Bat Soup Virus Response Proves We Can Solve The Climate Crisis (scam) Or Something

By William Teach August 18, 2020 – 3:00 pm

Have you enjoyed lockdown, which never seems to really end? You don’t really have to get beyond the subhead (but, we will)

‘Coronavirus response proves we can solve climate crisis’ says top Lancaster academic
Pointless, wasteful activities have pushed us to the edge of a global climate crisis – but coronavirus has proved we have the ability to step back from the edge, says one of Britain’s leading sustainability thinkers.

Prof Mike Berners-Lee – a leading authority on calculating carbon footprints – says he feels more hopeful that we can effectively tackle climate change than he had for years.

But the Lancaster University academic has criticised our “incredible capacity” to “completely pointlessly” waste natural resources on activities such as space tourism and cryptocurrency mining which are responsible for huge amounts of additional CO2 entering our atmosphere.

In an interview with Steven Day, co-founder of 100 per cent renewable energy supplier Pure Planet, Prof Berners-Lee said: “Some things give me more hope than I’ve had for years, but we are so heading for trouble now in a short time frame – I can’t tell you exactly how it’s going to pan out and what year – but it’s not far off now so we really need this change right now.

“The virus has shown that we are capable of a level of change that a lot of us have assumed is impossible because we have always lived a certain way but we’ve just shown that of course you can do it.

“For me, the optimism started growing before this virus hit because of kids taking to the streets and joining protests like Extinction Rebellion. I was noticing a change of attitude in the business community too. It was beginning to feel like this intractable system was beginning to show some cracks.

“And then the virus happened. It was a distraction but has proven that change is possible. We can choose how we live and it can be different. So it’s an interesting moment and there’s everything to play for. I really hope we come out of lockdown in a better way and everything about the recovery needs to go through our deep green lens now.”

I don’t really need to remind you of the draconian, authoritarian measures put in place by government at all levels, right? Ones which are still in place? Things that are arbitrary? Why can people go to a store or restaurant (reduced capacity) but not church (at reduced capacity)? Why can kids go to school in NC, go to restaurants, but not the gym or bar or movie theater (not that there’s anything to actually watch, and wasn’t much before Bat Soup)? Why are people yelled at for being in their own front yards? Told they can’t go to their vacation homes? Well, not told, so much as threatened. Busted for being out on a paddleboard in the ocean when not near anyone? Have snitch lines for people out and about? Must I go further? How about the unemployment and lowered inventory? You know all this stuff. This is the world Warmists are pushing, yet, they never seem to get the idea that this will all apply to themselves.

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If All You See…

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

…is a horrible fence, which stops climate refugees from escaping their horrid conditions, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on some Russiagate.

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Liz Harrington: Don’t Fall For Dems Latest Conspiracy On Stolen Mailboxes

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

Democrats can’t win on the issues, hence the content free opening night of their convention. So, why not push conspiracies that are easily proven false, except that the Credentialed Media mostly won’t bother?

Stolen Mailboxes? Don’t Fall for Dems’ Latest Conspiracy Theory

Democrats and the media are meddling in our elections again. But this is getting absurd.

Joe Biden peddles fake stories of “tractor trailers picking up mailboxes.” Members of Congress threaten to throw the postmaster general in jail. Soviet-style propaganda posters of mailboxes propagate on social media. Prominent Democrats share grainy photos tweeted by has-been actresses with crackpot theories of MAGA-hat wearing postmen out to steal the election.

Never mind every major Postal Service union has endorsed Biden, including the American Postal Workers Union and the National Association of Letter Carriers, which together represent 520,000 active and retired USPS employees. The APWU recently said 2020 is “shaping up to be a major election for our Union,” and view President Trump as a “serious threat.”

Details. But it can’t be a vast conspiracy theory without Hillary Clinton’s projection. “Nothing stops the mail,” the Chardonnay enthusiast tweeted. Except when USPS partnered with unions to allow mail carriers to take time off to try to get Clinton elected, in “systematic violation” of the law.

There was no Russia collusion in 2016. There were no Julie Swetnick “train rapes” in 2018. And there are no disappearing post boxes in 2020. KATU, the local ABC affiliate in Portland, discovered the bombshell reason mailboxes were on that truck: “To replace them because they’re old.” Whoops.

The rest of the article is well worth the read, but, Liz forgets one thing: one of the main reasons the Democrats are doing this is so they can spend 4 years claiming Trump stole the 2020 election. If they hold the House and/or retake the Senate, they’ll have hearing after hearing, investigation after investigation, trot out their impeachment garbage.

