Russian Collusion Exposed: Russia Funded Environmental Groups to Oppose Fracking in Europe and U.S.

From 2018 Congressional Report: 

A Republican staff report by the Senate suggests that Russian funds have been funneled through off-shore corporations and passed on to U.S.- based environmental activist organizations with the intent to effect political change.

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In January 2017, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a report stating there is “clear evidence that the Kremlin is financing and choreographing anti-fracking propaganda in the United States.”

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Hillary Clinton in 2014 said: ‘We [the State Department and the U.S.] were up against Russia pushing oligarchs and others to buy media. We were even up against phony environmental groups, and I’m a big environmentalist, but these were funded by the Russians to stand against any effort, ‘Oh that pipeline, that fracking, that whatever will be a problem for you,’ and a lot of the money supporting that message was coming from Russia.’

2018: CFACT & Climate Depot’s billboard went up: — ‘Russia funneled Green groups millions of dollars to oppose fracking & cripple American energy. – How’s that for COLLUSION?’

2018 CFACT report: Russian efforts to disrupt U.S. energy markets exposed – By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

2018: CFACT report: Real Russian collusion the MSM ignores– By Paul Driessen

March 2022: Michael Shellenberger: “15 years ago Europe exported more natural gas than Russia does today. Now, Russia exports 3x more gas than Europe produces. Why? Because climate activists, partly funded by Russia, blocked fracking.” 

The Russia “collusion” no one seems to want to remember. Here are excerpts from a 2-18 U.S. Congressional report from the Committee on Science, Space and Technology. It details how Russian

From March 1, 2018 U.S. Congress Report: United States House of Representatives – Committee on Science, Space, and Technology – Russian Attempts to Influence U.S. Domestic Energy Markets by Exploiting Social Media Majority Report

Excerpt from 2018 Congressional Report: Fracking Threatens the Kremlin’s Agenda

Republicans and Democrats agree the Kremlin is manipulating environmental groups in an attempt to carry out their agenda

The Kremlin has a motive to disrupt U.S. energy markets and influence domestic energy policy, since American energy represents a direct threat to Russian energy interests. Russia’s efforts to influence U.S. energy policy are well documented in the public domain. U.S. presidential candidates, European officials, and the U.S. intelligence community have all publicly noted that Russia and its government corporations are funding a covert anti-fracking campaign to suppress the widespread adoption of fracking in Europe and the U.S., all in an effort to protect the influence of the Russian oil and gas sector.22

The substantial increase in domestic production has resulted in an abundant supply of American energy, which is increasingly making its way into the global marketplace. While this stands to provide substantial economic benefits to the U.S., it simultaneously represents a direct threat to Russian energy interests. First, an abundance of American supply in the global energy marketplace stands to reduce Russian market share and thus revenues generated from oil and gas activities. Second, by providing supply alternatives for European countries dependent on Russian supply and infrastructure, American energy stands to disrupt the Kremlin’s ability to leverage energy consumption for geopolitical influence.

Russia provides roughly 75 percent of the natural gas imported by countries in Central and Eastern Europe while the countries in Southeast Europe “receive almost all of their natural gas from Russia.” 17 “Russia’s Gazprom has acknowledged for the first time a threat to its dominant position in European gas market from an expected influx of liquefied natural gas (LNG) produced in the United States under [the Trump] administration.” 18 Shortly after this acknowledgment, U.S. LNG made its way to Poland 19 and Lithuania. 20 In fact, Poland recently signed a five-year deal with the United States to import liquefied natural gas into the country in an attempt to decrease dependency on Russian energy supplies. 21 …

As the threat of American energy continues to grow, so does the Kremlin’s incentive to influence energy operations in Europe and the United States. Moreover, as they have demonstrated, the Kremlin will use any and all tools at their disposal to preserve Russia’s dominant energy status and to maintain its stranglehold over Eastern and Central Europe. …

Former Secretary of State and then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, with access to intelligence reports, made a private speech in 2014, according to documents from WikiLeaks, which included statements about the struggles of dealing with Russian-backed environmental groups. According to a media report, Secretary Clinton said the following: “We [the State Department and the U.S.] were up against Russia pushing oligarchs and others to buy media.
We were even up against phony environmental groups, and I’m a big environmentalist, but these were funded by the Russians to stand against any effort, ‘Oh that pipeline, that fracking, that whatever will be a problem for you,’ and a lot of the money supporting that message was coming from Russia.”24 …

In January 2017, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a report that contained “clear evidence that the Kremlin is financing and choreographing anti-fracking propaganda in the United States.” 25 The report found that the Russian-sponsored news agency RT (formerly Russian Today) “r[an] anti-fracking programing, highlighting environmental issues and the impacts on public health,” which “is likely reflective of the Russian Government’s concern about the impact of fracking and the U.S. natural gas production on the global energy market and the potential challenges to [Russian energy companies’] profitability,” such as state- controlled Russian energy giant Gazprom.26 …

A Republican staff report by the Senate suggests that Russian funds have been funneled through off-shore corporations and passed on to U.S.- based environmental activist organizations with the intent to effect political change. 27 …

More recently Senator Ben Cardin released a voluminous report on Russian manipulation of the media over decades. Specific to oil and gas, the Cardin report cited a “study by the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies [which] reports that the Russian government has invested $95 million in NGOs that seek to persuade EU governments to end shale gas exploration,” which illustrates how American energy directly clashes with the Russian energy agenda.28 Senator Cardin’s work reiterates that “according to NATO officials, Russian intelligence agencies also reportedly provide covert support to European environmental groups to campaign against fracking for natural gas, thereby keeping the EU more dependent on Russian supplies.”29

Additionally, as further evidence of Russian attempts to spread propaganda in the United States, U.S. Department of Justice officials have demanded that the U.S. based affiliate of RT register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).30 FARA requires that agents representing the interests of foreign governments in any political or quasi-political capacity disclose public communications aimed at influencing American political debate or public policy.31 Through local programs all over the world, RT and other news agencies operate as a government-funded arm of Russia in its attempts to destabilize and disrupt democratic institutions and the free market. Under FARA, the American people have the right to evaluate the “statements and activities of [persons acting as foreign agents] in light of their function as foreign agents.”32

To that end, the Kremlin is attempting to make, as Senator Cardin’s report states, “useful idiots” of unwitting environmental groups and activists in furtherance of its energy influence operations.33

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2018: CFACT & Climate Depot’s billboard went up: — ‘Russia funneled Green groups millions of dollars to oppose fracking & cripple American energy. – How’s that for COLLUSION?’

2018 CFACT report: Russian efforts to disrupt U.S. energy markets exposed – By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. – In January 2017, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a report stating there is “clear evidence that the Kremlin is financing and choreographing anti-fracking propaganda in the United States.”

2018: CFACT report: Real Russian collusion the MSM ignores– By Paul Driessen

Driessen Excerpt: The US Senate “Billionaires’ Club” and Environmental Policy Alliance “From Russia with Love” reports, articles by investigative journalists like Ron Arnold and Lachlan Markay (here and here), studies by the US National Intelligence Director and Iowa State University, and a March 2018 report by the US House Science Committee reveal money laundering by Putin cronies and ongoing propaganda efforts by Russian media groups to undermine American drilling, fracking, pipeline and agricultural programs. … Hefty portions of Klein funds come from Russia: Rosneft, the Russian-government-owned oil and gas giant that is one of Wakefield’s largest clients; Spectrum Partners, a Moscow-based energy investment firm with major assets in Russian oil and gas; the IPOC Group, an international growth fund owned by Russian minister of telecommunications and Putin friend Leonid Reiman; and other Russian companies. (Other Sea Change donors include the Gates Foundation, eBay’s Omidyar Network Fund, David Rockefeller’s personal foundation, the Walmart Foundation and the extended Simons family.)

The Science Committee Report explains how the Russian government funnel money through surrogates to US environmentalist organizations to fund attacks on the fossil fuels industry. It also reveals how Russian operatives create and spread propaganda on US social media platforms, to manipulate American opinions about pipelines, fossil fuels, fracking and climate change.

Standing up to Putin means ditching Net-Zero (& Green New Deal) – ‘The West can’t win a geopolitical conflict…with an economy powered intermittently by wind & solar’

Rupert Darwall: In late 2019, Boris Johnson banned commercial fracking. Earlier this month, the British government ordered that concrete be poured into the country’s two exploratory shale wells and for them to be abandoned. The move was blasted by Cuadrilla Resources CEO Francis Egan, who pointed out that the Bowland shale formation could supply 50 years of current U.K. gas demand. … Germany’s and the EU’s net-zero policies will deepen their dependence on Putin’s goodwill as they increase their exposure to unreliable wind and solar, phase out coal, and – in the case of Germany and Belgium – prematurely close their nuclear power stations. Strategically, that’s a win for Putin.

