Transcripts Show Obama Officials Knew There Was No Russia Collusion

By William Teach May 9, 2020 – 6:58 am

OK, place your bets on the first Democrat to proclaim this is all a distraction from Bat Soup Virus? Democrats love trotting out the distraction meme when they know they are in trouble

Ex-Obama official, in released transcript, admits she didn’t know about Trump-Russia collusion despite prior claims

Evelyn Farkas, a former Obama administration official who previously encouraged congressional staffers to gather evidence of alleged collusion between President Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia and said she “knew” there was additional such information out there, admitted she did not know such information existed in a 2017 interview with congressional investigators.

Transcripts from dozens of such interviews were released Thursday by the House Intelligence Committee.

Farkas, who previously served as the deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia, said on MSNBC in 2017 that she “was urging my former colleagues, and, frankly speaking, the people on the Hill… Get as much information as you can, get as much intelligence as you can, before President Obama leaves the administration, because I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior people that left. So it would be hidden away in the bureaucracy.”

She continued to say she was concerned “the Trump folks, if they found out how we knew what we knew about their, the staff, the Trump staff’s dealing with Russians, that they would try to compromise those sources and methods, meaning we would no longer have access to that intelligence. So I became very worried, because not enough was coming out into the open, and I knew that there was more.

Yeah, but

But the tranche of transcripts from 2017-2018 House Intelligence Committee interviews showed that several top Obama officials, including Farkas, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes and former National Security Adviser Susan Rice all said they had or knew of no hard evidence of Trump-Russia collusion.

Farkas’ interview with the committee took place just a couple of months after her comments on MSNBC.

So, when they were under oath they said that this whole collusion thing was a bunch of mule fritters, unlike when they were talking to friendly media outlets. Surprise?

Of course, most of the media outlets aren’t covering the release of the transcripts and what they really show, except in a few cases where they are spinning themselves to cover for Adam Schiff and the other unhinged Democrats. Mostly, though, no coverage. CNN’s front page at 650am has zero stories on the transcripts after being balls to the wall on collusion. Nor at ABC News, CBS News, or NBC News. But, remember, they’re credentialed! They have no bias! Of course, President Trump will drag them kicking and screaming into covering it, as he always does, since he promises “more to come“.

My money is on Nancy Pelosi being the first to trot out “distraction.”

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Democrat Mad Over Beaches Opening Caught At Private Beach

By William Teach May 8, 2020 – 3:00 pm

Well, see, this is OK, because he is one of our Betters, so he’s allowed to do things you are not supposed

Democratic congressman said opening California beaches was ‘reckless.’ Then he was seen at a private beach.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) ordered all California beaches and state parks to close last week. However, photos of Democratic Congressman Harley Rouda reportedly show he was at a private beach last weekend despite saying that opening the beaches was “reckless.”

“Keeping Orange County beaches open during a heat wave is reckless,” Rouda tweeted April 21. “We need leaders who will prioritize public health and make the tough calls to keep our families safe.” (snip)

“Opening beaches to thousands of Southern Californians during a weekend heat-wave without adequate social-distancing protocols was a reckless action that put the families of California’s 48th district in harm’s way,” Rouda said last Thursday.

CBS News found photos of Rouda “spending time at a private beach in Southern California” last weekend.

CBS doesn’t actually show the photo. Others do

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 8, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is an umbrella needed for too much sunshine and too much rain from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is IOTW Report, with a post on a 1996 document confirming Tara Reade told of Biden’s assault.

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Biden Promises To Get Rid Of Due Process For Those Accused Of Sexual Misconduct In Schools

By William Teach May 8, 2020 – 11:04 am

Of course, he wants due process for himself

Biden Promises to Scrap New Devos Rule on College Sexual Assault

Former Vice President Joe Biden is promising to scrap newly proposed guidelines by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos meant to ensure that individuals being accused of sexual misconduct on college campuses receive due process.

Biden, who most notably led the Obama administration’s “It’s On Us” campaign as vice president, criticized the education secretary on Wednesday for making college campuses “less safe.” In particular, the former vice president claimed DeVos’s “new rule gives colleges a green light to ignore sexual violence and strip survivors of their rights.”

“Survivors deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, and when they step forward they should be heard, not silenced,” Biden said in a statement.

Hmmm. Nah, moving on

Under prior Obama administration guidelines, colleges were allowed to use a “preponderance of the evidence” standard when determining the guilt of those accused. Such regulations often led to lawsuits alleging the infringement of civil liberties, as many of the accused were not allowed to cross-examine witnesses.

