What’s Up With The Drones Over New Jersey?

By William Teach December 12, 2024 – 10:30 am

This story has gone from something tiny to but within days

More than 3K mystery drone sightings reported to FBI

Federal investigators have received more than 3,000 reports of drone sightings since beginning an investigation this month into unexplained objects hovering over New Jersey, a top FBI official said at a Congressional hearing Tuesday.

The reports coming in from the public included sightings of both fixed-wing and rotary drones, Robert Wheeler, the assistant director of the FBI’s Critical Incident Response Group, said during a Homeland Security subcommittee hearing on security threats posed by drones.

Wheeler said investigators are still unclear on “the particular specifics” of the alleged drones.

“We don’t know the people responsible behind that and that’s what we’re working on,” he added.

Then we have

(NJ.com) Between 12 and 30 drones were spotted following a Coast Guard lifeboat off the Jersey Shore Sunday night, a Republican lawmaker said during a Congressional hearing Tuesday on mysterious drone sightings over the last month.

Smith also said an Ocean County Sheriff’s officer saw 50 drones moving over land from the ocean at Island Beach State Park over the weekend.

Interesting. My parents live somewhat near there, and they have a friend who lives even closer. None saw them, but, there plenty of videos of the drones then and during the previous month

Then you have the Experts! chiming in on what they can be

  • Theory: Local drone hobbyists set off a panic.
  • Theory: The drones are tied to defense contractors or the U.S. military.
  • Theory: A startup company is testing new drone technology.

Those are a lot of drones for hobbyists or a startup company. And some of the drones are reported to be huge, small car sized. The US military or defense contractors could make sense, because, no one is intercepting them or shooting them down! No military jets, no military combat helicopters. Nothing. Or, they could be, as some suggest, Chinese or Iranian, and we saw what Biden did when a Chinese spy balloon flew over the entire US, including military bases. Nothing.

Now, imagine if Trump was in office and Democrats ran the House: he would have been impeached for dereliction of duty. They would have done the same after the Chinese spy balloon. Why is the government yapping and holding hearings when they should shoot a couple down to find out WTF they are? They are flying over military bases in NJ, among other sites. You have Naval Weapons Station Earl near the northern coast, but, not actually on the water, which is a big research center, which reportedly has anti-ballistic missile weapons. Shoot one down so we know what they are and whose they are.

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Hotcold Take: Climate Crisis (scam) Makes HIV Inequities Worse For Black Americans

By William Teach December 12, 2024 – 7:15 am

Having watched this issue for decades, and the way lefties think, I can seriously see someone sitting around saying “black people have HIV, let’s drag in climate doom”

Climate Change Is Deepening HIV Inequities for Black Americans

As Hurricane Ida’s fierce winds ripped panels off of rooftops across New Orleans in September 2021, health workers and HIV activists braced for the aftermath. With power cut and roads blocked by debris, prescription refills and patients would be lost and forgotten in the storm’s chaotic wake across the South.

And with record-breaking hurricanes like Helene and Milton leading to hundreds of deaths and missing people earlier this fall across the Southeast, there is increasing fear that people living with HIV are losing the supportive services they need to stay alive because of climate change.

You know how they can stay alive? Do not have risky, unprotected sex with someone who has, or might have, HIV/AIDS, particularly within the gay male community. It’s literally one of the easiest diseases to not get.

Nationwide, half of people with HIV are living in places that are extremely vulnerable to extreme weather and climate disasters, according to a new analysis of federal disaster and health data from the Center for American Progress (CAP), a progressive policy think tank. Of the 48 counties that are most vulnerable to climate disasters and have high rates of HIV, 35 have an above-average share of Black residents.

And there you go, the hyper-Progressive CAP started this with their article. Weirdly, almost every one of these areas is Democratic Party run.

At the same time, a new study by Tulane University in New Orleans found that former racial segregation policies like redlining continue to impact these health outcomes today. Those living in once redlined neighborhoods across New Orleans experience 15% longer delays in accessing HIV-related care. Louisiana, where about 80% of people living with HIV are Black, has the nation’s third-highest rate of new cases.

New Orleans is run by Democrats, is in a low lying area, with some areas below sea level. Perhaps the city should be less concerned with climate (scam) doom and more concerned with why HIV is raging through their black population. The mayor is black, and 4 (maybe 5) of the 7 city council members are black. Why are they not telling their people the truth?

