Portland Mayor Attends Portland “Protests”, Gives Stamp Of Approval To Attacking Federal Property And Employees

By William Teach July 23, 2020 – 8:14 am

I’m all for Los Federales just leaving the city of Portland and letting it destroy itself, then sending a bill to the city for the destruction of federal property, but, on the flip side, they should not be allowed to destroy federal property with impunity

That was the headline yesterday. It’s changed a bit since if you click on the link

Portland Mayor Wheeler tear-gassed by federal officers, tells protesters he doesn’t support abolishing police

Mayor Ted Wheeler attended a protest in downtown Portland Wednesday night to answer protesters’ questions and hear their concerns. He was still in the crowd around 11:30 p.m. when federal officers used tear gas and other munitions to disperse the thousands of protesters outside the Multnomah County Justice Center.

Video from New York Times reporter Mike Baker shows Wheeler at the fence around the Justice Center as flash bangs and tear gas were being deployed by federal officers.

“I’m not gonna lie, it stings, it’s hard to breathe, and I can tell you with 100% honesty I saw nothing that provoked this response. It’s nasty stuff, I’m not afraid but I am pissed off,” Wheeler told Baker. “This is an egregious overreaction on the part of the federal officers. There was nothing that I saw anybody do that warranted this reaction. As you can see, all it’s done is piss everybody off. It’s made everybody angry. They’ve come in and they kicked the hornet’s nest. This is not a de-escalation strategy. This is flat out urban warfare and it’s being brought on the people of this country by the president of the United States and it’s got to stop now. This is a threat to our democracy.”

There’s something that the news outlet, which is a Portland TV station, forgot

Mayor Ted Wheeler, a Democrat, said it was the first time he’d been tear gassed and appeared slightly dazed and coughed as he put on a pair of goggles someone handed him and drank water. He didn’t leave his spot at the front, however, and continued to take gas. Around Wheeler, the protest raged, with demonstrators lighting a large fire in the space between the fence and the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse and the pop-pop-pop of federal agents deploying tear gas and stun grenades into the crowd.

If you’re lighting things on fire, you aren’t protesting peaceably anymore. If Wheeler doesn’t want the federal officers in Portland, then he should tell people to stop attacking the federal center and federal employees. Stop the vandalism. Stop the property destruction. Stop tearing down fencing, stop throwing things, stop trying to break in. It’s that simple. It’s cause and effect: the violent hooligans attacked the federal buildings, hence, federal officers came.

Oh, BTW, the protesters jeered Wheeler and called for him to resign.

Protesters in the crowd held signs aloft that read “Tear Gas Ted” in reference to the Portland Police Bureau’s use of the substance before federal agents arrived. When the mayor left the protest, around 12:40 a.m., some protesters surrounded him and shouted angrily at him as he walked away. One person shouted, “You’ve got to be here every single night!”

Why isn’t Ted social distancing? You can see plenty of video in Andy’s tweets showing the violence and arson, such as here and here, including setting a Comrade on fire.

Meanwhile

Downtown Portland business owners feel negative impacts of continued nightly protests

What happens when all these businesses, and those in other parts of the city, flee? The owners may “support the purpose of the protests”, they don’t want their businesses trashed and know that few are going to want to come to the area.

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Know What We Really Need? A Department Of Climate

By William Teach July 22, 2020 – 3:30 pm

Personally, I’d say that all members of the Cult of Climastrology should voluntarily give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their lives carbon neutral, but, then, this isn’t about climate, it’s about installing Progressive (nice Fascist) government. I wonder if the crazy folks at Vox, including Warmist writer Allison Crimmins, realize that all the bad parts about taxation and loss of freedom and choice will actually hit themselves? That the cost of energy will skyrocket the cost of running Vox?

Why the next president should establish a Department of Climate

It’s been a big month for new climate policy ideas in the US, with a flurry of plans out, brimming with hundreds of policy recommendations. The presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden campaign’s task force on climate change, for example, released new proposals on July 14 for reducing fossil fuel use, aiming to establish a national clean energy standard and rectify climate injustices.

