CFACT “Green New Wheel” teaches facts at TPUSA conference

America’s high school and college students are continually battered with misinformation from celebrities, “news” organizations, and social media.

Amid the COVID lockdowns and election controversies, this Left-wing indoctrination is at an all-time high.

That’s why CFACT cosponsored Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit (SAS) in West Palm Beach, FL, this past week – to reach young people directly with facts, not hysteria.

CFACT debuted the “Green New Wheel” table game; an actual, spin-able wheel that CFACT developed to engage the public on the folly behind the Green New Deal.

It “spun up” quite the buzz among hundreds of students, the media, and even a celebrity or two, all while operating under the COVID restrictions put in place by county officials for the conference.

Kirk Cameron, the Christian actor and movie star, and Alex Clark, host of TPUSA’s “POPlitics” show, both took a spin. Unfortunately for Ms. Clark, she landed on Joe Biden and the Green New Deal, which meant she lost. Mr. Cameron, however, landed on free market energy, which gave him the chance at a prize.

Chandler Wysocki, a freshman at the Ohio State University, was very enthusiastic about CFACT’s message after spinning the Green New Wheel. “I love the message, and I am really looking forward to getting plugged in to the CFACT chapter on campus,” Chandler said. “There are tons of events I think we can do. A hike and litter clean up would be great to show that we as conservatives care about the environment, despite what the Left says about us.”

CFACT’s mission also attracted the attention of national media. Both CFACT’s Houser and Bob Knee, CFACT’s National Field Coordinator, were interviewed by America’s Voice TV about their mission on college campuses. Additionally, Bob sat down with Cindy Drukier, host of The Nation Speaks, a news program with NTD.com, to discuss the growing threat of China to freedom. Bob explained how China is using environmental issues as a political chess piece to gain influence and power on the world stage.

“With the Paris Climate Accord specifically, the Chinese Communist Party is using that agreement to gain a serious edge economically,” Knee explained. “In that deal the West has to slash emissions, but China gets to keep building as many coal plants as they want. It’s ridiculous.

In addition to CFACT’s presence, there were many big-name speakers who took the stage at the Summit, including Tucker Carlson, Governor Kristi Noem, Dinesh D’Souza, Jude Jeanine Pirro, and more.

“These students were fired up. They love freedom, and they understand that it is capitalism, not socialism that brings prosperity and helps the environment,” Houser said. “Look for big things from these new CFACT activists next semester and beyond.”

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Capitalist Surrender

American business is terrified of the Greens.

Green / climate pressure groups love to spread the myth that corporations spend vast sums to block their agenda.

The opposite is true.  When Greens attack, business surrenders… and hands over billions in payoffs.

Jeff Bezos built Amazon into a global powerhouse and became the world’s richest man.  Bezos wants Amazon’s astounding growth to go on unimpeded, so he’s trying to massively buy the Left off.  Senior policy analyst Bonner Cohen reports at CFACT.org:

Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post, has announced that he is giving $793 million to 16 environmental groups to fight climate change and undertake other activities to save the planet. The largess comes from Bezos’s Earth Fund and is, he says, “just the beginning of my $10 billion commitment to fund scientists, activists, NGOs, and others.”

More than half of the donations are going to established, already well-funded green groups, with $100 million grants each going to the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Nature Conservancy (TNC), the World Resources Institute (WRI), and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

That’s right.  Bezos is paying billions to the most radical left-wing Greens to use to undo the very free market prosperity that made Amazon possible.

What a craven bargain Bezos has made.

As Winston Churchill said, “An appeaser Is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”

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Biden Putting His Left Foot Forward

Joe Biden is assembling an army of radical bureaucrats and no one’s freedom is safe.

In the waning days of the Obama Administration, the 44th President’s legion of anti-capitalist, global warming, anti-energy zealots burrowed into our federal service and decamped for big salaries at left-wing nonprofits.

They’re baaack!

