Macy Gray Calls For Replacing American Flag, Says It Has Replaced Confederate Flag

By William Teach June 19, 2021 – 6:57 am

This would be no big deal, just another entitled, unhinged liberal hating on America as usual, if so many other liberals weren’t agreeing with her

Singer Macy Gray argues US needs a ‘new flag’ to replace ‘tattered, dated, divisive’ Old Glory

The American flag is “tattered, dated, divisive, and incorrect” and needs to be updated, singer Macy Gray argued this week in an op-ed written for Juneteenth.

But the piece, published Thursday by MarketWatch, received a quick rebuke from a few prominent conservatives.

The five-time Grammy nominee’s article appeared the same day President Biden signed a bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the 1860s.

She argued that Old Glory has “replaced” the Confederate flag, implying it is a symbol of racism.

“It no longer represents ALL of us,” Gray wrote. “It’s not fair to be forced to honor it. It’s time for a new flag.”

If she and others don’t like it, they can leave, right? What do they want to replace it with? The African flag they fly on Juneteenth? Something with the communist symbol on it? Perhaps the BLM or Antifa flags? People like Macy do not want any sort of coming together, and sort of “racial healing”, no, they just want to sow division and air their racial grievances and force everyone else to comply.

She went on to say a new flag should have 52 stars, with the new pair representing Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.

She claimed both the U.S. territory in the Caribbean and the nation’s capital city deserve statehood and that the supposed purity and innocence represented by the flag’s white stripes is a fallacy.

“America is great,” she wrote. “It is beautiful. Pure, it ain’t. It is broken and in pieces.”

She suggested the stripes could be off-white and the stars the “colors of ALL of us — your skin tone and mine.”

Huh what? What about Latinos? Asians? Middle Eastern folks? Native Americans? Are they being left out? What is off white? White? I’m guessing she really didn’t think through her moonbat piece. She just wanted to bitch and moan. Perhaps she should talk with her BLM allies about looting and pillaging and arson and vandalism in black owned areas.

As for Puerto Rico, are we to force them to be a full part of the Union? Mentioning D.C. means this was very much about politics, trying to force something to happen. Tell you what, convene a Constitutional convention, see if you can get the votes.

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Warmist Snowflakes Getting Upset With China Joe Over Lack Of Climate Scam Action

By William Teach June 18, 2021 – 3:00 pm

They could practice what they preach if they’re so concerned, right?

Sunrise Movement Getting ‘More And More Angry’ At Biden Over Lack Of Climate Progress

The Sunrise Movement is growing frustrated with President Joe Biden’s lack of progress on his climate policies — and the fact that oil and gas executives seem to have his ear.

The youth-led climate group sent a letter to the White House demanding a sit-down with the president and vice president. The letter, sent on June 4 and shared exclusively with HuffPost, asks Biden to prioritize meeting with them rather than a Republican Party looking to strip climate provisions from his infrastructure plan.

The group says it has not received a response.

“We’re definitely frustrated and each day that goes by we’re more and more angry and outraged,” Sunrise Movement spokesperson Ellen Sciales told HuffPost. “We elected Biden on a bold climate mandate and now he’s spending more time with Republicans than with the people who sacrificed all their time to get him elected.”

How cute, they sent a letter. And actually expected it to be answered by Joe.

In the letter, the Sunrise Movement called Biden’s attempt to negotiate with the GOP over his spending package a “dead end mission.”

“The agenda you’ve put forward and I helped craft, while historic, is itself already a compromise; it’s far short of what economists and scientists say is necessary to transform our economy and meet the climate challenge at scale,” Varshini Prakash, executive director of Sunrise Movement, wrote. “But, if you insist on meeting with and negotiation with the Republican Party, it’s only reasonable that you should also meet with and hear from us.”

So what they want is dictatorship, while screeching about Democracy. How cute. Meanwhile

Pennsylvania youth to march to Washington, D.C. fighting against climate change

A group of Pennsylvania youth will be marching from Harrisburg to Washington DC next week as they urge the Biden Administration to take a greater stand against climate change.

The activists are part of Sunrise Movement, which is a group of youth from across the country who are fighting to stop climate change.

Thompson and other members of the Sunrise Movement rallied at the capitol earlier this month. They’re hoping to reiterate their message as they march over 100 miles back to the White House.