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Defeat Tyrants With Energy Independence

UPDATE: Candidate for the U.S. Senate Carla Sands, “Make America Energy Dominant Again.” Former U.S. Ambassador and current Pennsylvania candidate in Pennsylvania Carla Sands calls for strong America first leaders to rise up and take back the country from the radical left.


They said it couldn’t be done.  Then we did it.

Energy independence!

Then Biden yanked away what generations had worked for in the blink of an eye.

Put that together with Biden’s provocative weakness in Afghanistan and now Ukrainians are paying the price in blood.  Will Taiwan be next?  Then who?

I addressed these issues and more in a talk I gave in Virginia.

“Efforts to go net zero have diminished the ability of nations to provide sufficient energy to meet demand,” I explained, “and this gives tyrants like Vladimir Putin an opportunity to provide that energy in the form of natural gas and rake in millions to fund his war machine.”

If you watched President Biden’s State of the Union Address you received no sign that Biden will wake up and value American energy independence above catering to his left-wing base.

Marc Morano took Biden to task on Fox and Friends explaining.  “Russian oil imports are at an 11 year high. We’re importing 600,000 barrels a day from Russia. And Russia’s federal budget is 40% based upon oil and gas revenue.”

Environmentalist Michael Shellenberger was very clear.  We shared his tweet with CFACT’s Facebook friends.   “Russia produces 3X more gas than Europe produces.  Why?  Because climate activists, partly funded by Russia, blocked fracking.”

It’s not just hydrocarbons.  Wind and solar, as inefficient and intermittent as they may be, are WHOLLY DEPENDENT on rare earth elements and manufacturing from China and metals from Russia!

This is no accident.   China and Russia played the useful idiot Left like a drum, stifled domestic mining, drilling and manufacturing and got us hooked on supplies from the worst nations on Earth.

Anyone who thinks importing resources from China and Russia instead of producing them at home, and that by doing this it will somehow lower the temperature of the globe, is too clueless to lead.

Energy independence now!  We must settle for nothing less.

COLUMN BY

Craig Rucker

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

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The War in Ukraine Shows a Dark Side of Environmentalism

Europe’s dependence on natural gas mutes its objections to Russia’s invasion.


“Save the planet!” Ah, what a wonderful phrase. To quote an adorable little Swedish girl, “how dare you” even think otherwise? Well, pace Greta, dare we must. Garry Kasparov recently hit the nail on its head, when he tweeted, “You can’t save the planet if you don’t save people on it.”

Is Kasparov a stooge of evil oil corporations? No. He is a chess grandmaster, who over the years has issued warnings about Russia’s expansionism. And he clearly sees what environmentalists don’t: when you become overzealous in trying to save the planet, you forget about people living in nations invaded by tyrants of resource-rich countries.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and the war in Ukraine is proving it.

Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine is multicausal. But surely, he must have known all too well that Germany— and the European Union at large— would be hesitant about succoring Ukraine. Germany’s leadership may pay lip service to the defense of an invaded country, but when push comes to shove, military aid has been very limited. The motive for this apathy comes down to two words: natural gas.

Germany’s Green Party is a political force to be reckoned with, and their influence has been felt in the country’s decision to cut down on nuclear power. This trend has expanded to other nations in the developed world, not only regarding to nuclear power, but fossil fuels as well. Giving in to environmentalist pressure, US President Joe Biden has cancelled the Yellowstone pipeline, as he has claimed that “climate change is the biggest threat facing America.” As alternatives, renewable sources are proposed by environmentalists. But so far, they have been an utter failure; there simply is no comparison between a solar panel (useless on cloudy days) and a nuclear plant.

Developed countries may try to shut down sources of energy all they want, but their populations will not change their consumption habits any time soon. So how do their governments meet the energy demand? By getting it from nations who are not willing to cut down on energy production. In so doing, politicians from developed countries play feel-good politics and applaud Greta when she delivers her (scripted) speeches, while still making sure that their constituents have gas for their cars and homes are heated in the winter.

They of course fail to notice that their woke virtue-signaling act empowers tyrants like Putin. Does the Russian strongman care about the environment? Of course not. In fact, if he has to severely repress environmentalists, he will. And with his gas provision to Europe, Putin has now become unrestrained in his imperial designs, as he knows very well that his European clients will not interfere in his military adventures.

Soon after the invasion of Ukraine began, Russian forces seized control of the Chernobyl plant. Environmentalists are now worried, because they do not trust the Russians to adequately control the radiation emanating from there. But this is an outcome of environmentalists’ own doing. Nuclear power per se is not the danger. The danger is corrupt governments that develop (or seize) nuclear plants, and in their lack of transparency, do not enforce adequate safety protocols. These corrupt governments have been strengthened by environmentalists’ naivetéall along.

So, will we save the planet? Of course we will. But we must do so intelligently. Climate change is not a myth. But measures to cool down global warming must be taken with a proper cost/benefit analysis. For the time being, renewables’ cost is too high, and their benefits are too low. The war in Ukraine is now showing that there is an additional political cost that few people considered in the first place. Environmentalism has a dark side, and we should learn the lesson.

COLUMN BY

Gabriel Andrade

Gabriel Andrade is assistant professor of medicine at Ajman University, in the United Arab Emirates. He received a PhD from University of Zulia (Venezuela), in 2008. He worked as Titular Professor at University… More by Gabriel Andrade

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Acid Fish Latest Greenpanicking Scare

Acid rain – remember that one? Alar – remember that one?  The earth is cooling – remember that one?  No reason you should.  They were all nonsense.  More recent green scares also turned to be nonsense, or less there than meets the eye – polar bear extinction, sea level rise, and disappearing coral reefs.  These scares keep happening because the climate change-industrial complex and other radical environmental Leftists think it’s perfectly fine to lie to you and scare you to death if it allows them to remake the world in their image and gets them to where they want to go.  They themselves will be the first to tell you they are liars – strategic liars – as I mentioned yesterday.  And you can add explicit admissions by Al Gore and Tim Wirth to the same effect, to the strategic lying I pointed out yesterday.

Now comes the latest adventure in greenpanicking – acid fish.  The greenies are warning acidification of the oceans will decimate fish populations because acidification makes fish less inclined to evade predators. It’s all hogwash. A review of 91 studies found the higher the quality of the study, the lower the effect acidification has on fish.  The most alarming results the greenies trumpet came from low-quality studies with small sample sizes that are completely unreliable. Overall, the review found, “ocean acidification has a negligible direct impact on fish behavior.”  This is exactly what I was telling you yesterday about hundreds of scientists criticizing the climate change crowd for lack of scientific integrity.  Here it is again.

Unscrupulous liars – these are you heroes.  The computer models they use to predict climate change are so bad they can’t even reproduce temperature changes in the 20th century.  So why would you believe anybody who claims their computer model can tell you what the temperature will be a hundred years from now?  You’re a fool if you do.

They also withhold important information from you.  They like to talk about how they’re saving the planet, but they never talk about what their policies would really do, as I mentioned yesterday.  They never talk about the bad stuff.   The regulations Biden wants would “keep 11 million more people in poverty come 2030 than otherwise would be.” And if “the Glasgow climate conference … leads to the adoption of much stronger climate measures, policy makers will raise that total to 80 million additional people in poverty by 2030.”  They WANT you to use less energy.  They WANT you to be poor, and they’ll ride any horse that will get them there. Could it be any clearer?

Speaking of withholding information, New York is doing its best to cover up the true cost of its climate legislation which mandates “Net Zero” emissions by 2050.  The legislation requires public officials to make the total costs and benefits public, but they haven’t done it.  As the U.K. found out recently, the costs are so high, any benefits are completely overwhelmed and green policies are doing real damage, far more than any damage arising from supposed climate change.  But the greenies don’t care.

They go right on telling you to eat bugs and cuddle with your pets to stay warm in the freezing winter and there isn’t enough heat.  Too bad if the elevators stop working in your building and you’re elderly.  Too bad if your electric bill goes up 30 percent like in Europe and you can’t afford other necessities because of green policies.  When are you going to get it through your thick skull the greenies don’t care about people and might actually be trying to hurt them.  The greenies certainly don’t care about YOU.  They only care about their fake religion of climate change.  Like John Kerry just said: Russia started a war and Ukrainians are dying?  So what, as long as it doesn’t stop the fight against climate change.  Talk about a one-track mind.  What a heartless narrow-minded moron.

