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— This Newsletter’s Articles, by Topic —

 If You Only Have Time to Read a Few Select Articles:

*** Democratic meddling in GOP primaries paid off in a big way on Election Day

*** The “myth of left and right”

*** Democracy Wasn’t On the Ballot, Extremism Was

*** Elections for dummies

*** COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates: 21 Scientific Facts That Challenge the Assumptions

*** The Global Disinformation Campaign Against Ivermectin – The “Blitz”

*** COVID-19 Pandemic Policy And Mistakes

*** The Masked Ball of Cowardice

*** Short videos: Electric Cars: Inconvenient Facts, Part 1 & Part 2

*** US dangerous diesel shortage caused by anti-fossil-fuel politicians

*** The EPA vs. the grid

*** America Has Lost Its Moral Compass

*** The Parents’ Revolt against US Public Education

*** Doubt-Free, America’s Schools Warm to Climate Activism

*** The Politics Of Science: Voters Have An Important Voice

*** To America’s Permissive Addiction ‘Fix,’ Critics Just Say No

COVID-19 — Repeated Important Information:

My webpage (C19Science.info) with dozens of Science-based COVID-19 reports

*** World Council of Health: Early COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines

*** FLCCC Long COVID Treatment Protocol

*** COVID-19: What You Need To Know (Physicians for Informed Consent)

*** If you have received a COVID-19 injection, here’s how to Detox

*** Place Your US Order for Free At-Home COVID-19 Tests

COVID-19 — Therapies:

*** The Global Disinformation Campaign Against Ivermectin – The “Blitz”

FTX Slush Fund Bankrolled Fake Studies to Hide Covid Therapeutics

COVID-19 — Injections:

*** Report: Fundamental Flaws in Pfizer’s COVID-19 Biologics License Application

*** Report: Experts say FDA oversight of clinical trials is “grossly inadequate”

COVID-19 — Injection Mandates:

*** COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates: 21 Scientific Facts That Challenge the Assumptions

Physicians for Informed Consent Challenges the Basis for COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

The Solidarity Argument for Forced Mass Vaccination Turned Out to Be False

G20 leaders have just signed a declaration which states that vaccine passports will be adopted to “facilitate” all international travel

COVID-19 — Masks:

*** Fed Judge Strikes Down Vax & Mask Mandates For Preschoolers & Workers, Calls It “Tyranny”

AFL Uncovers Documents Revealing that Biden Admin’s ‘Guidance’ on Masking Children in School Was Driven by the Kaiser Foundation’s Political Polling

Flu Season Sees Calls For Return To Face Mask Mania

COVID-19 — Misc:

*** COVID-19 Pandemic Policy And Mistakes

*** The Masked Ball of Cowardice

Alcohol deaths ‘exploded’ during pandemic

Greed Energy Economics:

*** The Disastrous Economics of a Grid with 100% Intermittent Renewables

*** The Cost of Renewables: Just a Blip in the Narrative

***Wind power giant says it was a mistake to say renewables would get cheaper

Unrealistic net zero policies cost families dearly

Renewables (General):

*** Renewable Energy: Intermittency Has Major Consequences

*** The Green-Energy Revolution Will Make the World More Dangerous

Why green energy is not green at all

Green Energy Revolution Hits Energy Reality Wall

Voters Veto Big Wind In Ohio and Michigan: Rejections Now Total 375 Since 2015

Wind Energy:

*** Ontario’s Perfect Demonstration of Wind’s Intermittent and Unreliable Nature

Savior Al Gore wields windmills to stop the storms and end the Culture of Death

Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind plus Storage

Shell and Partners Cancel Floating Wind Project Offshore France

Solar Energy:

*** The U.S.’s Struggle to Wean Itself From Chinese Solar Power

Solar Energy Firm Collapses Owing British Taxpayers £655 Million

Solar installations hasten loss of Virginia farmland

Nuclear Energy:

*** Rolls-Royce aims to build 30 mini-nuclear reactors to kick-start nuclear revolution

*** Report: Confidence in Nuclear Energy

The Nuclear Energy Ice Age Appears to Be Over

Ukraine and US announce cooperation on Clean Fuels from SMR pilot project

Methane:

*** Methane: Much Ado About Nothing

Methane Obsession: New York’s Dark and Dangerous Phobia

Fossil Fuel Energy:

*** US dangerous diesel shortage caused by anti-fossil-fuel politicians

*** The EPA vs. the grid

Biden Caves To Saudis Rather Than Pump More Oil

Washington State Ban on Natural Gas Heating Is All Cost, No Benefit

Europe scrambles for Africa’s fossil fuels

STEM Is the Future in Oklahoma as Gas Industry Brings It!

Electric Vehicles (EVs):

*** Short videos: Electric Cars: Inconvenient Facts, Part 1 & Part 2

*** Electric Vehicle (EV) Precautions

Misc Energy:

*** Study: Emissions of Hydrogen Could Undermine Its Climate Benefits, etc.

*** How Blackrock Investment Fund Triggered the Global Energy Crisis

German Government Worried About Bank Runs, “Aggressive Discontent” Ahead of Energy Shortage

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:

*** The Briefing Begins (Lawsuit Challenging the Endangerment Finding)

*** New Poll of Scientists Dispels Myth of Climate Change Consensus

*** The Flawed EPA Theory That Won’t Go Away

Rich people deprive poor people cheap energy in the name of climate change

Celebrating War as Climate Win Makes Red True Color of “Greens”

Corporate greenwashing: will court cases and new rules close the gap between promises and reality?

Manmade Global Warming — COP27:

*** COP27: A meaningless ritual for China and India

*** African nations tell COP27 fossil fuels will tackle poverty

*** After 32 years of UN climate rituals, global CO2 emissions hit new record

UN Demands $2 Trillion A Year From Rich Countries For ‘Climate Justice’

The Obvious Climate Strategy Nobody Will Talk About

An analysis of what gets prioritized and ignored at UN climate negotiations

COP27 — “Loss and Damage” vaguely makes it to the table

COP27 — Will “loss and damage” extremism kill national alarmism?

Manmade Global Warming — Misc:

*** 41% of climate scientists don’t believe in catastrophic ‘climate change,’ major new poll finds

*** New MIT Study: Earth can regulate its own temperature over millennia

Nitrous Oxide and Climate

Archive: In Defense of CO2… Common Sense Revisited

Study: ’Highly religious’ Americans say Earth merits protection, but fewer fear climate change

White House Admits It: We Might Need to Block the Sun to Stop Climate Change

US Election:

Election-Integrity.info (10 major election reports by our team of experts, plus much more!)

*** Democratic meddling in GOP primaries paid off in a big way on Election Day

*** Democracy Wasn’t On the Ballot, Extremism Was

*** Elections for dummies

*** Google Is Shifting Votes On A Massive Scale, But A Solution Is At Hand

*** We Need To Talk About What Didn’t Happen On Election Day

*** Republicans Have Won 6 Million More Votes than Democrats in House Races, But Gained Relatively Few Seats

*** Suffering is the Beginning of Wisdom: Part I, It’s All Trump’s Fault!

*** Suffering is the Beginning of Wisdom: Part II, Did America Really Vote For This?

Despite ceaseless warnings on the left, Election Day came and went without right-wing violence

Elections Need More Transparency. Why Do Some on Left Want Less?

Here Are the Well-Funded Forces Arrayed Left and Right to Challenge Elections

Is This Morning in America or Twilight Before the Dark?

Meet the mega-donors pumping millions into the 2022 midterms

US Election — Arizona Issues:

*** The Maricopa County Voting Machines Disaster is Even Worse Than We Thought

*** Arizona’s Election Must Be Redone: Here Are At Least Three Provable Constitutional Violations That Render the Results Uncertifiable

4 Keys to Understanding Why Maricopa County Still Has Election Problems

How Election Integrity Has Been Destroyed In Arizona (And Elsewhere)

Short video: 2022 Ballot box stuffing in Maricopa

US Election — Other State Issues:

*** Key website re 2022 Election data: WhosCountingUS

*** Would you like to help with the Georgia Runoff Election?

*** Nevada’s Vote By Mail System Is A Total Disaster

Here We Go Again… Suspicious Ballots Arrive Way After Legal Deadline in Detroit

PA voters reelect Dem state lawmaker who died in October

Texas AG Inves­ti­gates Poten­tial Vio­la­tions of State Law by Zucker­berg-Backed Cen­ter for Tech and Civic Life

Conservatives Legally Uses Ballot Harvesting to Win

US Politics and Socialism:

*** Understanding Communism and Revolutionary Warfare

*** The “myth of left and right”

The Manchurian President

Misinformation Is Now the Excuse for Government Propaganda

Other US Politics and Related:

*** A tale of two Americas

*** Some appropriate new songs, like “I will Not Be Leaving Quietly

*** Mark Levin on Mitch McConnell, etc.

*** The Woke Grift

Biden and Activist Allies Push Taxpayer-Funded Voter Registration at Colleges

Measuring the effect of radical protests on the public and the national agenda

‘Complete & Total Vindication’: Giuliani celebrates as feds drop case after early morning raid

Religion Related:

*** America’s Marxist revolutionaries have removed God from public life, we have to bring Him back

*** The New Puritans: The Woke Left wants to put all of us on trial

*** America Has Lost Its Moral Compass

37 countries sign pledge to uphold pro-life, pro-family policies

The green mob won’t rest until Christmas joy is utterly destroyed

Pope Francis’s Tacit Support for Gay Marriage Subverts Scripture to Please the World

Education Related:

*** The Parents’ Revolt against US Public Education

*** Collegiate Alumni Donations: What Are We Giving To?

*** Doubt-Free, America’s Schools Warm to Climate Activism

What’s So Great About Diversity, Anyway?