Earlier in July, the campaign also convened a new Climate Engagement Advisory Council to mobilize more people in the fight against climate change and systemic racism. And in late June, the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming put out a 500-plus-page Climate Crisis Action Plan.

But so far, none of these plans has included a key action that would strengthen the government’s ability to make these policies a reality: the creation of a new, Cabinet-level Department of Climate.

To give these new proposals a fighting chance, the committees and councils must recognize that the executive branch is not yet properly aligned to respond to climate change, a complex problem of unmatched size and duration.

It’s also not part of the Constitution, but, Warmists only care about that “antiquated document” when it’s convenient

To meet the threat of climate change, one of the first actions of the next administration and the 177th Congress should be to create this Department of Climate. Its mission would be to mitigate global climate change, reduce America’s vulnerability to climate impacts, build resiliency to the impacts that do occur, and strengthen our nation’s infrastructure by forging a sustainable, thriving, and just economy.

And when Trump wins, he should create this department, which will require all Warmist states to practice what they preach, and raise their taxes. Sound good? Anyhow, it’s Vox, so this keeps going on and on with Reasons.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 22, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a lawn that needs to be mowed which causes carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Pacific Pundit, with a post on Australia wondering if America is crazy enough to elect Joe Biden.

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To Fight Rising Crime, NYC Gets Rid Of Traffic And Homeless Units

By William Teach July 22, 2020 – 10:30 am

Of course, they and the news are trying to Blame guns, not the criminals using them who also vote Democrat in this Democrat run city

NYPD scraps traffic and homeless units and reassigns officers to fight rising gun crime

The NYPD has cut traffic and homeless units to focus on rising gun violence following mayor Bill DeBlasio’s move to defund police, according to reports.

Senior police leadership transferred 114 members of the traffic congestion mitigation and 85 members of the homeless outreach units, according to official documents seen by The New York Post.

The 199 officers were reassigned to precincts to combat a recent spike in shootings across the city, an NYPD spokesperson told the Post.

It comes after the New York City Council defunded the NYPD budget by nearly $1 billion. (snip)

NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea called City Hall leadership cowards who won’t stand up for what’s right or have a “goddamn clue what they’re talking about”, in a video leaked to the NY Daily News.

Mr Shea has heavily criticised police reform bills signed by the mayor, and said that the chipping away of resources to the NYPD would adversely affect public safety.

In fairness to DeBlasio, he does see traffic enforcement as part of the police department’s duties, and, he’s right: many people might not like getting busted for their bad driving, but, it’s about safeguarding other people first, at least in terms of moving violations. They also help relieve the massive traffic that happens in NYC. Regardless, because of the malfeasance of NYC leaders crime is spiking in NYC, and the police are the ones that have to attempt to deal with it, even as they are given no backing by the city, and you have plenty of officers retiring and leaving.

“They are failing at every possible measure to be leaders, and they throw it on the backs of the men and women of this police department, and curse them with one hand and then blame them with the other,” Mr Shea said during a weekly CompStat meeting with top police officials.

“People that don’t have a clue about how to keep New Yorkers safe suddenly think they know about policing. I have another thing to tell them — they don’t have a goddamn clue what they are talking about. But we are not going to let them destroy this city,” he continued.

See, even while being insulted and such, the police will still do their job. And, really, the spike started the minute the city disbanded the anti-crime unit, along with bail changes which released violators right back into the community.

Of course, Comrade DeBlasio and the city leaders are not big fans of people protesting near city hall

New York police seen clearing protesters from Occupy City Hall zone

New York police officers are seen clearing protesters from the Occupy City Hall zone on July 22.

The footage shows a large group of officers sweep through the camp, forcing protesters out of the area.

Surprise?

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Apple Releases Plan To Have Zero Carbon Impact By 2030

By William Teach July 22, 2020 – 8:22 am

And Vogue wants you to meet the woman behind this!