The wheels are falling off the phony climate change narrative, but the Biden administration is holding on for dear life.  It just held a roundtable on how to fight climate change deniers like me.  Participants discussed their opponents’ arguments for delaying climate action and dreamed up ways to counter them.  Pravda is gearing up to tell you how to think.  According to the delusional fools in the White House, climate denialism only exists because “special interests” have been “sowing doubts” and speaking heresy.

Special interests?  OK, let’s talk about special interests.  Green groups like the Sierra Club, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Climate Action Network have received millions of dollars ultimately traced back to Russia to undermine fossil fuels and push green energy.  Ca-ching, ca-ching!  Russia is obviously trying to shut down U.S. energy to promote dependence on Russian oil & gas.

Some heroes you got there. They lie, they cheat, they fear-monger, and they cuddle up with the Russians to stay fed. Their financial patron thinks nothing of invading other countries, and THEY think nothing of tormenting and even killing the rest of us. If you’re a climate change true believer, you’ve got some agonizing reappraisal to do.

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U.N.’s New Climate Change Report Underwhelms

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is out with another report, this one declaring:

“Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health. Any further delay in concerted anticipatory global action on adaptation and mitigation will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all.”

There are several reasons not to take the new report at face value.

First, the IPCC does not have a good track record when it comes to credibility.  A group of 900 scientists, engineers, and scholars examined a recent IPCC report and found it failed to meet objective standards of scientific integrity.  Moreover, an author of earlier IPCC reports was quoted as saying,

“We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination… So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts….”

Scary scenarios, huh?  There’s no shortage of those in the new IPCC report – plagues, mental health problems, species going extinct, oh no!  Also, more frequent and intense extreme weather events are a product of human-induced climate change, the report declares (at p. 7-8).

There are plenty of people who dispute that climate change – human-induced, if there is such a thing – causes extreme weather.  Hurricanes are no more frequent than they were a hundred years ago, as of 2013.  Data from the IPCC and NOAA – the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – also show tornadoes, droughts, and floods have not increased, either.  The new IPCC report also refers to sea level rise but, there as well, the U.N.’s record is not good.  In 1989, a senior U.N. environmental official claimed, “entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.” Well, that didn’t happen and the data still do not support doomsday predictions of sea level rise from climate change.  The same goes for the supposed imminent demise of coral reefs, to which the report also refers.  A recent study supposedly documenting that demise itself said coral reefs rebounded in 2019.  Too bad they can’t think they’re way out of a paper bag.

So the second reason not to take the new IPCC report at face value is that it’s full of stuff that is disputed or just wrong.  The third reason is the hidden agenda.  You can’t quite tell what the report is talking about in its recommendations to policymakers.  It’s full of phrases like “key systems transitions”, “low regrets options”, and “inclusive governance”, whatever that means.   It all centers on something the report calls “Climate Resilient Development”.   They won’t spell out what they really mean, but they do use the language of the Left – “equity”, “climate justice” – so we can guess.  Actually, we don’t have to guess.  One of the authors told the BBC addressing climate change has to do with making changes in education, healthcare, poverty, and inequality.    Beats me how changing what goes on in the classroom or transferring money from one wallet to another keeps the planet from burning up, but I can tell you what the IPCC global warming crowd really wants:  Every American will have to cut their energy use by 90 percent.  Energy use will have to fall by half, the world over.  The climate crackpots also want to limit your travel, only let you have 16 gallons of gas a year, cut your food consumption by almost a third, and allow you to buy only 9 pounds of clothing annually.   Ready for that?  No wonder this crowd has to hide what it’s really talking about under layers of generalized gobbledygook and Leftist platitudes.  ‘We must rise to higher and higher platitudes, together,’ as Chicago’s famous Mayor Daley used to say.

So much for the IPCC’s new report. Tomorrow, I’ll go through some recent news stories and show you that, despite the ever-more shrill pronouncements life on the planet as we know it will soon cease to exist, the wheels are actually falling off the entire phony climate change narrative, no matter how big the paychecks at the U.N. get.

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AWED MEDIA BALANCED NEWSLETTER: We cover COVID to Climate, as well as Energy to Elections.

Welcome! We cover COVID to Climate, as well as Energy to Elections.

This issue we are adding special coverage of Ukraine (as there is a direct connection to unscientific climate and energy policies).

Here is the link for this issue, so please share it on social media.

Particularly note the ***asterisked items*** below.


— This Newsletter’s Articles, by Topic —

Ukraine:

*** Why Does Ukraine Matter?

*** Short Video: Gravitas — The Russia-Ukraine Crisis Explained

Short Video: Gravitas — Russia invades Ukraine

*** McConnell Statement on Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Failing to understand evil — then and now

Video: Russia Ukraine Conflict (Live)

Short video: On the front lines in Ukraine

How Ukraine Fits Into The Global Jigsaw

Germany’s Spiegel Asks “Is Vladimir Putin Right?” Over NATO Expansion

Short video: President Zelenskyy’s, speech to the Russian people

Ukraine and Energy Policies:

*** Ukraine Action by Biden Doesn’t Use Best Weapon We Have

*** Fake ‘Environmentalism’ Fueled the Ukraine War

*** The Molly McCann Memo: Vol1, Issue 2

*** You Can Thank Environmentalists for the Invasion of Ukraine

*** Standing Up to Putin Means Ditching Net-Zero

Biden’s war on fossil fuels has strengthened Putin and weakened America

Biden’s Regulators Empower Putin

The True Cost Of The Green Energy Boom Is Now Being Realized

Should We Grow Up About Energy?

Sanctions Are Not Enough

How the Greens Brought War to Ukraine

Re-Gretas, Ukraine has a few

Germany suspends Nord Stream 2: Q&A on what happens next

John Kerry’s response to Ukraine invasion: ‘I hope President Putin will help us to stay on track with respect to what we need to do for the climate’

Ukraine — What You Can Do:

*** Pray for the safety of the Ukrainian people

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

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

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

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

COVID-19 — Therapies:

*** Yet Another Study Confirming Vitamin D Benefits to Fight COVID

*** Why Are Hospitals Spending So Much On Ineffective C-19 Treatments?

New JAMA paper show Ivermectin blows the COVID vaccines out of the water

FDA Okays New Monoclonal Antibody That’s Effective Against Omicron

COVID-19 — Injections:

*** Video: Tricia Lindsay — the most powerful speech so far this year

*** Excerpts From a New, Most Important Research Article

*** 33% of New Zealand’s Covid-19 Hospitalizations in the last 6 months have occurred in the past 12 days, & the Fully Vaccinated account for 80% of them

Study: Innate Immune Suppression by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccinations

Pfizer drops India vaccine application after regulator seeks local trial

Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial

COVID-19 — Injection Mandates:

*** Study: Data Reveals Risk of COVID Vaccine-Induced Fatality is Equal to or Greater than the Risk of a COVID death for all Age Groups Under 80 Years Old

*** List of Over 100 Studies Proving How COVID Vaccines are More Harmful Than What We’re Being Told

It’s time to end the mandates

Resistance Not Futile: History Lesson On How To End Vaccine Mandates

Alberta county passes policy that stops businesses with vaccine mandates from winning contracts

New Zealand Protesters against Vaccine Mandates, gain Traction

COVID-19 — Masks:

*** New short video: Masks — Science vs Political Science

*** If Science is the Jury, Mask Days Are Over

*** Letter from 8 industrial hygienists complains about flawed CDC mask guidance

Virginia passes bill banning mask mandates in schools, Governor expected to sign

Harvard Students Are COVID Sheep

Short video: Buck the CDC

CDC Announces Loosened Mask Guidelines

Senate To Vote On Bill To End Mask Mandates On Airplanes

COVID-19 — Children:

*** Archived video: Peter McCullough, MD testifies to Texas Senate HHS Committee

*** Open Letter with Notice of Legal Obligations and Potential Liabilities to anyone Advocating or Administering COVID-19 Vaccines to Children

Please sign my petition: We Oppose COVID-19 Injections of NC School Children

Dr. Campbell Video: Most children now have natural immunity

COVID-19 — Models and Data:

*** Natural Immunity Really Lasts According to New Data

*** How the CDC Abandoned Science

*** We the people, demand to see the data!

See the CDC corruption for yourself

Follow the Data, the CDC Said, and then They Hid It

Dr. Robert Malone discusses scientific fraud

The Millions of People Stuck in Pandemic Limbo

CDC data show mass vaccination with the COVID-19 vaccine has had no measurable impact on COVID-19 mortality in the U.S.

German Health Insurance Claims Show 31,254 Deaths Following COVID-19 Vaccines While Official Government Stats Report Only 2,255

COVID-19 — Canada:

Video: Archbishop Viganò’s Important Message To Canadian Truckers

Carlson: What’s happening to truckers in Canada reveals the future of the U.S.

