China Joe Takes Away Saudi Arabia’s Blank Check To Commit War Crimes That Joe Originally Gave Them

By William Teach February 6, 2021 – 10:30 am

Many media outlets had stories on this, and almost all of them forget to include two basic pieces of information in their attempt to give props to Biden for stopping what “Trump did”. This one seems to be have stealth edited to include part of that information between yesterday and today

Biden takes away Saudi Arabia’s blank check to commit war crimes

The Biden administration announced Thursday that it would halt support of Saudi Arabia’s offensive military operations in Yemen, where the war has caused a gigantic humanitarian emergency on top of the coronavirus pandemic. Biden will also reportedly appoint experienced diplomat Timothy Lenderking as special envoy to Yemen.

It remains to be seen exactly how this will play out, but as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) noted in a statement, it looks like the start of a diplomatic push to get Saudi Arabia to end the brutal war in which it has been bogged down since 2015, obtain a general ceasefire, and coordinate an international aid effort. The Saudi military basically cannot do anything without U.S. support, and any strong signals from America that it should knock it off probably will be heeded. That’s especially true now that Trump is gone, and Saudi dictator Mohammad bin Salman thus faces possible recrimination for ordering the cold-blooded murder of a U.S. resident and Washington Post columnist, Jamal Khashoggi, back in 2018.

It is worth noting that while Biden is reversing a Trump decision, the Yemen policy actually originated under the Obama administration. It is a marked difference from the early months of 2009, when Obama kept on George W. Bush’s secretary of defense and planned for a massive troop surge in Afghanistan. Perhaps two decades of expensive, bloody, and totally unsuccessful wars are enough?

How is Yemen a Trump decision, other than simply keeping Obama’s policy active? That last paragraph on this having originated under the Obama admin was not there when I read it Thursday. It seems rather important to the narrative, does it not? Who was VP during that time?

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COVID19 May Have Been Caused By ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

By William Teach February 6, 2021 – 7:08 am

Almost no one has really directly blamed Hotcoldwetdry yet. They’ve dinked and dunked around the edges, saying there are some links, saying that it will reinforce and cause future pandemics. Now, though

Climate change “may have played a key role” in coronavirus pandemic, study says

Human-caused climate change “may have played a key role” in the coronavirus pandemic. That’s the conclusion of a new study which examined how changes in climate have transformed the forests of Southeast Asia, resulting in an explosion of bat species in the region.

The researchers found that, due to changes in vegetation over the past 100 years, an additional 40 species of bat have moved into the region, carrying with them 100 more types of bat-borne coronaviruses. Bats are known carriers of coronaviruses, with various species carrying thousands of different types. Many scientists believe the virus that started the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic originated in bats in southern China’s Yunnan province or neighboring areas before it crossed paths with humans.

Many believe it actually was released, intentionally or unintentionally, from the research center right there in Wuhan, down the road from the wet market. Which has happened multiple times from that center

These findings have scientists concerned about the probability that climate change will make future pandemics more likely.

“If bats carrying around 100 coronaviruses expanded into a new area due to climate change, then it would seem likely that this increases, rather than decreases, the chance that a coronavirus harmful to humans is present, transmitted, or evolves in this area,” explains Dr. Robert Beyer, lead author of the study and a researcher at the University of Cambridge.

The researchers used climate records to create a map of the world’s vegetation as it was a century ago. Using knowledge of the type of vegetation required by different bat species, they determined the global distribution of each species in the early 1900s. (snip)

According to the authors, climate changes such as increases in temperature, sunlight and carbon dioxide, which affect the growth of plants and trees, have shifted the makeup of vegetation in southern China, turning tropical shrubland into tropical savannah and deciduous woodland. This type of forest, the authors contend, is more suitable to bat species.

The study calls this area in Southeast Asia “a global hotspot” for bat species and points to genetic data suggesting that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, originated in this region.

This, the authors say, provides the first evidence of a way that climate change could have played a direct role in the emergence of the virus.