DeSantis-backed school board candidates sail to victory as governor works to root out ‘woke’ ideology

Science and Misc Matters:

*** The Politics Of Science: Voters Have An Important Voice

*** To America’s Permissive Addiction ‘Fix,’ Critics Just Say No

Why 401(k)s Are Not OK (and Not Just Because of the Lousy Economy)

Ukraine:

*** Latest Developments in Ukraine: Nov 20th

*** Pray for the safety of the Ukrainian people

*** A well-rated source to make a Ukraine donation


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Climate Reparations? When nature strikes—you pay! Climate ‘loss and damage’ hits the UN

The Democrats Go By Klaus Schwab’s Playbook


Are you ready to pay climate reparations totaling more than all the money in the world for disasters nature caused?

For years CFACT has warned of plans to add “loss and damage” to the UN climate regime, making wealthy nations liable to compensate developing countries when extreme weather strikes.

This week 130 nations placed a draft loss and damage funding plan formally on the agenda for the first time at a UN climate conference.  Will the Biden Administration give in to this?  Who else?

Read the official UN COP 27 loss and damage proposal for yourself at CFACT.org.

China is masterfully outplaying Biden and the rest of the free world by both pushing loss and damage forward and exempting itself from paying.  This advances China’s strategy to supplant U.S. influence in the developing world.

This is incredibly dangerous, not to mention ruinously expensive.

David Wojick underlines the danger perfectly at CFACT.org with his coverage of a report the new left-wing government of Colombia submitted to COP 27 estimating its climate “loss and damage” at a mind-blowing $800 billion per year.

That’s just for one small South American country!

Wojick explains that:

Colombia is a relatively small country with a GDP of around $300 billion a year, about the 40th largest in the world and just 0.4% of the global total. Its “loss and damage” claim is roughly 2.5 times its GDP, so let’s assume that ratio globally.

World GDP is about $81 trillion, which multiplied by 2.5 equals just over $200 trillion a year…

Before the “loss and damage” talks proceed we should ask “What kind of money are we talking about?” Because there is no point in talking about paying the developing countries hundreds of trillions of dollars. It cannot happen.

The UN draft demands a loss and damage funding mechanism be in place and operating within two years, before the start of COP 29 in 2024.

The COP 27 draft calls for loss and damage reparations funds that are:

a) Urgent and immediate
b) New, additional, predictable and adequate so as to assist developing countries in meeting the costs of addressing loss and damage;
c) Additional to adaptation and mitigation funding;
d) Additional;
e) Predictable;
f) Public in origin;
g) Multilateral in origin;
h) Taking a whole-of-institution/organization approach;
i) Timely and through a simple and fast process, without the need for lengthy bureaucratic procedures;
j) Disbursed quickly;

What “loss and damage” scheme will Biden and the West agree to at the UN climate summit in Egypt?

You are not responsible for the weather in Colombia or anywhere else.  America has always been prepared to generously aid a neighbor in distress and should continue to do so.  That is entirely different than accepting legal liability.

Any loss and damage “compromise” in Egypt represents the thin end of a perilous wedge.

America must declare an unequivocal “no” to climate reparations at the COP 27 climate talks.

Anything is too much.

AUTHOR

Craig Rucker

Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president.

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EDITORS NOTE: This CFACT column is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.

Biden Launches Multimillion-Dollar ‘Climate Gender Equity Fund’ to Address Inequalities

Demoralization of the target audience is yet another step in successful mind control. 


Every big lie in one giant fund. Climate, gender and race. Boom.

“Communist demoralization in the modern times.”

Biden Administration Launches Multimillion-Dollar ‘Climate Gender Equity Fund’ to Address Inequalities

President Joe Biden announced the launch of his multimillion-dollar “Climate Gender Equity Fund” to address purported inequalities women face in climate finance at the United Nations COP 27 climate conference in Egypt on Friday.

By: Jordan Dixon-Hamilton, Breitbart News, 11 Nov 2022:

The Climate Gender Equity Fund will “leverage private sector contributions to help provide women climate leaders with technical skills, networks, and capital to develop and scale climate solutions,” according to a White House statement.

The program will have initial seed funding of $6 million, with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) matching e-commerce giant Amazon’s $3 million investment.

The program will have initial seed funding of $6 million, with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) matching e-commerce giant Amazon’s $3 million investment.

Amazon said the program will have a “global focus” and “help women access the networks and technical skills they need to accelerate the development of their climate change technologies.”

Amazon worldwide sustainability vice president Kara Hurst said:

As an important step in solving climate change, we must address the gender inequalities that persist in climate finance, and ensure female entrepreneurs have an equal seat at the table and access to the funding, networks, and technical support they need to scale climate solutions. We’re proud to collaborate with USAID and the Biden administration to help scale women-led climate solutions globally.

Amazon added that “female-founded companies typically receive a fraction of total venture capital, and that percentage fell during the pandemic.” Amazon also announced it would allocate an additional $50 million from its Climate Pledge Fund to invest in women-founded and women-led climate tech companies.

Biden’s White House also launched, among other programs, the “Indigenous Peoples Finance Access Facility,” a $2 million program that will “enable the continued climate stewardship by Indigenous peoples and local communities improving their access to climate finance.”

Keep reading…….

AUTHOR

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Globalists Eat Gourmet Meats at Climate Summit while Pushing Public to Eat Bugs to Save the Environment

Globalist elites are dining on a “gourmet selection of meats, fish, and dairy at the United Nations COP27 climate change conference in Egypt, as they push supposedly more sustainable foods like bugs.” Yet the public keeps voting them in. Consider also the fact that the West is in severe decline, with bad economies and energy shortages, which globalists have caused, while also facilitating open-door illegal migration.

The globalist plan is international socialism, but to attain this utopian vision, globalists have determined to crush the people psychologically, financially, and in other ways, including a loss of freedom that makes for a massive power differential between the rulers and the populace. Historically, socialism has never worked, yet the globalists still present it as a solution for the poor. The reality is that it creates a deep divide between the totalitarian ruling class and the poor, with the degradation of the humanity of the latter.

Globalist leaders who travelled by private plane and who are now dining on fabulous gourmet meals used, in total, 118 private jets to go to the COP26 Climate Summit last year. They and burned over a 1,000 tons of CO2. This year’s COP27 Summit is no different.

COP27: Globalist Leaders Munch on Meat as They Push Bugs for ‘Proles’

by Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart, November 9, 2022:

Globalist elites will be dining on a gourmet selection of meats, fish, and dairy at the United Nations COP27 climate change conference in Egypt, as they push supposedly more sustainable foods like bugs.

Beef medallion with mushrooms sauce, chicken breast with orange gravy, and salmon with creamy sauce and chives are some of the menu options that world leaders, diplomats, bureaucrats, and industry bigwigs will be chomping down on at the COP27 meeting in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt this week.

The COP Gourmet service also offers an hour and a half of bottomless cocktails for £110 ($125). Attendees are also offered delivery service for items such as paper cups, plastic water bottles and wooden coffee stirrers.

The menu flies in the face of the stated goals of the United Nations, with a 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report saying: “Meat analogues such as imitation meat (from plant products), cultured meat, and insects may help in the transition to more healthy and sustainable diets.”

The World Economic Forum, which has partnered with the UN at COP27 has also been at the forefront of the meat-free future movement, arguing that people should opt for more “climate beneficial foods” such as algae, seaweed and cacti….

Scottish author and political commentator Neil Oliver said: “They’ve come to lecture us about eating less meat while they sit down to menus featuring beef, chicken, salmon, and sea bass and cream sauces. This is not leadership that we are seeing now, it’s desperation, it’s trolling us proles on a galactic scale.

“The policies that they are preaching are condemning hundreds of millions of the world’s poorest to poverty, starvation, death on a global scale and at the same time, in their cynicism, they are ensuring that the populations of their own countries are plunged into fuel and food poverty for the first time in generations.”

Read more.

AUTHOR

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Biden climate speech in Egypt reveals bad science, massive spending and regulation

UPDATE: Florida Congressman Greg Steube Talks Biden’s Radical Climate Proposals.


President Biden, seeking to “greenwash” his failing energy policy, delivered a speech at COP 27, the big UN climate conference in Egypt.

The President falsely attributed a host of natural weather events to climate change and then went on to detail a massive laundry list of wasteful climate spending and destructive regulation.