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Bummer: Carbon Taxes Failed To Lower Emissions In Canadian Provinces

By William Teach August 18, 2020 – 8:16 am

Carbon taxes are really just another way for governments to take more money from citizens and private entities while doing nothing to reduce the government’s carbon footprint. Have you ever seen government cut back, especially since all their fossil fueled operations are paid for by forcibly taking money from citizens

Report says carbon taxes in B.C. and Alberta ‘failed’ in not lowering emissions

A new report says carbon taxes in B.C. and Alberta have done nothing to lower emissions in the provinces.

The study, by the Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI), compared B.C.’s carbon tax and Alberta’s tax on large emitters to the European emissions trading scheme and Quebec’s cap-and-trade agreement with California.

“Overall, the emissions trading system (ETS) policy was found to be more effective at reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions than the Carbon Tax policy or a Hybrid policy,” said the study.

“B.C. carbon tax policy boosted economic activity but had no effect on emissions. Since the objective of regulatory policy is to reduce emissions, our results suggest that the carbon tax policy in British Columbia failed to achieve its goal.

“In fact, oil prices have been found to have a bigger effect on emissions in B.C. than carbon tax.”

“Alberta SGER policy did not reduce GHG emissions as well.”

You know why these straight taxes make no difference? Because they just pass on the costs to the consumer. All that happens is consumers pay more and government gets more, but, consider, not just from charging the carbon tax: they get more tax revenue from sales tax due to the higher price of the products and services. A double win for government.

But, hey, if citizens want to vote for this idiocy, let them feel the monetary pain.

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Excitable Gun Grabber Shannon Watts Says There’s No Better Time For A Gun Sense President Then Now

By William Teach August 18, 2020 – 7:56 am

Shannon Watts, as you may know, is the founder of Mom’s Demand Action, and has never found someone who wanted to debate her than she won’t block. You know how they say politics is a veneer of civilized discussion over a reality over being a dirty, nasty business? What Mom’s Demand is a veneer of common sense, easily accessible gun control measures over a reality of gun grabbing and banning, disarming law abiding citizens. And, Shannon thinks Joe and Kamala would be perfect to make it happen, writing in Marie Claire, a magazine of fashion and stuff (yes, you can wear glitter nail polish!)

A Gun Sense Presidential Ticket Matters Now More Than Ever

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America is mired in two deadly public health crises: COVID-19 has claimed the lives of more than 165,000 people and, at the same time, gun violence continues to kill more than 100 Americans on average per day, wounding hundreds more. Sadly, our country’s gun violence epidemic didn’t end when the pandemic began (gun sales have surged, and our country has seen an uptick in deadly gun violence), and both crises are disproportionately devastating communities of color: Black Americans are 10 times more likely than white Americans to die by gun homicide, and Black Americans are dying at 2.5 times the rate of white Americans from COVID-19.

Recent polling shows the vast majority of Americans believe gun safety measures are growing more important in light of the coronavirus pandemic. Gun safety has become one of the defining issues of this election—one that moves people to get out and vote, especially women voters who will play a decisive role in electing our next president. I am part of an army of women who have made gun violence prevention the fight of our lives, and we’re proud to fight like hell to elect Vice President Biden and Senator Harris. We need a gun sense presidential ticket now more than ever before.

It’s cute how she’s joining Bat Soup Virus with gun grabbing, isn’t it? The weird part is that the majority of this happens in cities and areas run by Democrats. It’s not white Republicans running Chicago who see blacks shooting each other constantly. Most of the shootings in Chicago, Baltimore, NYC, Los Angeles, and other Dem run cities are done by blacks against blacks. I don’t think the guns are to blame. Marie Claire just gave me a popup about exfoliating face mask. Roughly around 50% of all shootings are committed by blacks.

In addition to Senator Harris’ impressive credentials as a senator, state attorney general, and district attorney, and her longtime “F” rating from the National Rifle Association (NRA), Harris has spent her career voting for and enforcing the very laws that we know keep our communities safe. During her time in Congress, Senator Harris co-sponsored life-saving gun violence prevention legislation, including requiring background checks on all gun sales, and regulating assault weapons, high capacity magazines, and 3D-printed guns. She’s also worked to keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them, including abusive romantic partners and stalkers, people convicted of violent hate crimes, and those who pose an extreme risk to themselves or others. She fought to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act and called out the NRA for its eagerness to put women’s lives on the line to sell more guns.

Women are buying guns more than ever, as are law abiding blacks, because they see the the violence rising in Democratic Party run cities and areas. But, what Shannon and Mom’s Demand want, what Democrats want, is women disarmed. A gun is an equalizer when a much bigger man wants to attack them. Democrats want all citizens disarmed, meaning those who have firearms will be criminals and Government.

Of course, for most citizens, “common sense gun control” is about as important as ‘climate change’, meaning not. You go ahead and push this stuff, Dems. Why does it seem that Democrats are constantly attempting to take away citizen’s rights.