Apparently, these climate scientists think that everything on Earth is supposed to stay the same all the time, and it’s your fault for driving a fossil fueled vehicle to get a juicy burger that changes happen. Really, these people just cannot help themselves in making ‘climate change’ the boogeyman in everything. Then we get to near the end of the article

Dr. Rick Ostfeld, a disease ecology expert from the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York, finds the research compelling, even though he doesn’t agree with all of its conclusions. He says it is not surprising that climate change was found to have transformed forests and bat communities. He also agrees with the study authors that the movement of animals can help spread viruses.

But he is cautious about drawing conclusions beyond that.

“The link to emergence of coronaviruses is highly speculative and seems unlikely,” said Ostfeld.

“What the study apparently gets wrong is the assumption that the increased diversity of bats (which they postulate) leads to an increased risk of a bat-borne virus jumping to humans. This is simply not the case,” he said. “The vast majority of bats are harmless to humans — they don’t harbor viruses that can make us sick. So adding more of those species doesn’t increase risk.”

Kate Jones, a professor of ecology and biodiversity at University College London, is also somewhat cautious. She said, “Climate change certainly has a role to play in changing species distributions to increase ecological hazard. However, spillover risk is a complex interplay of not only ecological hazard but human exposure and vulnerability.”

Surprise! When you ask non-climate cult scientists they’ll start shooting this garbage down.

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Erin Hawley, Wife Of Senator Hawley, Files Criminal Complaint Against “Protest” Organizer

By William Teach February 6, 2021 – 6:48 am

It’s about time that someone starts holding these Leftist nutjobs to account, since the Dems in charge in many states, counties, and cities won’t

Wife of GOP Sen. Hawley files criminal complaint over protest at their home

The wife of Republican Sen. Josh Hawley has filed a criminal complaint against one of the organizers of a protest last month outside their Virginia home.

The individual has been charged with a misdemeanor count of illegally demonstrating, but not charged with making threats or vandalism, as the Missouri senator initially alleged. A local magistrate found enough “probable cause” to issue a summons in the case, according to a police spokesman.

Hawley’s office said the complaint was filed in a court in Fairfax County, Virginia, with the defendant identified as activist Patrick Young of Washington, D.C. But as of Friday morning, Young told ABC News he had heard nothing about a criminal complaint, which wouldn’t become public until he receives it.

“If a summons has been issued, it is outrageous that a rich and powerful person — a United States senator — can go to their magistrate to get a summons to harass a normal person,” Young said in a statement, acknowledging that he helped organize last month’s protest.

Even rich and powerful people are entitled to not be the targets of violent harassment.

Video posted online of the Jan. 4 incident showed protesters loudly demonstrating in front of the Hawley home for nearly 30 minutes, objecting to his claims that the 2020 presidential election was illegitimate and that Joe Biden shouldn’t be certified two days later as the next U.S. president.

At the time, Hawley and the couple’s two sons were in Missouri, while his wife, Erin, and their newborn daughter, were at the Vienna, Virginia, residence.

Within hours of the protest, Hawley posted on Twitter that “Antifa scumbags” had “screamed threats, vandalized, and tried to pound open our door,” condemning it all as “leftwing violence.” But protesters and others disputed his claims, with police saying they had not found evidence of violence at the protest.

In a statement supporting her complaint, Erin Hawley largely recounted what can be seen in the 50-minute video posted online, following the group of protesters as they gathered at a nearby shopping center and then walked to her family’s neighborhood, where they “shout threateningly,” she said. (snip)

In the statement supporting her complaint, Hawley’s wife said, “I was fearful and closed and locked the door.”

Under the AOC Rule, Hawley’s complaint should be 100% be taken seriously. Especially since she was actually present, unlike AOC who wasn’t anywhere near the mostly peaceful Capital protest.

After about 12 minutes, an officer from the Vienna Police Department arrived on the scene and told the group that, under state law, it was “actually illegal” to picket in front of a home, according to the video. City ordinances also prohibit such use of bullhorns, a spokesman for the police department told ABC News.

The continued protesting for another 10 minutes, after they said a prayer and more officers arrived.