The President said that:

In the United States, we’re seeing historic drought and wildfires in the West, devastating hurricanes and storms in the East.

Here in Africa — here in Africa, home to many nations considered most vulnerable to climate change, food insecurity [and] hunger follows four years of intense drought in the Horn of Africa.

Meanwhile, the Niger River in West Africa, swollen — swollen because of more intense rainfall, is wreaking havoc on fishing and farming communities.

In Nigeria, flooding has recently killed 600 people; 1.3 million more are displaced.

Seasonal livestock migration routes have been used for hundreds of years are being altered, increasing the risk of conflict between herders and local farming communities.

President Biden is wrong.

All of this is natural weather.  Government policy can help people suffering the impacts of extreme weather, but nothing on this list was meaningfully caused by our use of energy.

Floods, droughts, fires, storms, even African “livestock migration” are historically normal and not your fault.

Watch President Biden’s full COP 27 remarks at CFACT.org and read the full transcript and judge for yourself.

President Biden’s media office, joined by Climate Envoy John Kerry, released a lengthy U.S. climate “fact sheet” that summarizes Biden’s climate spending and regulation since he took office and their plans for the future.

Here’s a sample:

  • Double U.S. contributions to the UN “Adaptation Fund” from $50 to $100 million this year.
  • $150 million for “climate resilience in Africa.”
  • $20 million for small island states
  • $5 million to the Migration Multi-Partner Trust Fund to support “climate-affected vulnerable migrants.”
  • Launching a “Climate Gender Equity Fund”
  • $250 million for power generation in Egypt
  • Severe clampdown on methane emissions by American energy producers with $20 billion in spending
  • Close to $4 billion on “Green Shipping” initiatives
  • Require federal contractors to publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and comply with government mandated emissions reductions
  • Commit U.S. national government operations to be “net zero” no later than 2050
  • Quadruple U.S. climate finance to over $11 billion a year
  • More than $65 billion in climate finance through the U.S. Trade and Development Agency and U.S. Export-Import Bank

Read the President Biden’s full climate “fact sheet” at CFACT.org.

In addition to Biden, Friday saw a presentation at COP 27 by the Republican “Climate Caucus,” who many see as “useful idiots” playing into the hands of the climate-Left.

As CFACT’s Adam House posted to CFACT.org: “by participating in this ‘Decarbonization Day,’ these Republican lawmakers have legitimized the UN’s message of collectivism, massive taxes and government spending, corrupt and alarmist science, and centralized power. In their attempt to be part of the conversation, they have only eroded the conservative message.”

President Biden’s climate and energy agenda is based on unsound science, would lead to massive erosion of national sovereignty, individual liberty, and prosperity that will weaken the free world and empower its adversaries.

This cannot stand.

Yet what lies in store for those of us with the courage to marshal the facts and correct the record on climate?

Take a look at this photo Marc Morano posted of a climate radical calling for the “death penalty” for “climate deniers” to CFACT’s Climate Depot.

If world leaders go on shamelessly egging them on, could climate radicals go from attacking great works of art to attacking people?

AUTHOR

Craig Rucker

Craig Rucker is a co-founder of CFACT and currently serves as its president.

EDITORS NOTE: This CFACT column is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.

Watch: CFACT Protesters ‘Glue’ Themselves to Egyptian Museum

Left-wing climate protesters have been going nuts (more than usual) throwing soup on precious works of art and gluing themselves to things.

Not to be outdone, Marc Morano and I “glued” ourselves (well, watch the video) to a display case in the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization.

“No Net Zero! No Green Energy Mandates!” was the call of CFACT’s activists before we were (jokingly) escorted out by security.

WATCH NOW

The wave of lawlessness, trespass, and vandalism left-wing radicals have unleashed has become surreal.  Imagine throwing canned soup on Van Gogh paintings in London and Rome (as if poor Vincent didn’t torture himself enough).

When protesters identifying themselves as “scientists” recently glued themselves to the floor of a Volkswagen factory in Germany, they were shocked when workers turned off the lights and heat and denied them a bowl to use for a toilet.  Nothing “settled” about these idiots’ “science.”

Over the years CFACT has made quite a name for ourselves, not only for the outstanding scholarship and sound science the Left has come to fear, but for poking more than a little creative fun at clueless radicals who so richly deserve it.

“The human race has only one really effective weapon,” Mark Twain said, “and that is laughter.”

What better way to thwart our would-be leftist overlords than to laugh them off the stage?

For nature and people too!


P.S. President Biden is hoping his appearance at the UN climate summit in Egypt will somehow justify his disastrous policies that are blocking American energy production and transportation.  Thank you to everyone who had given so generously to make it possible for CFACT to blow the whistle on the destructive plans being unveiled in Sharm El Sheikh.  Please make the most generous gift you can right now and together let’s defeat the climate-Left with cold hard facts and then laugh them off the stage.  Thank you!


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UN Climate Conference Does Not Value Our Freedom But Loves Our Cash

CFACT is at the big UN climate conference in Egypt where we are engaging in climate diplomacy with a far different perspective than most.

CFACT questions fearlessly, informs diligently, and communicates relentlessly.  Underlying our approach is our bedrock confidence that individual freedom is both the most efficient way to order human society and an “unalienable right.”

At the UN climate conference a freedom-oriented approach can be a lonely endeavor.  Freedom creates prosperity.  One thing the ideologues and profiteers here assembled do value, however, is our cash.

CFACT’s Marc Morano told Mark Steyn on GB TV that, “Al Gore went beyond billions, tens of billions, he’s now talking four trillion dollars annually and he doesn’t even want it from governments. He wants some kind of corporate spending on climate. Al Gore has upped the money game like I’ve never seen in the history of all these climate summits.”

CFACT’s Peter Murphy engaged a COP 27 energy panel and reports that, “when I questioned her about the concern that many people do not want to live in cities and enjoy having their own car, and that such government mandates are at variance with democracy, she retorted that “we are not against democracy…we are about showing people that it benefits them.”

Murphy saw the climate command and control mindset was on full display when urban planner Kathleen Cameron told the panel “if we make roads narrower so people can’t speed through them, people feel inconvenienced, and they’ll want to go to alternative forms of transit. If you make it less fun to drive, you will soon discover that riding a bike is incredibly free and empowering.”

There are some signs that government officials are waking up to our continued need for fossil fuels, but sadly they would rather import them than produce them at home.  Real Clear Energy published an article I submitted where I write, “European and other countries are finally realizing that they still need fossil fuel energy – that wind and solar are too expensive and unreliable to power modern economies, preserve jobs, and keep people warm during frigid winters. Russia’s war on Ukraine has driven this home dramatically.

So Europe wants to switch from Russia to Africa for oil, gas and maybe coal – while still refusing to finance fossil fuel projects for Africa’s own needs, and telling Africa to rely on wind and solar.”

While Europe and America definitely need to wake up and unleash domestic energy production, Duggan Flanakin points out at CFACT.org that one positive note being repeated at COP 27 is that Africa has vast energy resources that can lift up that continent and the world.  “The message that.. countless African entrepreneurs and growth-oriented officials have for COP 27 is to get out of the way and let us “Drill, Baby, Drill.” The world, they argue, will benefit from a prosperous, energized African continent.”

The UN climate folks are intent on wrecking our energy economy and are making a concerted push for vast power as they seek unimaginable riches.

Too many people are unaware of what the UN is up to in Egypt and just how dangerous climate extremism has become.  That needs to change.

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Lions, Tigers, and Polar Bears – Oh, My!

The 27th annual U.N. climate change conference (COP27) got underway in Egypt today.  This time, they promise to get down to business, but it doesn’t have anything to do with the climate.  It has to do with poor nations shaking down rich nations for money.

More on that in a moment, but we start with the fact the United Nations, which organized the conference, has a very bad track record on climate predictions.  It predicted in 1989 entire nations would be wiped off the face of the earth if global warming was not stopped by the year 2000.  It said global warming would be irreversible after that year.  Last week – 33 years later – it said we are very close to irreversible changes in the climate.  Ah yes, climate change is the fake religion of the future – and always will be.

But a bad track record of predictions didn’t stop the climate change crowd from cranking up the propaganda machine for this year’s conference.  The past eight years were the hottest on record, the U.N. screamed.  Except there was a 20-year pause in the rise of the global mean surface temperature of the earth ending in 2019 that the climate change crowd can’t explain.  Now we’re in a New Pause.  They don’t want to talk about that, either.  They also don’t want to talk about another one of their great deceptions – rising temperatures killing more older people than ever before.  The fact of the matter is that heat deaths among the elderly are not up significantly after you adjust for population growth.

But the glaciers are disappearing, we were told in the run-up to the conference.  They say the glaciers will all be gone by 2050, but in 1923 it was predicted the glaciers in Glacier National Park would be gone by 1950.  It didn’t happen.  So they changed their prediction to 1961, then to 2000, then to 2020.  Still didn’t happen. In fact, the glaciers in the park have actually gotten bigger in the last 30 years.  You can put the disappearing glaciers right next to the disappearing coral reefs and polar bears.  They didn’t happen, either.  You know, the climate liars really should give it a rest, especially after NPR let the mask slip last month and revealed recycling is a huge fraud on a gullible public.

