September 17, 2019
Joel Kotkin,
one who has specialized in demographics for many decades and not a
conservative writer, points out in his latest article how America (and
Europe too) is turning into a neo-feudalistic
The original classical liberals (America - the only revolution that ever worked) and leftist revolutionaries
We receive the news from rich
corporations, the vast majority of whom are run by the Left and full of
propaganda on a scale never seen before. And they have taught people to
feel, not think. Kotkin thus points out with demographic facts the
exact opposite of what many Americans feel, "American cities (most of
which have been dominated by Democrats for decades now - my addition in
parenthesis) now have higher levels of inequality, notes one recent
study, than Mexico. In fact, the largest gaps between the bottom and
top quintiles of median incomes are in the heartland of progressive
opinion, such as in the metropolitan areas of San Francisco, New York,
San Jose, and Los Angeles. In some of the most favored blue cities,
such as Seattle, Portland and San Francisco, not only is the middle
class disappearing, but there has been something equivalent of "ethnic
cleansing†amidst rising high levels of inequality, homelessness and
social disorder. Long-standing minority communities like the Albina
neighborhood in Portland are disappearing as 10,000 of the 38,000
residents have been pushed out of the historic African-America
The Left falsely presume that identifying some kind of societal problem means that pro-government socialism/
As I have said so
many times, criticizing 'capitalism' is easy. Even I can do that. What
you replace it with is the problem. The Bible even specifically
predicts that during the end times, Europe will be dominated by tyranny
and a feudalistic confederation of kings and countries who will control
what is bought and sold that will enrich the Middle East. At the end of
the day, even Solomon, when he looked back upon his very rich life and
kingdom that was filled with gold and silver, recognized the futility
of it all, "What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking
cannot be counted (Eccl. 1:15)." We live in a fallen world, and the
more people try to fix it, the worse it seems to get, particularly if
you use legalism, overregulation,
A WORD FROM TIM:
We are living in a fascist economy. That is, it is a monistic setup where you can't tell where government ends and corporations begin. There is a revolving door between the two. Small businesses - the backbone of free markets (what Chesterton called Distributism) are going to disappear as economic and political power centralize. It's the same type of economy Hitler promoted, or Mussolini.
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Frozen actor Josh Gad makes a fool of himself:
Now Gad isn't exactly a household name, but he's an example of how liberals think and who they are. He is only virtue-signaling to the powers that run things in America.Wait! Supreme Court Justice #Kavanaugh is a sexual predator and lying scumbag?! Who could have seen this coming?!!!!
— Josh Gad (@joshgad) September 15, 2019
This gadfly is following the course that the Demo-left are setting; they HAVE to get rid of Kavanaugh, as Ruth Buzzy Ginsberg is about to turn worm chow and the Left will lose the Court. They hope to make Kavanaugh resign, or if they take Congress to impeach him. But they have to get him out of there before Trump gets another appointment. They will do ANYTHING to accomplish that.
They also want to make it impossible for Trump to find anyone willing to accept his nomination. Who would, after what they already have done to Kavanaugh? The next appointment will have it much worse.
It's Al.insky Rules for Radicals; pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. We need to start doing that to their people. I would suggest going after Kamela "the horizontal ladder climber" Harris.
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September 16, 2019
This is all an attempt to promote U.N. Agenda 21. They want people living in tight, cramped, crowded apartments stacked on top of each other where they can keep an eye on everyone. Just look at the old Soviet system! That's what the powers that be want for us; a cattle pen. Eventually they can fulfill their fond dreams of a "depopulation" when they have us all penned in. Think about it. Ever since Thomas Malthus the Left has wanted that - and especially since The Club of Rome and "Limits to Growth" as well as "The Population Bomb".
The Ruling Class wants to get us accustomed to having less, living more poorly. Oh, THEY won't do it, but they will try to get us to do so. This is just one more way to promote the idea:
Why the American Dream of Owning a Big Home is Overrated in One Chart
Also this article gives the game away. It talks about "leggo homes", prefabs that can be built in a matter of days.
From the article:
Anybody see that television commercial where the couple buy a 'tiny house" and decide they want more so add a whole house onto it? Priceless.