So, it was an illegal protest, they were terrorizing a woman (remember how Dems used to say that all women should be believed?), and you can bet Erin Hawley has some evidence. These Antifa scum need to be held responsible.

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Got Climate Insanity? There Are People Who Can Help You With That Or Something

By William Teach February 5, 2021 – 3:00 pm

What they will help you with is essentially reinforcing being driving bonkers by doomsday cult dogma

Got Climate Anxiety? These People Are Doing Something About It.

After Britt Wray married in 2017, she and her husband began discussing whether they were going to have children. The conversation quickly turned to climate change and to the planet those children might inherit.

“It was very, very heavy,” said Wray, now a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. “I wasn’t expecting it.” She said she became sad and stressed, crying when she read new climate reports or heard activists speak.

Jennifer Atkinson, an associate professor of environmental humanities at the University of Washington, Bothell, became depressed after students told her they could not sleep because they feared social collapse or mass extinction.

There are different terms for what the two women experienced, including eco-anxiety and climate grief, and Wray calls it eco-distress.

“It’s not just anxiety that shows up when we’re waking up to the climate crisis,” she said. “It’s dread; it’s grief; it’s fear.”

Dr. Lise Van Susteren, a psychiatrist based in Washington, D.C., and co-founder of the Climate Psychiatry Alliance, an organization building a directory of climate-aware therapists, said she had “absolutely” seen a surge in patients seeking help with climate anxiety in recent years.

But as the prevalence of climate anxiety has grown, so has the number of people working to alleviate it, both for themselves and those around them.

Wray, for example, who holds a doctorate in science communication, began reading everything she could about anxiety and climate change, eventually shifting her own research to focus on it entirely. She shares her findings and coping techniques in a weekly newsletter, Gen Dread, with more than 2,000 subscribers. In the spring of 2022, she plans to publish a book on the topic.

“My overall goal is to help people feel less alone,” Wray said. “We need to restore ourselves so we don’t burn out and know how to be in this crisis for the long haul that it is.”

I have a recommendation. You’ll probably guess it easily. These people should simply practice what they preach. Give up their use of fossil fuels and make their lives carbon neutral.

For many Americans, counseling for climate distress is relatively accessible. In some communities, however, especially in less wealthy countries, it may seem more like a rare privilege.

And now they drag in “privilege.”

Regarding the white and affluent, who most likely will not feel climate change’s worst effects, Kritee said it was crucial they confront their grief, too. In doing so, she said, they can begin to contemplate questions like, “If I am hurting so much, what is happening to people who are less privileged?”

I’m seriously having to pick and choose from a wide variety of nutbaggery in this long NY Times piece.

“What’s really important is we start normalizing this,” Wray said. “Not only to help people who are dealing with this very reasonable distress, but also because allowing those transformations to happen is hugely energizing for actionable climate movement.”

Start normalizing stupid people making themselves wonkers by joining a cult? No, thanks.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 5, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…are weapons of war needed because carbon pollution causes war, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Cold Fury, with a post on a Civil War do-over.

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China Joe Admin Considers Sending Masks To All Americans

By William Teach February 5, 2021 – 10:30 am

Because they know you’re having a really tough time getting a mask, right?

Biden administration weighs plan to directly send masks to all Americans

The Biden White House is considering sending masks directly to American households, according to three people familiar with the discussions, an action the Trump administration explored but scrapped.

The Covid-19 Response Team is evaluating the logistics of mailing out millions of face coverings, but no decision has been made, and the proposal hasn’t yet reached President Joe Biden for final approval, a White House official said.

The idea has been raised in several meetings among Biden’s top health experts in recent days, particularly as Biden continues to urge Americans to use masks as a primary defense against the spread of the coronavirus. (snip)

It’s unclear when the masks would go out to the public, how many would be included per residence and whether they would be disposable or made of cloth. It’s also not yet clear what the cost could be.

“There are a range of options on the table to help protect more Americans from the coronavirus and encourage people to mask up, but no decision has been made,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said.