But let’s get down to business – there’s money to be made.  Despite repeated failures by many nations to live up to past promises, this year’s conference will extract new promises from rich nations to redistribute wealth to poor nations in the name of climate change.  ‘Loss and damage funding’, they call it.  Rich nations must pay their fair share for causing the climate change that didn’t happen or wasn’t caused by human activity, you see.  How much money are we talking about?  As much as ten times the amount rich nations are forking over now.  Poor nations will need half a trillion dollars by 2050, the U.N. says.  But why be so miserly, and why wait?  Developing countries are demanding a trillion dollars a year right now.  We feel so guilty – how can we not give it to them?

Germany is knocking down wind turbines to make way for coal mining, and the leftist finance minister there now supports fracking to boost natural gas supplies.  Climate whiz kid Greta Thunberg won’t be happy until the entire capitalist system is overthrown.  Well, that puts the true agenda right out there, doesn’t it?  The whole phony climate agenda is continually being shown as unsustainable and for the fraud it really is.

But I’ll make you a deal:  I’ll agree to a new carbon tax on fossil fuels IF you’ll agree to child and slave labor taxes on the minerals in your electric car batteries, AND a tax on Chinese influence and Russian funding of American green groups, AND a data tampering tax.  Let’s call the last one the ‘hockey stick’ tax.  It should bring in a lot of money because the climate crowd keeps cooking the books.  I’d propose a failed predictions tax, but the U.N. couldn’t afford it.

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If You Only Have Time to Read a Few Select Articles:

*** Victory! Judge Strikes Down Vax Mandate for ALL NYC City Employees

*** Test scores show historic COVID setbacks for kids across US

*** Dr. Naomi Wolf: A Lost Small Town

*** RFK:  The Day Jake Tapper Sold His Soul to Pharma

*** Report:  Energy Inflation Was by Design

*** $3.8 Trillion of Investment in Renewables Moved Fossil Fuels from 82% to 81% of Overall Energy Consumption in 10 Years

*** Reliability is Key to a Successful Energy Transition

*** Grid Grief: Ideologues Refuse to Acknowledge the Big Problem!

*** A Surprising Threat to the US Power Grid Could Plunge the Country into Darkness

*** The wind turbines on his Colorado farm are 20 years old. Who’s going to take them down?

*** The climate ‘crisis’ isn’t what it used to be

*** Fake Science Fuels Climate Extremism

*** Green zealots are threatening real conservation

*** RNC vows to play offense with ‘most litigious’ election cycle yet – launches 73 lawsuits in 20 states

*** Test scores show historic COVID setbacks for kids across US

*** Amid the Pandemic, Progress in Catholic Schools

*** With States Hands-Off, Homeschooling Takes Off

*** Short video: Reviewing Peer Review

COVID-19 — Repeated Important Information:

My webpage (C19Science.info) with dozens of Science-based COVID-19 reports

*** World Council of Health: Early COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines

*** FLCCC Long COVID Treatment Protocol

*** COVID-19: What You Need To Know (Physicians for Informed Consent)

*** If you have received a COVID-19 injection, here’s how to Detox

*** Place Your US Order for Free At-Home COVID-19 Tests

LONG COVID:

*** This is how we should be diagnosing long COVID

Early COVID treatment reliably prevents long-haul COVID symptoms

Zapping the Brain and Nerves Could Treat Long COVID

NIH: Lots of long COVID treatment leads, but few are proven

The Wentworth Report on Long COVID

COVID-19 — Therapies:

*** ACTIV-6 Trial on Ivermectin: NIH Scientists Behaving Badly

*** Study: COVID-19 symptoms recur more often in those who took Paxlovid

Ivermectin Lawsuit: The FDA is Not Your Doctor

COVID-19 — Injections:

The Big Lie: Pfizer Never Even Tested mRNA Shots for Transmission of Virus

FDA urged to publish follow-up studies on Covid-19 vaccine safety signals

Shocking Emails Show That CDC Pressured FDA To Authorize COVID Boosters Without Clinical Trials

COVID-19 — Injection Mandates:

*** Victory! Judge Strikes Down Vax Mandate for ALL NYC City Employees

*** “You Murderous Hypocrites”: Outrage Ensues After The Atlantic Suggests ‘Amnesty’ For Pandemic Authoritarians

NYC ordered by court to reinstate all those fired over Covid vaccine mandates

EU Sets Out Commitment to Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, Mask Mandates and “Legally Binding” Global Pandemic Treaty

COVID-19 — Models and Data:

*** Court Orders CDC to Release Data Indicating 18 Million American Vaccine Injuries

COVID: Just Another Flu?

A Closer Look at the Covid Mortality Rate

How Deadly Is Covid? A Major Study Defies Conventional Wisdom

COVID-19 — Misc:

*** Dr. Naomi Wolf: A Lost Small Town

*** RFK:  The Day Jake Tapper Sold His Soul to Pharma

*** If You Want Forgiveness, Emily, Here’s Your Program

Report: Answering Crucial Questions About Sars-CoV-2

Dr. Peter McCullough is being progressively stripped of his medical credentials

US Senate Republican Report: Pandemic Origins

Deadly Fungal Infections Are Hard to Treat and on the Rise

Greed Energy Economics:

*** Full Cost of Electricity “FCOE” and Energy Returns “eROI”

*** It is time to replace LCOE

*** Indiana says converting 1,052 MW of coal to gas will be $381M cheaper than renewables and storage

*** $3.8 Trillion of Investment in Renewables Moved Fossil Fuels from 82% to 81% of Overall Energy Consumption in 10 Years

Renewables (General):

*** Renewable energy is a failed path, scientist tells Utah legislators

*** Reliability is Key to a Successful Energy Transition

*** Grid Grief: Ideologues Refuse to Acknowledge the Big Problem!

*** China Won’t Rush Its Clean Energy Transformation, Xi Says

Subsidized fortunes, sketchy details plague state’s plan for 90% renewable power

Wind Energy — Offshore:

*** Dominion, VA-AG reach proposed agreement in offshore wind case

*** America’s Offshore Wind Projects Face Headwinds

*** The Great US Offshore Wind-Power Boom Has Begun to Falter

Wind power executives worry over US offshore ambitions

Offshore Wind: Experimental and Extra Uneconomic Energy

Wind turbines are a dangerous idea for Lake Erie

Two Massachusetts Offshore Wind Projects Postponed by One Year

Feds unveil plan to grow wind power while “sparing” rare whale

Offshore Wind: Experimental and Extra Uneconomic Energy

Wind Energy — Other:

*** The wind turbines on his Colorado farm are 20 years old. Who’s going to take them down?

*** When wind turbines caused sleep deprivation, lawmakers sided with Big Wind

Video: 100% Wind

Concerns raised over an energy storage project along the Missouri River

Launch Wind Turbines into Orbit

Solar Energy:

The Fruits of Mandatory Access

Nuclear Energy:

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy facility to add 500 jobs; fuel facility to be built near Wilmington, NC

Dow goes nuclear: chemical firm will install reactors at US chemicals complex

Fossil Fuel Energy:

*** Epstein: America’s energy crisis is mostly US Democrats’ fault

*** Germany Dismantals a Wind Facility to Make Way for a Coal Mine

*** China is Burning More Coal than the Rest of the World Combined

US Has ONLY 25 DAYS OF DIESEL SUPPLY; Shortage Could Cripple Economy

Top Dems Urge Biden To Nationalize Oil & Gas Industry

Biden Backs Down On Russian Oil Price Cap

The world is transitioning to fossil fuels

Fetterman Fracking Flub Says It All: He Is Not to Be Trusted

Energy crisis the inconvenient consequence of demonizing the oil and gas industry

How Biden’s abuse of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to win votes harms our energy security

Electric Vehicles (EVs):

*** A Surprising Threat to the US Power Grid Could Plunge the Country into Darkness

‘Zero Emissions’ From Electric Vehicles? Here’s Why That Claim Has Zero Basis

The Science of Why Electric Vehicle Batteries Are So Dangerous

Inconvenient facts about electric cars

Misc Energy:

*** Report:  Energy Inflation Was by Design

A Comprehensive Roundup Of Official Energy Madness

Full Cost of Electricity “FCOE” and Energy Returns “eROI”

Special Focus: Pathways for Sustainable H2

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:

*** Fake Science Fuels Climate Extremism

*** How Nonsense Masquerades As Science: Climate “Code Red” Example

*** Why Climate Change is a Fraud

*** Jordan Peterson: Eco-extremists are leading the world towards despair, poverty, and starvation

*** The climate ‘crisis’ isn’t what it used to be

Volcanic Eruptions, a Driver of Natural Climate Variability – ignored by IPCC

Tracking Water in the Tongan Volcano’s Massive Eruption Plume

The Myth About Global Warming Killing Off Ocean Life

Report: The Global Warming Hoax

About those errors in the climate change “gold standard”