BTW, Maurice Strong, Secretary General of the UN’s Earth Summit, saidin 1992,"Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class – involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.†and TheUN’s Biodiversity Assessment Report said the following will need to be eliminated: "Ski runs, grazing of livestock, plowing of soil, building fences, industry, single family homes, paves and tarred roads, logging activities, dams and reservoirs, power line construction and economic systems that fail to set proper value on the environment.â€
In other words, they want to move us back to the Nineteenth Century.
Read more from Rachel Alexander on the matter here.
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This is the new racism and we will see a lot more of it if the Democrats win in 2020.
Whies Need not Apply: Campus Sci-Tech Symposium to only Feature Peoples of Color
This from Tim:
I guess that means "racist" science is to be disregarded now? We'll toss out Edison or Faraday but keep George Washington Carver? Race has no business in science or tech.
The Nazis lost the war in no small part because they refused to use "Jewish science" and disregarded Einstein and other Jewish physicists who helped us get the atomic bomb. We seem to be headed in the same direction.
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September 15, 2019
I hope he can make it happen -- he is, after all, only Minority Leader, not Majority Leader or Speaker, and the Democrats are trying their best to make it appear that McCabe and Comey were wronged by an illegitimate and out-of-control President. But at this point in time I would imagine that McCabe and Comey are finding it a bit difficult falling asleep at night. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mccarthy-promises-accountability-as-barr-reviews-igs-fisa-report-the-closest-weve-ever-seen-to-a-coupHouse Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., promised that guilty parties will be held accountable after Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz releases his report on the FBI's alleged abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in the Russia investigation, and predicted that former bureau leaders James Comey and Andrew McCabe will face criminal charges after what he described as an attempted "coup" to take down President Trump.
The report will address concerns with whether or not the FBI acted improperly in obtaining a FISA warrant to monitor former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in the early stages of their investigation of Russian election interference and possible Trump campaign connections. The Inspector General's office has already turned over a draft of its findings to Attorney General Bill Barr, and a final report is expected in the near future.
"We came the closest ever to this country having a coup, and now we need accountability," McCarthy told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures." "I respect this attorney general so greatly, that the way he has handled this, he believes in accountability, but more importantly, he believes in the rule of law."
When asked if there will really be accountability, McCarthy promised, "Yes."
James Comey and Andrew McCabe, who were the director and deputy director of the FBI when the Russia probe began, have been the subjects of separate IG investigations, and McCarthy believes they will both face consequences.
"We will see an indictment," he said of McCabe, who is facing the prospect of federal charges after Horowitz faulted him in a separate inquiry over statements he made during a Hillary Clinton-related investigation. The review found that McCabe "lacked candor" [lied] when talking with investigators, but the former FBI official has denied wrongdoing. Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu recommended charges against McCabe after the DOJ rejected his appeal.
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Consider this:
If a man goes into a strip club, then comes out and says to an acquaintance "You know, when you are in there, you can stick dollar bills in their thong. They’ll dance right on your lap for twenty bucks†that guy would be telling the absolute truth…
However, if you stick a dollar bill in a woman’s underwear on Metrolink, you have committed a crime.
Those of us who did not dump Trump when the "grab†tape came out realized the truth of what he said, even as we were appalled by it. The truth is that Hollywood is like the strip club. While I think it is wildly unfair to equate all women in Hollywood to strippers in their willingness to accept the kind of attention Trump mentions, it is far more like the strip club in those social circles than normal America.
There is a moral difference between aggressively chasing skirts in an environment where a large percentage of women are there to catch the attention of a "star†and aggressively chasing skirts in the plain ‘ol workplace where women just want a paycheck. I think both are appalling, but I can see the difference, and the difference is substantial.
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The super black hole at the center of our galaxy appears to be much more active, and nobody really knows why.
Black Hole at Center of Our Galaxy is the "hungriest" it's been for 24 years and is shining 75 times brighter than usual
Just to frighten our Millenial friends, I would like to point out that galaxies sometimes explode. We've seen it happen. It is unclear WHY they do, but it is theorized a chain of supernova go off in the core, triggering a chain reaction. So, is this the beginning of the Milky Way exploding? Now you guys can stop worrying about Global Warming and start worrying about exploding galaxies.
See here for more on the galactic center blowing it's top.
We would only have about a thousand years or so before the shock wave from the explosion reached Earth and wiped us out. Better find a nice corner of your mother's basement to hide.