Devos’s new regulations will allow representatives for not only victims but also the accused to call witnesses and challenge evidence. Such hearings, which will be either conducted in-person or virtually, will have to now to rely on a “clear and convincing” standard, rather than just a “preponderance of the evidence.” When investigating complaints, colleges will also have to rely on trained personnel to evaluate evidence and make final decisions.

What Biden wants to do is get rid of Due Process, as required by the US Constitution (as well as state constitutions). Guilty until proven innocent. People’s lives ruined because of accusations that often cannot be proven, that are based on regret over consensual sex, where Feminist friends talk someone into thinking they were assaults. If they really were assaulted, then the complaints need to go through the criminal justice system, not a kangaroo court at a college.

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Some Warmists Pushing For A “Teal New Deal”

By William Teach May 8, 2020 – 7:00 am

Why teal? And do they think this will have any more chance of passing than the Green New Deal, which Democrats refuse to vote on?

Surf and turf: Green new deal should be a ‘teal new deal’

Debates around the Green New Deal have largely centered around climate change concerns on land. But a group of scientists are calling on policymakers to include oceans in the deal.

The Green New Deal is a legislative proposal to tackle climate change and boost the economy, while also supporting equity and social justice.

“There is an opportunity to enact policy that can make meaningful change to help our country both economically and environmentally,” said San Diego State University ecologist Rebecca Lewison, one of the co-authors of a new paper on the subject. “It’s critical that oceans are part of that policy framework.”

It’s almost like this really has nothing to do with science and everything to do with Modern Socialist politics.

“Integrating Oceans into Climate Policy: Any Green New Deal Needs a Splash of Blue” was published in April in Conservation Letters. Lead authors are Lewison, whose work focuses on sustainable resource and land use, and Arielle Levine, an SDSU geographer specializing in human-environment interactions in marine and coastal systems, in collaboration with Oregon State University environmental economist Steven Dundas.

The authors recommend a policy that integrates terrestrial and ocean approaches to create a robust portfolio of climate adaptation and mitigation measures supporting communities, the environment and the economy.

And that’s why it’s teal, and it still looks like this is mostly about politics. Giving government even more power. Controlling the economy and people.

“As we come out of this pandemic, policymakers will be looking for ways to jump start the economy, and we have a unique opportunity to develop policies that promote economic development in an environmentally sustainable manner,” Levine said. “Including the oceans in Green New Deal policies will expand opportunities for sustainable economic development in both inland and coastal communities, while addressing the ongoing threat of climate change that we can’t ignore.”

Never let a good crisis go to waste, eh? They want to implement controls on shipping, fishing, anything involving the seas, along with more wind turbines in the oceans. Which is interesting, since so many liberal coastal cities invoke NIMBY )not in my backyard) when anyone tries to put them up. They will supplement power during peak hours. What provides power during the other times? They don’t want coal (me neither), nor natural gas, and are against nuclear. Solar, which they want increased, won’t do it. They want lots of high speed rail. Good luck with that.

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Bummer: Some DACA Recipients Are Leaving U.S. Ahead Of Supreme Court Case

By William Teach May 8, 2020 – 6:43 am

We’re supposed to feel sorry for these folks, whose parent(s) brought them to the United States in violation of federal law. If they’re leaving, perhaps they really do not care that much about being an American

As Supreme Court considers end to DACA, some Dreamers are already leaving US behind

Born in South Korea but raised in Montclair, New Jersey, Eun Suk “Jason” Hong seemed on the cusp of another American success story when he graduated from college in 2015.

Hong, whose mother brought him to the U.S. at age 10, landed a job as a financial planner and was looking forward to starting a career.

But in 2017, President Donald Trump moved to do away with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the program that allowed him to work legally in the U.S., and Hong’s outlook began to change. In August, he quit his job and moved to Spain to seek a master’s degree in business administration.

He’s now barred for a decade from returning to the country where he grew up. But he’s also left behind the anxiety of America’s immigration wars.

Hong is among the “Dreamers” – undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children – who are leaving their adopted home in frustration. With the Supreme Court poised to rule on DACA’s future by June, some are taking matters into their own hands and moving to Europe, Mexico and Canada.

Well, bye. Better not get caught in Mexico illegally. Their laws are pretty strict, and they could quickly end up in jail.