Study: Why Restricting N2O Emissions is Unnecessary & Dangerous

Manmade Global Warming — COP27:

*** COP27 — the Camel’s nose of Loss and Damage enters the talks

*** With COP 27 Around the Corner the Push to get us to Net-Zero is Mind Blowing

*** Climate Change and the Lancet’s ‘Heat Death’ Deception

Sunak demotes two climate ministers and opts out of COP27

COP27 At Sharm El Sheikh: Africa’s Chance To Break From Climate Colonialism

Greta: COP27 a ‘scam’ that provides platform for ‘greenwashing, lying and cheating’

CLINTEL: Open Letter to Global Leaders assembled at COP27

UN COP27 — It’s a gas, gas, gas

Manmade Global Warming — Misc:

*** New Lawsuit against the Supreme Court’s Endangerment Finding

*** 27 Questions for “Climate Change” Alarmists

*** The Warmists Cop a Plea

*** Sweden Ditches Agenda 2030’s Climate Change Scam

*** Green zealots are threatening real conservation

Good Climate-Change News Is Fit to Print

Climate Debate (Australia)

Life-Giving CO2 Should Be Valued, Not Demonized

UN Seeks $4 to 6 Trillion Per Year to Address Climate

Most major carbon capture and storage projects haven’t met targets

Media Must Take Responsibility For Greta Climate Panic

US Election:

Election-Integrity.info (10 major election reports by our team of experts, plus much more!)

*** RNC vows to play offense with ‘most litigious’ election cycle yet – launches 73 lawsuits in 20 states

*** Dems: Poll Watchers Are a Threat to Democracy

*** Thought The Private Takeover Of Government Election Offices Was Just For 2020? Think Again

*** If Republicans Win On Tuesday, Thank The Election Integrity Movement

The Left’s Taxpayer-Funded Voter Registration Machine

DOJ ‘stonewalling’ requests for details on implementation of Biden’s ‘federal election scheme

Giuliani’s Election ‘Experts’ Get Cold Reception in Washington Ethics Case

DOJ’s election plan raises threat of ‘selective enforcement’ against red states

CIA Pulled 2020 Vote Study After Internal Dissent

Incorrect Census Count Admitted by the Bureau!

Left-Wing Group Appears To Threaten Americans Who Don’t Vote

Colorado Secretary of State Admits in Writing That Dominion Machines Have Wi-Fi

US Election — State Issues:

*** Citizen’s Guide to Building and Election Integrity Infrastructure

*** Become a Poll Watcher in your State

For state-specific voter guides

Report: 570+ American Elections Ended in Ties, Close Results (so every vote counts!)

PA Citizens Survey: Many Have No Confidence in Election Integrity

Dem blows whistle on alleged ballot harvesting scheme, Florida opens criminal probe

Potentially Very Serious Campaign Finance Violations Uncovered in North Carolina

Congressional Republicans deploy election observers to tight races, investigate irregularities

Pennsylvania court says undated ballots won’t be counted as RNC claims ‘massive’ legal victory

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Election-Related Referenda On State Ballots

US Politics and Socialism:

19 States Are Investigating Financial Institutions’ Commitment to the Globalists’ Environmental and Socialist Agenda

Video: Trevor Loudon Exposes 30 Current Security Risk US Senators with Marxist, Communist and Islamist Ties

You’re Fighting For Survival

Other US Politics and Related:

*** Americans Think The Media Are The Biggest Threat To Democracy

*** US Signals Readiness to Launch Nuclear Strike Against Russia

Detailed Report on the Biden Laptop

Some news about the Twitter takeover

Housing Bubble: Price Drops Spread Across America

Short video: The DEI Disaster

500+ Conservative Businesses to Patronize (at a discount)

Globalism:

Globalists Are Causing Starvation and Poverty Under the Guise of Environmentalism

Greta Thunberg throws in her lot with the anti-capitalist Left

Why Elites Like Greta Thunberg Hate Capitalism

UK Coup Tells Us Totalitarianism Is Coming Unless We Resist

Religion Related:

Why prayer is hard, even for committed believers

Coach Punished for Praying to Be Reinstated after Massive Legal Victory!

Education Related:

*** Test scores show historic COVID setbacks for kids across US

*** Amid the Pandemic, Progress in Catholic Schools

*** With States Hands-Off, Homeschooling Takes Off

While the University of Oklahoma Implements a Robust Woke Agenda, China Dominates its Research Programs

Colleges: Go Back to Basics

A fun and educational show highlighting the importance of money management and financial literacy for youth to young adults

Challenging Racial Discrimination at Harvard

Science and Misc Matters:

*** Short video: Reviewing Peer Review

Short video: The Drug That’s Killing Young Americans

On Second Thought, Just Throw Plastic Away

Ukraine — What You Can Do:

*** Pray for the safety of the Ukrainian people

*** A well-rated source to make a Ukraine donation


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VIDEO: Carlson, ‘The Left Has Run This Country Into the Ground’

At this late stage in the ruin of our country, Tucker Carlson’s opening monologues are the lighthouse, a safe harbor in this dark and terrible storm. If there is one thing you do, tune in – every night – this oasis of truth will fortify you and stiffen your resolve to fight this overwhelming take down of our once great country.

It is our responsibility as Americans to defend our Constitutional Republic.

TRANSCRIPT

Polls suggest that even places that supported Joe Biden by a wide margin in 2020 are about to swing dramatically against him and his party. A week from today, New York, of all places, could have a Republican governor. The last time there was an election in New York, Biden won the state by 23 points. What we’re seeing is what political scientists refer to as a realignment, and there’s no mystery as to why it’s happening. Democrats failed conclusively. No group in American history has done a worse job running this country than the neoliberals currently in charge. They’re vicious, they’re intolerant and they are utterly corrupt, but above all, they are incompetent.

In less than two years, it is not an overstatement to say, they have run this country into the ground, wrecking our economy, desecrating our military and opening the borders of the United States to more than 5 million lawbreakers. The destruction they have wrought is so profound it’s hard to describe. So of course, there will be consequences for that.

In a country with democratic elections, how could this party stay in power? Honestly, we don’t know, but maybe Joe Biden does. Tonight, Biden traveled across the city of Washington to Union Station. Built by Teddy Roosevelt more than 100 years ago, Union Station was for generations one of the most beautiful public buildings in this country. Under Joe Biden, it has become a homeless encampment, a place that is too filthy and too dangerous for Starbucks. Standing at this monument to his own failures, Biden proceeded to do what he now so commonly does: Bark at the rest of us for our moral failures. The guy who showered with his daughter is telling you you’re a bad person. Tonight’s topic: Democracy. Here’s a taste of it.

PRESIDENT BIDEN: Yet now, extreme MAGA Republicans aim to question not only the legitimacy of past elections, but elections being held now and into the future. The extreme MAGA element of the Republican Party, which is a minority of that party, as I said earlier, but it’s the driving force is trying to succeed where they failed in 2020 to suppress the right of voters and subvert the electoral system itself.

Well, that’s very weird if you think about it. Here we are less than a week before the Democratic Party is expected to suffer overwhelming losses in the midterm elections and here you have the leader of that party, Joe Biden, commanding you not to complain about the election results. Why is that? Well, let’s see. Here’s Joe Biden telling you that thanks to the changes, the many changes, Democrats have made to our system of voting, all of which make voter fraud easier to commit, we may not know the results of the elections for a few days, but don’t be alarmed. Everything is completely on the level and whatever you do, do not ask questions or else you’re a criminal.

BIDEN: We want Americans to vote. We want every American’s voice to be heard. Now we have to move the process forward. We know that more and more ballots are cast in early voting or by mail in America. We know that many states don’t start counting those ballots until after the polls close on Nov. 8. That means in some cases we won’t know the winner of the election — for a few days, until a few days after the election. It takes time to count all legitimate ballots in a legal and orderly manner. It’s always been important for citizens in a democracy to be informed and engaged. Now it’s important for citizens to be patient as well. That’s how it’s supposed to work.

What is this? What is going on here?

We’re a week from the election, six days. Biden could have given, would under normal circumstances have given, a speech about his policies and how they’ve made your life better. He tried to convince you this country is actually in better shape than it looks and he did that. He could, in other words, have made a pitch for your vote based on what he has done. That’s what politicians do in functioning democracies. They try to convince you to support them on the basis of what they have done for you. That is democracy. That’s not at all what Joe Biden just did. Instead, Biden commanded you to accept the election results whenever they arrive, no matter what they may be. It was bizarre and it did not inspire confidence.

You would hate to think that what’s happening here is a version of what is happening tonight in Brazil. According to official tallies, a convicted criminal, an avowed socialist, called Lula da Silva, beat the incumbent president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, by a narrow margin this weekend and yet millions of Brazilians, millions, don’t believe that’s what actually happened. Bolsonaro himself has not conceded. There are protests all over Brazil right now. You’re seeing some of them on your screen right now. There are questions about whether all the ballots had been counted, why so many were thrown out — millions — and whether election laws were violated in the process.

