A Subtle Way for Establishment Republicans to Sabotage Trump

March 2, 202 By Brian Parsons - The 1978 comedy Animal Housedepicts the charades of the rag-tag Delta Tau Chi fraternity of Faber College, clashing with Dean Wormer to maintain their university charter. Opposing Delta Tau Chi is the neighboring prestigious Omega Theta Pi fraternity. In one notable scene, frat pledge Chip Diller, portrayed by Actor Kevin Bacon, is hazed in ritual embarrassment by his senior Omega brothers. As he kneels on his hands and knees, his cloaked initiators paddle his bottom, at which time he winces and pleads politely, "Thank you, sir. May I have another?"This scene embodies conservatives' repeated abuses for a perceived seat at the table of national politics.  Will conservatives bend the knee to their initiators once again, or will conservatives drive policy from the bottom up?..................To Read More....

How to Lose in 2024, By Jay Valentine  March 2, 2023 - Industrial-scale fraud, committed by organized actors, accelerates over time like a drug-resistant bacterium.  If you want to know how America is going to get screwed in 2024, follow the dough.  That is the Zuckerberg dough. Zuck and pals are spending tens of millions of dollars, not padding voter rolls, not fighting lawsuits, not getting voters out early… they are spending the dough infiltrating and controlling election commissions. For those who think cleaning the voter rolls and voting early are enough protect 2024, our data proves you are delusional. The Left is all in controlling election commissions. Expect Kari Lake’s outcome to move from an outlier to a standard outcome in 2024. Election commission fraud, which we coined as sovereign fraud two years ago, has attractive characteristics for the Left.  It always works -- because it is invisible. 

Election fraud tools are stuck in the 1970s -- useless “phantom” and “dead people databases” are out of date a month after being published. Lawsuits make great headlines but achieve little because nobody is going to change an election outcome, no matter how egregious the conduct and powerful the evidence.  A slate of Arizona candidates is the most recent victim. The Zuckerberg boys will march into leftist-dominated cities - again, writing checks and controlling election machinery.  They know who voted, who did not vote, who never votes (and vote them), how many votes are needed. Each of these actions has a common characteristic -- it happens within 2-3 weeks during early voting!........To Read More....

CNN and Election Disinformation, By Joe Fried March 2, 2023 - My friend and I sometimes argue about media outlets like CNN and MSNBC. Why do they spread misinformation? Are they grossly uninformed?  Do they know the truth but tell falsehoods anyway?  Do they think we are stupid or naïve? My buddy feels that the media outlets know the truth but lie about it.  To me, it is more complicated. The nice-looking journalists who read the teleprompters are genuinely ignorant. On the other hand, the news producers probably know the truth but spread misinformation anyway. Producers are the ones who select the topics, construct the programs, and hire the special analysts. Let’s consider this recent example..........T

 Is Resistance Futile? By Jack Gleason  March 2, 2023 -Every sci-fi fan knows about the Borg, Star Trek's archenemy collective of cybernetic beings that ruthlessly assimilates other species and their technologies.  Their favorite phrase when overtaking a new life form is "resistance is futile." Indeed, the Borg are formidable.  After thousands of years, their stolen technologies surpass anything the Federation has developed.  But oddly, while gaining significant advantage at the beginning of each encounter, they are always stymied by Federation officers and crew.  How is this possible?  With all their technology, and an endless supply of interchangeable soldiers and a collective "hive mind," they always lose at the end of the episode.........They know that if they surrender, they will become another part of the collective and their society, and all freedom, will cease to exist. What can we learn in our current struggles to oppose the multiple threats to freedom and democracy facing the United States and the remnants of the free world?.........To Read More... 

 

How to Lose in 2024

By Jay Valentine  March 2, 2023

Industrial-scale fraud, committed by organized actors, accelerates over time like a drug-resistant bacterium.  If you want to know how America is going to get screwed in 2024, follow the dough.  That is the Zuckerberg dough. Zuck and pals are spending tens of millions of dollars, not padding voter rolls, not fighting lawsuits, not getting voters out early… they are spending the dough infiltrating and controlling election commissions.

For those who think cleaning the voter rolls and voting early are enough protect 2024, our data proves you are delusional. The Left is all in controlling election commissions. Expect Kari Lake’s outcome to move from an outlier to a standard outcome in 2024. Election commission fraud, which we coined as sovereign fraud two years ago, has attractive characteristics for the Left.  It always works -- because it is invisible. 