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2200 bodies of unborn babies were found on the estate of a dead abortionist. Lifesitenews has the story:
Abortionist Dr. Ulrich Klopfer committed abortions at The Women’s Pavilionin South Bend, Indiana – home to the University of Notre Dame and the city where Buttigieg rose to political prominence – and at other Indiana facilities until his medical license was suspended in 2016.
This illustrates the ghoulish and obscene nature of the abortion industry and those who slither in it. This creepy little spider with an M.D. has clearly murdered more people than any serial killer, more than Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and a host of others combined. In fact compares with Kermit Gosnell.There is no evidence this monster was performing abortions at home. Why did he bring those dead bodies to his property? Were they trophies, reminders of his power?
Abortionists are a demented lot, and so are abortion supporters.
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This story is months old but it bears repeating - especially in light of the Great White Texan Hope Beto O'Rourke's call for gun confiscation in the Democratic Primary debates. The hypocrisy is astonishing.
When Beatnick O'Rourke was fifteen he wrote a fantasy about murdering children. You know, Mr. Gun Control, the man who wants your firearms because you might go on a shooting spree.
Read about it here
This from O'Rourke's story:
Then one day, as I was driving home from work, I noticed two children crossing the street. They were happy, happy to be free from their troubles.I knew, however, that this happiness and sense of freedom were much too overwhelming for them.
"THIS HAPPINESS WAS MINE BY RIGHT.I HAD EARNED IT IN MY DREAMS.AS I NEARED THE YOUNG ONES, I PUT ALL MY WEIGHT ON MY RIGHT FOOT, KEEPING THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL ON THE FLOOR UNTIL I HEARD THE CRASHING OF THE TWO CHILDREN ON THE HOOD, AND THEN THE SHARP CRY OF PAIN FROM ONE OF THE TWO.I WAS SO FASCINATED FOR A MOMENT, THAT WHEN AFTER I HAD STOPPED MY VEHICLE, I JUST SAT IN A DAZE, SWEET VISIONS FILLING MY HEAD.â€
"My dream was abruptly ended when I heard a loud banging on the front window.It was an old man, who was using his cane to awaken me.He might have been a witness to my act of love.I was not sure, nor did I care. It was simply ecstasy.As I drove home, I envisioned myself committing more of these ‘acts of love,’ and after a while, I had no trouble carrying them out. The more people I killed, the longer my dreams were. … I had killed nearly 38 people by the time of my twenty-third birthday, and each one was more fulfilling than the last.â€
Not only does this bespeak of a dangerously unbalanced youth, it also illustrates the hypocrisy of O'Rourke, who clearly realizes the ease with which a killer can kill WITHOUT a firearm. And do we really want a man to be President - or Vice President - who used to fantasize about murdering children?
I know; this was a work of fiction and in no way indicates that O'Rourke actually intended to do this, or even thought about it. His CHARACTER was the murderer. But at such a young age to be pondering serial killing is rather disquieting. I never thought about killing anyone when I was fifteen. Oh, I might have felt the urge to choke the daylights out of some idiot, but it never went to the extent of writing fiction about mass murder. Makes one wonder what was going in in young Beto's mind.
And they accuse Donald Trump of being mentally ill...
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Houthi rebels from Yemen claim responsibility for a coordinated series of drone attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities that led the kingdom to shut down half of its oil production.
From CNN:
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Iran denied involvement.
There are a couple of lessons to be gleaned from this: first, thank God we have pushed forward with Fracking despite bitter opposition from the environmental lobby aka the Gang Green and our previous administration's hostility. Had Hillary Clinton been elected we likely would not be positioned to take up the slack. Now we have oil to sell.
Second, this is an act of war and if Iran is involved it must be punished severely. I know there are people who will say it's not our problem and we should ignore it, but it IS our problem, as this attack on Saudi Arabia was intended to hurt us, not anybody else. It was a proxy attack. We aren't the world's policeman but we do need to respond in some fashion. At minimum Trump should accelerate the boycott on buying Iranian oil; right now he has allowed numerous exemptions to American and European businesses. That needs to end; we need to squeeze Iran like grapes in a press.
Third, we really should consider the Contra solution - create and fund a counter-revolution in Iran. The Iranian People are friendly to America, just not the ruling junta. They wanted to rebel when the BHO was in office, but he offered no support. Now is the time.