We can’t render judgment on those questions, but if you care about democracy, if you think the process is essential, then you would look into those allegations. Anything less is not democracy, and yet what’s interesting and maybe a point of concern for the rest of us here in the U.S., is that you are no longer allowed to ask questions about this election in Brazil and you’re not allowed because the Biden administration doesn’t want you to. That’s true. YouTube, which has functioned for the last two years as an arm of the Biden administration, has announced it is censoring any posts in Brazil that question the election results. Brazil’s courts have also rejected any inquiry into the election.

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Gavin Newsom Shells Out $1.6 Million To Stop Climate Measure That Would Raise Taxes On The Rich

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s reelection campaign spent over $1.6 million to oppose a climate initiative that would raise taxes on millionaires to help low-income Californians buy electric cars. Despite this, Newsom, who is a multimillionaire, has previously touted his administration’s efforts to rapidly cut carbon emissions and get more electric vehicles (EVs) on the road.

Newsom, who boasts an estimated net worth of around $20 million, signed a bill in September to codify ambitious emissions reduction targets and praised the California Air Resources Board’s decision to ban all gasoline-powered car sales by 2035. However, Newsom’s campaign gave $1,617,216 to the “No on 30” committee, which opposes Proposition 30, a ballot measure that institutes an additional 1.75% tax on individuals that make over $2 million a year to help disadvantaged Californians buy EVs, according to campaign finance disclosures filed Tuesday.

Newsom aims to make his state’s auto industry “all-electric” by 2035 and will spend $10 billion of taxpayers’ money to “aggressively fight the climate crisis” by phasing out gas cars and building EV infrastructure. The Democrat called Proposition 30 an irresponsible “special interest carve-out” and argued that the proposed law was designed to “funnel” state income tax to Lyft, a large rideshare company, according to a statement Newsom’s campaign provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Newsom aims to make his state’s auto industry “all-electric” by 2035 and will spend $10 billion of taxpayers’ money to “aggressively fight the climate crisis” by phasing out gas cars and building EV infrastructure. The Democrat called Proposition 30 an irresponsible “special interest carve-out” and argued that the proposed law was designed to “funnel” state income tax to Lyft, a large rideshare company, according to a statement Newsom’s campaign provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“California’s tax revenues are famously volatile, and this measure would make our state’s finances more unstable − all so that special interests can benefit,” Newsom said in the statement. “Californians should know that just this year our state committed $10 billion for electric vehicles and their infrastructure, part of a $54 billion nation-leading package to fight climate change and build a zero-emission future.”

A small percentage of California taxpayers would fund Proposition 30’s EV initiatives as only 35,000 of the state’s residents reported adjusted gross incomes greater than $2 million, according to 2019 statistics published by the state’s Franchise Tax Board.

Although the measure could help Lyft by raising money to help the company’s drivers buy electric cars, environmentalists began drafting the measure before the company became involved, CEO of California Environmental Voters Mary Creasman told CBS News. A Lyft spokeswoman previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation that none of the $3.5 billion to $5 billion in tax revenue generated by the law was “earmarked” for the rideshare industry.

Californians will vote to implement or reject Proposition 30 on Nov. 8.

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Biden to attend UN climate summit that Greta has correctly declared a ‘scam, greenwashing, lying and cheating’

Greta finally gets it! Greta Thunberg: UN Climate Summit COP27 is a ‘scam’ that provides an opportunity for ‘people in power’ to use ‘greenwashing, lying & cheating’

Climate Depot’s Marc Morano comments: 

“I will be attending the UN climate summit in Egypt in person and will report back on just how correct Greta is in her assessment of the UN process. President Joe Biden will also be attending. Stay tuned!
Kudos to Greta! She started out willing to travel great distances to attend these UN climate summits, but she now correctly realizes they are a ‘scam.’ Those of us opposed to the entire ‘Net Zero’ & Green New Deal agenda applaud Greta’s moment of clarity when it comes to the undeniable scam that is the UN climate process. We welcome Greta now understanding that these summits have nothing to do with the climate.  

Given the full exposure of the green energy mandate scam, this UN climate summit should be dubbed the ‘The Cover Your A$$ Summit’ as the climate activists will be furiously spinning the failure of green energy and the coming deadly blackouts as somehow Russia’s fault or the fault of the free market and a great “opportunity” to double down (on green energy failure).At least one voice sounds sane — Greta Thunberg finally gets what the UN climate process is all about.”

Greta finally gets it! Greta Thunberg: UN Climate Summit COP27 is a ‘scam’ that provides an opportunity for ‘people in power’ to use ‘greenwashing, lying & cheating’

Greta Thunberg has described climate summits such as the Cop27 conference taking place in Egypt next week as a “scam” that is “failing” humanity and the planet by not leading to “major changes”.

The Swedish activist said people in positions of power were using the high-profile gatherings for attention and were “greenwashing, lying and cheating”. … Activists must try to “make people realize what a scam this is and realize that these systems are failing us”, she added.

Reuters: Climate activist Greta Thunberg on Sunday called out next month’s United Nations climate summit in Egypt for being “held in a tourist paradise in a country that violates many basic human rights.” Greta sees the climate summit as an opportunity for “people in power… to [use] greenwashing, lying and cheating.”

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FROM BLAH, BLAH, BLAH TO BLOOD, BLOOD, BLOOD: Holding the COP27 Summit in Egypt’s

Egyptian Police State Creates a Moral Crisis for the Climate Movement

Egypt silenced climate experts’ voices before hosting Cop27, Human Rights Watch says

COP27 At Sharm El Sheikh: Africa’s Chance to Break from Climate Colonialism

Green Davos: Climate skeptics Morano & Monckton charm green investors in London Debate

Watch: CSPAN’s Book-TV featured Morano’s 1 Hour presentation about The Great Reset on October 16

Watch: Morano on Fox News: The UN believes ‘they have a monopoly on truth’ – ‘Big Tech censorship is Government censorship’ – Unfiltered w/ Dan Bongino

Watch: Morano slams claim that dogs are causing ‘climate change’ on Fox & Friends while holding his French Bulldog on air

CSPAN Book TV again features Morano taking Great Reset on October 12, 2022 w/ Jerome Coris

Watch: Morano on Fox & Friends talks climate activists vandalizing iconic paintings – Funded by Hollywood & Billionaires & Millionaires

Meanwhile: 

Goldman Sachs’ Jeff Currie: ‘$3.8 Trillion of Investment in Renewables Moved Fossil Fuels from 82% to 81% of Overall Energy Consumption’ in 10 Years

Yahoo Finance: ‘Firewood is the new gold’ – prices & theft jump in Europe as Russia’s gas cutoff boosts wood demand ahead of winter – 1000% increase in EU energy prices

Top Dems Urge Biden To Nationalize Oil & Gas Industry

Common Sense Tells Us That There Is No Viable Alternative to Fossil Fuels

The greatest myth ever told. But who is right?


Mankind is faced with the most important question in history: To use fossil fuels or not to use fossil fuels?

Environmentalists want to totally eliminate all petroleum based fuels in order to save the planet from climate change. The question is: At what cost?

Conservationists want to use all types of petroleum based fuels, including nuclear and hydroelectric power, but use them wisely to provide for human flourishing. The question is: At what cost?

History tells us that when nations use their natural resources, including petroleum based fossil fuels, wisely they flourish. History also tells us that when nations are energy poor or energy dependent they become weak and poorer and their people suffer.

Since 2010, more than a billion people have gained access to electricity. As a result, 90 percent of the planet’s population was connected in 2019. Yet 759 million people still live without electricity, with about half of them living in fragile and conflict-affected settings.

Due to Hurricane Ian we went without electricity for five days and it was hell on earth.

A New Age Was Born—The Modern Petroleum Industry

The first oil was discovered by the Chinese in 600 B.C. and transported in pipelines made from bamboo.

But it was Colonel Edwin Drake’s heralded discovery of oil in Pennsylvania in 1859 and his establishing the first oil well in August 27, 1859 that changed U.S. history.

But is wasn’t until the Spindletop discovery in Texas in 1901 which set the stage for the new U.S. petroleum industry. According to Lamar University,

The Spindletop oilfield, discovered on a salt dome formation south of Beaumont in eastern Jefferson County on January 10, 1901, marked the birth of the modern petroleum industry. The Gladys City Oil, Gas, and Manufacturing Company, formed in August 1892 by George W. O’BrienGeorge W. CarrollPattillo Higgins, Emma E. John, and J. F. Lanier, was the first company to drill on Spindletop Hill. Three shallow attempts, beginning in 1893 and using cable-tool drilling equipment were unsuccessful; Lanier and Higgins had left the company by 1895.

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A new age was born. The world had never seen such a gusher before. By September 1901, there were at least six successful wells on Gladys City Company lands. Wild speculation drove land prices around Spindletop to incredible heights. One man who had been trying to sell his tract there for $150 for three years sold his land for $20,000; the buyer promptly sold to another investor within fifteen minutes for $50,000. One well, representing an initial investment of under $10,000, was sold for $1,250,000.