I’m betting most of them couldn’t walk 10 miles, much less 100, looking at the photos at the article. Especially in the summer heat. The chance of them being driven in fossil fueled vehicles is around 100%.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 18, 2021 – 1:00 pm

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

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on white supremacy expanding through diversity.

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Fauci Remembers An Early Meeting On Wuhan Lab Leak

By William Teach June 18, 2021 – 10:30 am

Drip drip drip. Slowly more information is coming to light about the potential for a lab leak

‘I remember it very well’: Dr. Fauci describes a secret 2020 meeting to talk about COVID origins

In the early days of the growing coronavirus outbreak that would soon become a pandemic, an elite group of international scientists gathered on a conference call to discuss a shocking possibility: The virus looked like it might have been engineered in a laboratory.

“I remember it very well,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert at the National Institutes of Health, said in an interview with me on Wednesday. “We decided on the call the situation really needed to be looked into carefully.”

The teleconference on Feb. 1, 2020, appears to have played a pivotal role in shaping the early views of several key scientists whose published papers and public statements contributed to the shutting down of legitimate discussion about whether a laboratory in Wuhan, China, might have ignited the COVID-19 pandemic.

As a reporter who has spent a decade revealing hundreds of serious safety breaches at U.S. biological research labs, it has always seemed obvious to investigate whether the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a major coronavirus research center, possibly played a role given that the initial outbreak happened in the same city.

Yet for more than a year, those who publicly raised such questions were too often deemed a crackpot conspiracy theorist or a simpleton who just didn’t understand science.

It has only been in recent weeks that a growing list of high-profile scientists, intelligence officials and politicians – including President Joe Biden  – have publicly acknowledged the plausibility of a lab accident and pushed for rigorous investigation.

Perhaps that’s because the early concerns among key scientists – like the conference call on Feb. 1, 2020 – were kept private until now. That call likely would have remained secret if not for documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.

It’s very simple why this acknowledgement is occurring: the first is because the Credentialed Media and Democrats too a kneejerk opposition to Trump and so many Republicans speculating that the most obvious possibility was that COVID19 came from a lab, either accidentally or on purpose, rather than someone eating a bat or something and it spreading like gossip.

The other big reason is due to the World Health Organization and so many others trying to protect China, especially since Trump and many were referring to it as the Wuhan Flu, China Flu, etc.

The group of scientists invited to the call had agreed in advance that the information they discussed would be kept in total confidence and not shared until they had agreed on next steps, emails at the time show. They were among thousands of pages of Fauci’s emails on a wide range of topics that BuzzFeed News posted online recently after obtaining them through the federal Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

A day before the teleconference, Kristian Andersen, an expert in infectious disease genomics at the prestigious Scripps Research Translational Institute in California, had told Fauci first by phone and again later by email that the genetic structure of the virus looked like it might have been engineered in a lab.

And they wanted to keep this rather important information secret, so, good on BuzzFeed for a change

“The unusual features of the virus make up a really small part of the genome (<0.1%) so one has to look really closely at all the sequences to see that some of the features (potentially) look engineered,” Andersen said in an email to Fauci on Jan. 31, 2020. Andersen added that he and University of Sydney virologist and evolutionary biologist Edward Holmes, plus a handful of other top scientists with whom Fauci was on a first-name basis, “all find the genome inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory.”

Surprise? Anyway, it is a long article, worth reading the rest.

More: TDS did play a significant role in the scientists lying

(Breitbart) Far-left NBC News reports:

Chan said there had been trepidation among some scientists about publicly discussing the lab leak hypothesis for fear that their words could be misconstrued or used to support racist rhetoric about how the coronavirus emerged. Trump fueled accusations that the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a research lab in the city where the first Covid-19 [Chinese coronavirus] cases were reported, was connected to the outbreak, and on numerous occasions he called the pathogen the “Wuhan virus” or “kung flu.”

“At the time, it was scarier to be associated with Trump and to become a tool for racists, so people didn’t want to publicly call for an investigation into lab origins,” she said.

If you read between the lines, what happened here is obvious… A herd of quislings with scientific degrees allowed themselves to be so intimidated by the toxicity fabricated around Trump by the political, media, and academic establishment that they covered up something they believe to be true — that the lab leak theory is credible enough to warrant investigation.

Huh.