Gina McCarthy did massive economic damage as Obama’s EPA Administrator and John Kerry weakened American interests across the board as Secretary of State.  Biden just named McCarthy his national climate adviser and Kerry, his international climate envoy.

Peter Murphy details Biden’s growing list of radicals at CFACT.org:

Mr. Biden did announce this week cabinet appointments that will implement climate policy overseen by Ms. McCarthy. They include Jennifer Granholm for Secretary of Energy, who was Michigan Governor and champion of “renewable” solar and wind energy; and Michael Regan for the Environmental Protection Agency, an African American who is the Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality and espouses “environmental justice” for communities of color. The president-elect is expected to name Congresswoman Deb Haaland of New Mexico for Secretary of the Interior, who is opposed to decades long energy development on federal lands.

Gabriella Hoffman focuses in on Biden’s pick for Interior, the radical Deb Haaland:

Haaland’s positions on critical conservation and environmental issues would alienate most Americans: Haaland is an original Green New Deal backer and is endorsed by the Sunrise Movement. She also supports restoring the size of the controversial Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, opposes Endangered Species Act reforms, and endorses the “30 by 30” plan via House Resolution 835.

Top level appointments are just the tip of the iceberg.  For every high profile radical who’s name you see in the news, there are thousands who’s names and faces remain largely unseen by the average American.  They are united in their belief that the problem with America is that we have far too much much of that pesky individual freedom.  They know better, and are prepared to substitute their judgment for ours through the bleak power of regulation.

America has at long last achieved energy independence.  Through the efficiency of free markets, we stand first in energy production, while simultaneously first in emissions reductions (if that’s your thing).  We have pushed back against anti-competitive mercantilism abroad and our manufacturers are rebounding and ready to compete.  We have returned Americans to space on American rockets.  We are defeating a global pandemic and creating better lives and opportunities for everyone.

Our assembling bureaucratic masters loathe all that and are prepared to stop it.

Joe Biden positioned himself for president by proclaiming he was a mainstream candidate who was not part of the radicalism possessing his party.

In the days ahead, judge Biden not by what he says, but by whom he appoints.

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China’s Big Fat Climate Lie

One of our favorite headlines from the clever parody site The Onion reads, “China Vows To Begin Aggressively Falsifying Air Pollution Numbers.”

Once again parody has a way of becoming reality.

Last Saturday the UN held an online “Climate Ambition Summit,” and China used the occasion to play the rest of the world for fools.

China has been using a provision in the Paris Climate Accord called “common but differentiated responsibilities” to demand that the United States and other nations slash emissions while China continues to build coal plants as fast as its economy will allow.  This is a surefire way to continue the massive shift of manufacturing from the free world to China.

Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping tried to cover China’s rapidly expanding emissions by offering vague promises far down the road.  He told the UN summit that China agreed merely to “aim” at capping their emissions by 2030, and will then try and be “carbon neutral” by 2060.  Any theoretical Chinese economic pain would occur long after Secretary Xi has departed this world, if ever.

Green pressure groups accept this ruse at face value.  They dare not criticize China for fear of jeopardizing their funding and ability to operate in China.

China accounts for over 28% of worldwide emissions and is growing rapidly.  The U.S. accounts for only 15% of world emissions and, thanks to the fracking revolution, has used natural gas to dramatically slash its own emissions (if that’s your thing). The Greens, however, persist in treating China as a saint and the U.S. as the sinner.

China should not be judged by its words, but only by its actions.

It is axiomatic that Socialists always lie.  Saying one thing while planning another is fundamental to the way China operates.

Under the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984, China promised to respect the individual freedom and democratic traditions of the people of Hong Kong.  China assured the British that Hong Kong could rely on a future under which there would be “one country, two systems.”  2020 has been a rough year for everyone, but particularly for the people of Hong Kong as China stripped them of their liberties and is now blatantly arresting those who dissent.

Watch out Taiwan.

For China, climate change is nothing more than a ruse de guerre they employ to throttle their competition, grow their economy and build their worldwide influence and might.