The Truckers, GoFundMe, and the CIA; connecting dots

California truckers vow to “Let Freedom Roll” in convoy to Washington, D.C. in pushback on pandemic mandates

Canadian Parliament Confirms Trudeau’s Tyrannical Actions

A fascinating leaked map of BC donators to the Freedom Convoy

Trudeau lifts Emergencies Act after clearing Freedom Convoy from Ottawa

Canada is destroying its banking system

COVID-19 — Misc:

*** America’s Lethal Dose of Quack Science

*** Former Harvard Prof. Martin Kulldorff: ‘Science and Public Health Are Broken’

*** Video: Former Blackrock Portfolio Manager Exposes Pfizer Fraud

*** How scientific ‘groupthink’ silenced those who disagreed with Covid lockdowns

*** COVID “Myth Buster” series

FDA’s Cole: “$1B a year going into FDA’s Budget from the people we regulate”

SARS-CoV-2 Treatment: An Independent Assessment of the Medical Establishment

NC passes No Patient Left Alone Act

COVID expert: Vatican’s vaccine mandate violates code of bioethics and must end

“A Recurring Fountain Of Revenue”: FDA Exec Admits Biden Planning Annual Shots, Including Toddlers

CDC Admits Some COVID Swabs Ended up in a Lab for Genomic Analysis

A Kennedy’s Crusade Against COVID Vaccines Anguishes Family and Friends

Pfizer & Moderna Investors Run for the Exits

Greed Energy Economics:

*** The green industrial revolution is a lie

*** Wind farms were paid not to generate HALF their potential electricity

Wind Energy:

*** Limits to Green Energy Are Becoming Much Clearer

*** America’s Power Grid Is Increasingly Unreliable

The stampede of green lemmings

Wind Energy Developer Compares Opponents To Hitler And The Holocaust

Offshore Wind Power Has a Long Way to Go in America

One Year After Texas Blackouts, ERCOT Expects Massive Increase in Solar and Wind Capacity

Lies My Wind Developer Told Me

Solar Energy:

Large Western NY Solar Project In Planning Stages

China Extracts Yet Another Favor from Biden to Sell Us Solar

Spain’s Solar Energy Crisis: 62,000 People Bankrupt After Investing in Solar Panels

Wind and Solar expansion is a threat to biodiversity — but by how much?

Nuclear Energy:

Why smaller is better when it comes to nuclear power

NRC puts license extension for Turkey Point nuclear facility on hold, calls for new environmental review

Fossil Fuel Energy:

*** America and the unanswerable case for fracking

*** American Gas to Europe’s Rescue

Russia Has This Under Control…

Report: Restarting UK Shale Gas

Why NYS Energy Prices are Skyrocketing

The Future Of Global Coal Production

Canadian Gas Line Equipment Destroyed by Vandals

A little history of the hydrocarbon processing that meets society’s demands

Dakota Access Pipeline loses Supreme Court appeal, leaving its future unclear

China Negotiating Purchase of 100 Million Metric Tons of Russian Coal

Misc Energy:

*** Short video: Excellent Electricity Analogy

*** Excellent Discussion of Batteries

Lithium-ion Batteries From Electric Vehicles Aboard The Felicity Ace Are Keeping The Fire Alive

Swiss government plans hydropower reserves and power plants

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:

*** Before You Save the Planet, Save the People Who Live in It

*** Report: Major problems identified in the data adjustments applied to a widely used global temperature dataset

*** Study: World Atmospheric CO2, Its 14C Specific Activity, Non-fossil Component, Anthropogenic Fossil Component, and Emissions

Biden’s Cost of Carbon Inflation

DOE: If You Don’t Embrace Climate Change, You Are Spreading ‘Misinformation’

Report: Virginia and Climate Change — Separating Fact from Fiction

Study: Onset of modern sea level rise began in 1863

Doomsday Climate Studies Turn Out To Be Overblown Nonsense

Climate Science Is A Lot Less Than It Appears in Some Cases

Movie: An Inconsistent Truth

Graph: Deaths from natural disasters by type, World, 1900 to 2020

Particulate Matter in Indoor/Outdoor Air Does NOT Cause Death

White House Hosts Roundtable Focusing on Climate Denialism

Manmade Global Warming — Misc:

*** Greenland’s Melting Ice Is No Cause for Climate-Change Panic

*** Steered Science (Review of ‘Unsettled’ by Steven E. Koonin)

*** Joe Rogan interviews Dr. Steve Koonin

*** Supreme Court Must Curtail the EPA’s Regulatory Overreach Immediately

Will the Supreme Court Rein in the EPA?

Farming the air (CO2)

Why global warming is good for us

Climate Change Strategy of “Saving the Planet” Misses the Point

Engineered bacteria convert captured carbon dioxide into chemicals for fuels, fabric and cosmetics

Facebook, other tech giants censor inconvenient facts about climate change

Report: The State of the Polar Bear

A Quick Guide to Climate Change Jargon

US Election:

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

*** Update: List of 2020 Presidential-related Election Lawsuits  (plus Text Summary)

*** How the Left Upended Our Election Laws in 2020

Election experts sound alarms as costs escalate and funding dwindles

Election watchdog: ‘Not ready for 2024’ elections, ‘still have many of the same problems’ from 2020

US Election — State Issues:

Heritage’s Election Integrity Take Action Page (by State — with more to come)

Systemic Voting Issues In PA County Even More Extensive Than Previously Known

RNC Sues Key Pennsylvania County for Absentee Ballot Transparency

Three Things You Haven’t Heard about Redistricting Litigation and the Alabama Map

How South Carolina took Millions in California Cash to Boost Vote-by-mail

8 indicted for voter fraud in NC after State Board of Elections investigation

Judicial Watch Settles North Carolina Voter Roll Lawsuit After State Removes Over 430,000 Inactive Names From Rollsw

Against All Odds: The Real Findings of the Maricopa County (Arizona) Audit

Michigan Election Fraud Evidence Wall

States Want a Huge Federal Top-Off to ‘Zuck Bucks’ for Future Elections. But They’re Already Sitting on a Pile

US Politics and Durham:

*** John Durham’s Explosive Motion

*** What Is Durham Really Doing?

John Durham sent a message to the attorney general and the country

The Checkered Past of the FBI Cyber Contractor Who ‘Spied’ on Trump

Ted Cruz reveals major developments in the Durham probe

US Politics and Socialism:

*** Internal Democrat Research Holds Bad News for the Left

*** ESG Is Modern Day Fascism and It Is Going to Be Deadly

Making America think and speak again

U.S.-Bound Migrants in Southern Mexico Are Counseled on Controversial ‘Repressed Memories’

Other US Politics and Related:

*** Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President: I Quit So I Could Be Free

*** The Media is the Massage

Clintonworld takeover of Black Lives Matter

Democrat Takeover of BLM Means a New Multimillion-Dollar Hub for Race Hustling

Kellogg Foundation now paying illegal aliens $500 per month for being non-white, non-American

What Happens When Oklahoma’s Sen. Inhofe Retires?

Religion Related:

Private Schools Nation-Wide Pushing ‘Queer Inclusive’ Curriculum, Trans Ideology Starting in Pre-K

How Anti-Smut Activists Made ‘Louie, Louie’ Famous

Education Related:

*** GOP pushes schools to post all class materials online

*** Series: Programming the Children

Placing Limits on Faculty Speech

Political impartiality guidance for schools – what you need to know

Conservatives, don’t give up on going to college

Science and Misc Matters:

*** Why People Believe Wrong Things

*** The Military-Industrial-Academic-Political-Scientific Complex

*** ‘Follow the science’: As Year 3 of the pandemic begins, a simple slogan becomes a political weapon

Biodefense experts to Congress: The United States is still unprepared for pandemic and bioweapons threats

A little bit of everything: The Short Story of Science

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VIDEO: The West’s Energy Policy Is the Greatest National Security Threat We Face

Watch my interview with Tucker Carlson on Ukraine, Russia and how Biden’s policies aided Russia: ‘The West’s Energy Policy Is the Greatest National Security Threat We Face

EXCERPT:

Tucker Carlson: “So we wanted to walk you some of the likely consequences of what they are now doing in Eastern Europe and Marc Morano seemed like a good man to start with. Thanks so much for joining us tonight. So, without even getting into whether or not Ukraine is a democracy – I’m embarrassed to even – I mean, who cares. But I want to know what the effect on the United States and on the purchasing power of the average person, is likely to be from what they’re doing right now over there.