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NASA Says Earth Trapping “Unprecedented” Amounts Of Heat

By William Teach June 18, 2021 – 7:44 am

Now that China Joe is in the White House the climate cultists/activists at NASA feel emboldened to start trotting out their doom and gloom, and now that summer is almost here they’re going to make sure it is really Doomy

Earth is trapping ‘unprecedented’ amount of heat, Nasa says

The Earth is trapping nearly twice as much heat as it did in 2005, according to new research, described as an “unprecedented” increase amid the climate crisis.

Scientists from Nasa, the US space agency, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), reported in a new study that Earth’s “energy imbalance approximately doubled” from 2005 to 2019. The increase was described as “alarming”.

“Energy imbalance” refers to the difference between how much of the Sun’s “radiative energy” is absorbed by Earth’s atmosphere and surface, compared to how much “thermal infrared radiation” bounces back into space.

“A positive energy imbalance means the Earth system is gaining energy, causing the planet to heat up,” Nasa said in a statement about this study.

Scientists determined there was an energy imbalance by comparing data from satellite sensors – which track how much energy enters and exits Earth’s system – and data from ocean floats.

And you know this is your fault

Upticks in greenhouse gas emissions keep heat in Earth’s atmosphere, trapping radiation that would otherwise move into space. This warming spurs other changes, including ice and snow melt. An increase in water vapor, and changes to clouds, could further exacerbate this warming, Nasa said.

But, they had to admit that nature plays a roll, but, couldn’t help going cultist

Researchers also said that a “naturally occurring” shift in the Pacific ocean from a cool phase to a warm one probably had a significant role in amplifying this energy imbalance.

“It’s likely a mix of anthropogenic forcing and internal variability,” Loeb said. “And over this period they’re both causing warming, which leads to a fairly large change in Earth’s energy imbalance. The magnitude of the increase is unprecedented.”

How do they know it is unprecedented? Perhaps during the satellite era, but, what about before then? What about during the very hot 1930’s? Or the previous Holocene warm periods, which would not have had fossil fuels?

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Democrats Float $6 Trillion “Infrastructure” Bill

By William Teach June 18, 2021 – 7:31 am

Spending money the U.S. doesn’t have on projects that are not needed

Senate Democrats weigh $6T infrastructure bill, without GOP

Senate Democrats are weighing spending as much as $6 trillion on their own infrastructure package if the chamber’s bipartisan talks fail, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has repeatedly insisted that infrastructure talks are currently on two tracks: The first track is bipartisan, while the second track will include priorities that have no chance of getting GOP support. He huddled on Wednesday afternoon with Democratic members of the Budget Committee to discuss strategy, with no firm decision reached.

By “bipartisan” they mean “the GOP surrendering to the first bill with all the unrelated liberal priorities that they have renamed infrastructure.” The second track is simply just expanding those priorities

Senate Budget Chair Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has been pushing for an aggressive approach to the infrastructure talks and is angling to insert a large expansion of Medicare into Democrats’ plan. Earlier this week, Sanders said he opposed the emerging bipartisan agreement. He acknowledged that the bipartisan talks could impact his plans but vowed to proceed.

What does that have to do with infrastructure?

The details of the bigger plan come as a bipartisan group of senators, led by Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio), released details this week of an infrastructure plan that costs about $973 billion over five years or $1.2 trillion over eight. The plan would include $579 billion in new spending, and pay-fors include repurposing unused Covid relief funds, imposing a surcharge on electric vehicles, and expanding use of state and local funds for coronavirus relief.

You know what infrastructure hasn’t really be done since Obama’s Stimulus? Because it becomes to political, they include too much unrelated stuff, and, really, Obama’s stimulus (with VP Joe Biden in charge of it) wasted enormous amounts of money on projects which were not shovel ready and/or unnecessary. I remember them repaving a section of I440 on the northeast side of Raleigh around the Capital Blvd exit. It was utterly unnecessary. But, they had a great sign touting the Stimulus.

The potential $6 trillion in scope, however, is much-welcomed news to the nearly 100-member Congressional Progressive Caucus, which has distributed a wishlist for the package that falls between $6 trillion to $10 trillion. Their list includes universal child care, lowering of Medicare eligibility age, a permanent extension of the child tax credit. The group has also proposed to pay for roughly $3 trillion of its proposal, mostly through tax increases on the wealthiest Americans.

You know how we get an infrastructure bill that works? Deal with actual infrastructure. Dems are trying to create a catchall bill to fund their far left priorities along with bribing voters.

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Are White People Bad For The Climate Crisis (scam) Or Something?

By William Teach June 17, 2021 – 3:00 pm

I’m getting the feeling that this whole thing really isn’t about the climate or environment

Are white people bad for the environment?