Morris Singletary, the founder of HIV education nonprofit The Pozitive2Positive Initiative, said this shows how the social factors that determine health outcomes, like racism or access to housing, “lead from one harm to another, to another, to another.”

None of that has any bearing on the weather or people having risky, unprotected sex.

With climate change intensifying the frequency and severity of natural disasters for people living with HIV, these events present significant health challenges dependent on several things like economic status and geography.

Weather disasters are not getting worse, and people living with HIV is mostly a self-caused disease. If you climb to the top of your roof on a rickety ladder and fall, that’s on you. The weather has nothing to do with it, nor does raaaaacism.

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Illegal Alien Supporters Protest In Albany

By William Teach December 12, 2024 – 7:00 am

Say, have these New Yorkers considered paying for the illegals themselves? Or letting the city of Albany pay for them?

Protesters attempt to stop removal of hundreds of migrants from public-funded housing

Activists and several elected officials gathered outside New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office in the Capitol in Albany on Monday to protest the closure of two hotels housing several hundred migrants in the state’s capital region.

New York City has a “right to shelter” law, requiring the city to provide shelter for anyone who asks for it and has no other options.

Protest organizers said they were advocating for Hochul to intervene to prevent the migrants’ eviction and to provide new state funding to shelter the migrants.

Speaking during the protest, Angelica Perez-Delgado, president of the pro-migrant nonprofit Ibero-American Action League, said, “Our need right now is to ensure that people in our hotels are not evicted. We need leadership and money from Gov. Hochul right now to fund at least six months of housing and related services.”

It’s a non-profit: let them pony up for the hotels. Why should the citizens of New York pay? The citizens of NYC have paid billions. Let Albany suck it up

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been behind many of the moves to crack down on services for migrants, saying, “We have been wasting taxpayers’ money for far too long.”

Funny how his tune has changed, eh? Perhaps the Biden-Harris regime siccing the DOJ on him wasn’t the best idea. Adams plans to close 25 shelters by May.

California’s ‘Super Sanctuary’ Refuses to Help ICE With Mass Deportations

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors has voted to prohibit the use of its resources and funding to support federal immigration agents in carrying out deportations.

On Tuesday, the San Diego County board approved the measure with a 3-1 vote, while Supervisor Joel Anderson was absent.

The county is set to limit the use of its jails, county buildings and personnel in assisting federal immigration enforcement agents.

I wonder how well this will work: the more rural/suburban folks in SD County tend to be more Republican, so, might the members of the SD Sheriff’s Office use their own phones to call ICE when they have an illegal in custody? This order will not apply to any local police departments, as the county has no control over them on this. Also, will the Supervisors reconsider when the Trump DOJ comes after them or others for blocking ICE, for non-cooperation, when it comes to gang members (MS-13 and others), murderers, and rapists? Violating 8 US Code 1324 is a federal criminal violation.

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Surprise: Climate Cult Won In Washington By Not Talking About Climate

By William Teach December 11, 2024 – 3:00 pm

It certainly helps when you do not have climate doom hysterics caterwauling, freaking people out, eh?

Climate advocates finally won in WA. How? By not talking about climate

Midway through the $16 million political campaign this fall to defend Washington’s far-reaching climate change law, University of Washington professor Aseem Prakash noticed something very unusual.

“They weren’t talking about climate change,” he said. “Climate change is the purpose of the law, and they weren’t focusing on that, at all.”

It’s true, and pretty remarkable. A review of the 10 television and digital ads that made up the crux of the “No on I-2117” campaign shows that the word “climate” was never uttered once by the farmers, mothers, firefighters, a rocket scientist or Bill Nye the Science Guy, who all appeared in the ads.

Nor did words like “climate change” or “global warming” ever appear.

Ah, so, it is more about misdirection, much like the Inflation Reduction Act?

So this time around, two things changed. One is that lawmakers wrote the Climate Commitment Act so that some carbon fees were reinvested in visible infrastructure projects around the state — such as in transportation. And two is that the campaign focused heavily on that spending, dropping any talk about saving the planet or stemming climate change.

Prakash said it was genius. Focus groups and polling have shown that the mere mention of the phrase “climate change” can reduce support for a government project or program by double digits, he said.

“The reason is the words ‘climate change’ are a trigger for some, they can ignite a culture war,” Prakash said. “The words also raise the issue that the benefits can be global, and therefore out of sight to the average voter.”