MORANO: “We are already seeing – the first part of it is in California, $6 a gallon. Gas is already up a dollar. Estimates are seven, $8 a gallon possible with recession if Putin, who we’ve given all of this power to by literally shutting down U.S. domestic energy.

Just a little history lesson here. In 2020, the United States was back to 1952 with energy, not just independence, but energy dominance. We were the world’s largest oil and gas producer. More energy exports and imports, more energy production than consumption and we hadn’t done that since Harry Truman was president. Joe Biden came in at he said the first thing he wanted to do was jail fossil fuel executives. Biden’s energy secretary had done a video singing about no more gasoline, The is world aflame due to global warming.

Biden – by the way – Biden – I’m sorry, Obama’s energy secretary (Chu) said he wanted European-style gas prices. So what happened as he started shutting down the Keystone pipelinebanning drilling on federal lands and Anwar, and defunding energy projects through banks through environmental social governance (ESG). All sorts of things.

So a war on fossil fuels happens. We are now in a much, much weaker position one year into this administration to where now Vladimir Putin is the direct beneficiary of all this. And you can’t keep Europe out of this. Europe is many years ahead of their version of a disastrous Green New Deal. One professor in Europe actually said it’s typical Marxist garbage — what they’ve engaged in. Europe began shutting down their energy, so the whole world has been empowering basically three places. The Middle East for the OPECChina, and now of course Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

So the people that are screaming the loudest that we need to go in and save democracy in Ukraine have destroyed our energy independence and dominance and made us so much more vulnerable to whatever Vladimir Putin may or may not want to do.”

Tucker Carlson: If you’re making energy more important for your own people, you are these we hate your own people. I think it’s that simple. In one sentence just if you could answer this question, is the Chinese government, which clearly has no respect for human rights or even its own people, are they making energy more expensive for Chinese?

Morano: No, there are estimates they build about a coal plant a week, they are about 50% of the world’s coal production. They laugh at all of these restrictions, but they were supplying most of our solar panels.

Tucker Carlson: Exactly!

Morano: But here’s the thing. They are not going to learn. Academia has been calling these energy restrictions for decades. This energy policy, what have they done? “the Washington Post” a few months ago actually said that we – if Jimmy Carter had won a second term there would be no climate crisis. They lamented that Ronald Reagan won. To the academia and media elites, Jimmy Carter’s first term was a model, and that’s what they want to do and that’s what we’re facing here.

John Kerry wants to have an urgent climate summit. He announced on Monday. In the midst of all of this, he believes the climate is the greatest threat. Their energy policy is the greatest national security threat we face.

Tucker Carlson: Perfect. Marc, great to see you. Thank you.

Morano: Appreciate it.

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How a Mindless Climate War on Energy Surrendered Ukraine

The Biden Administration gutted America’s energy sector to appease it’s radical climate czar John Kerry. They actually gifted America’s energy industry to Russia, because of John Kerry’s hatred of fossil fuels. This disastrous decision has financed Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. John Kerry is a total wrecking ball.

The Geller Report predicted that John Kerry would cause significant damage (here, herehere) as the Biden Administration’s climate czar. As Secretary of State, John Kerry’s stupidity, recklessness, and lies had a profound role in destabilizing the Middle East. Today, as climate czar, John Kerry is destabilizing the world.

How a Mindless Climate War on Energy Surrendered Ukraine

By Newsmax, February 26, 2022

Delusional Western nation anti-hydrocarbon energy policies premised upon combating climate change as the “greatest existential threat” are being exploited by far more immediate and formidable adversaries.

We are currently witnessing tragic consequences play out in failures of Russian oil and gas-dependent NATO allies — Germany in particular — to dissuade and counter savage Putin aggression against Ukraine.

Add to this, a concurrent Biden administration policy disaster which has simultaneously terminated U.S. energy independence while also depleting export capacities to reduce E.U. dependence on those Russian supplies.

Germany, a dominant E.U. economic power and notable NATO skinflint (only 1.5% GDP for military) depends on Russia for over half of its natural gas and a quarter of its oil imports.

Let’s all be reminded that NATO was created in 1949 by the U.S., Canada, and several E.U. countries expressly for this very reason: to provide collective security against then-Soviet Union expansionism following the Second World War.

Whereas America has no treaty obligation nor popular desire to engage our troops in a non-NATO member Ukraine war, let’s nevertheless also recall a 1994 commitment called the Budapest Memorandum in which the U.S., Great Britain and Russia guaranteed Ukraine security protections in exchange for a very big military concession.

The memo begins by noting that Ukraine had committed “to eliminate all nuclear weapons from its territory within a specified period of time.”

That stockpile included some 1,800 nuclear devices, all of which were returned to Russia by 1996.

Those signatories — Russia included — “reaffirm[ed] their obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine;” “pledged to “refrain from economic coercion” against Ukraine; and agreed to “seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine” in the event of an “act of aggression” against the country.

With converging and compounding consequences, U.N.-promoted climate alarmism over fossil burning energy greenhouse gas emissions inexplicably prompted a plan hatched about 20 years ago by then-German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder to also phase out non-carbon emission nuclear energy over three decades.

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American Solar Factory to Close After Joe Biden Guts U.S. Tariffs on China

Biden continues to reward our mortal enemies while punishing the American people. #stolenelection

As one commenter pointedly exclaimed, “….in Jan. 2021 when the fraud Democrat regime shut down the Keystone pipeline, gutted US energy production, and put thousand of people out of work. John “F-n” Kerry swaggered to a microphone, sneered, and told the fired workers “You have better options now!”

They then told all the destitute energy workers that they should get jobs at the “Solar Panel Technician Factory” or some such nonsense. Well, Lefties – where are all those “Solar Panel Technician Jobs” now?

Alabama Solar Factory to Close After Joe Biden Guts U.S. Tariffs on China

By: John  Binder, Breitbart, February 23, 2022:

Huntsville, Alabama, solar panel factory will close after President Joe Biden exempted foreign-made bifacial solar panels from United States tariffs earlier this month.

LG Electronics, a South Korea-based company, announced that it will be closing its Huntsville solar panel manufacturing operation, resulting in the layoffs of about 160 American employees and another 60 Americans who are employed as contract workers.

Executives said they hope to retain as many employees as they can by transitioning them into the company’s other business and manufacturing sectors at its Huntsville campus. Laid-off employees will receive severance packages.

The announcement comes just weeks after Biden decided to exempt foreign-made bifacial solar panels — the overwhelming majority of which come from China — from Section 201 tariffs on solar imports to the United States that were first imposed by former President Trump in January 2018 at a 30 percent rate.

The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) had warned that Biden’s gutting U.S. tariffs on China-made bifacial solar panels would have a devastating impact on America’s solar manufacturing sector.

“China sympathizers may believe that gutting the 201 solar tariffs would not affect the U.S. solar manufacturing industry as long as Congress supports domestic producers. This is flat-out wrong,” CPA Chairman Zach Mottl said in a statement:

Without trade remedies to level the playing field for U.S. solar manufacturers that are competing against heavily subsidized Chinese companies, it won’t matter if Congress passes a domestic tax credit for American producers. [Emphasis added]

Shortly after Trump imposed the U.S. tariffs on solar imports, LG Electronics announced that they would expand their Huntsville campus to include manufacturing solar panels — a boon for the city’s local economy as every one factory job supports an additional 7.4 jobs.

In November, as Breitbart News reported, Biden’s Commerce Department sided with Chinese solar manufacturers who produce their products in Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam by denying a request from American solar manufacturers to investigate U.S. tariff evasion.

Biden had been lobbied by 12 Senate Democrats who sent a letter asking the administration not to impose any tariffs on the products made in Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam by the Chinese solar manufacturers.

From 2001 to 2018, U.S. free trade with China has cost Alabama at least 50,700 jobs or about 2.5 percent of the state’s employment. A previous study found that permanent 25 percent tariffs on China-made products imported to the U.S. market would create a million American jobs in five years.

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Why Frackers Are Returning to Abandoned Oil Patches in Droves

For consumers, high oil prices are a headache; for drillers, they are an opportunity.


Less than two years after the price of oil briefly plummeted to roughly negative $37 a barrel, an oil boom is underway in America—even in places where drilling was all but abandoned two years ago.

“Private oil producers are leading an industry return to places like the Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma and the DJ Basin in Colorado, where drilling had almost completely stopped in mid-2020,” reports The Wall Street Journal.

The Anadarko Basin, for example, has surged from just seven active drilling rigs to 46, according to energy analytics firm Enverus, while the DJ Basin in Colorado saw its number of active rigs jump from four to 15. Meanwhile, Utah’s Uinta Basin and the Powder River Basin in Wyoming, which both saw active rigs fall to zero in 2020, have seen rigs increase to roughly a dozen.

