Portland Declares Riot, Blames Federal Police Who Were Protecting Federal Property

By William Teach July 19, 2020 – 8:46 am

Remember the good old days when Liberals said they were peaceful, that they were against violence? Also, remember when cities did what they could to crack down on violence early, rather than allowing this to continue for 52 days and nights (which is also blamed on Trump, rather than the Democrats running Portland)

Portland police declare ‘riot’ after fires set, fences moved

Protesters broke into a building, set it on fire and started dumpster fires late Saturday night in Oregon’s largest city, police said, as demonstrations that have been taking place since the death of George Floyd intensified for another night in Portland.

The fire at the Portland Police Association building was put out a short time later, Portland police said on Twitter. The department declared the gathering a riot, and began working to clear the downtown area.

Tear gas was deployed, according to pictures and video from the scene. Fencing that had been placed around federal courthouse had also been removed by protesters and made into barricades, police tweeted.

What’s even more surprising is that Portland police officers haven’t resigned en’ mass, considering how badly they’ve been treated by the city and as Portland looks to defund them.

Before the aggressive language and action from federal officials, the unrest had frustrated Mayor Ted Wheeler and other local authorities, who had said a small cadre of violent activists were drowning out the message of peaceful protesters in the city. But Wheeler said the federal presence in the city is now exacerbating a tense situation and he has told them to depart.

“Keep your troops in your own buildings, or have them leave our city,” Wheeler said Friday.

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum late Friday sued Homeland Security and the Marshals Service in federal court. The complaint said unidentified federal agents have grabbed people off Portland’s streets “without warning or explanation, without a warrant, and without providing any way to determine who is directing this action.”

Rosenblum said she was seeking a temporary restraining order to “immediately stop federal authorities from unlawfully detaining Oregonians.”

Federal officers, who are all wearing uniforms identifying them as DHS and Police, are going to arrest/detain the hoodlums (they ain’t protesters if they’re engaged in violence) before they can get into federal buildings. And their uniforms are more in the way of body armor, because the “protesters” are violent.

But, their uniforms do not have their specific names on them

In a statement, DHS insisted that agents are identifying themselves as Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents. But they admitted agents are not wearing name tags — citing recent doxing incidents against law enforcement.

“The CBP agents identified themselves and were wearing CBP insignia during the encounter,” the DHS said in a statement. “The names of the agents were not displayed due to recent doxing incidents against law enforcement personnel who serve and protect our country.”

Seriously, who had “defunding and destroying police officers” on their 2020 election issues card? It’s a matter of law and order vs violent leftist nutjobs on the ballot this year. And all violence happening in Portland is going to drive away businesses, which can’t operate, and have to keep boarding their windows up for the nightly violence. And drive away residents.

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The Real 2020 Issue Is ‘Climate Change’ (scam) Or Something

By William Teach July 18, 2020 – 3:40 pm

The climate cultists are wishful (and unwilling to practice what they preach nor spend their own money)

The Real Issue At Stake: Why The US 2020 Elections Is A Climate Story More Than Anything

EVERY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION is critical in its way. Even so, 2020 manages to feel unique. With a deadly virus stalking the land and crashing the economy and political polarization so high that the truth itself is often in question, this November will certainly mark a turning point in American history.

The election is also pivotal for the climate emergency—and its solutions.

As Justin Worland wrote in the cover story for a tour de force Time magazine special issue last week, “In the future, we may look back at 2020 as the year we decided to keep driving off the climate cliff—or to take the last exit.” A serious response to the threat, he said, means spending on green energy, restricting emissions for companies that receive government bailouts, and bolstering green transportation in cities. Entrenchment in fossil fuels will instead spell climate catastrophe. “What we do now,” Worland wrote, “will define the fate of the planet—and human life on it—for decades.”

Well, good luck with this. No one really cares, except in theory. In practice, they care about the economy, COVID19, and, can you believe defunding the police? Who had that last one on their “2020 Issues” card? Yapping about ‘climate change’ has failed again and again. If it was so important, then why did the Hotcoldwetdry candidate, Tom Steyer and Jay Inslee bomb out fast?

In any election year, it is journalists’ job to inform the public and convey the full measure of what’s at stake. That’s why, even as the coronavirus outbreak rages—a tragic case study in ignoring science—and activists fight to topple long-standing systems of inequality, the climate crisis must be a priority for newsrooms this campaign season.

I thought it was a journalist’s job to report the news, not be activists? And they wonder why they are rated so low and no one trusts them.