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Coronavirus Shows Us How To Deal With ‘Climate Change’ Or Something

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

Have you enjoyed your climate cult test drive? Did you like being locked up, and, even if not, there being nowhere to go because everything else was locked up? No beach, mountains, lakes, parks, museums, etc? Economic activity collapsing? Unemployment spiking? Etc and so on?

The pandemic shows us how to tackle the climate crisis

Researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) are describing how tough lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic could be used to tackle climate change and slow global warming.

“The corona crisis is a test case for global emergency prevention and management in general,” said study lead author Kira Vinke. “The pandemic has shown that when reaction time is kept to a minimum, a larger public health crisis can be averted. In fact, we should take this very lesson to heart and apply it to managing the climate emergency.”

The analysis was focused on four dimensions of risk management: diagnosis, prognosis, therapy, and rehabilitation.

“The risks and causes of both the coronavirus and the climate crisis have to be scientifically assessed and quantified,” explained study co-author Johan Rockström.

Would you enjoy doing what we’ve been through, and still continues in many areas, for the long term?

“Countries like New Zealand and Germany were able to predict the outbreak’s possible effects and moreover had the ability of immediate action. In the same vein, the global community must integrate climate risks assessments into decision making and act accordingly.”

Must? Who’s going to force private entities to do this? Rather smacks of authoritarianism.

“Both the corona and the climate crisis are the result of increasing human pressure on the planet,” said study co-author Sabine Gabrysch. “But the good news is that the pandemic has demonstrated that with a combination of government action and individual lifestyle changes, it is possible to prevent damages. If there is a will, there is a way.”

Apparently, we never had pandemics before. There never was a Black Death (75 million to 200 million killed). Further, who makes those lifestyle changes? Warmists won’t do it now for themselves. Will Government force those changes? What kind of government is that called, again?

The researchers have created a climate corona contract that is designed to unite the younger and older generations on the principle of social justice.

“Younger generations would agree to protect the elderly from COVID-19 by adhering to social distancing measures, while the older generations would push for measures to keep global warming in line with the Paris Agreement,” explained study co-author Hans Joachim Schellnhuber.

This is a win-win for the older generations, who won’t pay the price for the increased taxation, increased cost of living, and loss of freedom, liberty, and choice. That younger generation would. Let this young climate cultists be forced to practice what they preach.

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If All You See…

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

…is a horrible world killing plastic straw, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on Antifa vs Sturgis bikers.

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Trump Has a Plan To Steal The Election Or Something

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

Remember, he stole the 2016 election by playing the game and campaigning in states he need to win, but, he has a dastardly plan for 2020! So says Jason Sattler at the USA Today

Trump has a plan to steal the election and it’s not clear Democrats have a plan to stop him

My only wish for the 2020 election was that it not turn out to be anything like the disaster that was 2016. Yet as we head into the Democratic National Convention, we’ve already seen almost everything that made our last presidential cycle a nightmare — and worse.

There are the ceaseless Russian attacks on democracy on behalf of President Donald Trump. But this time, instead of WikiLeaks, the disinformation is being laundered into our political system through House and Senate Republicans.

There is Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns. But now the Supreme Court has made sure taxpayers will not see these documents until after the election. That’s even after Trump has spent hundreds of millions in public funds and about a fourth of his presidency  acting as Ronald McDonald with a putter, hawking his own businesses while running a Washington, D.C., hotel that’s more like a vacuum sucking up cash from supplicants and favor seekers.

Still can’t get over the fake Russia Russia Russia stuff, eh? Nor the tax thing, eh?

Closest we’ve ever been to dictatorship

There is the voter suppression. But instead of just preventing voting in key states with needless ballot restrictions, the Trump campaign is fighting all efforts to make voting in the middle of pandemic easier and safer, including hobbling the U.S. Postal Service and increasing the cost of mail-in voting. And the president isn’t even hiding his goal — preventing voting by mail (probably so he can claim victory on election night regardless of the eventual results).

Uh huh. Closest to a dictatorship by a guy….who’s trying to reduce government dominance over the Citizens. I’m sure there must be some argument that he’s trying to steal the election, right?

And there’s the inflation of third-party candidates to help Trump have a chance to slip through the Electoral College, though he has no chance of ever getting near 50% of the popular vote. But this time, Republican operatives are actually trying to Mickey Mouse Kanye West onto the ballot, with bogus signatures in some cases, in an effort to hurt Joe Biden.

So, typical political tricks. And that is it. There are 11 more paragraphs, and none lay out any case that Trump is going to try to steal the election. Just whines about Trump. But, the headline is the point. People will cruise by it on news aggregation sites, won’t read it, but will remember the headline, and parrot it.