Election fraud tools are stuck in the 1970s -- useless “phantom” and “dead people databases” are out of date a month after being published. Lawsuits make great headlines but achieve little because nobody is going to change an election outcome, no matter how egregious the conduct and powerful the evidence.  A slate of Arizona candidates is the most recent victim.

The Zuckerberg boys will march into leftist-dominated cities - again, writing checks and controlling election machinery.  They know who voted, who did not vote, who never votes (and vote them), how many votes are needed. Each of these actions has a common characteristic -- it happens within 2-3 weeks during early voting!........To Read More....

 

Georgia Republicans Squeeze Migration-Friendly Bill Through Committee Vote

Neil Munro 1 Mar 2023 

Establishment-backed Republican legislators in Georgia are trying to pass a bill that could allow illegal migrants to jump ahead of Americans for school-choice funding. On Thursday, the state Senate Education and Youth committee held a surprise hearing and vote for the bill after silencing opposition from D.A. King, founder of the pro-American New Dustin Inman Society.............To Read More....

Christie: Trump Likely Will Be Indicted Before the Debates Begin in Summer

Pam Key 1 Mar 2023

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said Wednesday on “The Hugh Hewitt Show” that former President Donald Trump will be indicted before the Republican presidential primary debates begin later this summer........To Read More.....

Biden's DHS reveals how it plans to use tax money to 'interfere' in U.S. elections

New influence scheme aiming at more urban areas

By Bob Unruh March 1, 2023 

Election fraud and election interference is becoming more and more of a problem across the United States, which saw the 2020 presidential race results influenced, perhaps corrupted, by the $400 million plus that Mark Zuckerberg handed out, through foundations, to mostly leftists in local elections offices .............. Now a report at The Federalist is charging that the Biden Department of Homeland Security already is scheming to influence future elections. And use taxpayer money to do it this time......... To Read More....

South Africa is in freefall

March 1, 2023 By Andrea Widburg

I received an email from a South African friend today, infuriated at his country’s destruction at the hands of his own government’s ideology and incompetence. This was not hyperbole. In fact, the power grid is on the verge of complete collapse, which will leave people without food or water, and, when combined with South Africa’s decay in all other areas, may lead to civil unrest on a scale that could trigger a full civil war.

As a predicate to this post, it’s important to note that, since 1994, when the all-white government finally ended, all South Africa’s presidents have come from the African National Congress, a communist front group. It’s also important to note that South Africa, although in chaotic fashion, has been bowing down before “green colonialism.” As I use it, that phrase means that economically fragile countries destroy their energy infrastructure to suit the climate delusions coming from affluent western nations........To Read More.....

The Death of Expertise

By J.B. Shurk March 2, 2023

If you value truth, ignore the "experts."  Most aren't really expert at much.  They prefer titles to original thoughts — and the more titles they insist on announcing, the more likely they seek nobility, not knowledge.  They could more accurately be called "opinion connoisseurs."  They are experts in fashionable opinion and possess an insatiable need to tell everyone else just what the very best people are supposed to believe.

The "experts" told us that COVID came from a wet market, that two weeks of isolation would flatten the curve, that lockdowns posed few health risks, that closed schools posed few developmental harms, that masks prevented transmission, that natural immunity provided no protection, that "vaccines" provided total protection, and that those same untested and experimental injections caused no serious side effects.  The "experts" were wrong, but they held the most fashionable opinions...........To Read More....

Been there. Done that. Not doing it again.

March 2, 2023 By Robin M. Itzler  @ American Thinker

In years past, if there were two candidates on the ballot, most Republicans would select those with the “R” after their names. Today, Conservative patriots focus less on party affiliation and more on candidates’ positions. After all, if the choice is between Republican Liz Cheney and now Independent/former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard, who would you vote for?

Whether it’s the Tea Party, We the People, Make America Great Again, or another like-minded patriotic movement, America First Conservatives are disgusted with Republican UniParty congressional leadership. Following the pork-filled omnibus bill’s passage, Dan Bongino summed it up:

That so many Republicans in the Senate and House would support an omnibus bill that does more for Ukraine’s borders than our own southern border explains why the GOP has multiple problems with its base.