I'm just glad I gassed up my Ford F150 before I came home from the Ozark Hilton.
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September 14, 2019
What are they going to call it? The St. Louis Blues used to play in the Checkerdome. Peckerdome maybe?
Porn Site BangBros Makes $10 Million Bid for Naming Rights to Miami Heat Arena
It was a matter of time before this idiocy of corporate naming went this far. They should never have allowed that.A porn company has made a $10M bid to name the Miami Heat arena the Bang Bros Center aka "The BBC" 😳
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— Yahoo Sports NBA (@YahooSportsNBA) September 12, 2019
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America losing the trade war with China? Really?
Huawei CEO To Sell Entire 5G Technology Stack To American Companies In Shock Peace Offer To Trump
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They're doing it again; another Muslim is being sworn into public office on a Koran.
Consider this:
Or this :
"If we abrogate a verse or cause it to be forgotten, We will replace it by a better one or similar.†Sura 2:106,
"Allah was the best of deceivers" Sura 3:54, "Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported that Allah's Messenger (peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) said, 'If one hides (the sins of) a Muslim, Allah will hide (his sins) in this world and the Hereafter." Bukhari 3:49-2.
Bukhari vol.7 book 67 ch.26 p.309 Mohammed said, "By Allah, and Allah willing, if I take an oath and later find something else better than that, then I do what is better and expiate my oath."
Sura 66:2a says "Allah has already ordained For you, the expiation of your oaths"
This means that an oath sworn on the Koran (I refuse to change to the modern Quran spelling) is worthless. It has less value than a Zimbabwean dollar, or than a promise from Bill Clinton to keep your teenage daughter safe. There is no point in having a Moslem elected official swear any sort of oath at all.
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September 13, 2019
Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) great-great-great grandfather Jonathan Crawford served in Major William Lauderdale’s Battalion of Tennessee Volunteer Militia from November 1837 to May 1838, a six month time period during which it fought two battles in Florida against the Seminoles.
There's more: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/12/elizabeth-warren-a-direct-descendant-of-militia-indian-fighter-who-fought-seminole-tribe/Today, there are two federally recognized Native American Seminole tribes, the Seminole Tribe of Florida, which has 4,000 enrolled members, and the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, which has more than 18,000 enrolled members.
Lauderdale’s battalion fought against the Seminoles at the Battle of Loxahatchee River, in present-day Jupiter, Florida, on January 24, 1838. Then on March 22, 1838, they fought against the Seminoles again at the Battle of Pine Island, in present-day Fort Lauderdale.
A native of Virginia, Lauderdale moved to Tennessee, where he was known as the latest in a long line of Indian fighters, as the Daily Press reported in 1992:
Like other Virginians of his day, Lauderdale developed into an Indian fighter. In 1803 he marched as a Tennessee volunteer to the Louisiana Territory to fight for the United States against the Spanish and the Indians. In the War of 1812 he served under Gen. Jackson and fought against the Indian allies of the British in what are now Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.
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William Lauderdale became Gen. Jackson’s trusted understudy in the War of 1812. When the Creek Indians rose up to massacre white settlers in Alabama in 1813 and President James Madison ordered Jackson to defend the area, Capt. Lauderdale and his Tennessee Vols helped win the battle of Talladega. Lauderdale went on to play a part in Jackson’s defeat of the British in the battle of New Orleans in 1815, which ended the War of 1812.
Evidence supporting Jonathan Crawford’s service under Lauderdale in Florida was brought by his widow, Neoma O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford, also known as Neona Crawford, to the Bledsoe County Commission of Bledsoe County, Tennessee in 1850 and 1851, when she applied for a pension from the U.S. government for her husband’s service during the 1837-1838 Second Seminole War.
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Charges recommended against McCabe.
From Fox News:
U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu has recommended moving forward with charges against Andrew McCabe, Fox News has learned, as the Justice Department rejects a last-ditch appeal from the former top FBI official and current CNN contributor.
McCabe -- the former deputy and acting director of the FBI --appealed the decision of the U.S. attorney for Washington all the way up toJeffrey Rosen, the deputy attorney general, but he rejected that request, according to a person familiar with the situation.
The potential charges relate to DOJ inspector general findings against him regarding misleading statements concerning a Hillary Clinton-related investigation.
It's about time!