Apple Is Striving for Zero Climate Impact by 2030—Meet the Woman Behind the Mission

Try to think of a brand with greater influence over your life than Apple. Most of us can’t get through the day without our iPhones or the multitude of apps they support, and our new #WFH reality has only reinforced just how much we rely on—no, need—our technology. Apple has reached near-mythical status as a result, representing the ne plus ultra of American innovation, progressive thought, and mind-boggling success: In January, weeks before the coronavirus had escalated to a pandemic, Apple reported the most profitable quarter of any corporation ever, a cool $22.2 billion.

All to say: If any company can make a significant contribution to the fight against climate change, it’s Apple. Today, the company is releasing an ambitious road map to achieve true climate neutrality across its entire business by 2030. Its corporate operations are already neutral—meaning Apple offsets the carbon emissions it can’t avoid through investing in forests and nature-based solutions like mangrove restoration and regenerative agriculture. But by 2030 it will be carbon-neutral across its entire supply chain and products too. That means they’ll take the energy you use to charge your iPhone, MacBook, AirPods, and iPad into account then offset it responsibly.

In other words, you’ll pay even more for your Apple products. I wonder, will Apple stop using China for so much of its manufacturing? Or their massive global supply chain? How many parts and components are put on fossil fueled ships and airplanes, shipped to the US and around the world for manufacturing, then shipped around the world for sales?

Other ambitious goals on Apple’s list include transitioning dozens of its suppliers to clean energy; incorporating more recycled plastic, tin, aluminum, and rare materials into Apple products; and sourcing paper only from responsibly managed forests. In the wake of the killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement, Apple is also unveiling a new racial equity and justice initiative to address the connections between climate change and racial inequity. “You can’t have justice if you don’t have environmental justice,” Jackson says. “The pandemic has brought environmental justice back up to the front [of the conversation]. There’s an imperative to our work that we don’t talk about enough, which is [the need to] help people who didn’t cause the problem but will be the victims of the problem because of where they live and their access to fresh water or food, which will both be challenged.”

This really isn’t about climate, is it? You’ll get a nice helping of Virtue Signalling and SJW garbage with your iPhone, so that young ladies can post sexily for their Instagram and stuff. Anyhow, the rest of the article is an interview of Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice president of environment, policy, and social initiatives, and you continue learning that this really isn’t about climate, but, SJW garbage, and that you’re really going to pay more for your Apple products, and that Apple seems to be pushing for you to pay more on your electric bill to offset your carbon pollution.

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Portland Leftist Suddenly Discover 10th Amendment As They Sue Federal Law Enforcement Agencies

By William Teach July 22, 2020 – 7:55 am

This really is hilarious. I was laughing and smiling reading it late yesterday, and I’m still chuckling now. Suddenly, the 10th Amendment is important to these Progressives (nice Fascists), when they usually blow it off. Also, they’re attempting to cite it so that violent “protesters” can continue being violent

New lawsuit filed accuses federal law enforcement of violating Tenth Amendment in Portland

Several federal law enforcement agencies are facing another lawsuit over officers’ actions during the ongoing Portland protests.

Western States Center, Inc., First Unitarian Church of Portland, Oregon, Sara Eddie, Oregon Rep. Karin Power, and Rep. Janelle Bynum filed the lawsuit Tuesday against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Federal Protective Service, and the U.S. Marshals Service.

The lawsuit accuses the agencies of violating the limitations of the U.S. Constitution by taking citizens into custody off the streets, putting them into vans, taking them to unknown locations before releasing them when those people were walking home peacefully.

The lawsuit acknowledges that federal officers have the right to protect federal property and personnel, but it claims the people who were detained were walking away from federal property when they were taken into custody.

Um, you don’t get to get off scott free just because you’re walking away from the fruits of your violence. “Hey, officer, you can’t arrest me for the graffiti and attempted arson, for breaking windows and throwing bottles at officers, for tearing down fencing: see, I’m walking away!” It’s like the old myth that a cop can’t bust you for a moving violation if you make it into your driveway. Pro tip: they can.

The Executive Office has the Constitutional authority to deploy federal law enforcement to, at a minimum, defend federal property and detain citizens engaged in criminal violations, which is codified in 40 U.S. Code § 1315. The president doesn’t even have to do anything, say anything, put out an Executive Order, etc: agency heads and such can do it on their own.