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The Geothermal Revolution

So-called “renewable” energy is all the rage.  The problem is that wind and solar, the most popular renewables, are intermittent, inefficient energy sources that are far better at generating subsidies than electricity.

Then there’s geothermal, which just might be a zero emissions (if that’s your thing), renewable energy source that scales.

David Wojick explains the science at CFACT.org:

There is a revolution coming in geothermal energy. How big it will be and how fast it can grow remains to be seen, but the revolutionary technology is here now… The Earth’s crust we live on is just a thin film wrapped around an 8,000 mile diameter molten ball. In some places under the deep ocean this crust is estimated to be just 3 miles or so thick. It is somewhat thicker under the continents but the point remains; it gets hot fast as you drill down into the crust. That heat is geothermal energy.

Fracking enabled the U.S. to achieve the long-sought goal of energy independence.  Turns out fracking is a gift that keeps on giving.  Wojick explains that fracking has profound applications for geothermal, allowing energy producers to pinpoint underground heat sources with greater accuracy than ever before:

With hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) we can make these geothermal reservoirs where we want them, the size we want them, and where the heat is the temperature we want, especially very hot. This includes the so-called “supercritical” water at 400 degrees C, which is now used in the most advanced power-plants.

The anti-energy Left is champing at the bit, hoping Joe Biden will make their most destructive fantasies come true.

Up to this point, they’ve given a somewhat tacit approval to geothermal energy…but will that continue if it is linked to “fracking”? Guess we will have to wait and see!

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The Magical World of “Climate Change”

Hadley Arkes: “Climate change” gives the Left a “moral” code, a kind of pseudo religion, without the reasoning that animates true religion.


The state of our public discourse may not be at one of its heights, but it should be a telling sign that we haven’t heard anyone say that we have a remarkable “consensus” on the Pythagorean theorem.  There is no citation to credentialed people to assure us that it’s “accepted” among those who should know that the square of the hypotenuse in the right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the two adjacent sides.

When we are dealing with an axiomatic, or necessary truth, it would be a vulgar move to suggest that this is a matter that may hinge on the “opinions” or the consensus among eminent people.   And yet we persistently hear from the Left in our politics that there is an “overwhelming consensus” among scientists that we are facing a grave crisis over “climate change,” a crisis that will require stringent controls on the way we light and heat our houses, power our cars, and live our ordinary lives.

The passion that animates the partisans in this cause has approached a level of unblinking certitude that runs beyond the conviction of the religious. For the religious, anchored in the world, seeing as it as, may find good reasons for doubt, and rely on the confirmation of their faith.

The partisans in this cause have often rejected, with contempt, the possibility of knowing “moral truths.”  My own sense is that they cling to the orthodoxy of climate change precisely to take the place of those anchoring moral truths that firmed up conviction, and offered consolation, to an earlier generation.

The people sounding the alarm over climate change invoke “science” as their new religion, and yet they have been compelled to speak only of a “consensus” among the credentialed people who come together under this banner.  And yet, for people ostensibly tutored in the hard sciences and mathematics, they don’t seem to realize what they give away in their claims when they are forced to appeal, at most, to a “consensus” of “opinion” among people with academic degrees.

The appeal to “consensus” is a veiled admission that the “truths” they appeal to have fallen notably short of the truths that the Laws of nature can reveal to us.  The people who have denied them their “consensus,” and forced them to use that word, are people like the estimable Will Happer and the distinguished colleagues who have joined him in their dubieties about the theories and ideology of “climate change.”

Will Happer was born in India just before what people of my years call “the War.”  His father was a Scotch physician in the Indian army, his mother a medical missionary from North Carolina.  With that absorption in science and faith, he was drawn back to his mother’s country, where he did a Ph.D. in Physics at Princeton and returned there to teach.  He rose to become Cyrus Fogg Brackett Chair of Physics and the chair of the University Research Board, a committee to provide guidance and oversight in the grants sought in the sciences.