Dear Umbra,

Are white people bad for the environment? Do white people have substantially higher carbon footprints than folks of color?

— Just Understanding Systemic Truths In Climate Emergency

Dear JUSTICE,

If you look at whose lives are most affected by the many harms of climate change, it’s clear that race matters. You can point to the disproportionate suffering experienced by the Black victims of Hurricane Katrina, the high proportion of Latino farmworkers who suffer from heatstroke or worse every year, or the number of Indigenous lands contaminated by fossil fuel infrastructure. Those examples are just in the United States, mind you, and not even a comprehensive list of wrongs! And the immediate question is: Since white people are relatively protected from climate change, does it imply that they are its main perpetrators?

The answer is complicated. White people are, of course, not a monolith. On one end of the spectrum you have your white mega-billionaires with spectacularly high carbon footprints both in terms of personal lifestyle and professional influence on consumption culture. At the other, you have the poor, white population of, say, parts of West Virginia, whose bodies and hometowns have been completely decimated by the fossil fuel industry. The gap between these two groups might lead an uncritical observer to exclaim, Aha! This proves race is just a proxy for class in this environmental equation!

In other words, whitey bad! Seriously, this a rather racist question to start with, one that would not be tolerated if it was something like “are black people bad for keeping crime low?” Or “are black people good for the environment because they live like it’s 1722 in Africa?”

The origins of global warming are “rooted in a racism of ‘I know better,’” said Anuradha Mittal, executive director of the Oakland Institute, a progressive think tank. That particular sense of entitlement is a key tenet of white supremacy. (snip)

The heart of your question, JUSTICE, is not whether every white person is bad for the planet. It’s about whether it’s possible to separate white people as individuals from the legacy that white-favoring systems have wrought on the world. And that is a very complicated prospect!

So, yeah, Umbra at hyper-climate cult outlet Grist is pretty much saying white people are bad. Here’s my question: what are you going to do about, race-baiter?

If I buy an electric vehicle, go vegan, put solar panels on my house, and compost, will I have done enough to make up for that legacy and amend the climate crisis? Quite clearly not. And furthermore, the only reason that I would be able to afford all the trappings of a so-called low-carbon lifestyle would be because of the generational wealth obtained through the oppression of others and the extraction of natural resources.

These people are just nuts. And, I’m getting the idea that Umbra, like most Warmists, hasn’t done a damned thing to reduce her own carbon footprint. And just nuts. Cultists.

In an article for Foreign Policy, Georgetown University philosophers Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò and Beba Cibralic write, “Climate reparations are better understood as a systemic approach to redistributing resources and changing policies and institutions that have perpetuated harm.” For example, the two call for reforming the current international refugee housing system, calling upon wealthy countries to house migrants rather than denying them entry or relegating them to camps. They also suggest industrialized nations substantially increase their contributions to a Green Climate Fund that would help poorer, more frontline countries mitigate and adapt to climate change.

These white climate cultists are actually rather racist, thinking that black and brown people in 3rd World nations cannot survive with a helping hand.

(that graphic is from an old, old article at Grist by Greenie Pig)

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If All You See…

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

…is a cliff that is collapsing due to carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on a victim selection failure.

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Good News: China Joe Using Taxpayer Money To Fly In Families Of Those With Pending Asylum Claims

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

Hey, #NeverTrumpers and low income Democrat voters, how are you enjoying Biden bringing in tons of foreigners who’ll displace low income workers?

Biden Policy Allows Migrants with Pending Asylum Claims to Have Families Airlifted to U.S.

President Joe Biden is allowing Central American economic migrants with pending asylum claims — not just approved claims — to have the Department of State fly their families on the American taxpayer dime to live with them in the U.S.

On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Times revealed:

The Biden administration on Tuesday announced the major expansion of a program that would allow many such youths into the country legally, part of its stated goal to increase “legal pathways” for immigration. The changes could boost the number of Salvadoran, Guatemalan and Honduran children joining their families in the U.S. from several hundred to tens of thousands.

…

The in-country processing will resume with Tuesday’s announcement, administration officials said. Advocates warned against allowing burdensome backlogs to form in El Salvador, Guatemala, or Honduras, with screening, interviews, vetting, and cross-border paperwork that delay and ultimately discourage applicants, some of whom feel too at risk to wait it out [and choose to take their shot trying to sneak into the U.S.]