The lawsuit intends to stop the federal government from depriving Portlanders of the right to be policed solely by those the Constitution permits. It also intends to vindicate the First Amendment rights of a church whose “religious practice includes activism and protest in the face of injustice.”

Suddenly they care about the religion part of the 1st Amendment.

Rep. Power says she is suing because the federal law enforcement agencies violated the Tenth Amendment and made it more difficult for her to set state law enforcement policy applicable in Portland and throughout the state.

Rep. Bynum says she and her family are afraid to move through Portland with federal officers in the city. Like Power, Bynum says that by violating the Tenth Amendment, the agencies are impeding on her ability to set state law enforcement policy.

All they have to do is NOT attack federal property, and won’t be a problem. She can help set state law enforcement policy, but, they cannot dictate that federal law enforcement cannot defend federal property and personnel. Perhaps the Representatives should have been more concerned with the violence when it started almost 60 days ago.

The Tenth Amendment states, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, not prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

It’s a lazy article that fails to mention that the Executive Office has those powers. They couldn’t, say, start arresting people in Portland who hadn’t broken federal law, but, remember, ICE has the lawful authority to wander around and arrest illegals and other such targets on their radar. Of course, these Progressives only care so much about the 10th. Over at Portland’s KOIN they discuss the same lawsuit, while also noting in an article that was right next to it

Judge deals blow to Oregon group’s vision of ‘Greater Idaho’

A federal judge struck a blow to rural conservatives who hope to constrict Oregon’s borders and create “Greater Idaho.”

The group Move Oregon’s Border for a Greater Idaho wants a majority of Oregon’s land to be absorbed by Idaho, along with a portion of Northern California. They feel Idaho better fits their needs and values. The group’s president, Michael McCarter, recently filed a federal lawsuit seeking a reduction of the number of signatures required to get the initiative on ballots in rural Oregon counties, arguing COVID-19 restrictions have made it “practically impossible” to gather enough signatures.

Portland and the rest of the state should be backing the group’s attempt, because of the People part of the 10th. As we all know, Democrats only care about the Constitution and Bill of Rights when convenient.

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St. Greta Wins Big Prize, Complains About EU COVID Recovery Plan

By William Teach July 21, 2020 – 4:30 pm

St. Greta is putting all her worldly experience and numerous degrees to good use

Greta Thunberg wins prize worth €1m – but pledges to give it away to climate change charities

Climate activist Greta Thunberg was on Monday awarded a Portuguese rights award and promptly pledged the €1 million prize to groups working to protect the environment and halt climate change.

Thunberg was awarded the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity for the way she “has been able to mobilise younger generations for the cause of climate change and her tenacious struggle to alter a status quo that persists”, Jorge Sampaio, chair of the prize jury, said earlier.

But Thunberg said she would use the money to support charities working to protect the environment.

So, they gave her the prize for doing…..nothing. Just yapping. Of course, this is more of an indictment of the award committee than St. Greta. Too many confuse “organizing” and being an activist with actually doing something concrete. Meanwhile

Greta Thunberg says EU recovery plan fails to tackle climate crisis

Greta Thunberg has accused EU politicians of failing to acknowledge the scale of the climate crisis and said its €750bn Covid-19 recovery plan does not do enough to tackle the issue.

The climate campaigner said the package of measures agreed by EU leaders proved that politicians were still not treating climate change as an emergency.

“They are still denying the fact and ignoring the fact that we are facing a climate emergency, and the climate crisis has still not once been treated as a crisis,” Thunberg told the Guardian. “As long as the climate crisis is not being treated as a crisis, the changes that are necessary will not happen.”

First, there is no climate crisis. Second, most people who think there is are only willing to do things theoretically, not in actual practice. Remember, most do not want to spend their own money or modify their own lives. Third, St. Greta is a child. An uneducated one at that. Why would anyone listen? If your 17 year old child was telling you how to live your life, would you listen? But, these lunatic climate cultists elevated this child, so, they’re getting what they created.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 21, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is an area drying out from Other People’s fossil fuels emissions, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Maggie’s Farm, with a post on Tuesday morning links.