Still, doing justice to the climate story will take leadership and discipline from newsrooms. Reporters and editors must step back from ephemeral shifts in the polls and all the nitnoid controversies of campaign overload. Decades from now, most of us will have forgotten the names and deeds of Donald Trump’s various associates. But we will surely take note of unlivable heat and flood waters lapping at our feet if we ignore the climate crisis this campaign season. Will journalists count the 2020 election a missed opportunity, or will it be the breakthrough moment when they got the climate story right—and helped America do the same?

Good luck with this. If the “news” tries pushing it, people will tune out for outlets involved in reporting things that actually matter, not a low hanging issue like this.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 18, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible suburban lawn which needs watering, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Not A Lot Of People Know That, with a post on a short history of climate alarmism.

Double shot below the fold, so check out 357 Magnum, with a post on the breakdown of civilization continuing.

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Surprise: Shootings On The Rise In Democrat Run Cities Which Are Abandoning Their Police

By William Teach July 18, 2020 – 10:30 am

Children are paying the price for this. Can you guess what is missing from this USA Today article by Grace Hauck?

Shootings are on the rise in several cities, and children are paying the price

Amaria Jones, 13, was in the living room of her West Side Chicago home showing her mom a new TikTok dance when a stray bullet came through the front window, pierced her neck and lodged in the TV.

The spray of bullets outside also wounded two boys, 15 and 16, sitting on the front porch.

Amaria was rushed to the hospital and pronounced dead. (snip)

Amaria was one of at least 12 minors fatally shot in Chicago in the past month – many while playing outside, riding in a car or sitting on a couch – and many more have been wounded.

Overall crime rates – including violent crime rates – are still low across the U.S. But homicides and shootings are on the rise this year in Chicago, New York, Atlanta, D.C., Philadelphia, Houston, Charlotte, Denver, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Kansas City.

They are all cities run by Democrats, some completely and utterly run by Democrats. The same ones calling to defund the police, who don’t have the back’s of police, and are backing BLM, yet still work to keep blacks down in the slums, er, low income housing and reliant on government.

The word Democrat appears nowhere in the article. But, they do have Excuses

“Due to the pandemic as well as a confluence of factors, we’ve just seen a truly perfect storm develop in communities that are already grappling with systemic inequity and a lack of access to opportunity,” said Michael-Sean Spence, director of policy and implementation for Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit advocating for gun control. “Cites are grappling with dual pandemics.” (snip)

The pandemic has exacerbated the root causes of gun violence, such as income inequality, Hatch, the West Side pastor, said. The violence is the “despair and depravity that goes along from people being valued less, disinvested in.”

Why do Democrat run cities have so many issues like this? Why are they valuing black people less? Why is casual gunfire, and murderous gunfire, so common in these areas?

“Right now, there are stresses everywhere. People are staying home. People are out of jobs. There’s social unrest. All of these things can push an epidemic problem to become worse, and that’s what happening with violence,” said Charlie Ransford, director of science and policy at Cure Violence, a Chicago-based nonprofit combating gun violence. “It’s a contagious problem.”

Why isn’t this happening in Republican run cities and areas?

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The Only Solution To The Climate Crisis (scam) Is De-growth Or Something

By William Teach July 18, 2020 – 7:28 am

Of course, this is only one climate cultist, but, then, we’ve seen lots and lots of cultists take the same viewpoint many, many times

De-growth only solution to tackle climate change: Expert

The problem of climate change cannot be solved without tackling earth’s growing human population, which gives rise to greater consumption and carbon emissions, according to a climate scientist.

Known as the greatest threat to the planet, the climate crisis is exacerbated by growing pressure from the human population, while it continues to increasingly affect the planet’s inhabitants.

In an interview with Anadolu Agency, Levent Kurnaz, a professor at the Center for Climate Change and Policy Studies at Istanbul’s Bogazici University, described the link between climate change and the humans as “two cycles” instead of one “vicious circle.” (big snip)

The only solution to tackle climate change is de-growth, not only economically but also de-growth of the population, he stressed.

As a theory that criticizes economic growth, de-growth is based on various frameworks, including political ecology, ecological economics, and environmental justice.

Reiterating the cycles of the growing population and climate change, he said: “Both cycles need to be broken … even if we leave aside all our consumption habits, and keep what we eat at a minimum, if the human population rises to 20 billion, this problem will continue.”

“On one hand, we need to restrain population growth around the world, and on the other, we need to restrain consumption per capita,” he said.