It’s unclear what the purpose will be, unless they’re going to have the Biden/Harris or Democrats logos on them. Or be made in China, which would enrich Biden’s kids and Joe. Seriously, are you having trouble getting a cloth mask? They seem to be at every convenience store, grocery store, Walmart, Target, Dick’s sporting goods, etc. You can find just about anything you like at Amazon. I have a Dodgers mask, East Carolina Pirates, an American flag one, a pirate face one, some basic stuff, some gaiters (the ones by Mission are great for working out), one by Under Armor (good for outside when cold, otherwise, big time face sweat). I can order a NJ Devils one in a heartbeat if I want. So, why send them to citizens when everyone can get one in a heart beat? Is it just another little “paper cut” making people reliant on Government?

Did any reporter bother asking what the point was?

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AOC, Comrade Bernie Introduce Legislation Requiring Biden To Declare Climate Crisis (scam) National Emergency

By William Teach February 5, 2021 – 7:07 am

This legislation, which will probably go exactly nowhere, it might not even get a vote in the Democrat run House, would enable Biden with authoritarian powers (via Twitchy)

From the link

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) introduced legislation on Thursday that would require the president to declare a national emergency on climate change.

Declaring a national emergency would give President Biden more power to combat climate change, including the ability to direct extra funding to the issue.

The long-shot resolution follows a statement from Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) suggesting that Biden could declare a climate emergency to be able to take additional actions using emergency powers.

However, it would face an uphill battle to cross the 60-vote threshold to become filibuster-proof and could also face opposition from moderate Democrats.

It would basically give China Joe all sorts of extra-Constitutional powers. I wonder if AOC and Comrade Biden even considered that if a Republican wins in 2024, that person could use that power to do things like impose massive new taxes on high carbon polluting cities, build nuclear power plants which Dems are against, and increase domestic drilling because the “carbon footprint” is smaller than if fossil fuels are imported? Probably not.

I also wonder if AOC and Comrade Sanders have given up their own use of fossil fuels since there is a climate emergency. And will any reporter ask them hard questions on their own carbon footprints? Doubtful.

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Republicans Get The Help Of A Few Democrats To Restrict Stimulus Checks From Illegal Aliens

By William Teach February 5, 2021 – 6:54 am

Amazingly, the majority of Democrats voted to give your money to illegal aliens, people who are here in violation of federal law. Heck, if we know who they are and where they are we should be deporting them, not giving them money. Per federal law

Swing State Democrats Join Senate Republicans to Block Stimulus Checks for Illegal Aliens

A handful of swing state Senate Democrats joined Senate Republicans on Thursday to add a budget amendment that will help ensure that stimulus checks, funded by American taxpayers, are not given to illegal aliens living in the United States.

Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Todd Young (R-IN) proposed an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2021 Budget that will likely block the inclusion of stimulus checks for illegal aliens in any Chinese coronavirus relief package.

All 50 Senate Republicans supported the amendment, as well as eight swing state Senate Democrats. Those Democrats include Sens. Krysten Sinema (D-AZ), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Gary Peters (D-MI), John Hickenlooper (D-CO), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Jon Tester (D-MT), and Joe Manchin (D-WV).

“The Biden administration shouldn’t reward illegal immigrants for breaking our laws by giving them checks,” Cotton said in a statement. “Instead of courting foreigners with U.S. taxpayer funds, President Biden should use that money to aid American schools, businesses, and families.”

No, they shouldn’t. Not in the least. Realistically, any Democrat voting to give illegal aliens cash support is violating federal law on providing material support, along with inducing illegals to come to the United States illegally. I guess this is another way for Democrats to bribe illegals so that they vote Democrat if amnesty goes through

The vote is critical for President Joe Biden’s administration because it shows the lack of support in the Senate Democrat caucus for pro-illegal immigration policies — and potentially a DREAM Act-style amnesty — specifically among those who represent swing states and will be up for re-election in 2022 and 2024.

Maybe. I’m not sure I’d read that much into it. Giving checks to illegals is a bad look, but, maybe 1-4 of those Dems would vote against a DREAM style bill, and you’d probably get 2-6 squishy Republicans voting for that bill.