Cheap and Reliable Power Is The Life Blood of Modern Man

For the first time in American history we have one political party and its global allies who want to end the use of all petroleum products. But at what cost to the common citizen?

Efforts to stop all petroleum use is being mandated by agencies of the federal government using, among other regulations, corporate ESG Scores.

ESG Scores measure every company’s exposure to long-term environmental, social and governance risks.

A key component of that war against the common man is to eliminate capitalism and replace it with a new “stakeholder” doctrine for businesses globally and in the U.S. This model is based upon the need to attain environmental, social and governance scores that fully supplant capitalism and replace it with a one world governance based on big government, i.e. Socialist, Communist, ideals.

ESG scoring’s goal is to fundamentally transform the role of every company from a shareholder focus (capitalism) to a single stakeholder decree (the government).

According to the Heartland Institute,

Klaus Schwab and a growing list of powerful global economic and political elites, including BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and President Joe Biden, have recently committed to a global “reset” of the prevailing school of economic thought. They seek to supplant the entrenched “shareholder doctrine” of capitalism, which—as Milton Friedman famously espoused over 50 years ago—holds that the only purpose of a corporate executive is to maximize profits on behalf of company shareholders.

This effort to fundamentally transform global economics via the cooperation of major corporations and state legislatures is an existential threat to every American’s Constitutional rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The ESG Score is designed to:

  1. Force companies to “go green” by decreasing their use of petroleum products.
  2. Force companies to hire employees based upon their merit but rather on the color of their skin or sexual identities.
  3. And force companies to comply with government mandates, like Covid lockdowns and mandated vaccinations.

ESG Scores are designed to control businesses small to large to comply or else!

The Bottom Line—Make America Energy Independent, Again!

Countries that are energy independent flourish, those who aren’t suffer. For example, clean and fresh water is a basic need of all societies, to have clean and fresh potable water a country must have the infrastructure to process the water in water purification plants and then provide it to its citizens via a water lines driven by pumps powered predominantly by petroleum products.

Fresh, fluorinated water is not possible without cheap and reliable power.

According to an EIA analysis:

The Virgin Islands use [the] largest amounts of imported petroleum to power the desalination plants that supply their drinking water; many small, simple-cycle generators are used to provide electricity; and there are “operational constraints and power losses on the islands’ isolated electric grids.”

Petroleum driven power is essential for human flourishing and freedom.

On December 28th, 2016 American author, energy theorist, industrial policy pundit and founder and President of the Center for Industrial Progress Alex Epstein shared how to make a transformative contribution to human flourishing and how to create value in the world in his presentation titled “The ‘F’ word“:

Fast forward to October 27, 2022 and watch this discussion by energy philosopher Alex Epstein on how Biden’s  green policies have created an energy crisis in America:

In 2020, U.S. energy intensity reached a low of 5.05 thousand British thermal units (Btu) per chained 2012 dollar, down 4% from the previous year and less than half as energy intensive as the United States was in 1983. This number will go up because of Biden and his green energy policies. Kill the use of petroleum products and you kill the American working class.

Americans can only flourish if they have massive amounts of petroleum products.

It’s the freedom to have access to cheap and reliable power, which drives our economy, stupid!

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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Can Israel emerge as a geostrategic gas player despite itself?

Israeli discoveries of natural gas over the last 13 years are enough to allow not only self-sufficiency but also the potential for enough export to emerge as a geostrategic player in the hydrocarbons sector. If done properly and aggressively, Israel has the opportunity to establish itself as the main natural gas export hub in the eastern Mediterranean, servicing not only eastern Mediterranean gas suppliers, but Persian Gulf ones too, and become the conduit to supply Europe as much as a third of its import needs. And yet, Israel’s policies over the last year have undermined expanding its reserves, retarded and limited the development of its transmission structures, and all but sabotaged its ability to become a hub for gas regionally. Indeed, it seems as if Israel prefers regional plans to make Egypt rather than Israel such a major hub, including subordinating the export structure of its own gas to dependency on Egypt.1 If Israel, thus, seeks to establish itself a strategic player in the natural gas sector – let alone insulate its gas export structure from regional geopolitical instability — it will need to change not only its policies, but its assumptions and attitude.

Over the last decade, Israel has discovered roughly 200-250 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas. Israel only consumes about 10-15 bcm of gas per annum. There are also other fields that suggest still more finds are possible,  such as the Zeus fields, which taken altogether could indicate Israel has still between 50% to 100% more gas than has hitherto been discovered. This means Israel has a hefty quantity that can be earmarked for export, even under the regulatory export restrictions imposed by the Sheshinski Committee framework.

Until now, Israeli export has largely been confined to its neighbors.  Currently, Israel exports up to 7 bcm of gas to Egypt per annum and 3 bcm to Jordan. But the quantity of gas discovered is clearly enough to contemplate export to Europe. Two recent developments, moreover, have further focused attention on the potential supply of Israeli gas to Europe. First, the invasion of Ukraine which has resulted in despair in Europe over supply. Israeli gas was seen as an attractive alternative, at least to some extent. Second, Energean, the company exploring and developing the latest fields in Israel announced on October 6 that it discovered another 12-17 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas off its coast in the Hermes field and there is another field that might hold as much as 20 bcm more.

On top of Israeli gas, there is also the possibility, already suggested by the UAE, of pumping gas from several Persian Gulf lands via Saudi Arabia to the southern terminus of Israel’s Eilat-Ashqelon Pipeline Company (EAPC) in Ramat Yotam in Eilat, and then using the company’s right-of-way to build a gas pipeline (the current pipes carry oil) to transport the gas to the Mediterranean for transmission to Europe via Israel’s emerging export structure.  A potential collapse of Iran’s regime, which partnered with Israel decades ago before the Islamic Revolution to build this pipeline, could as well open up Iran’s vast natural gas deposits for Europe in addition to its natural Asian market.

In short, Israel has every possibility of becoming a major international hub of export of Persian Gulf and eastern Mediterranean gas, especially when considering the likelihood of more gas being discovered in Cypriot waters.

These facts and projections of reserves are relatively clear.  But the picture becomes more complex after that, especially concerning the transmission structures.  There are currently no direct transmission structures of gas from Israel to Europe.  The only physical way to export Israeli gas to Europe – which imports from all sources between 150-200 bcm per annum before the Ukraine war– would be through the existing Egyptian-Israeli pipeline structure, which then connects to either the Idku or Damietta gas liquefaction plants for loading onto liquefied natural gas (LNG) ships bound for Europe.  The combined liquefaction capacity of the two LNG plants in Egypt is about 30 bcm. The pipe from Israel to Egypt, however, only holds about 7 bcm per annum, and all the molecules flowing through it are already booked by Egypt for domestic consumption. Although Egypt found a very large reservoir of gas offshore in ENI’s Zohr field, bringing that field to full capacity has proven to fall short of originally expected timelines at this stage. Simply put, Zohr cannot flood Egypt’s market enough at this point to generate export surplus. At this point, it suffices only to offset the increase in Egypt’s domestic demand. And thus, Egypt will need to continue relying on all the gas Israel sends for its domestic use.

A second gas pipeline to Egypt is being built that will hold up to 11 bcm of gas, but it will take roughly three to four years to complete, and when it does, it is not clear how much of that gas will be consumed by Egypt and how much will be surplus to send to Europe via the two Egyptian LNG terminals.  Egypt’ domestic consumption is growing at a rapid pace, so clearly far less than the 11 bcm capacity of the pipeline will flow to the Idku or Damietta LNG plants for export.

Moreover, Egypt is politically problematic. It gets along with Israel well enough, but its economy is showing signs of grave danger – even potential bankruptcy. Indeed, JP Morgan estimated that:

“Egypt’s debt-to-GDP ratio is around 95%. The country is also experiencing one of the most significant foreign exchange outflows this year, estimated at around $11 billion. FIM Partners estimated that Egypt will have $100 billion in hard currency debt over the next five years, including a massive $3.3 billion bond due in 2024.”2

At the same time, the United States last month announced that it will deduct USD 130 million from Egypt’s annual aid amount as pressure on human rights concerns, which represents a material economic but a much larger psychological hit.3  And thus all coincides with dramatic cost increases in grain and other foodstuffs – price increases over which have led in the past to great upheaval and revolution in Egypt. To survive, it is likely that Egypt will not only face internal pressure to sell its own gas for foreign currency rather than use its export infrastructure for Israel’s, but it will also continue the drift it began under the Obama administration toward Russia’s and China’s orbits.  The pressures that led it in that direction a half decade ago now are exacerbated by the urgency of the current quest to obtain aid, cheap food and regional strategic support (such as in Libya).  Once further driven to seek support from Russia, one can only wonder how long it will be before the phone rings from Moscow telling Cairo that Moscow views with great disfavor Egypt’s being a conduit for exporting Israeli gas to Europe to replace Russia’s.  In short, if Israel’s current export structure to Egypt and possibly Europe emerges and survives then great, but Egypt is is not a structure upon which a fifth of Israel’s economy should depend.