America First patriots staunchly believe the Republican leadership does not care about us except when it needs money and essential volunteers during campaigns to do the grunt work. This is why the cycle never ends:

• America First candidate runs in the primary.
• GOP leadership pushes out America First candidate in the primary.
• RINO is the general election candidate.
• GOP says vote for the RINO since the Democrat candidate is worse.
• RINO wins.
• Patriots get angry with RINO’s actions and/or votes.
• Repeat ….

Responding to patriotic Americans who want to know what they can do to keep the country from trending toward Marxism, John Daniel Davidson wrote that’s it’s up to us:

You’re going to have to save the country yourselves. Donald Trump isn’t going to save it. Ron DeSantis isn’t going to save it. There’s not a snowball’s chance in hell that a GOP majority in Congress is going to save it.

Two recent examples of Conservative patriots focusing on candidates, propositions, and policies rather than party affiliation come from Orange County, California, once the nation’s most conservative county.

Image: Simple ballot (edited) by freepik.

Cypress: In late 2022, a group of concerned citizens formed Keep Cypress United (“KCU”) to maintain their city council's fiscally responsible majority. Because the ballot limited voter’s choices to three candidates, KCU immediately endorsed two fiscally responsible Republicans. For their third endorsement, founding members (all Republicans) interviewed several candidates. They endorsed the Libertarian over the Republican. As founding member Glenn Button explained:

I am one who prioritizes policies over people, such as fiscal restraint and public safety. A candidate who is best able to articulate and strongly defend a favored policy is then to be preferred over a mild candidate of the preferred party.

Self-funded and with only a few weeks to counter immense outside funding and questionable campaign practices benefitting a progressive candidate, KCU had a booth at the city’s October festival, held informal meetings, attended city council meetings, and wrote letters to the editor.

Their efforts helped keep a fiscally responsible Conservative majority on the Cypress City Council.

Conservative Patriots of Orange County: In late 2021, a new non-partisan organization premiered, focusing on “conservative patriots” rather than party affiliation. In one-year, Conservative Patriots of Orange County (CPOC) grew to nearly 300 members. According to CPOC President Deborah Pauly,

About one-third of voters in Orange County have registered as no party preference or independent. Many of these voters have been disenfranchised by or have become disenchanted with the two major parties, including Republicans who can no longer tolerate leadership that is ethically compromised. These citizens are civically minded. CPOC is an outlet for those who prefer open, forthright, and robust discussion on important issues.

With headline speakers, unique events, a focus on activism, and a refusal to kowtow to establishment doctrine, the organization has quickly become a powerhouse in Orange County politics.

Despite those successes, why are so many Republicans still switching to Independent or No Party Preference and/or endorsing non-Republican candidates? Josh Hammer explained it well:

It is one of the most bitter and tragic ironies of our contemporary politics that the leadership of one of America’s two major political parties, the Republican Party, utterly despises that party’s very own voting base.

The base is not going to keep playing these ridiculous UniParty games. And they’re sick of the rigging, as Wayne Allyn Root wrote, commenting on manipulated 2022 elections in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Georgia:

But I have news for the GOP. Your base isn’t that dumb. We all know. We all see what’s happening.

… In the end, we don’t blame communists masquerading as Democrats. We don’t blame rigged and stolen elections. We don’t blame mail-in ballots.

We blame the GOP leadership.

No more!

If GOP leadership doesn’t understand this immense frustration shared by millions of patriots, wait until 2024. Party leaders will sleepily expect conservatives to vote for Republican candidates solely because they have an “R” after their name. But when the ballots are counted, at least the legitimate ballots, they might be shocked to learn what voters really thought: Been there. Done that. Not doing it again.

Robin M. Itzler is a regular contributor to American Thinker. She can be reached at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com.

‘Clean energy’ projection — 86 million pounds of turbine blades to enter landfills each year

March 2, 2023 By Olivia Murray

Based on the radical decimation of our environment thanks to greenie “clean energy” initiatives, I can only assume they’ve never heard of a cost–benefit analysis. Or, maybe they have, and I’m just giving them more credit than they deserve. Maybe they’re so wrapped up in their erroneous morally superior identity, they’d rather turn every majestic landscape into a barren hellscape before they would concede that political conservatism is best in show. Now that I think of it, I suspect the latter.  From a report over at Cowboy State Daily:

According to a 2017 study published in the scientific journal Waste Management, the world’s wind industry will be producing 43 million tons of blade waste annually by 2050........The U.S. and Europe will account for 41% of that...........Currently, there are no scalable, cost-effective technologies to recycle the blade, and most of them are going into landfills.