Meanwhile, there was a marathon session of votes yesterday on the COVID relief bill

(Fox News) The “vote-a-rama” in the Senate that started at about 2:30 p.m. Thursday concluded shortly before 6 a.m. Friday after a marathon process in which Republicans forced Democrats to take votes on tough issues for more than 15 hours.

The Senate adopted a budget resolution for coronavirus relief 51-50 with Vice President Harris casting the tie-breaking vote. It’s not a final bill, but allows the Senate to proceed toward a final bill under the budget reconciliation rules, which would let Democrats pass a coronavirus stimulus plan by going around a GOP filibuster as long as their caucus remains united. (snip)

In other amendments during the vote-a-rama, the Senate voted 97-3 to support keeping the U.S. Embassy in Israel in Jerusalem; 50-50 on a failed amendment to support the border wall; 50-50 on a failed amendment supporting the free exercise of religion; 100-0 to oppose the defunding of police; 50-50 on a failed amendment to oppose packing the Supreme Court; 50-50 on a failed amendment opposing stimulus checks for people in prison; 50-50 on a failed amendment opposing the Biden administration’s move to restrict oil and gas leasing on federal lands; 50-50 on a failed amendment opposing a federal carbon tax; 53-47 in favor of an amendment supporting the expansion of health savings accounts; and more.

Interesting. No Democrat wanted to go on the record supporting the defund movement. Further, you got 50 Dems who won’t support the 1st Amendment on free exercise of religion. Looks like Democrats are happy to consider a carbon tax, which will raise your cost of living.

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Climate Cult Wants Constitutional Changes To Protect Climate Action Or Something

By William Teach February 4, 2021 – 3:00 pm

Anyone who is surprised that climate cultists want to do away with multiple Constitutional protections designed to protect citizens from mob rule and tyranny, please raise your hand (yet, most Warmists still refuse to practice what they preach)

Biden’s Executive Order on Climate Crisis Exposes Need for Constitutional Change

Biden’s January 27, 2021 executive order “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad” reveals the way corporate power is protected from democracy.

“We face a climate crisis that threatens our people and communities, public health and economy, and, starkly, our ability to live on planet Earth,” the order reads. However, rather than seek to govern the private fossil fuel sector, the order narrowly confines itself to future oil and gas leases on public lands. That’s because current interpretations of the U.S. Constitution ties the hands of the government from substantively governing existing fossil fuel infrastructure.

That’s because the Constitution protects us from dictatorship. Remember, these are the same people who spent four years (and 8 years under George W. Bush) caterwauling about him being a Fascist and a dictator for removing government authority

Because Biden’s order remains “consistent with applicable law,” it does nothing to govern private oil and gas leasing, or existing leases on federal lands. This tells us something about that “applicable law,” namely, the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. Supreme Court’s interpretation and manipulation of law to insulate corporate power.

Biden’s order operates within the confines of a system of law that has elevated fossil fuel companies into “persons” that enjoy property rights including under the Due Process Clause. (A corruption of the 14th Amendment that was actually meant to create some justice for formerly enslaved people.)

Hmm, so the climate cultists want to take away private property rights? OK, let’s take away their property, see how they feel (as a sidebar, this is why you should watch out if the Waters of the US rule is given another whirl, one of the most Big Government of Big Government rules ever)

Of course, it’s not up to Biden to change this status quo. But the reasons Biden’s order is so weak exposes a structure that will seek to limit bolder future action to address the climate crisis. (snip)

The order does what it can within existing law. It’s up to movements to change that law. That means expanding constitutional demands beyond procedural demands to abolish the Electoral College and reform the courts, and into substantively addressing corporate constitutional privileges enshrined in the Constitution.

So, since their 30+ years of spreading awareness hasn’t worked, they want to institute one party rule, like in China, North Korea, the old Soviet Union and new Russian Federation, Cuba, and other authoritarian regimes. That pesky Constitution is just so inconvenient to government dictates and forcing people to comply with your doomsday cult beliefs.

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If All You See…

By William Teach February 4, 2021 – 1:00 pm

…is a rising ocean that will soon wipe out the seaboards, 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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