If All You See…

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

…are hills that would be perfect for solar panels, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Geller Report, with a post on Ilhan Omar hating America but still staying.

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Washington Post Super Excited Over Spain Taking In Tons Of Migrants

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

Of course, it’s all about Orange Man Bad

As Trump shuts out migrants, Spain opens its doors and fuels economic growth

When night falls on the other side of the Atlantic, her 32-year-old cousin, a house cleaner in New York, huddles inside a dim basement apartment, terrified of ICE raids. But in a burgeoning quarter of the Spanish capital, where immigrant-staffed restaurants tempt newcomers with Dominican chicharrones and Venezuelan empanadas, Edith Chimbo sat in the sunlight, musing about the Spanish Dream.

“My cousin told me, ‘Go to Spain,’” said Chimbo, 22, who landed in Madrid earlier this year from the Ecuadorian highlands. Armed with a college degree but no work permit, she’s cleaning houses under the table, just like her cousin in the United States. Yet she is counting on something in the weeks ahead that her kin almost certainly cannot: legalization.

Got that? The WP is excited that migrants are being brought to Spain to clean houses, and will soon be legalized!

As the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants and asylum seekers brings tear gas, protests and raids to the streets of the United States, Spain is positioning itself as a counterpoint: a new land of opportunity.

In this nation of 48 million with long colonial links to the New World, an influx of predominantly Latin American immigrants is helping fuel one of the fastest-growing economies in Europe. The Spanish economic transformation is unfolding as the center-left government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has streamlined immigration rules while offering legal status to roughly 700,000 irregular migrants since 2021.

700K? That’s cute.

A landmark bill now being negotiated in the Congress of Deputies could grant legal amnesty to hundreds of thousands more — most of them Spanish-speakers from predominantly Catholic countries in Latin America. Those newcomers often enjoy visa-free travel to Spain, even as Madrid controversially works with Morocco, Mauritania and other countries to block irregular arrivals from the African coast, though Sánchez has also called for tolerance toward migrants fleeing poverty and violence in Africa.

So, they’re bringing in folks who can speak the language, and have at least some commonality with the citizens of Spain for assimilation, while blocking those who do not? Huh.

Spain’s approach is attracting at least some migrants rejected or barred from the United States, including Venezuelans who are now subject to President Donald Trump’s travel ban.

Great. Go there. Biden took in enough, to add on to all those who came in over the past 30 years.

The number of Venezuelans applying for humanitarian protection in Spain surged to 36,923 between January and May, a 36.4 percent spike from the same period last year. With no visa requirements, all Venezuelans need is a valid passport and a plane ticket. In May, the most recent period available, applicants enjoyed a 98.6 percent acceptance rate.

“My hopes and plans for the United States ended overnight,” said Alexander Salazar, 34, a Venezuelan living in Peru who found out in February that his U.S. visa, on humanitarian grounds as an LGBTQ+ migrant, had been suspended. His plan now is to join other family and friends who have already left for Spain.

Yes, smaller nation, but, the US took in vastly more Venezuelans, and checked almost none of them. I’m betting Spain is checking to make sure they are not gang bangers and criminals. Anyhow, bleeding hearts, Orange Man Bad, and

Migrant influx pushing Mass. shelter costs past $1B in FY25: report

Massachusetts taxpayers are on course to spend $1 billion on the state’s emergency shelter program for FY25 with migrant families making up a significant share of those receiving assistance, according to a new report.

Gov. Maura Healey’s administration has already spent $830 million so far in FY25 – which started on July 1 – accommodating more than 4,000 families who have been receiving taxpayer-funded shelter, food, education, legal aid and case management.

The costs work out at about $3,496 per week per family, or around $1,000 per person per week for the program, known as the Emergency Assistance (EA) system.

Biden was taking in people who cannot support themselves, and, really, expect the US government to do so. If the US can mostly shut down the illegal immigration, stop taking in sad sacks from around the world, and boot out the bad people, we could provide temporary work visas to many who want to work, will work for a time, and then leave for a time before returning.

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Climate Cult Is Hating On AI

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

You know, the energy requirements of artificial intelligence wouldn’t be a problem if the crazies would have let nations build reliable, dependable, affordable energy sources that provided abundant energy

Can You Choose an A.I. Model That Harms the Planet Less?

From uninvited results at the top of your search engine queries to offering to write your emails and helping students do homework, generative A.I. is quickly becoming part of daily life as tech giants race to develop the most advanced models and attract users.

All those prompts come with an environmental cost: A report last year from the Energy Department found A.I. could help increase the portion of the nation’s electricity supply consumed by data centers from 4.4 percent to 12 percent by 2028. To meet this demand, some power plants are expected to burn more coal and natural gas.

And some chatbots are linked to more greenhouse gas emissions than others. A study published Thursday in the journal Frontiers in Communication analyzed different generative A.I. chatbots’ capabilities and the planet-warming emissions generated from running them. Researchers found that chatbots with bigger “brains” used exponentially more energy and also answered questions more accurately — up until a point.

“We don’t always need the biggest, most heavily trained model, to answer simple questions. Smaller models are also capable of doing specific things well,” said Maximilian Dauner, a Ph.D. student at the Munich University of Applied Sciences and lead author of the paper. “The goal should be to pick the right model for the right task.”

Why are they always so naggy? Why do they always need to involve themselves in everything? Just leave people alone

The study evaluated 14 large language models, a common form of generative A.I. often referred to by the acronym LLMs, by asking each a set of 500 multiple choice and 500 free response questions across five different subjects. Mr. Dauner then measured the energy used to run each model and converted the results into carbon dioxide equivalents based on global averages.In most of the models tested, questions in logic-based subjects, like abstract algebra, produced the longest answers — which likely means they used more energy to generate compared with fact-based subjects, like history, Mr. Dauner said.

A.I. chatbots that show their step-by-step reasoning while responding tend to use far more energy per question than chatbots that don’t. The five reasoning models tested in the study did not answer questions much more accurately than the nine other studied models. The model that emitted the most, DeepSeek-R1, offered answers of comparable accuracy to those that generated a fourth of the amount of emissions.

They always want to limit what you can do. Just leave us alone.

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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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