Of all the ridiculous notions pushed by the left, demands for “green” energy remain one of the most irritating, for several reasons:

First off, there is the reality that the “green” agenda is just communism by another name, even though the useful idiots really do believe it’s about conserving and preserving the environment. Funny enough, I recently read an interview piece over at The Guardian, titled, “A greener Marx? Kohei Saito on connecting communism with the climate crisis”. Saito, a “degrowth communist” and an academic, believes Karl Marx’s lesser-known ideas on the environment are the answer to the current climate “crisis.” The man whose ideas helped to inspire 20th century governments to kill more than 100 million people? Um, no thanks!............To Read More....

Republican lawmaker in Florida offers an ingenious solution to stop the Democrats

March 2, 2023 By Olivia Murray

If you don’t know who “Florida Man” is, allow me to explain. It’s an internet joke, a moniker endowed to peculiar and wild people with carpe diem attitudes, because coincidentally, they almost always reside in Florida. For example: In 2020, Richard Wilbanks took his Spaniel puppy for a walk around the backyard, and out of nowhere and “like a missile,” an alligator jumped from a pond and snatched the dog. Without even losing the cigar in his mouth, 74-year-old Wilbanks jumped in the water, pried open the jaws of the reptile, freed the dog (and subsequently himself), and walked home dripping in blood — Wilbanks is Florida Man. (You can find a list of hilarious and real headlines about “Florida Man” here.)

Editor's Note:  This has a really good video I can't reproduce here so follow the link!

But now another Florida Man has entered the fray, and he’s a Republican legislator from Spring Hill, Florida. Two days ago, Sen. Blaise Ingoglia introduced SB1248, known as “The Ultimate Cancel Act”, which would go into effect July 1st of this year. The proposed law is a brilliant act against the state’s Democrat party, given the language — from the bill: ....................   

 “If certain conditions exist”.... So what are they? Also from the bill:

The division shall immediately cancel the filings of a political party, to include its registration and approved status as a political party, if the party’s platform has previously advocated for, or been in support of, slavery or involuntary servitude................To Read More...

My Take - We know the Democrat party was the party of slavery, and it still is as they're doing everything in their power to make blacks dependent on them in order to get elected.  So this is gotta be a great idea for the religion Democrats follow, the Church of Wokeness and their penchant for "cancelling" anything that that displeases them.

Our out-of-control federal bureaucracy

March 2, 2023  By William Manning

The Hunter Biden laptop controversy presents a test for American democracy.  The laptop resides at the intersection of two First Amendment rights: freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

At the heart of the controversy is the criminal conspiracy in which Hunter Biden sold access to Joe Biden to co-conspirators all over the world.  Hunter's laptop serves as evidence of this conspiracy.  How this story was squashed by the FBI and covered up by the mainstream media (MSM) might be more important than the criminal behavior of a corrupt politician.  The FBI is part of a government bureaucracy that abridges free speech and a free press and subverts politicians it differs with.

The MSM have long had a love/hate relationship with America's two major political parties.  They love Democrats and hate Republicans.  Dan Rather rose to prominence at CBS by hounding Richard Nixon and was fired from the network for lying about the National Guard service record of President G.W. Bush.  The liberal media hated President Reagan.  The MSM are determined to destroy Donald Trump.  Democrats are treated differently.  The New York Times "checks with" Democrats before it runs a story.............To Read More.

 My Take - The only real fix is to eliminate these Departments, Agencies, Bureaus, etc., and there are a lot of them and no one has any idea what most of them are doing on a daily basis, other than getting juicy paychecks and great benefits for doing little, and what little they do is often detrimental to the nation.  

Race And Murder In Chicago

March 01, 2023/ Francis Menton  @ Manhattan Contrarian 

In Chicago on Tuesday, current Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her bid for re-election. In a race where only the top two finishers would advance to the final round, Lightfoot finished third, with 17.1% of the vote. Of nine total candidates, the top two vote-getters were Paul Vallas (33.7% of the vote) and Brandon Johnson (20.3%). Those two will now compete in a runoff in April.

The New York Times, which provided those voting data, described Lightfoot in its February 28 report as someone:

“whose outsider status and promises to enact sweeping reforms propelled her to office four years ago,” but who “saw her popularity plunge as homicides reached generational highs and as Chicago struggled to rebound from the pandemic.”