In other words, they know that bringing this stuff up is like listening to a Scientologist or member of Heaven’s Gate. Pure cult and drives people away. Regardless, it will be fun when the people who voted for this realize their taxes, food, gas, housing, and overall cost of living is going up.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 11, 2024 – 1:00 pm

…are horrible fossil fueled power boats, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is American Greatness, with a post noting that rescuing California requires challenging crony environmentalism.

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Is Syria Already Going Down The Road To Being An Islamist Extremist Country?

By William Teach December 11, 2024 – 10:30 am

The leaders who deposed Assad and forced him to flee to Moscow made noises about being respectful and not extremist, but, already

Report: Syrian Rebels Execute Opponents, Impose Sharia, Threaten Kurds

Syrian rebels who overthrew the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad on Sunday are reportedly executing their opponents, imposing Islamic sharia law, and threatening non-Muslim minorities, including the Kurdish population in the north.

Videos are circulating on social media showing Syrian rebels killing people associated with the regime — some of whom may have been part of the state security services, and others who appear to have been ordinary employees.

The New York Times reported Tuesday:

Islamic State forces on Tuesday killed 54 people in the Homs region in central Syria who had been part of the Syrian government’s military and fled during the collapse of the Assad regime, according to the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, a British-based monitoring group. The killings highlight the chaos in Syria as various rebel factions operate in different regions.

One video also shows thousands of smashed bottles of liquor at the duty free store of the Damascus airport, where Islamist rebels apparently enforced the Islamic ban on alcohol by force, as Islamists did in Lebanon in the 1980s.

How much further will this go? Time will tell. Will they dive down into being a fundamentalist nation like Iran? Or further like Afghanistan? Will they be a threat to the region like we see from the Palestinians and Houthi? Will they be more open like many of the Gulf nations?

Western nations should softly work to make inroads with Syria, limiting their Islamist impulses, driving them from China and Russia and Iran.

Meanwhile, the Times is also reporting

Fierce fighting was underway on Tuesday between rebels supported by Turkey and U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led forces near Kobani, a town in northern Syria with historic and symbolic significance for American involvement in the region.

The fight illustrates how, even as rebels try to build a government after taking Damascus, armed groups with competing interests are still fighting for territory and power, trying to fill the vacuum left by a collapsed regime and, in this case, pitting proxies of the United States and Turkey against each other.

So, our NATO ally is working against the interests of the U.S., trying to kill Kurds. Why is Turkey still in NATO?

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The Climate Cult Is Changing Tactics Because Trump

By William Teach December 11, 2024 – 7:00 am

The NY Times is super excited about this. Let’s see what the doomsday cultists are doing. It must be that they’re all going to stop using fossil fuels, go meatless, stop buying fast fashion, and make their lives carbon neutral, right?

How the Climate Movement Is Changing Tactics After Trump’s Win

With about a month and a half left until the Trump administration takes over the White House, I called Bill McKibben, a journalist, author and activist, to ask where the climate movement goes next.

The outlook for the movement that McKibben has helped lead for more than three decades may seem grim. Donald Trump, who has called global warming a “scam,” is likely to reverse many of President Biden’s climate policies. Trump is expected to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, dismantle regulations and target Biden’s signature climate bill, the Inflation Reduction Act.

But the climate movement also plans to spend the next four years hunkering down at the local level. McKibben’s newest organization, Third Act, a nonprofit group for climate activists older than 60 that he started about three years ago, is highlighting the push for change at the community and state level. Over the past 18 months, they’ve begun a new strategy: attending the meetings of obscure state agencies or commissions that hold a lot of power over the energy transition.

Um, how does that have anything to do with Trump? Did they know he was going to win 18 months ago? #TDS

Youth climate groups have also said they’re pivoting from a national to a local stage, pushing for state-level laws like the Climate Change Superfund Act in New York, which could hold polluters accountable for climate change.

Well, really, that’s where it should be. All powers not directly assigned to the federal government are reserved to the States and The People. And, hey, we need experimental groups for every experiment. Though, we have the People’s Republik Of California already. But, there needs to be more than one.

It’s still too early to tell how Trump’s win will affect the climate movement, but McKibben said these were “uncharted waters.” While some parts of the movement are refining their economic arguments, other climate leaders hope to center their message on people that have been disproportionately affected by environmental harms or climate disasters. As I reported today, the youth climate movement has largely reframed itself as the youth climate justice movement.