When Trump announced his plan to terminate the DACA program in September 2017, there were 689,800 active DACA recipients. That’s declined by more than 40,000, to 649,070, according to the latest figures on the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services website.

Trump says the Obama-era initiative is unconstitutional, but his move to phase out the program has been blocked by legal challenges. The Supreme Court is expected to announce sometime before the end of June whether the president has the authority to end DACA.

Obama himself said it was un-Constitutional to enact DACA, that he had no legal authority. Any president has the power to rescind any previous executive order. That’s the way it works. We can easily see this being a split decision, with the liberals voting against Trump. They should remember that they would be ruling that no future president can cancel any Trump EO.

While one “study” claims each Dreamer generates $70,000 a year to the U.S. economy, another shows

Supporters of policies to limit immigration say undocumented immigrants cost taxpayers money, pointing to research that shows they consume more in public services than they pay for with taxes.

“Fewer than 50% of DACA beneficiaries have a high school diploma. An even smaller number have a college education,” said Matt O’Brien, director of research for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, citing the group’s own studies. “And only a tiny proportion have professional qualifications or other highly marketable skills. So it’s far from clear that any of the so-called ‘Dreamers’ have exerted any positive effect on the U.S. economy as a result of their education or job training.”

A majority of Dreamers occupy entry-level or low wage jobs in construction, food service and maintenance industries, and that means that they are in direct competition with “economically vulnerable Americans,” he said.

How many times do you read something like this?

It’s a decision that Itzel Hernandez, 26,  of Red Bank, New Jersey, has pondered too. A community organizer for the American Friends Service Committee, she was born in Mexico but moved north when she was 10. Now, she’s thinking about pursuing a master’s degree, possibly in Germany, where it’s more affordable.

Community organizer. Not really an area that earns much money, just someone who Demands things. Loudly. Perhaps if Dreamers weren’t so demanding, some sort of accommodation could have been reached. They demand healthcare, education, food, housing, money, the vote, and citizenship. If they want to leave, well, bye. The only people they should be blaming are their parents, who knowingly brought them here illegally.

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Celebs Who Already Got Theirs Do Not Want World To “Return To Normal”

By William Teach May 7, 2020 – 3:00 pm

I caught this info elsewhere in a few places yesterday, but, I wanted to use the Prison Planet article by Steve Watson simply for the sarcasm and derision

Pointless Celebrities Call For World To ‘Not Return To Normal’; ‘Radical Transformation’ Of Economies

Millionaire celebrities, who still do not seem to realise that the world does not revolve around them, have rallied behind a call to ‘end consumerism’ and not to allow the world to go back to how it was before the virus outbreak.

Over 200 famous people have signed a ‘plea’ titled Please, let’s not go back to normal, that calls for ‘radical transformation’ of economies and for humanity to ‘examine what is essential’.

Those who have added their names to the proposal include Madonna, Robert de Niro, Cate Blanchett, Jane Fonda, Marion Cotillard and Monica Bellucci.

Of course, most of these vacuous pointless idiots would not have the wealth, or the platform they are now using to lecture everyday people if they followed their own advice.

“We believe it is unthinkable to “go back to normal”, the letter notes, adding “Adjustments are not enough. The problem is systemic.”

“The ongoing ecological catastrophe is a meta-crisis. Unlike a pandemic… a global ecological collapse will have immeasurable consequences,” it continues.

Of course they are including Hotcoldwetdry in this, despite their own vast usage of fossil fuels to travel around, their megamansions, etc and so on.

“The pursuit of consumerism and an obsession with productivity have led us to deny the value of life itself: that of plants, that of animals, and that of a great number of human beings,” the letter also states.

Will these people follow their own decrees? Or Will they continue to rake in millions every month, jetting around the globe, living between multiple mansions, while pointing the finger at the rest of the planet and declaring that it is our “consumerism” and excessive lifestyles that have “brought the world to a breaking point.”

Of course they won’t. Tell you what: no one go to their movies, buy their records, etc, because they do not want consumerism, right?

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 7, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible carbon pollution infused beer, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Datechguy’s Blog, with a post noting that, per the media, “Calvin Munerlyn’s life only matters if Trump could be blamed for it ending”.

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Media Tries To Play Gotcha With Trump Press Secretary, She Utterly Owns Them

By William Teach May 7, 2020 – 10:30 am

Some in the media were upset that Kayleigh McEnany had comments prepared on the subject, but, really, the press is utterly predictable

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Is Asked Why She Downplayed Coronavirus Threat — And She Tries To Turn The Tables On The Media

In her second official briefing before the White House press corps, Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany was asked about a comment she made in Feb. 25 on Fox Business Channel, in which she said that because of President Donald Trump, “we will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here.”