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Redwood, Ca. Removes BLM Slogan From Street After Resident Asks To Paint MAGA

By William Teach July 21, 2020 – 10:30 am

The resident should have asked to paint something like “Back The Blue”, but, this shows government being used for hardcore leftist purposes

A California city removed its Black Lives Matter mural in the middle of the night after a Trump supporter asked to paint ‘MAGA 2020’ on the same street

A California city removed its Black Lives Matter mural in the middle of the night last week after a local lawyer asked whether she could install one nearby in support of President Donald Trump’s reelection bid.

CBS San Francisco reported on Sunday that a Redwood City resident, Dan Pease, asked city officials earlier in July if he could paint “Black Live Matter” on a street downtown as part of an Independence Day public-art celebration. Officials agreed and provided him with yellow poster-board paint he used to paint the 17-foot mural.

“Because we were using the poster-board paint that would eventually deteriorate over time, my understanding from them was that the mural would last as long as the paint lasted,” Pease told the outlet.

But on Thursday, city officials scrubbed the mural from the street in the middle of the night, saying it could be a traffic hazard, CBS San Francisco reported.

“Traffic hazard”. Would love for them to explain how so.

They removed it not long after Maria Rutenburg, a real-estate lawyer, requested that she be allowed to paint “MAGA 2020,” Trump’s reelection campaign slogan, on the same street.

“I saw ‘Black Lives Matter’ sign appearing on Broadway Street, on the asphalt. I figured that’s going to be a new public space open for discussion, and I wanted to get my message out too,” Rutenburg told the local CBS station.

Surprise! People should make these requests in every city, see how the city responds, whether they will be allowed to pain their own  “murals”.

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Here We Go Again: CoC Claims Polar Bears Could Be Lost By 2100

By William Teach July 21, 2020 – 8:19 am

Never let a good talking point go to waste

Climate change: Polar bears could be lost by 2100

Polar bears will be wiped out by the end of the century unless more is done to tackle climate change, a study predicts.

Scientists say some populations have already reached their survival limits as the Arctic sea ice shrinks.

The carnivores rely on the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean to hunt for seals.

As the ice breaks up, the animals are forced to roam for long distances or on to shore, where they struggle to find food and feed their cubs.

The bear has become the “poster child of climate change”, said Dr Peter Molnar of the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada.

“Predicts”. Using computer models, of course. Because the Cult of Climastrology always has to have some sort of scary prognostication that cannot be proven, and when the scaremongering doesn’t happen, they’ll say it was because of changes that were made or something. The first three stores on Google News for climate change over the last 24 hours were the same thing. And, see, the study is simply activist

The study, published in Nature Climate Change, said “aggressive” cuts to greenhouse gas emissions are now needed to save the animals, which rely on sea ice to reach their prey, from extinction.

Let’s start with putting a carbon tax on the activities of climate scientists. Bet they change their tune quickly.

New Polar Bear ‘Death’ Model Based On Junk Science And Climate Porn

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This new model, published today as a pay-walled paper in Nature Climate Change, also did something I warned against in my last post: it uses polar bear data collected up to 2009 only from Western Hudson Bay – which is an outlier in many respects – to predict the response of bears worldwide.

The lead author, Peter Molnar, is a former student of vocal polar bear catastrophist Andrew Derocher – who himself learned his trade from the king of polar bear calamity forecasts, Ian Stirling.

Steven Amstrup, another co-author of this paper, provided the ‘expert opinion’ for the failed USGS polar bear extinction model featured in my book, The Polar Bear Catastrophe That Never Happened.

Well, these authors and their supporters got the headlines they crave, including coverage by outlets like the BBC and New York Times (see below), but I have to say that the combination of using out-of-date Western Hudson Bay information on when polar bears come ashore in summer and leave for the ice in fall (only to 2009) to make vague projections (‘possible’, ‘likely’, ‘very likely’) about all other subpopulations in addition to depending on the most extreme and now discredited RCP8.5 climate scenario (Hausfather and Peters 2020) for this newest polar bear survival model is all that’s needed to dismiss it as exaggerated-fear-mongering-by-proxy.

In reality, polar bear populations are thriving.

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