Along the way, he did stints in the Administrations of two Bushes and one Trump.  Under the first President Bush, he became the Director of Energy Research in the Department of Energy.  There he oversaw a budget in the billions covering research in high energy, nuclear physics, and environmental science.  He would go on to co-found a company dealing with “magnetic imaging technologies” – and secure a few patents of his own.

His criticism of the cause for “climate change” did not spring then from the musings of one merely “passionate about the environment.”  He would be joined by a small army of physicists and meteorologists who would add their own searing critiques.  And one of the striking points in the argument has been that, instead of being a danger, carbon dioxide actually helps plants to flourish.

The response of course of the partisans over climate change has mainly been to ignore the evidence and reasoning brought forth by these other, accomplished men of science.  It is far easier to preserve a new orthodoxy if one simply pretends that it draws no serious critique.

But I leave the science here to the scientists.  Let us assume that the heralds of climate change and doom are correct.  What would be the source of the moral conviction that there is an urgent problem here, that it would be morally wrong for anyone to deny the problem and resist the remedies?

I take it that the moral force comes from a concern for the human lives that may be destroyed as the oceans rise, and catastrophes unfold.  But then the obvious question arises in response:  How could one justify massive controls out of a speculative concern for the human lives that might be begotten and destroyed in the future – while attaching no concern at all for the 800,000+ killings performed every year in abortion of nascent babies, not at all speculative, but palpably with us and known to us?

Of course, there is nothing novel here, even with intellectuals in advanced societies, simply drawing a veil over a class of human beings who will not “count,” whose injuries will simply not matter.  They could be slaves in America, Jews in Nazi Germany, or Catholics – at various times – in all places.

The Left came to its position on abortion in the momentum of sexual liberation.  They would reject all moral truths as they would reject any ground of moral judgment on the way that people practice their sexual lives.  But the moral functions of commending and condemning are simply built into our nature.

The Left may reject moral truth, but they want something to feel righteous about, and they do want to ring condemnation for their adversaries.   “Climate change” has given them a “moral” world nicely detached from those vexing moral truths, and a kind of pseudo-religion, bereft of the weave of reasoning that runs through the religion we have come to know.

COLUMN BY

Hadley Arkes

Hadley Arkes is the Ney Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus at Amherst College and the Founder/Director of the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights & the American Founding. His most recent book is Constitutional Illusions & Anchoring Truths: The Touchstone of the Natural Law. Volume II of his audio lectures from The Modern Scholar, First Principles and Natural Law is now available for download.

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Recent Energy and Environmental News

Welcome to our latest Energy & Environmental Newsletter… (For all 2020 Newsletters, go here. To review the current issue, see below.)

Note: Today is the day that the Electoral College is scheduled to vote.

If they chose Mr. Biden, will that end this matter? I think not, and here is why. 

Please assist in getting that information widely disseminated. TY!

US National Elections: General

Curiouser and Curiouser

Elevating US Vote Integrity

Biden Won 477 Counties, Obama Won 689 – Yet Biden Gained 13 Million More Votes

New reports about election manipulation read like a Tom Clancy novel

Trump invokes foreign interference provision of his 2018 executive order

Short video: Former Army Intelligence Officer Discusses Election Anomalies

Trump’s two year Sting for foreign interference?

Election Supervisor Shows How Dominion Software Allows Changing Votes

US National Elections: Lawsuits

The hypocrisy about reaction to Trump’s election lawsuits

The ‘smartest man in the room’ has joined Sidney Powell’s team

Arizona Lawsuit Alleges Dominion Software Manipulation

Texas sues several swing states for election malfeasance

Hundreds of GOP Congress Members Back Texas-Led Lawsuit

Supreme Court shoots down Texas lawsuit, but it isn’t over yet

Scotus: The Eyes of Justice Were Upon You — and You Failed!

US National Elections: State Issues

Judge rules that election officials failed in nine ways!