It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving person. A fair summary of Lightfoot’s term is that she totally failed to deal with Chicago’s most pressing issue, which is crime — particularly the horrifying rate of murders of young black men. And when called out on that issue, she reacted by accusing anyone who opposed her of racism. Frankly, she is despicable.

Charles Blow of the New York Times — a progressive and very sympathetic to Lightfoot — interviewed her four days before the election, and reported on the interview in a column today. Needless to say, Lightfoot took the opportunity of speaking to Blow to accuse the apparent frontrunner in the race, Paul Vallas, of racism. (Vallas was the only white candidate among the nine in the contest.). From Blow’s piece:

Vallas had run a tough-on-crime, law-and-order campaign in which he told one crowd that his “whole campaign is about taking back our city, pure and simple.” Lightfoot called the remark “the ultimate dog whistle.” In our interview, she was brutal in her racial assessment of Vallas: “He is giving voice and platform to people who are hateful of anyone who isn’t white and Republican in our city, in our country.”

And in the immediate aftermath of the election, the New York Post quoted Lightfoot as follows:

“I’m a black woman in America. Of course,” she replied when asked by a reporter if she had been treated unfairly.

Sure, Lori. And just how bad is the carnage among young black men in Chicago? The data are not necessarily easy to find, because this is one of those subjects that is systematically suppressed by the government press. But if you take time to do some research, what you find is truly astounding.

In March 2019, the Children’s Research Institute of the Children’s Hospital of Chicago put out a big Report with the title “Adolescent Firearm Homicide in Chicago 2013–2017: Young Black Males at High Risk.” Admittedly, this Report came out just as Lightfoot was getting elected four years ago, and it uses data from a five-year window before she was in office. However, for reasons I’ll get to in a moment, there is every reason to believe that things got even somewhat worse on her watch. Key finding:

In 2016, Chicago’s overall adolescent firearm homicide rate was about three times the national rate, while Chicago’s black male adolescent firearm rate was nearly 50 times the national rate.

Now 365.3 per 100,000 is a truly astounding homicide rate. The overall homicide rate for Chicago has run around 25-30 per 100,000 over the last decade, which is very high, but less than a tenth of the 365. The nation’s true murder capitals — places like Detroit, Baltimore and St. Louis — rarely exceed an overall homicide rate of about 50 per 100,000. A rate of 365 per 100,000 means that over a five year period a black male adolescent in Chicago stands nearly a 2% chance of getting murdered.

The Children’s Hospital Report also provides maps by year of the neighborhoods in Chicago where the murders of black adolescents took place. Here is the chart for 2016, the worst of the years in the study. Colored shading indicates higher homicide rates, with the darker colors designating the highest rates:

If you know your Chicago neighborhoods, you will quickly recognize that all the most dangerous neighborhoods are the most heavily black areas.

Did things improve on Lightfoot’s watch? There is every reason to believe that things got even worse. Station WTTW provides the following chart of murders in Chicago by year from 1999 to 2022:

Chicago had set a then-record of 778 murders in 2016. But after some declines before Lightfoot took office, the number of murders went back up to 776 in 2020, and then hit a new record of 802 in 2021 — both on Lightfoot’s watch. There was a modest decline in 2022, although WTTW reports that other categories of crime continued to increase. There is every reason to believe that the proportion of the murders involving young black men did not improve during Lightfoot’s mayoralty.

As noted many times previously on this blog, in the late 1980s and early 1990s New York City had a murder rate in the range of 25-30 per 100,000 — comparable to Chicago’s rates over the past decade. During the Giuliani and Bloomberg mayoralties from 1994 to 2013, the murder rate here went all the way down to 4 per 100,000 (before rising back to about 6 per 100,000 under Mayor de Blasio). New York has shown how it is done. If New York can do it, Chicago has no excuse. Approximately 400 +/- murders of young black men in Chicago each year over the past four years are blood on Lori Lightfoot’s hands.

Meanwhile, in a piece at Outkick, also from today, Ian Miller notes a few of Lightfoot’s other “accomplishments”:

• “She supported defunding the police, asking for an $80 million budget cut after the summer of 2020.”

• “Her COVID authoritarianism was outrageous, embarrassing and disgraceful. Beyond many other mandates, she seemingly took joy in eliminating the ability of unvaccinated people to ‘live life’ as they wanted.”

• “She was also, unsurprisingly, an early believer in the Jussie Smollett hoax which came just before the 2019 election.”