They’ve been doing that for the last 15 years, so, nothing new. So, what, exactly, are the plans? Seems like a lot of ado over nothing. No need for an article except that the climate cult requires a certain amount of space in every NY Times edition.

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cBS Notes Americans Are Paying More For Health Insurance

By William Teach December 11, 2024 – 6:45 am

I’m sure this was meant to be a way of the moonbats at cBS giving a valid reason for Luigi Mangione murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, but, it has gone so very, very wrong

From the link

Health insurance costs are far outpacing inflation, leaving more consumers on the hook each year for thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket expenses. At the same time, some insurers are rejecting nearly 1 in 5 claims. That double whammy is leaving Americans paying more for coverage yet sometimes feeling like they’re getting less in return, experts say.

Frustration over denials and medical costs has fueled an outpouring of vitriol against health insurance companies in the wake of the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Also last week, a similar outcry led Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield to reverse a decision to limit anesthesia coverage during surgeries.

The anger may be rooted in fears that unexpected medical costs could prove financially ruinous, as well as concerns that essential care could be denied by an insurer, putting health and well-being at risk even for those who have health insurance.

See? He had Reasons.

In 2024, the average health insurance premium for families carried a price tag of $25,572 per year, while single workers paid an average of $8,951, representing a 6% and 7% increase from the year earlier, KFF data shows. Since 2000, the rise in health insurance premiums has outpaced inflation for all but a handful of years, the health policy research firm found.

Well, let’s see: “In 2012, the average annual premium for family health insurance was $15,745. This was a 4% increase from the previous year. On average, workers paid $4,316 toward the cost of their coverage. Say, what happened in 2012?

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Warmists Are Very Upset People Have Free Speech On Social Media

By William Teach December 10, 2024 – 3:44 pm

See, everything that does not conform to doomsday cult doctrine is “misinformation”

Social Media Is a Growing Vehicle for Climate Misinformation

Green Climate Thought PoliceA few weeks ago, delegates from nearly 200 nations met for the 29th United Nations climate summit (COP29) in Azerbaijan, where they discussed how best to reduce emissions to slow dangerous global warming. Meanwhile, a separate global forum was playing out online, dedicated to undermining the conference, promoting oil and gas and denying humans’ role in climate change.

A new report, published on Friday by international nonprofit Global Witness, found that climate misinformation and disinformation spread unchecked on TikTok during COP29, mostly in user comments on videos. The users they identified denied man-made global warming and rebuked efforts to combat it, claiming that climate change is a “lie” or “hoax.”

Again, would those be the 40,000+ who took fossil fueled trips? You know they did not bike or walk there, and taking the train would be extremely arduous. If the current warm period is mostly/solely caused by mankind then why did all these people take fossil fueled trips? Anyway, how dare you peasants have the ability to speak your mind!

In recent years, social media platforms like X, Facebook and even LinkedIn have emerged as efficient vehicles to spread this type of inaccurate rhetoric as quickly as climate-fueled wildfires. Online influencers and prominent political figures, particularly President-elect Donald Trump, have fanned these flames on social media, a worrisome trend as trust in science and journalists continues in some communities to plummet, experts say.

It couldn’t be, bare with me here, that cult scientists have shown themselves to be in the tank for the cult, that their “findings” are more like Madam Zelda reading your palm, and that most of their prognostications fail, right? That pretty much everything they predict is utter doom, and it helps get them more government money, meaning this is government propaganda, right?

This tracks with my colleague Bob Berwyn’s recent reporting from the conference, during which U.N. officials launched an initiative to combat climate misinformation at an international scale. Berwyn pointed out that after Elon Musk bought Twitter (now X) in 2022, the tech mogul reinstated accounts that had been banned for spreading disinformation about climate and other topics. Since then, the number of accounts amplifying climate denial have proliferated, with high-profile users reaching millions of people per post.

Government that won’t let you have your say and tries to shut those guilty of Wrongthink down are what kinds of governments? If the climate cult’s “science” is so weak that they cannot rebut people with scientific facts than maybe this is a cult, not a science.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 10, 2024 – 1:22 pm

…is an area flooding from too much carbon pollution bad weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Green Jihad, with a post on St. Greta continuing to dive down the Jew hating hole.

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