At the time, McEnany was working for the Trump campaign as national press secretary.

On Wednesday, Reuters White House correspondent Jeff Mason asked her whether she would take the comment back, given what has happened since then.

But McEnany tried to turn the tables on the media, suggesting that a number of outlets also downplayed the threat of the coronavirus.

There’s no suggesting about it. You can go find the articles

“I was asked a question on Fox Business about the president’s travel restrictions,” she said. “I noted what was the intent behind those travel restrictions, which is, we will not see coronavirus come here. We will not see terrorism come here, referring to an earlier set of travel restrictions.”

She added, “I guess I would turn the question back on the media, and ask similar questions. Does Vox want to take back that they proclaimed the coronavirus would not be a deadly pandemic? Does The Washington Post want to take back that they told Americans to get a grip, the flu is bigger than the coronavirus. Does The Washington Post likewise want to take back that our brains are causing us to exaggerate the threat of the coronavirus. Does The New York Times want to take back that fear of the virus may be spreading faster than the virus itself. Does NPR want to take back that the flu was a much bigger threat than the coronavirus? And finally, once again The Washington Post, would they like to take back that the government should not respond aggressively to the coronavirus.” She then wrapped up the briefing and left.

Brutal

One of the best parts is the media response. As Mollie Hemingway tweeted “The cry from a journalist of “You were prepared for that!” as she walks off is really one for the ages.”

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That Cold Snap You’re Feeling Today? It’s Because You Ate A Burger And Drove A Fossil Fueled Vehicle

By William Teach May 7, 2020 – 6:55 am

This is all your fault. If only you’d give up meat and fossil fuels, take 2 minute showers, only use 2 sheets of TP, hand wash your clothes and line dry them, along with giving your money and freedom to government, this wouldn’t happen

‘Very unusual’: Arctic air set to hit Eastern US with record-low temperatures for May

A cold spell is set to hit the Eastern U.S. in the upcoming days, bringing along record-low temperatures and frost and snowfall to some Northeast states.

Abnormally frigid temperatures for May will be brought down from the Arctic following a much warmer-than-normal January through March this year.

Temperatures will be especially extreme to the east of the Rockies and over the Great Lakes and Northeast, as temperatures over the weekend could drop 20 to 25 degrees Fahrenheit below normal highs.

The expected blast of frigid air in May is “one of the coldest modified polar air masses on record so late in the season,” according to Michael Palmer, a meteorologist at the Weather Company.

The frigid air traveling in from the Arctic is likely related to the breaking up of the spring polar vortex, a low-pressure expanse of cold air that sits in polar regions. When the vortex breaks, cold air escapes along the jet stream and brings low temperatures to the U.S.

You know what’s to blame, right?

Emerging research posits a link between the warming Arctic and more extreme weather in the middle latitudes, as scientists debate whether as the Arctic warms up faster than the middle latitudes of the Earth, it can cause displacement of the region’s cold air to the south. Periods of a weaker polar vortex in the winter months have increased over the past 37 years, according to a 2018 study.

Extreme weather is code for anthropogenic climate change.

“The cold is very unusual,” said Ryan Maue, a meteorologist at BAM Weather.

“It is difficult to pinpoint the cause-and-effect or correlation-causation with extreme weather events and climate change,” he said. “But changes in the behavior of the jet stream are becoming more accepted by scientists looking for physical reasoning behind what we are seeing on weather maps.”

Maue called the extended cold period a “climate change triple whammy” as the drop in temperatures will limit agricultural production, keep people inside with central heating and provide a more favorable outside environment for the coronavirus spread.

I bet you had a double cheeseburger last week, didn’t you? And ate it with the engine running in your fossil fueled vehicle, right?

“This is not just some random one-off weather event but an obvious trend toward hyper-extreme atmospheric circulations outside the normal bounds of what we typically experience in May,” Maue said. “It’s not always hotter and dryer with rapid climate change, but also colder and wetter.”

Snow is also expected to fall in parts of interior New England over the weekend, with some residents of Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, northern Vermont and parts of Maine already reporting snowfall.

See? Heat trapping greenhouse gases make it so hot that it gets cold, wet, and dry! Nope, definitely not a cult.

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