What is driving frackers back to abandoned oil patches? It’s not newly discovered shale oil. Rather, it’s high oil prices.

The price of oil has surged in recent months, increasing from roughly $65 a barrel to the low-to-mid $90s in recent weeks. (The price of crude closed at just under $94 a barrel Monday.) The prices—which recently hit a seven-year high—are attracting drillers to shale patches that are more expensive to drill and thus require higher prices to be profitable.

For consumers, high oil prices can be a headache, because they result in higher gasoline prices. But for drillers, high oil prices mean more potential for profit.

Klee Watchous, president of the Kansas-based company Palomino Petroleum, says the higher prices have marked a turnaround for his small company and the surrounding communities where it operates.

“After many years of fighting this low oil-price situation, it feels great,” Watchous told the WSJ. “The cycles of boom and bust have been part of the oil-and-gas industry for decades, and no one knows how long it will last.”

Watchous is looking to seize on the higher prices to venture into Illinois in 2022, a state few companies have sought to tap in recent years.

Some might begrudge oil companies like Palomino profiting from high oil prices, but it’s precisely their desire for profits that can help tame surging oil prices. As oil companies expand their production, they increase the supply of oil, which inevitably puts a downward pressure on prices. It’s a perfect example of Adam Smith’s insight that free markets harness the self-interest of individuals to serve the whole.

“Every individual… neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it… he intends only his own security,” Smith explained in The Theory of Moral Sentiments; “and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.”

High prices do two important things in an economy. First, they encourage people to conserve scarce resources. Many people love steak and lobster, but few of us eat it every week or every month because it’s quite expensive. In other words, the high price discourages us from demanding steak and lobster. But that’s not the only function of the high price. It also encourages lobster trappers and beef companies to bring more of these products to market in pursuit of profit. Together, these two mechanisms help make scarce resources more abundant.

Price is arguably the simplest and most vital principle in economics. It signals both scarcity (to consumers) and opportunity (to entrepreneurs). Yet the economist Thomas Sowell has noted the importance of prices is often misunderstood by activists and politicians.

“Prices play a crucial role in determining how much of each resource gets used where and how the resulting products get transferred to millions of people,” Sowell wrote in Basic Economics. “Yet this role is seldom understood by the public and it is often disregarded entirely by politicians.”

It’s worth noting that the word “price” never appeared in President Joe Biden’s 2020 executive order killing the Keystone XL Pipeline, an oil pipeline system between Canada and the US commissioned in 2010.

Nixing the 1,700-mile pipeline, which could have carried roughly 800k barrels of oil a day from Alberta to the Texas Gulf Coast, did nothing to reduce the pain at the pump consumers are feeling today, with gasoline currently at more than $3.50 a gallon. But that was expected.

What perhaps was unexpected was that higher prices would result in additional fracking—a process many contend is harder on the environment than regular drilling, and a practice Biden has said he wants to “move gradually away from.”

So while the role prices play in an economy is one of the most basic lessons in economics, politicians of every stripe would do well to remember one of the greatest fallacies: overlooking secondary consequences.

COLUMN BY

Jon Miltimore

Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune. Bylines: Newsweek, The Washington Times, MSN.com, The Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, The Federalist, the Epoch Times.

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Oil Soars Beyond $100 Per Barrel For The First Time Since 2014

The worldwide price of crude oil skyrocketed to more than $100 per barrel for the first time since 2014 as Russia launched a full-scale offensive against Ukraine.

The Brent crude index, the global oil benchmark, hit $101.66 per barrel Thursday morning, surging more than 4% overnight. The U.S. WTI index skyrocketed nearly 7% to $98.69 per barrel Thursday, its highest level since 2014.

On Wednesday evening, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “a special military operation” in separatist regions of Ukraine. The announcement was followed by reports of Russian troop movements near Ukraine and rockets being fired into several regions, including near the capital city of Kyiv.

“At this stage it is anything but clear what could bring the Russian president to his senses, therefore the situation, the equity and oil markets will remain volatile,” PVM Oil Associates senior analyst Tamas Varga said in a brief Thursday, CNBC reported.

“Even if prices drop back below $100/bbl due to abating tension in Eastern Europe, the retracement might prove short-lived and product tightness could keep oil prices at elevated levels in months to come,” Varga said.

Between January 2021 and November 2021, Russia exported the second-largest amount of oil to the U.S., behind only Canada. Russia is also a key player in the global oil market and is Europe’s largest supplier.

The price of oil is the largest determinant of gas prices. The average price of gas in the U.S. reached $3.53 per gallon this week, its highest level since July 2014, Energy Information Administration data showed.

“The prayers of the entire world are with the people of Ukraine tonight as they suffer an unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces,” President Joe Biden said in a statement late Wednesday. “President Putin has chosen a premeditated war that will bring a catastrophic loss of life and human suffering.”

“The world will hold Russia accountable,” Biden said.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen characterized the invasion as an “unprecedented act of aggression” and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the West “cannot and will not just look away.”

Johnson said the U.K. and its allies would agree to a “massive package of economic sanctions designed in time to hobble the Russian economy.”

Both the president and senior White House officials warned that Americans may face higher prices at the pump as a result of U.S. sanctions against Russia.

“That’s what we want the American public to be aware is a possibility,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Tuesday. “Standing up for values is not without cost, including in this case.”

COLUMN BY

THOMAS CATENACCI

Energy and environment reporter.

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CFACT Resupplies Canada’s Freedom Truckers

Things are getting a bit hairy in the Great White North.

Last weekend, a Canadian judge issued an injunction blocking monies being sent to assist the trucker protest in Ottawa collected by a Christian fundraising site GiveSendGo. The site was subsequently hacked and donor information was compromised, leading many to fear the government will now use this data to go after protestors.

On Monday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also invoked the far-sweeping Emergencies Act for the first time in 50 years. This frightening move gives the Prime Minister the type of near absolute power as would be the case under Marshall law for 7 days, then it will be up to the Parliament to determine whether-or-not to extend it.

At the time of this writing, we’re hearing reports from the front lines of impending troop arrivals, as well as threats of tear gas about to be deployed on civilians. It’s hard to tell what is real or not. Our hearts go out to the protestors. We stand in solidarity with them.

As part of the crackdown by Trudeau, the government has threatened to freeze the personal bank accounts of trucker sympathizers. This is being done to stop the flow of funds – and even crypto currency is not exempt. The logic is simple: if protestors are deprived of basic human needs like food and water, or people can’t heat themselves in the freezing temperatures, they’ll have no choice but to disperse.

But they’re underestimating freedom-loving people like the truckers, you, and groups like CFACT. When freedom is under threat, and government starts acting tyrannical, we step up our resolve and do what’s necessary to fight back.

CFACT, for its part, has been, and will continue to, deliver essential food, fuel and basic necessities to those engaged in this epic battle for liberty. We will do this despite any threats and intimidation from the Trudeau government.

Though we’d like to share details of precisely how we’re going about our effort, as well as some of the very positive compliments we’ve received from those on the ground, we cannot do so. That would be to place ourselves and others more easily in the government’s crosshairs. Suffice it to say, we’re committed to this cause and very thankful to all of you who helped us out by donating to our Canada campaign. Keep it up!

In the meantime, while events continue to unfold, let’s all pray for the True North to once again be “Strong and Free.”

There is much more to do.  Please make the strongest donation you can right now and together let’s keep freedom rolling — north, south and around the globe!

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BMW Putting The Brakes On Their All Electric Vehicle folly

BMW CEO Oliver Zipse has a two-word message for those demanding an all-electric vehicle fleet and the outlawing of internal combustion engines. “Slow Down!”

We would add three more. End. The. Mandates.

Zipse, noting that IC engines power the large majority of vehicles on the road today, says that ditching them willy-nilly will not have a positive impact on the environment. Worse, failing to give the presumed transition from IC engines to electric vehicles “a chance to develop with the markets” (by imposing mandates) will harm national economies and be a societal disruptor.

Society surely is not ready to abandon the freedoms that come with IC engines that are not yet present for EVs. And the EV universe has a lot to learn before claiming it can move nations as efficiently and effectively as the IC has done for the past century.

EV charging stations, we now know, are fast becoming targets when placed in unattended locations. Tesla reports that stations in Utah and California have been vandalized by thieves likely wanting to harvest the copper charging cables. Stealing gas pumps is quite rare.

Charging station etiquette is also in its infancy. Do you have the right to uncouple an unattended vehicle from a charging port to charge your own vehicle? Maybe if the charger is free, but what if this results in one person paying for another’s charge? Road rage, anyone?