What’s missing from the climascreed is exactly how we are to restrain or “de-grow” the population and the economy. Most climate cultists avoid explaining how they want this type of stuff to be implemented. Are we to go with a China style one-child policy? Or just restrict people from having children altogether (especially Warmists)? Or are we to kill off humans? Maybe just let those who are sick die instead of saving them?

How about the economy? How do they de-grow it? They just don’t like to say that this really means putting the government in complete control, owning the economy and the means of production. Limiting your choice in purchasing, what you can own, what you can buy. Knocking the economy back to the 1700’s.

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Why Yes, Joe Biden Does Want To Defund The Police

By William Teach July 18, 2020 – 7:04 am

Defund and redirect is pretty much the same thing

Fact Check: ‘Redirecting’ Police Funding is the Same as ‘Defund the Police’

CLAIM: Joe Biden doesn’t want to abolish or defund the police; he just wants to redirect police funding to other uses.

VERDICT: Mostly false. Even many activists say defunding the police and redirecting police funding mean the same thing.

Fox News’ Chris Wallace generated buzz on Friday afternoon with the release of a clip from his White House interview with President Donald Trump, which will air in full on Sunday.

Wallace “fact-checked” Trump’s claim that Biden wants to abolish or defund the police: (tweet of the discussion between Trump and Wallace)

Trump was incorrect about the “Biden-Sanders Unity” platform, which did not discuss defunding the police.

Moreover, the Biden campaign has said since June 8 that he opposes “defund the police.”

However, Trump correctly stated that many Democrats do wish to defund — or abolish — the police, and have taken steps to do so in many Democrat-run cities.

Many Democrats have attempted to protect the unhinged BLM and their “non-black allies” who are calling to 100% defund police departments by saying that they mean only that some of their budget should be moved to other priorities. Some, such as Los Angeles, Seattle, and NYC have actually gone this direction.

While Biden has said he does not want to “defund the police,” he has also said, as The Hill notes, that he wants to “re-direct” funding from policing to other priorities, like mental health, which some on the left have argued will be more effective in preventing crime.

This is also what some activists have tried to explain “defund the police” actually means.

The Brookings Institution, a left-leaning think tank, explained last month: “‘Defund the police’ means reallocating or redirecting funding away from the police department to other government agencies funded by the local municipality. That’s it. It’s that simple.”

So when Biden claims he wants to re-direct police funding, that is what “defund the police” means to many Democrats.

Exactly. Handsy Joe has avoided the phrase “defund the police”, while holding the same policy with “re-direct funding.” That’s part of the reason why the National Association of Police Officers has now endorsed Trump/Pence, after endorsing no one in 2016 and endorsing Obama/Biden in 2008 and 2012

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St. Greta Says We Need To Get Rid Of All The Old Systems To Stop ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach July 17, 2020 – 3:00 pm

I guess she’s basing this on all her worldly experience and education and degrees, right?

Greta Thunberg: World must ‘tear up’ old contracts, build new systems to save climate

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg said on Thursday the world needed an economic overhaul to have a chance of beating climate change and that countries should be prepared to tear up old deals and contracts to meet green targets.

The 17-year-old spoke to Reuters TV after she and other activists sent an open letter to European leaders urging them to take emergency action and saying people in power had practically “given up” on searching for a real solution.

“We need to see it as, above all, an existential crisis. And as long as it’s not being treated as a crisis, we can have as many of these climate change negotiations and talks, conferences as possible. It won’t change a thing,” Thunberg said, speaking via video from her home in Stockholm. (snip)

She cited a U.N. study published in November that suggested planned investments to boost fossil fuel production are likely to push temperature goals enshrined in the 2015 Paris Agreement out of reach.

“So that means that if we are to stay below these targets, we have to make it possible to tear up and abandon valid contracts and deals. And that is not possible within today’s system,” Thunberg said.

Remember when we were only supposed to listen to climate scientists? Not petulant, un-educated, teenagers pushing for policies that they have no idea about because they have zero real world experience? Let her get a degree and work a real job, see how that goes, first.

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If All You See…

By William Teach July 17, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful low carbon skateboard for transportation, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Moonbattery, with a post on racial injustice at the airport.

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Ageing Rocker Says You Can’t Support Trump And Rock ‘n Roll Or Something

By William Teach July 17, 2020 – 10:30 am

Apparently, you are supposed to support the party of Big Government if you support rock and roll

Skid Row’s Sebastian Bach: ‘If you support Donald Trump you stand against rock ‘n’ roll’

Former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach was trending on Thursday morning after he tweeted, “If you support Donald Trump you stand against rock ‘n’ roll” — a post that he had pinned to the top of his Twitter page, just in case anyone missed it in the middle of the night. He then doubled down with a spree of angry replies to the MAGA supporters who bashed him.