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September 12, 2019
Read the rest in the New York Post here: https://nypost.com/2019/09/11/wall-street-is-freaking-out-at-the-thought-of-president-liz-warren/The 2020 election is still a long way off, but the nation’s big banks are already pricing in the possibility of an Elizabeth Warren presidency, their senior executives tell me. The picture ain’t pretty — for the banks or average Americans.
True, Warren isn’t the Democrats’ frontrunner, and a lot could happen in coming months. Because it’s early, financial stocks haven’t officially started to suffer. But the bank execs note that Warren is smart and driven, and they fear she may be starting to break out of the pack, where she can do some damage.
Her main rival for progressive voters, Bernie Sanders, is fading. And though they’d love a moderate like Joe Biden to step it up (and he might during Thursday’s debate), they also fear he can’t. And they know Warren has a built-in hatred for financial institutions and folks with wealth.
President Trump would destroy her, though, right? Not so fast, the bankers say.
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Lookie here!
I remember when Ronald Reagan said trees cause pollution, and he was roundly mocked for it. In the end he was proven to be correct. Now we find that trees actually emit carbon dioxide!
From Physorg:
Now, deforestation has NOT been a modern problem; on the contrary, we have more trees now than in the past, thanks to aggressive forest-protection programs and replanting. We KNOW that forest decay produces more co2 and methane than a normally harvested forest, but now we know forests emit co2 on their own. Is this why we've had a rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide?
I'll bet you won't see this in the mainstream media.But there's more:
The University of Twente (UT) has been measuring how Douglas firs react to weather and climate in a forestnear Garderen since 2006. Between 24 and 26 July it was exceptionally hot. As a result, growth was so limited that during the day less CO2 was captured by the forest than was emitted at night.
The net CO2 emissions from the forests during the hot days were 60 kilograms per football pitch. This is as much as that of a person flying from Amsterdam to London in Economy Class.
During the day the trees use sunlight, water and CO2 to grow, while at night they breathe out CO2. A football pitch in this forest captures 4.8 tonnes of CO2 per year in wood, about the same amount as the annual emissions of two petrol cars.
Now, I don't believe this is causing much of anything, but I want to take this opportunity to point out that there is much more to climate than the Gang Green climate warriors want us to believe.
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This is interesting.
Apparently scientists have invented a kind of "negative solar cell" which draws energy off of the cold night sky rather than from solar energy.
From the article:
The device developed by Raman and Stanford University scientists Wei Li and Shanhui Fan sidesteps the limitations of solar power by taking advantage of radiative cooling, in which a sky-facing surface passes its heat to the atmosphere as thermal radiation, losing some heat to space and reaching a cooler temperature than the surrounding air. This phenomenon explains how frost forms on grass during above-freezing nights, and the same principle can be used to generate electricity, harnessing temperature differences to produce renewable electricity at night, when lighting demand peaks.
Raman and colleagues tested their low-cost thermoelectric generator on a rooftop in Stanford, California, under a clear December sky. The device, which consists of a polystyrene enclosure covered in aluminized mylar to minimize thermal radiation and protected by an infrared-transparent wind cover, sat on a table one meter above roof level, drawing heat from the surrounding air and releasing it into the night sky through a simple black emitter. When the thermoelectric module was connected to a voltage boost convertor and a white LED, the researchers observed that it passively powered the light. They further measured its power output over six hours, finding that it generated as much as 25 milliwatts of energy per square meter.
Since the radiative cooler consists of a simple aluminum disk coated in paint, and all other components can be purchased off the shelf, Raman and the team believe the device can be easily scaled for practical use. The amount of electricity it generates per unit area remains relatively small, limiting its widespread applications for now, but the researchers predict it can be made twenty times more powerful with improved engineering—such as by suppressing heat gain in the radiative cooling component to increase heat-exchange efficiency—and operation in a hotter, drier climate.
So we may be able to generate power with "night cells" rather than solar cells.
One question; if we use solar cells for daylight power and night cells for after dark, where are we going to put it all? This is all wonderful but there will never be any sunlight reaching the ground with all these big panels everywhere.
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Whether you accept or reject the climate change narrative, most people agree that we should avoid pouring massive amounts of anything with potentially harmful consequences into the atmosphere.
There is scientific evidence that excessive levels of carbon in the atmosphere could adversely impact our climate – and we are emitting a lot of carbon.