The Week national correspondent Ryan Cooper asserts that the societal transformation to EVs will not be that great unless American cities “take advantage of the broader benefits of electrification.” One thing needing immediate correction, he argues, is that “most of the popular electric vehicles today are offensively overpowered.” He also fears that the “cheaper to drive” EVs will prompt increases in vehicle miles driven and hence more congestion!

Cooper advocates instead for electric bicycles, which he says “have an even more revolutionary potential than electric cars and at a tiny fraction of the material footprint.” While admitting that bicycle riding is “incredibly dangerous” in most of the U.S. (not to mention a very slow way to cross the Rockies, or even the hills of Austin and San Francisco), Cooper believes e-bikes could be a game changer for commuting, shopping, or even “quite significant cargo trips.”

In Cooper’s ideal society, American cities would “pivot away from the obsessive hyper-fixation on driving that has turned so much of our built environment into a hideous, inefficient, dangerous nightmare” to one in which cars are just one transportation option among many. Alas, he fears, the EV “revolution” might end up as “a mere electrified version of our current sprawling death machine.”

The naivete of Cooper’s vision is exemplified in his comment that EVs will also have the political benefit of getting rid of gas price anxiety and ending wars for oil. In a prior article, he cited the Biden oil price increases as “proof” that oil prices fluctuate wildly while boasting that electric companies are bound by long-term rates that cannot be easily changed.

Of course, in reality, the price of electricity fluctuates wildly from state to state. Hawaii, which has the nation’s highest rate (at 33.97 cents per kilowatt-hour in November 2021), also had the fastest rising rate (up 18 percent from a year earlier) hydroelectric dams kept Washington state with the cheapest energy (at just 10.22 cents/kWh).

The U.S. Energy Information Agency explains that extreme temperatures increase demand for heating or cooling, which often leads to higher fuel and electricity prices. “When there are droughts or competing demand for water resources, or which wind speeds drop, the loss of electricity generation … can put upward pressure on … prices.” And during blackouts, the price of electricity is irrelevant – you just “ain’t goin’ nowhere.”

While lamenting that even EVs generate massive resource consumption, Cooper seems to miss the connection to global geopolitics that emanates from the drive by China to corner the market on rare-earth metals while ignoring the West’s mad dash to stop using fossil fuels.

Oil and natural gas are plentiful and easy to extract, process, and bring to market compared to lithium, cobalt, and even copper. But perhaps utopians cannot imagine wars over natural resources other than fossil fuels.

Back in the real world, BMW is both developing an all-new electric-centric platform called Neue Klasse and working on an entirely new generation of IC engines, including gasoline and diesel six- and eight-cylinder powertrains that will be far more efficient than their older models. Consumer choice, after all, drives the market.

As does technology. For example, a tiny Kansas-based company called Astron Aerospace has just announced its Omega 1 rotary engine. The company says their new engine is “designed to give internal combustion a new lease on life and increasing curbs on fossil fuel consumption.” The Omega 1 is designed to work with a variety of fuels while producing “extremely low to zero harmful emissions.”

Much like the old Mazda Wankel engine, the Omega 1 does not feature an offset crankshaft, eccentric shaft, or reciprocating pistons. But unlike the Wankel engine, it has a prechamber connected to a pair of chambers that separate cold intake air from exhaust gas, removing the issue of exhaust gas overlap.

This, says the company, makes the Omega 1 the world’s first engine with an active linear power transfer. As the engine rotates, all power is transferred via the single rotating power shaft. The result is a new, smaller, yet more powerful, engine that uses far less fuel and “will produce significantly less greenhouse gases while improving torque and power.”

Of course, this revolutionary technology will be illegal in California and other states that have banned IC engines and thus choked the market. The Omega 1 demonstrates the folly of limiting human ingenuity and our ability to find better solutions than the ones governments want to set in stone as “settled science.”

End. The. Mandates. Now!

COLUMN BY

Duggan Flanakin

Duggan Flanakin is the Director of Policy Research at the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr. Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. A brief history of his multifaceted career appears in his book, “Infinite Galaxies: Poems from the Dugout.”

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Virginia House Passes Bill to End Virginia’s Clean Economy Act!

Give yourself a hand!

The Virginia House of Delegates voted by a 52-48 margin to pass HB 118 — a bill crafted to roll back the disastrous Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA) put in place by former Governor Ralph Northam.

As you may recall, CFACT asked you to chime in and give your opinion, and apparently many of you did just that. So overwhelming was the response, in fact, that opposition to the VCEA grew to a whopping 7-1 margin against it! To be sure, it appears VA House legislators heard your voice and have decided they were also in favor of putting the brakes on the dangerous Green New Deal-style VCEA initiative to pave their state with costly wind and solar farms.

Again, bravo!

As you might expect, CFACT also weighed in on the issue via other means. CFACT advisor Collister Johnson and I, for instance, went down and testified directly before the House sub-committee on Commerce and Energy on behalf of HB 118. CFACT’s website also posted numerous articles showcasing the folly of the VCEA. And right before the vote today, CFACT released a groundbreaking report by former DOE researcher David Wojick pointing out numerous flaws in Dominion energy’s plan. We sent it to every member of the House.

Among the study’s key findings include:

  • Dominion’s proposed Plan for VCEA compliance will likely lead to disastrous blackouts and price spikes. Destructive reliability problems are possible as early as winter 2023-24.
  • VCEA requires ever increasing amounts of intermittent wind and solar power, accompanied by the progressive retirement of all existing fossil fueled generating capacity. Reliability can only be maintained by adding massive amounts of battery storage along the way.
  • Dominion’s proposed Plan includes less than 3% of the required storage. The necessary storage will cost hundreds of billions of dollars.

You can read the full report for yourself here.

Importing needed power from neighboring states to ameliorate likely energy shortages is not feasible, and Dominion’s Plan all but acknowledges such.

This was indeed a good day. The battle to undo the damage done by the Greens over recent years still has a long way to go, but at least there’s a bright spot that just happened a little south of the Mason-Dixon that should give us encouragement.

For nature and people too.

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Checkbook Journalism: AP announces ‘largest single expansion’ of climate reporting ‘paid for through philanthropic grants’ of $8 million

Paid press releases now officially the news: AP announces ‘largest single expansion’ of climate reporting ‘paid for through philanthropic grants’ of $8 million. Welcome to a new form of Checkbook Journalism.


Morano:

“The AP will now have zero ‘obligation to serve as watchdogs over public affairs and government’ and instead be approved messaging lapdogs to their paymasters. Will the AP ever offend their donors and looks critically at the UN IPCC climate panel? Or NASA? It’s a laughable thought.”

By: Marc Morano – Climate Depot – February 15, 2022 11:42 AM

The media’s coverage of climate change has sunk to a new journalistic low. The Associated Press declared on February 15, 2022,  that it is no longer “wary” of accepting millions of dollars in outside group money to expand the news company’s climate change coverage. The mainstream media, led by the Associated Press, is now publicly admitting they are just phoning in their coverage on ‘climate change.’ Led by the Rockefeller Foundation and others, the AP will be parroting what the ideological activist groups’ funding pays for, while actual news will be tossed aside.

“This initiative, with the help of the Rockefeller Foundation and others, will enable us to closely examine efforts to cope with climate change, both the problems it poses and its potential solutions,” said AP Deputy Managing Editor Sarah Nordgren.

Journalistic standards are now officially out the window. There will be no attempt to present a patina of objectivity, balance or unbiased news by the AP when it comes to ‘climate change.’

Climate grant illustrates growth in philanthropy-funded news

(AP) — The Associated Press said Tuesday that it is assigning more than two dozen journalists across the world to cover climate issues, in the news organization’s largest single expansion paid for through philanthropic grants. The announcement illustrates how philanthropy has swiftly become an important new funding source for journalism — at the AP and elsewhere — at a time when the industry’s financial outlook has been otherwise bleak. 

The AP’s new team, with journalists based in Africa, Brazil, India and the United States, will focus on climate change’s impact on agriculture, migration, urban planning, the economy, culture and other areas. Data, text and visual journalists are included, along with the capacity to collaborate with other newsrooms, said Julie Pace, senior vice president and executive editor. “This far-reaching initiative will transform how we cover the climate story,” Pace said. … The grant is for more than $8 million over three years, and about 20 of the climate journalists will be new hires. Five organizations are contributing to the effort: the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Quadrivium, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Walton Family Foundation. …

For many years, Journalists and philanthropists were more wary of each other. News organizations were concerned about maintaining independence and, until the past two decades, financially secure enough not to need help. …

Carovillano said he’s noticed a difference in morale in his organization because of the growth achieved through new funding. “I think it has changed the mindset of the newsroom a little bit,” he said. “After years of basically feeling a little beleaguered, people are proud that they’re part of an organization that is dreaming really big and actually has the ability to do it.”