So, all these “youths” and adults have to do is cross the border, either illegally or by showing up and claiming asylum, and the U.S. taxpayers will pay for the federal government to fly their families to the U.S., at which point those same taxpayers will be subsidizing their housing, food, clothing, medical care, and so forth, for decades. These people will demand jobs, and take those from so many low income/low skill workers who are American citizens. Then they’ll demand citizenship while not having integrated nor really learned to read or speak the primary language.

“The expanded Biden version will have more outreach, but the rationale is the same: Don’t come here illegally because we will come get you in legally,” Nayla Rush, a refugee and asylum policy expert at the Centers for Immigration Studies (CIS), wrote on Tuesday.

She acknowledged that it is unclear what will happen if an immigration judge denies the asylum or the visa claim and if “caregivers” of those children could also be allowed into the U.S.

No, no, this won’t entice migrants to come her, right? They can now start sending adults instead of kids. And if the asylum claim is denied, as 90% of them are, they mostly will not be deported.

Asylum cases can take years, given the immigration backlog exacerbated by the pandemic and border crisis. Biden is offering at least some asylum seekers work permits, and they can take advantage of resettlement U.S. taxpayer-funded aid under USRAP.

But, hey, no mean tweets, right?

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Perfect: Warmists To Hold “Faith And Science” Pre-COP26 Event

By William Teach June 17, 2021 – 8:31 am

Belief in anthropogenic climate change is pretty much based on pseudo-religious faith, more cult-like

COP26: ‘Faith and Science’ event to highlight efforts against climate crisis

The Holy See Press Office held a press conference on Thursday to present the “Faith and Science: Towards COP26” meeting, which will take place on 4 October.

The event, which is organized by the UK’s and Italy’s Embassies to the Holy See, will see numerous faith leaders and scientists address the theme of climate change and the need for a coordinated effort to protect Creation.

Pope Francis will likely participate in the 4 October event, according to Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States.

Presenting the Holy See’s role in preparing the meeting, the Archbishop said the Pope is very committed to the issue of climate change and that he would be “very surprised if the Holy Father does not participate.”

Archbishop Gallagher also pointed out that climate change presents an enormous challenge and that faith has a role to play in the solution.

“You’ve got to draw on all of your resources if we’re going to rise to these challenges,” he said, “and that certainly is faith; it is religion and the spiritual dimension of humanity. If we ignore that and think that the only solution is good politics or good science then we’re going to find that we’re not successful.”

This is a Pope who is more concerned with a slight increase in the world’s temperature over 170 years, something entirely normal during the Holocene, and one which is less than several previous Holocene warm periods, than with things like abortion on demand and violating Catholic principles in the Bible. It really is perfect, though, that they’re dragging faith and religion into the climate crisis scam, because it’s all based on faith in the coming Doom, right? The science used to prop up the climate cult is shoddy, rarely follows scientific principles like the Scientific Method, requires constant changes to data and facts to make their points, computer models which spit out the results they want, changing the data to accord to the hypotheses, and more. These are things pseudo-religions and cults do.

The Archbishop went on to add that the sense of urgency has grown about the need to confront climate change, saying that the pandemic has shown how various economic, social, and alimentary crises affect all people on the planet.

As the Pope has said, “everything is connected”, and so these challenges must be dealt with together, which is an aspect that people of religion can contribute to in a unique fashion, said Archbishop Gallagher.

This isn’t about climate, is it.

Biden Policies Would Help Unwind Destructive Forces of Inequality, Climate Change, Yellen Says

The U.S. economy needs ambitious fiscal policy to help unwind destructive forces, such as racial inequality and climate change, that have kept prosperity out of reach for millions of Americans, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told lawmakers Wednesday.

Ms. Yellen, who testified before the Senate Finance Committee, defended the Biden administration’s $6 trillion budget proposal for fiscal year 2022 in prepared testimony, calling for policies such as paid family leave, modernizing infrastructure, reducing emissions and making housing and education more affordable. The private sector doesn’t make enough of these investments to reverse long-term, structural economic challenges, such as falling labor-force participation and wage inequality, Ms. Yellen said.

“We need to make these investments at some point, and now is fiscally the most strategic time to make them,” she said.

The climate crisis (scam) is a platform to implement all their far left (technically, per the Politics 101 scale of political ideologies, these are way to the right into the Authoritarian/Fascism scales) policies of governmental control of citizens, private entities, freedom, and choice.

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