And it goes on and on from there. It would be very hard for Chicago’s next Mayor to be worse than Lightfoot.

Russia’s biggest weapon (and China’s too) is fossil fuel energy

US focus on climate change and fossil fuel suppression is courting a national security disaster 

Hon. Don Ritter, Sc. 

The capacity of a modern economy to produce food and goods for its citizens, and weapons and fuel for its military to project power, are the undeniable twin pillars of global power. Both depend on reasonably priced and readily available energy.

Almost 80% of America’s energy is supplied by oil, gas and coal. Only 20% comes from other sources such as hydropower, nuclear, wind and solar. Even the greenest’ of economies will need fossil fuel backup when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine. Wind and solar provide 5% of our total consumption and only 2% of the energy to power some 290 million vehicles.

In other words, American literally runs and fights on fossil fuels.

Russia, despite an economy smaller than Italy’s, has shown it could defy all international norms and invade a neighboring country because it has abundant energy.

Weapons, and more weapons. First it was Javelins, then Howitzers, then HIMARS, then anti-missile and drone capability, then longer range ATACMS, then better tanks, now F-16s. Who can tell what the next weapon will be needed to defend against Russian aggression?

Russia has its weapons, too, and they are being paid for by the sale of oil, gas, coal, and fossil fuel-derived products like petrochemicals, fertilizers, etc. Russian missiles, planes, drones, tanks and artillery that shed Ukrainian blood and destroy homes, hospitals and electric-power stations are bought with Russia’s fossil fuel revenues.

Energy is Russia’s greatest weapon as it makes possible all the others. Only with such revenues can Russia continue its devastation of Ukraine. A new Russian offensive is brewing, and it too will be financed by its energy revenues.  Russians from Putin on down are talking about a much longer war because they have the revenues to support one and they don’t have to worry about a citizen-taxpayer revolt or getting reelected.

While the U.S. and Europe have restricted their purchases and consumption of Russian energy, it is sold elsewhere. That energy sells at a discount, but Russia is still earning hundreds of billions of dollars from energy sales and thus able to continue its war for as long as Putin wants. In spite of sanctions, Russia sold over $350 worth of fossil fuels in 2022. In the meantime German keeps its fracking ban.

To achieve peace in Europe and avoid potential wars elsewhere, one would think that America and the West would be increasing their own supply of oil, gas and coal and driving down prices on the global market. Such initiative would also give fence-sitting counties like India and Brazil in the “Global South” alternative sources to substitute for Russian products.

One would also think that the West would understand that its ability to replenish weapons and ammunition being sent to Ukraine and resist aggression, anywhere, like Taiwan for example, is based on production, shipment and fueling with fossil fuels and decidedly not on wind and solar. There will never be and electric tank!

And why not drive down drive down the price that Russia receives for its energy, while providing the economic and military security derived from fossil fuels? The answer from Europe and now America has been an emphatic “no.” Apparently, addressing the computer-modeled “climate crisis” takes priority over national defense, stopping Russian aggression in Europe, and securing reliable, affordable energy to power modern industrial economies and living standards.

The alternative – simultaneously furthering the technology of renewables like wind and solar while building up fossil fuels within an “all of the above” approach – is anathema to those who believe religiously that climate change is an existential threat. Ironically, the same people are happy to substitute U.S. fossil fuels with oil from dictatorships like Venezuela, Iran and Saudi Arabia. They don’t seem concerned that wind, solar and battery supply chains run mostly through Communist China.

An “all of the above” energy strategy would make it harder for Russia to finance its war, save Ukrainian lives and mitigate their suffering. It would show that America was willing to challenge Russia’s energy dominance now and into the future.

Sadly, the very opposite is happening. The U.S. is killing energy transport pipelines, curtailing permitting of refineries and natural gas export facilities, suppressing oil and gas leasing and drilling and, worst of all, stifling longer-term investment in the industry. Driven by an all-encompassing determination to limit CO2 emissions, Europe, and now America, have declared war of fossil fuels. Meanwhile, Russia and China burn oil, gas and coal and emit greenhouse gases at levels that dwarf the West’s.

Governments in Europe and now in America have utterly failed to see that, by suppressing fossil fuels, they are ceding enormous power to countries like Russia, Iran and China – who use those very fossil fuels to strengthen their own economies and military power and threaten others.

Energy has been weaponized and the West is in full energy-disarmament mode. The West is forfeiting its ability to gain peace through strength, with energy being the all-encompassing weapon in national and alliance arsenals.

