government said on Tuesday.

Some migrants raise their arms and cross them at the wrists to indicate that they are deprived of their freedom. Others hang small signs with other messages such as: “We are not safe in our country.”

However, of the 299 undocumented migrants – from India, China, Uzbekistan, Iran, Vietnam, Turkey, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka – only 171 have agreed to return to their countries of origin.

The remainder now face an uncertain future, and it is the Panamanian authorities who are in control of what happens next.

Don’t like the luxury hotel and not being able to leave it? Go back to your home country. But, maybe they should not have whined

Migrants, Deported to Panama Under Trump Plan, Detained in Remote Jungle Camp

Nearly 100 migrants, recently deported by the United States to Panama where they had been locked in a hotel, were loaded onto buses Tuesday night and moved to a detention camp on the outskirts of the jungle, several of the migrants said.

It is unclear how long the group, which was deported under the Trump administration’s sweeping effort to expel unauthorized migrants, will be detained at the jungle camp.

Conditions at the site are primitive, the detainees said. Diseases, including dengue are endemic to the region, and the government has denied access to journalists and aid organizations.

Well, go home. Or go elsewhere. The United States will not be your sugar daddy/momma. You didn’t have to put yourself in this situation. Maybe a European country will take you in, as the Elites are hell bent on overrunning their countries and erasing them.

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U.K. Unions Shocked EV Mandates They Voted For Are Bad For Jobs

By William Teach February 20, 2025 – 3:22 pm

Wait till they realize the same thing in the U.S. and Canada

‘Blunt’ electric car targets put thousands of jobs at risk, warn unions

Union chiefs have warned that thousands of jobs are at risk if the Government refuses to water down “blunt” electric car targets.

Unite the Union, Labour’s biggest union backer, has hit out at “punitive” rules requiring carmakers to sell an increasing number of electric vehicles (EVs), claiming they will threaten jobs and place “downward pressure on pay and conditions”.

Sharon Graham, Unite’s general secretary, said Britain’s so-called zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate would not alone bring about the changes needed to phase out petrol and diesel cars.

Instead, she said the Government had to encourage demand by reducing VAT on UK-made EV sales for private drivers, while also increasing investment in charging infrastructure.

She said the ZEV mandate, which requires at least 28pc of cars sold by manufacturers to be electric, was a “blunt tool that risks jobs rather than encouraging people to purchase EVs”.

The unions overwhelmingly support Labour, and were excited to support the EV mandates, and are now realizing that this could cause a big problem for workers. Of course, they do not seem to get that the solution is not more government, but, removing the mandates, because it will get worse quickly

A consultation on the Government’s ZEV mandate ends this week and could pave the way for a watering down of the rules. The 28pc target is expected to rise gradually before hitting 80pc of sales by 2030.

Do UK drivers want these? Some do. Let them buy them. Do not force citizens to buy them. Especially since the people forcing this are themselves not driving EVs.

The number of cars made in Britain fell to 779,584 last year, according to the SMMT, which was the lowest level since 1954, aside from the pandemic.

There are similar struggles across Europe, with German parts supplier Continental Auto Parts on Tuesday unveiling plans to cut 3,000 jobs in its research and development arm.

Perhaps government should stop trying to control every little bit of the vehicle sector. Socialism doesn’t work.

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If All You See…

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

…is a frozen pond from carbon pollution driven polar disruption, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Climate Change Dispatch, with a post on the Trump admin ending NYC’s climate toll.

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Trump Admin Is Reportedly Going To Go After Pentagon Budget

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

This will probably make Democrats very happy after DOGE has gone after, and continues to go after, waste and fraud in lots of other agencies, since they tend to hate the military. Republicans will be unhappy, but, if they think about it, reducing waste and fraud in the military will give more money for actual operations. It could allow for increasing pay for service members. And it could reduce the budget as it stands, since the military budget has always been overly bloated. That might have been fine during the Cold War, not now

Trump Admin Reportedly Set To Cut Billions In ‘Unnecessary’ Spending From Pentagon Budget

Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly moving to gut billions of dollars from the Pentagon’s budget, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

Department of Defense (DOD) Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote to senior Pentagon leadership Tuesday that he wanted an 8% reduction in the defense budget in each of the next five years, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post. Hegseth directed leaders to deliver a plan for the budget cuts by Feb. 24, citing wasteful spending and “bureaucracy” as part of the reasons for the cuts.

The move comes as the defense budget has ballooned to $850 billion, according to the DOD.

“President Trump’s charge to DOD is clear: achieve Peace through Strength,” Hegseth reportedly said in the memo. “The time for preparation is over — we must act urgently to revive the warrior ethos, rebuild our military, and reestablish deterrence. Our budget will resource the fighting force we need, cease unnecessary defense spending, reject excessive bureaucracy, and drive actionable reform including progress on the audit.”

Government agencies are extremely competitive in an attempt to increase their budget every year, and the military branches are some of the worst, which leads to wasteful spending and significant overspending. You know the $600 dollar hammer story? Well, the hammers weren’t actually $600. They were like $15. But, there was a $420 add-on for R&D. Every time for every hammer. They could have gone and gone a Stanley or Craftsman hammer with lifetime warranties. $7600 coffee makers. $500 ashtrays (some might remember Al Gore going on a late show trying to break one. Could have gotten plastic ones from Walmart for $10). Building cost overruns into contracts, guaranteeing there will be cost overruns.

Some questionable purchases from the Pentagon included $6.1 million on lobster tails in September 2024, and $16.6 million on ribeye steaks and $6.4 million on salmon. Additionally, the Pentagon spent $5.1 million on Apple products, including 130 iPhone 16 Pro Maxes, which are considered luxury versions of the base iPhone 16 model.

Pissing away money to make sure they spend the whole yearly allocation so they can get more the next year. This is how you get surplus. Surplus of bullets is great. Surplus of lots of other stuff is not. How much does it cost to actually operate? That should be the basis of every agency, just like in the private sector. If something comes up, OK, there might be money for that. Remember, the Pentagon has failed 7 straight audits. What would happen in the private sector if a division failed one, much less 7?

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Over the past few months alone, the Defense Department has had to explain why it’s been paying $14,000 for individual 3-D printed toilet seat lids and purchasing cups for $1,280 each. These are just the latest examples on a long list of unacceptable purchases made by the department, including $436 for hammers in the 1980s, and $117 soap dish covers and $999 pliers in the 1990s.

If you were in charge of procurement in the private sector, would you be employed once your bosses saw something similar? Would your small business still be open if you did this?

(Ashlime) Back in January of 2015, as far fewer people know, the Pentagon issued a internal study which found the agency could cut $125 billion in unneeded spending over a five-year period. That averages to about $850 for each of our nation’s 140 million taxpayers. In other words, for the money that was wasted, by their own admission, they could have bought a $600 hammer for every taxpayer in the country—and still returned $250 to every one of them.

Is that a realistic number, or, could it be more like $250 billion? So, yeah, if you are a conservative you should want the military to be a lean, mean, fighting machine and not waste taxpayer money. They should have what they need, but, be responsible.

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