End AP article excerpt

Climate Depot analysis: 

“Objectivity, balance, neutrality, plurality, and bias are among the concepts used to evaluate news media programming,” noted a report from Professor Natalie Jomini Stroud, Ph.D. of The Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Participation at the University of Texas at Austin.

In 2009, Climate Depot founder, Marc Morano, launched Climate Depot with this statement: “It is very hard to get accurate information on global warming and environmental issues. Much of what the media reports is simply a regurgitation of the rhetoric from partisan and ideologically driven environmental groups, foundations, and the United Nations, which are spinning data to promote a cause,” Morano said.

Morano added in 2009: “Sadly, many of today’s mainstream climate reporters would be better-suited writing newsletters for Al Gore than attempting to inform the public about the latest climate science developments.”

Fast forward to 2022. My comments in 2009 are even more prescient with AP’s announcement that they will be a pay-to-report news agency. The Associated Press will be tossing their journalistic ethics out the window.

The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) issued its “Code of Ethics” for journalists. Let’s see how AP’s big announcement that big donors are going to drive their climate change news holds up to these ethical journalist codes.

Key excerpts from SPJ Code of Ethics:

  • SPJ Code of Ethics:  “Be vigilant and courageous about holding those with power accountable. Give voice to the voiceless.”
  • Reality Check: The AP will now be subservient and timid ‘about holding those with power accountable’, especially those who gave them untold millions to promote climate propaganda.
  • SPJ Code of Ethics: “Recognize a special obligation to serve as watchdogs over public affairs and government.”
  • Reality Check: The AP will now have zero ‘obligation to serve as watchdogs over public affairs and government’ and instead be funding lapdogs to their paymasters. Will the AP ever offend their donors and looks critically at the UN IPCC climate panel? Or NASA? It’s a laughable thought.
  • SPJ Code of Ethics: “Be wary of sources offering information for favors or money; do not pay for access to news.”
  • Reality Check: The AP will NOT ‘be wary of sources offering information for favors or money,’ but instead, it will be seeking even money from additional donors for a job well done promoting climate hysteria.
  • SPJ Code of Ethics: “Deny favored treatment to advertisers, donors or any other special interests, and resist internal and external pressure to influence coverage.”
  • Reality Check: Instead of ‘denying favored treatment’ to ‘donors,’ the AP will be dishing out ‘favored treatment’ to not only its current funders of the news but to any other potential donors who could help expand their ‘climate’ reporting.
  • SPJ Code of Ethics: “Distinguish news from advertising and shun hybrids that blur the lines between the two.”

Reality Check: The AP will most likely ‘shun hybrids’ of ‘news and advertising and instead just opt for full-blown press releases of the foundations that fund the AP.  Modern mainstream journalism has devolved into a sad sack of shit.

Related Links: 

‘Long sad history of AP reporter Seth Borenstein’s woeful global warming reporting’ – Media Factsheet: Climate Depot Serving as the Media’s Ombudsman

AP’s Seth Borenstein at it again hyping Antarctic melt fears – Recycles same claims from 2014, 1990, 1979, 1922 & 1901! – Climate Depot’s Point-By-Point Rebuttal – ‘The Associated Press is recycling more than century old Antarctica ice sheet melt and sea level rise fears.  Reporter Seth Borenstein is not the first one to hype these same Antarctica melt fears. Virtually the exact same claims and hype were reported in 2014, 1990, 1979, 1922 and 1901!

2014: Watch: WUSA 9 DC TV station on Antarctic melt fears features images of DC monuments underwater. ‘It’s our choice how fast the seas rise’ – We control sea level rise? Watch Now: Local DC News Schlock Report on Antarctica & Sea Level Rise

1990: Flashback January 11, 1990: NBC’s Today Show features Paul Ehrlich warning of impacts of Antarctic ice melt: ‘You Could Tie Your Boat to the Washington Monument’

1979 NYT: “Boats could be launched from the bottom of the steps of the Capitol’ in DC –‘Experts Tell How Antarctic’s Ice Could Cause Widespread Floods – Mushy Ice Beneath Sheet’]

1922: ‘Mountain after mountain of [Antarctic] ice will fall into the sea, be swept northwards by the currents, and melt, thus bringing about, but at a much more rapid rate, the threatened inundation of the land by the rising of the sea to its ancient level.‘ – The Mail Adelaide, SA – April 29, 1922 

1901: ‘London On The Border of Destruction’: ‘To Be Wiped Out By A Huge Wave’ – Queanbeyan Age – August 10, 1901 – Excerpt: ‘Geologists believe that this great ice sucker has reached the stage of perfection when it (Antarctica) will, break up again, letting loose all the waters of its suction over the two hemispheres, and completely flooding the low-lying lands of Europe, Asia, and North America.’

AP’s Seth Borenstein at it again! Claims ‘global warming means more Antarctic ice’ — Meet the new consensus, the opposite of the old consensus

Posted October 10, 20122:33 PM by Marc Morano | Tags: antarcticaarcticastrologyazBorensteinclimate depotfactsheeticeipccmediacdmkeymodelswacky

‘Science by press release’: Hansen’s woeful claims about DC’s 95 degree temps shredded: ‘There is little or no correlation between DC summer temps & world temps’

AP’s Borenstein cites Hansen as linking DC summer’s 23 days with 95° or hotter temps to global warming…In 1980, with significantly cooler world temps than today’s, D.C. experienced 28 days of temps of 95° or higher — 5 more than this summer. 24, occurred in 1988 again with significantly cooler world temps

Posted August 9, 20129:45 AM by Marc Morano | Tags: azBorensteinHansenheatwavemediamkeynew study

Flashback: Say it ain’t so! AP’s Borenstein Reports: ‘The Wind seems to be dying down…the cause may be global warming’ – Scientist mocks wind claims: ‘How can they have more intense storms from the same effect that is lessening winds?’

‘Rank climate propaganda’ – ‘Associated Press touts ‘a clear sign of human-caused climate change’ – But scientists dismantle claims – Morano: ‘Americans who rely on the Associated Press for climate news and information are being misinformed. The AP is serving up nothing short of rank climate propaganda.’

Also see: Analysis: ‘AP and NOAA are intentionally deceiving the public’ to support the climate narrative

AP’s Seth Borenstein Tries The Daily Records Con – ‘Another remarkably dishonest and deceitful piece, even by Seth Borenstein standards’

‘AP is selling pure snake oil’ – The Garbage Science Behind the AP’s Latest ‘Global Warming’ Report

AP’s Seth Borenstein rips Climate Depot’s Morano: ‘You’re just a troll with a love for conspiracy, a hatred for science and reality. Leave science to smart people’

A Classic Twitter Debate

AP’s Seth Borenstein claim: “I seek out experts, people who have studied the science, have academic qualifications, published the data in peer-reviewed journals and write what they say. I hold up a mirror to what data, science, reality show from qualified scientists. That’s my job.” 

Morano responded: “Oh, come on Seth. Your ‘job’ is to promote bullshit climate scares in any way you can imagine, to hell with the actual science. I don’t pay too much attention to your articles anymore, but I believe that you honestly think you are a good reporter on climate change. I think you are that clueless.” 

Borenstein replied: “You don’t pay attention to reality, science or anything with common sense You’re just a troll with a love for conspiracy, a hatred for science and reality. Leave science to smart people. Bye.” 

Morano: “No reason to get so testy Seth. Happy Earth Day.”

Update: Morano apologizes!: “Upon further review, I made the first unprovoked rude comment to Seth and instigated him into making a nasty comment about me. For what it’s worth Seth, I apologize. Over and out. Thanks.” Borenstein accepted the apology.

Read Chapter 3 excerpt of Green Fraud: ‘Man-Made Climate Change Is Not a Threat’ – ‘Hundreds of causes & variables influence climate’ not just CO2

Chapter 3 Excerpt: 

This chapter will take the reader through the facts on the claims about climate, energy, and the environment from the media, UN, and Green New Deal advocates. Princeton professor emeritus of physics Will Happer explained why climate activists are wrong. “Aside from the human brain, the climate is the most complex thing on the planet. The number of factors that influence climate—the sun, the earth’s orbital properties, oceans, clouds, and, yes, industrial man—is huge and enormously variable,” Happer said.

The global warming coalition can accurately be called climate change cause deniers. They deny the hundreds of causes and variables that influence climate change and instead try to pretend that carbon dioxide is the climate control knob overriding all the other factors and that every bad weather event is somehow “proof” of “global warming” and an impending climate “emergency.”

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