The Russian people have experienced far greater suffering when total war was being waged on their own territory and millions perished. This time, the Russian people don’t feel the brunt of the war, so the pressure to end it is limited it and Russia’s vast fossil fuel revenues are available to continue it, perhaps for years.

It is doubtful that that support for Ukraine from potentially fickle Western democracies could last that long.

National economies and nations’ militaries still run on fossil fuels. There is no substitute for fossil fuel dominance, even on a longer-term horizon. To believe and act otherwise is suicidal. It’s the real “existential threat.”

Don Ritter holds a Science Doctorate from MIT and served fourteen years on the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce and Science and Technology Committees. He was a National Academy of Sciences Fellow in the USSR, speaks fluent Russian, and was Ranking Member on the Congressional Helsinki Commission and founding Co-Chair of the Baltic States-Ukraine Caucus.

After leaving Congress he created and led the National Environmental Policy Institute. He is a founder and President & CEO Emeritus of the Afghan American Chamber of Commerce, and a Trustee of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC), where he co-chairs the Museum Capital Campaign.

 

Reuters science correspondent: "I was wrong" on climate

By Reggie Rucker CFACT President 

Neil Winton worked at Reuters for 32 years, including as global science and technology correspondent.  Winton recently admitted he "was wrong" for going along and not putting in the journalistic effort to question the media's prevailing climate narrative.

Winton said:  

When I became Reuters global Science and Technology Correspondent in the mid-1990s, the global warming story was top of my agenda. Already by then the BBC was scaring us saying we would all die unless humankind mended its selfish ways. Carbon dioxide (CO₂) was the culprit and had to be tamed, then eliminated. I had no reason to think this wasn't established fact. I was wrong.

My Reuters credentials meant that I had easy access to the world's finest climate scientists. To my amazement, none of these would say categorically that the link between CO₂ and global warming, now known as climate change, was a proven scientific fact. Some said human production of CO₂ was a probable cause, others that it might make some contribution; some said CO₂ had no role at all. Everybody agreed that the climate had warmed over the last 10,000 years as the ice age retreated, but most weren't really sure why. The sun's radiation, which changes over time, was a favoured culprit.

My reporting reflected the wide range of views, with Reuters typical "on the one hand this, on the other, that" style. But even then, the mainstream media seem to have run out of the energy required, and often lazily went along with the BBC's faulty, opinionated thesis. It was too much trouble to make the point that the BBC's conclusion was challenged by many impressive scientists.

Winton went on to make an essential point about the threat Green radicalism poses to freedom that has been essential to CFACT's mission since our founding:

The Left had lost all of the economic arguments by the 1990s, and its activists eagerly grabbed the chance to say free markets and small government couldn't save us from climate change; only government intervention could do that.

Thank you Neil Winton for this important peek inside the world of media groupthink and your insight as to how Reuters, and so many others, lost the plot on climate.

At the dawn of the 20th century, the humorist Finley Peter Dunne wrote about newspapers that "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." No one has grown more fat and comfortable, and no one more deserving of a little journalistic affliction, than those accumulating vast power and fortunes by cashing in on climate.  Just ask Reuters.   Reporters, do your job.  Ask the tough questions and fully vet the climate narrative and the myriad conflicts that flow from it. 

The public deserves to know.  For nature and people too.

P&D Today

Fixing Education in America is Job One

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De Omnibus Dubitandum

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By Rich Kozlovich 

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C'mon man, we got to have our priorities.  Gas stoves! If we don't get rid of them the world is doomed, doomed I tell you.

Let's face it, if you're reading the news from alternative news sources you will find out the truth but it's remarkably depressing to see the insane things leaders all over the world are doing, and the havoc their insane policies are wrecking on society.

If you read the news from the false media, then it's stupefying, because you have to do such mental gymnastics to jibe what they're saying with what you're seeing.   

One thing has been made undeniably clear though.  There really is such a thing as a conspiracy, the government is rampant with them and the media is complicit in hiding the truth about them.  

I've only one commentary today, by me, and some views of my own on some of the linked articles.  

Enjoy! 