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European Union Looks To Tax Ships For Climate Change (scam) Emissions

By William Teach August 17, 2020 – 7:13 am

Here’s how you reduce economic activity in the name of a cult

Green recovery or ‘nightmare’ for trade? Europe wants to tax emissions from ships

Europe’s plan to raise billions each year for coronavirus relief by charging ships for their pollution could inflame trade tensions at the worst moment for the global economy and set back efforts to tackle the climate crisis.

The European Commission is proposing to extend its Emissions Trading System (ETS) to shipping as one of a series of measures to help pay for rebuilding the EU economy, and to promote a green recovery from the crisis.

The European Union plans to spend 30% of its €750 billion ($889 billion) coronavirus recovery fund and next seven-year EU budget on climate-related projects in a bid to become the first carbon-neutral continent.

But the proposed shipping tax has run into fierce opposition from the industry, which says it would undermine efforts to tackle climate change at a global level and is likely to spark a backlash from non-EU countries, raising the specter of new trade disputes.

You know who pays for these taxes? Consumers. Not companies. Consumers pay in the form of higher prices.

Ships carry 80% of world goods trade by volume, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Any increase in costs from pollution charges could be passed on by operators to businesses and consumers in the form of higher prices.

Critics of the proposal say that countries outside the European Union are likely to view it as little more than a way to raise money. The European Commission has estimated that extending the ETS to the maritime sector and requiring airlines to pay more for their pollution could generate €10 billion ($11.8 billion) a year.

“This is an admission that this is not about climate whatsoever, it’s about raising funds,” said Lars Robert Pedersen, deputy secretary general of international shipping association BIMCO, which is headquartered in Copenhagen.

Hey, Europeans, this is what you vote for when you vote for far-left lunatics who believe in the what the Cult of Climastrology is pushing, so, don’t complain when it hits you in your wallet.

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BLM To Play Elevated Roll At Convention Of Party That Keeps Black People Down

By William Teach August 17, 2020 – 7:01 am

Seriously, where do blacks have it worst? In Democratic Party run cities and areas. Where are they kept downtrodden in crappy government housing, with poor schools, elevated crime, poor economic opportunities, urban blight, and pollution? In Democratic Party run areas. Also, it’s probably not helpful for average voters to see the message of a Marxist organization which wants money from people who were not even alive when slavery was legal, who want to defund the police, and have been rioting and looting, committing mayhem and assaulting people (along with their Progressive minded white Democrat voting Comrades)

Black Lives Matter movement to play elevated role at convention

The message of Black Lives Matter will be woven throughout the 2020 Democratic National Convention, starting with a focus on racial injustice during the first night of programming.

The plan by convention organizers to elevate the Black Lives Matter movement reflects the party’s growing embrace of its calls for action on racial inequality and police brutality over the past four years, particularly since the May 25 police killing of George Floyd.

The lineup of prime-time programming for the convention doesn’t list a time slot for Black Lives Matter activists as of Thursday, but the Democratic National Committee (DNC) indicated there would be a focus on the movement and racial injustice throughout the entirety of the convention.

“The Black Lives Matter movement has given voice to the deep-seated inequality that has plagued our nation since its inception,” DNC Chair Tom Perez said in a statement. “The Democratic Party shares in their commitment to justice and hears their demands for change. When we nominate Joe Biden to be our standard-bearer, we will not miss this moment to ensure those values are reflected in everything we do.”

Racial injustice will be a key part of the “We the People” programming on Monday, according to the DNC and Biden campaign. Speakers that evening include Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) and former first lady Michelle Obama.

“[As] things become more mainstream, part of what happens is politicians take it on. I don’t think that we will be devoid of hearing statements about Black Lives Matter,” said Rashawn Ray, a governance studies fellow at The Brookings Institution.

“Rather than getting four or five minutes, or 15 minutes over the course three or four days, it becomes a part of the narrative,” he added.

It’s probably a good thing for the Democrats that there won’t be tens of thousands of people showing up for the convention, protesting and agitating and committing mayhem, spouting Marxist platforms and slogans, raising their fists in black power, making it hard for the Credentialed Media to hide. They want everyone (black) released from jail. That won’t play well. Reparations? Not going to play well. Defund the police? Won’t play well.

(NY Post) The president of Greater New York Black Lives Matter said that if the movement fails to achieve meaningful change during nationwide protests over George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police officers, it will “burn down this system.”

“If this country doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it. All right? And I could be speaking figuratively. I could be speaking literally. It’s a matter of interpretation,” Hawk Newsome said during an interview Wednesday evening on “The Story” with Martha MacCallum.

Will that play well? We can all see what’s happening in Democratic Party run cities, with the Democratic Party governors of the states refusing to work to stop the violence. NYC, Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, and many others are burning. The only one attempting to stop it is Chicago, where the black hyper-Progressive mayor doesn’t care much about blacks shooting blacks, but, will send the police in when the tax base is attacked.

There probably won’t be all that much time to pander to Hispanics, eh?

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