What interests me is that the politicians issuing the loudest warnings about catastrophic climate change are the same people who vigorously oppose the most practical and effective means of combating it.
According to BP’s 2019 Statistical Review of World Energy, an energy economics publication, global carbon emissions grew about 2 percent in 2018 to 33,890.8 million metric tons, due primarily to increased demand for heating and cooling services.
While U.S. carbon emissions also increased in 2018, the U.S. has been the world’s leader in reducing carbon emissions for over a decade.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, carbon emissions in this country declined 14 percent between 2005 and 2017, "mainly because more electricity has been generated from natural gas†– a more efficient and "less carbon-intensive fuel than either coal or petroleum.â€
The EIA is forecasting a 2.2 percent decline in U.S. carbon emissions in 2019 as natural gas continues to replace coal in generating electricity. Fortunately, we have natural gas in abundance, thanks to a private sector-developed extraction process known as fracking.
Fracking does release methane gas, but according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2018 Greenhouse Gas Inventory, released in April 2019, U.S. methane emissions declined 15.8 percent between 1990 and 2017, while natural gas production increased by 51 percent.
More energy, less methane and carbon. Sounds like progress.
Nonetheless, virtually every Democratic presidential candidate who participated in CNN’s recent seven-hour climate change marathon opposes fracking.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, said she would "ban fracking – everywhere†on her first day as president, a mandate that would undoubtedly increase our carbon emissions. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., never one to rigidly tether his policies to reality, would "ban fracking on all public and private lands.â€
Here's the kicker that they all ignore:
In any event, reducing the world’s carbon emissions is not something any American president alone can achieve. While U.S.emissions are significant and should be reduced, they constitute only 15.2 percent of the world’s total.
China emitted 27.8 percent, or 9,428.7 million metric tons, of carbon in 2018. That’s more than the U.S. (5,145.2 million) and the European Union (4,248.4 million) combined.
To reduce emissions we need plausible alternatives. Renewable energy sources such as wind and solar are currently incapable of meeting the world's energy demands on their own.
As respected environmentalist and former renewables advocate Michael Shallenberger explains in a piece in Quillette magazine titled "Why Renewables Can’t Save the Planet," both wind and solar currently lack the capacity to generate or store sufficient energy to meet global demand.
Hydroelectric and geothermal energy production are limited geographically. With current technology, renewables alone simply are not a viable alternative.
Instead, Shallenberger has become an advocate of nuclear energy – a safe and inexpensive means of significantly reducing carbon emissions.
[...]In fact, it’s difficult to take anyone seriously who rails against increased carbon emissions but either refuses to consider nuclear power as part of the mix (Sanders), opposes building new reactors (former vice president Joe Biden), or declines to take a position on nuclear energy (Warren).
Here it comes:
Bingo! The entire article is here: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/andy-puzder-democrats-climate-panic-carbon-emissionsOpposing not only natural gas but also nuclear energy raises the question of what Democrats are actually trying to accomplish under the guise of climate change. There have been some clues.
Saikat Chakrabarti, New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s former chief of staff, admitted in July that the true motivation behind the Green New Deal wasn’t a "climate thing.†It was "a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing,†he said.
That helps explain why progressives are attempting to generate climate panic while opposing practical means for reducing carbon emissions. It also explains why they favor massive tax increases, excessively burdensome regulation and spending virtually incomprehensible sums on far less effective, if not ineffective, approaches.
Clearly, certain Democrats are more determined to scare us into accepting socialism than in reducing carbon emissions. [emphasis mine]
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According to Warner Todd Houston, the United Nations is quietly repatriating Central American "refugees" to their home countries.
Read about it at the Washington Sentinel.
Finally; the U.N. has done something worthwhile.
Or are they? Was it even ever really the point of these migrant caravans to get into the U.S. so much as to challenge our sovereignty in a public way, embarrass the Trump Administration, and make a larger point that borders are Sooo Twentieth Century? Now they are shipping these people home. In other words, they were a rent-a-mob from the beginning, like the crowds that showed up at some of these political events for Hillary Clinton, or at these race protests.
Now the U.N. has to help feed and clothe them, and THAT was never the idea.
Activist groups are angry about this, but they didn't understand the point of these caravans in the first place.
In side news, SCOTUS ruled the Trump Administration can implement new asylum rules that were blocked by a lower court.
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