• Gas Stoves Are the New Enemy of the Left, Part III By Rich Kozlovich
• The Woke Wrecking Machine with My Take
• Why the “Bombshells” Have No Impact
• The Reckoning That Wasn’t with My Take
• Ukraine: Paying for Past Failures
• Guess who the other big loser is from Russia's Ukraine invasion...
• Pentagon Inspector General unwilling to reveal if rules monitoring Ukraine Aid were followed with My Take

 Constant as the North Star

Pentagon Inspector General unwilling to reveal if rules monitoring Ukraine Aid were followed

March 2, 2023 By Rajan Laad

Consider a hypothetical situation where you learn of a friend living in a faraway country who is seriously unwell and his medical bills have drained most of his savings. When you decide to help this friend out financially, which fund transfer service would you choose?

A: The service which has a proper tracking mechanism to ensure that each and every penny reaches your friend; or,

B: The service that has no tracking mechanism or guarantees that even a small percentage of the amount will reach your friend.

The answer is obviously A since the goal is to help your friend in desperate need. According to D.C., this friend in need is Ukraine and the benefactor is the U.S. government. Last May, Sen. Rand Paul blocked the Senate from passing a $40 billion aid package for Ukraine because he wanted a provision to be added to the bill that would ensure tracking of billions being dispatched. The appalling record of corruption in the U.S. under Biden and in Ukraine makes accountability and oversight essential.

But Paul received little support among lawmakers.............To Read More.....

My Take - Wasn't it just the other day we were assured by none other that that paragon of probity,   Samantha Power, there's no evidence of wrong doing.  Wow!  Well, if there's no tracking mechanism in place to follow that money, that means there's no evidence of wrong doing.  See, moral probity by Samantha Power.  Or, then again, one could view all this evidence of moral turpitude instead of probity.  Given her history, I go for the latter.   

As the author states later in the article this claptrap about "no evidence" allows them to lie under oath, and then as the situation changes they can them come back and change their testimony without suffering perjuring charges, although since Clinton, perjury doesn't seem to be a crime any longer, and as long as Merritt Garland sits in the AG's chair, and Biden sits behind the Resolute Desk, the only time perjury will be a crime is if a conservative commits it.  

He goes on to say, "the other trick is to claim to have ‘no recollection", which Fauci (who claimed he has an answer for everything he's said and done) did 174 times.

During this hearing Rep. Matt Gaetz "grilled" the Inspector General asking:

 “As you testify here today, you cannot testify, truthfully under oath, that the DOD has complied with the policy and law regarding end-use monitoring during all times in this conflict. Isn’t that right?”

And, as in so many of these hearings, three times he asked the same question, and again the Inspector General evaded answering, then fell back of the old reliable...."It's classified".  

Guess who the other big loser is from Russia's Ukraine invasion...

March 2, 2023 By Daniel Jia

One year after Vladimir Putin started his Ukraine invasion, Russia is falling deeper and deeper into the hole that its president has been digging hard. But the number one loser is not Russia. It's China.  China’s decision to support Russia instead of the West in this war is as great a failure as Russia’s invasion itself. To start with the logic of it, China has been betting on great gains from the war. China’s ambition here is way greater and more complex than Putin’s simple and straightforward territorial demand. The most sought-after reward for China as it sides with Russia is the notion that a Russia’s victory would pave the road for China to annex Taiwan, a self-ruled island that China has viewed as a breakaway territory..............

More countries have stood with Taiwan since that Ukraine invasion, and now the U.S. is shifting its strategic ambiguity to strategic clarity in terms of defending Taiwan against China’s military attack, a stance affirmed by President Biden on at least three occasions. China’s next Taiwan advance, premised on Russia’s success in Ukraine, has fallen flat. China also failed in its attempt to advance in currency dominance in global financial system....................To Read More....

Ukraine: Paying for Past Failures

March 2, 2023 By William Hawkins

The old adage “politics stops at the water’s edge” is an ideal that is too frequently forgotten in the harsh partisanship of our current highly emotional scrum of democracy. Even a brazen act of aggression in the heart of Europe by a Great Power rival of the United States and the West cannot get some to lift their eyes from petty politics and think seriously about the greater issues of national policy in a dangerous world.

Marking a year of intense combat in Ukraine should have been a combination of somber reflection and cautious optimism. The Ukrainian people preserved their independence from a revanchist invasion by Russia whose leader Vladmir Putin desires to rebuild the empire lost when the Soviet Union collapsed. But the cost has been great and not all the land lost has been won back. Russia is bombarding the nation’s infrastructure to freeze or starve civilians, children have been kidnapped by the invaders, and war crimes had been committed in the standard Russian way of war................... To Read More....