This election year, Bach’s anti-Trump comments have become more frequent. In March, he defended NBC News White House correspondent Peter Alexander after Trump called Alexander a “terrible reporter” for asking the president to address Americans who are afraid during the pandemic. “The United States of America is Over until further notice. There is no end in sight,” a seemingly outraged Bach tweeted. “Our reality TV show host leader is a petulant little baby who doesn’t believe in science when it’s science and science only that will get us out of this science fiction novel. He is killing us.” More recently, Bach tweeted that Trump supporters are “complete f***ing idiots” and “only a moron would vote for Donald Trump this November.”

Bach is not the only ’80s metal star to express his anti-Trump views. Motley Crüe’s Tommy Lee and Nikki Sixx are not fans of the current president either. But Bach’s above-mentioned friend Axl Rose is the most vocal of the bunch, so much so that the hashtag “#wokeaxl” often trends on social media. Earlier this month, the Guns N’ Roses star posted a lengthy rant about his “disdain for our current administration,” acknowledging that not all GNR fans will agree with his political opinions, but explaining, “In general my posts in regard to current events, politics or social issues are usually coming from a sense of outrage, obligation, and responsibility to say something at times when I feel not to is being complicit.”

He also tweeted out “I vote for a guy who can put children in school and Americans in work. That is Joe Biden not the f*** ass loser that you support.”

Think about it: that’s what R&R was about. Rebellion. Fun. Sticking it to The Man. Doing things your own way. Not bending to government. Sex, drugs, rock and roll. Now so many, including Bach (for those of you old enough, remember when the magazine Rolling Stone was pure counter-culture?), stand for massive Big Government controlling our lives. Not just telling us how to live our lives, but making us live a certain way. How does Bach tour without fossil fuels, which Biden wants to do away with? The guy who sang “Youth Gone Wild” is now the adult shaking his fist, wanting Daddy government to control everything. Joining with the mainstream government forces.

Seriously, can you imagine the PMRC hearings these days, with ageing rockers like Axl Rose, Tommy Lee, and Bach taking the side of censorship?

Meanwhile, apparently there’s raaaaacism in improv comedy, classical music, and and opera. Because why not, it’s 2020.

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Your Fault: Summers Could Maybe Possibly Soon Be Too Hot For Human

By William Teach July 17, 2020 – 7:52 am

I saw you eating that cheeseburger with a milkshake, using your fossil fueled vehicle to drive you to and fro during your lunch hour, using evil air conditioning at the same time

Climate change: Summers could become ‘too hot for humans’

Millions of people around the world could be exposed to dangerous levels of heat stress – a dangerous condition which can cause organs to shut down.

Many live in developing countries, and do jobs that expose them to potentially life threatening conditions.

These include being out in the open on farms and building sites or indoors in factories and hospitals.

Global warming will increase the chances of summer conditions that may be “too hot for humans” to work in.

When we caught up with Dr Jimmy Lee, his goggles were steamed up and there was sweat trickling off his neck.

An emergency medic, he’s labouring in the stifling heat of tropical Singapore to care for patients with Covid-19.

See? It never used to get hot in Singapore, but, you take long showers and refuse to unplug all your appliances before going to work, so, climate doom!

There’s no air conditioning – a deliberate choice, to prevent the virus being blown around – and he notices that he and his colleagues become “more irritable, more short with each other”.

And his personal protective equipment, essential for avoiding infection, makes things worse by creating a sweltering ‘micro-climate’ under the multiple layers of plastic.

“It really hits you when you first go in there,” Dr Lee says, “and it’s really uncomfortable over a whole shift of eight hours – it affects morale.”

It’s summer. Summer. It gets uncomfortable when there’s no AC.

Prof Richard Betts of the UK Met Office has run computer models which suggest that the number of days with a WBGT above 32C are set to increase, depending on whether greenhouse gas emissions are cut.

How many more days? That’s missing.

And he spells out the risks for millions of people already having to work in the challenging combination of extreme heat and high humidity.

“We humans evolved to live in a particular range of temperatures, so it’s clear that if we continue to cause temperatures to rise worldwide, sooner or later the hottest parts of the world could start to see conditions that are simply too hot for us.”

A minor rise of 1.5 Fahrenheit is not an sort of doom. Humans have adapted to warm periods an cool periods. We adjusted to an ice age. We’ve dealt with warmer Holocene periods than the current one, with no air conditioning, no fans, and no ice makers. We’ll do just fine.

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