A small amount of gas could also be compressed at the Hadera terminal (currently used for offloading, not onloading gas) in Israel to load gas onto compressed natural gas (CNG) ships for Europe, but there are very few of these CNG ships left in the world since their transport-capacity-to-cost ration is lower and the amount of gas they can load is quite a bit more limited than LNG ships, although at the ranges that Israel is from Europe (under 2500 km), there may be some cost offsets.4  With current technologies, Israel could only export about 0.5 bcm per year this way to Europe (with about 14 million m3 per ship).

Combined, under the most optimistic circumstances and assumptions, one can imagine up to 5-10 bcm per annum, about one third of Austria’s annual consumption, being transmitted to Europe. This does not amount to a globally and strategically critical production structure.

The only way Israel will emerge as either a major or reliable source or even hub for gas is by building direct transmission structures from Israel to Europe. One structure is already in process.  An offshore floating LNG platform is already being constructed to service Israel’s Leviathan field. It could theoretically service a capacity of approximately 15 bcm per annum of export.  Under current plans, however, this will take roughly another four years to build.

Second, there were plans by the EU and Israel to build a direct pipeline from Israel to Europe at a cost of about Euro 6 billion. Since it is still under planning, it is uncertain how much gas it would transport, but comparable pipelines in the Mediterranean carry about 30 bcm of gas. There could always also be an additional such terminal constructed if deemed economically viable.

Third, Israel could add a pipeline to Cyprus, and connect to a reinvigorated Vassilikos LNG terminal which like other land-based liquefaction plants could be imagined to reach 15-20 bcm capacity per annum.  This option has been considered but given the lack of urgent interest in Israeli gas internationally until the Ukraine war, this option was shelved for the time being.

Finally, returning for a moment to compressed natural gas, there is a new generation of CNG ships under design that may work effectively to service medium range routes under 2500 km, which is about Israel’s distance to Europe’s Mediterranean ports.5 Indeed, the EU has given Italian project developer, Naval Progetti SRL, a grant of Euro 12 million to develop such a ship.  These ships may be able to carry as much as 7 bcm per annum per train, roughly half that of an LNG terminal, but with less prohibitive up-front infrastructure costs (potentially using Israel’s already existing Hadera terminal). These ships, however, are not operational yet.

But for all this to happen, both Europe and Israel need to adjust their current attitude toward their gas sectors. If Europe considers its need for gas from the eastern Mediterranean to be urgent under wartime conditions and Israel appreciates the unique, acute strategic opportunity it has been handed, then the two could conceive of Israel’s gas hub not in terms of peace-time commercial timelines but as a Manhattan-project level effort. With such prioritization, it is conceivable that Israel could become within a few years a hub (with initial levels of robust export already in two to three years) for Israeli, Cypriot and Gulf Gas to a capacity of about 70-80 bcm per annum, which is about half of Europe’s import.

But therein lies the problem. Europe is shocked, but still coming to terms with what it means and what will be entailed in truly weaning itself off of Russian gas. Moreover, in Israel’s government, there appears to be a complete absence of any sense of urgency to match the magnitude of the commercial and strategic opportunity.

The spirit animating Israel’s left is alignment with Europe, and the spirit of Europe until Ukraine was toward moving away from hydrocarbons altogether and toward alternate energy sources.  Ironically, while Europe has been jolted into greater sobriety and began to take interest in diversifying its natural gas suppliers, Israel’s center-left government over the last year bought into more deeply the previously failed European concept and discouraged the development of its own hydrocarbons sector. This outdated and originally questionable attitude has led over the last 18 months to the following deeply flawed policies that suggest its new center-left government elected in 2021 was uninterested in developing the natural gas sector beyond what had already been developed:

In December 2021, the new Israeli government placed a moratorium on all further exploration of Israeli waters for natural gas.6  Israel’s prime minister had said beforehand that he was eager to join the new international climate consensus in pushing for alternatives instead of hydrocarbons. Moreover, his government which relied on leftist parties, who held the energy, science and transport ministries portfolios, with a strong environmental program.  Afflicted by reality, when Russia invaded Ukraine, the Israeli government reversed its decision yet again and reopened its waters for further license tenders and exploration.7

First, Israel signed a deal in October 2020 to bring UAE gas to the Mediterranean.8 But then a year later in November 2021, only one month before it imposed the moratorium on licensing and exploring further prospects,  the new Israeli government reversed the previous government’s agreement and, citing environmental concerns, canceled the UAE’s deal to use Israel as a major transmissions structure for its gas and that of its neighbors.9 This reversal not only undermined Israel’s credibility, but also limits greatly, if it is not reversed soon, the amount of gas that could ultimately be sent to Europe. If Israel alone must fill the transmission structure with only its gas, then it holds in its entirety about three years of the sort of capacity (assuming it sends every molecule it has to Europe beyond annual domestic consumption) such a robust transmission structure could export to Europe. And that would mean that after three years, neither Israel nor Europe have any Israeli gas left. Even if Israel finds more gas than it has already found, that only extends the inevitable to a total of five to six years. On the other hand, export of gas from the Gulf would transform this niche “bump” of Israeli gas into an ongoing export structure for regional gas for decades, and thus raise Israel to the level of a major global strategic interest. Otherwise, Israel will remain a niche, boutique and transitory asterisk in the history of Europe’s energy mix.

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Originally published by The Foundation for American Security and Freedom

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David Wurmser

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The Great Recycling Fraud

NPR accidentally told the truth, yesterday, and it’s a doozy:

The vast majority of plastic that people put into recycling bins is headed to landfills, or worse….  the amount of plastic actually turned into new things has fallen to new lows of around 5%…..  Waste management experts say the problem with plastic is that it is expensive to collect and sort. There are now thousands of different types of plastic, and none of them can be melted down together….  plastic trash has few markets — a reality the public has not wanted to hear….  “It’s not going to a recycling facility and being recycled. It’s going to a recycling facility and being landfilled someplace else because [you] can’t do anything with that material….”  That message has been difficult for the public to absorb with so many different bins in public spaces, and their own communities telling them to put their plastic in recycling containers…. “Politically it’s easier….’

This will come as a shock to all the greenie-weenies out there who let the Left sprinkle fairy dust all over them, inculcate them into the fake religion of environmentalism, and initiate them into the sacred rites of recycling.

But it was no surprise to me.  Years ago, I watched a local TV news report showing a recycling truck taking everything from recycling bins straight to the dump.  I’ve known recycling is all phony-baloney since then and now the NPR report confirms nothing’s changed.

The whole recycling thing is a fraud on the public, perpetrated by left-wing advocacy groups and politicians, designed to make you feel good about saving the planet.  How does it feel to know you’ve been manipulated by the Left every step of the way?  To know they’ve made you feel guilty – about destroying the planet with your plastic – for no good reason.  To know they’ve manipulated you into falling into line with their rules and directives that have no basis in reality.  It’s all been a complete charade.  How does it feel to know you’ve set these people up as authority figures in your life when they are really just charlatans behind the curtain pulling the levers of their pathetic little schemes and con jobs, just like the Wizard of Oz?  How does it feel to know you’ve been manipulated into supporting a useless exercise when the money could have been spent on something truly useful, instead?   To know you haven’t been saving the planet all this time – you’ve been serving the petty little personal purposes of your so-called leaders, purposes which come down to wealth and power for themselves.  How does it feel to know you’ve been dutifully recycling your plastic and they’ve been laughing all the way to the bank?  To know all you really did was hand power to scumbags and liars?  To know you took them at their word and they betrayed you?   They betrayed your trust just like a lover who cheats on you.

Now that your eyes have been opened – you gotta ask yourself: what else are they lying to me about?  How else have they betrayed my trust?  They’ve told you the polar bears are dying and that’s not true.  They’ve told you Arctic ice is disappearing when it’s actually increasing.  They’ve told you the planet is burning up when there’s been a 20-year pause in global warming and the planet was warmer centuries ago.  They lie, they fake their data, and they deliberately try to scare you to death.  The whole thing is make-believe, and you fell for it.

Why am I being so hard on you?  Because you’re screwing up the country, that’s why.   You’ve handed power to the worst possible scoundrels who will ride any horse they can find that will give them complete power over us and let them control every aspect of everybody’s life.  The Green New Deal is just the start.  They’re scheming to limit your travel to nothing, shut down most of the country, cut your food rations, make you eat bugs, and tell you how many pounds of clothing you can buy a year, or we will all burn in earthly hell.  From all of us who still love our freedom, thanks a bunch.  And it will all have been for nothing, except wealth and power for a tiny authoritarian elite.

So I urge you: think for yourself and come back to reality.  Look past the slogans and the demonization of anyone who opposes their schemes.  Leave the climate change cult and take back your life from the high priests of Big Green who want to turn off your brain and control you.  Dump this fake religion.  Don’t recycle it.  Just put it on a truck and take it straight to the landfill, where it belongs.

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