Study Shows in 5 Seconds Biden Racked Up 140,000 Votes in Michigan

Dr. Linda Tarver Testifies before Michigan Legislators re Election Problems

Michigan Precinct Voting Machine Audit: Results Secret so far

Georgia’s Governor Urges Signature Audit

Georgia Poll Observers Say They Were Effectively Told to Go Home

In GA, 818 People Voted Only for Trump. For Biden, It Was 95,801

USPS Subcontractor Alleges Backdating of Thousands of Mail-In Ballots

Other US Politics and Socialism

How Socialist Dogma Replaces Real Science with “Settled Science”

The Coming Coup?

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Green Groups Are China’s ‘Useful Idiots’

Archbishop Viganò’s 2nd Letter to President

Short Video: What’s Wrong With The 1619 Project?

Other US Politics and Related

America’s Enemy is China not Russia

Austin-based SolarWinds at center of massive US government hack 

President Trump’s Accomplishments List

The agenda that undermines America’s bond with the Jews

A free nation cannot long survive if its press takes sides

Commentary: Fox News’ Media Suicide

Media Say Biden’s Female-Led Comms Team is a First. It’s What Trump Has Now

Biden Politics Threaten Catholic Teachings

COVID-19: Vaccines

Short video: Dr. Northrup Discusses a Mandatory COVID Vaccine

Kennedy: New COVID Vaccine Should Be Avoided At All Cost

COVID-19 Vaccine: FDA Documents Reveal 21 Serious Conditions as Possible Outcomes

COVID-19: Prevention

Dr. Mercola: Asymptomatic People Do Not Spread COVID-19

Landmark Study Finds Masks Are Ineffective

Why Practicing Gratitude Is Good for Your Health

Death and illness due to lockdowns is higher than deaths due to COVID-19

COVID-19: Models and Data

HCQ is effective for COVID-19 when used early: meta analysis of 161 studies

Hopkins analysis showing COVID-19 has ‘relatively no effect on deaths’

Put on the handcuffs, hide under the bed and stay there

Bar owner in LA is livid — and rightfully so!

Video: Crucial Viral Update – Europe and USA Explained

Scientists expose ten fatal problems in paper behind COVID-19 testing

Essential Facts About COVID-19

Greed Energy Economics

Green energy needs to account for all its costs

How Much do Wind and Solar Cost?

Will a carbon tax reduce CO2 emissions without hurting our economy?

I agree with Greenpeace: carbon offsets are a global con job

Solar investors complain about NC tax audit

Wind & Solar Energy

Are we in a free-market energy transition from fossil fuels to solar and wind?

Renewable Energy, A Reality Check

The Folly of Renewable Energy

State Senator: Steps taken to regulate wind energy projects

Permission refused for wind farm due to presence of protected bird

Where does solar power fit?

Nuclear Energy

Trump boost to nuclear power to live on with Biden

Short video: Small Modular Reactors Explained – Nuclear Power’s Future?

It’s time to place a macro bet on nuclear fusion

Fossil Fuel Energy

World is ‘doubling down’ on fossil fuels despite climate crisis

Gas Ban Economics 101: A Lesson in Energy Policy and What Not to Do

Electric Vehicle Deceptions

Musk: Electric Cars Will Require a Lot More Electric Power Than We Have

Electric Vehicle Shock Treatment

The silent cost behind the world’s electric vehicle revolution

Manmade Global Warming

UN agency hit with fraud and corruption allegations at climate projects

Lancing the Lancet’s global-warming pustule

Kerry reveals Biden’s devotion to radical ‘Great Reset’ movement

European Green New Deal Is As Phony As It Comes

Study: Welfare in the 21st century: Increasing development, reducing inequality, the impact of climate change, and the cost of climate policies

Study: The Global Mean Temperature Anomaly Record

Are Temperatures and Ocean Levels Rising Dangerously? Not Really

The US and the Paris Agreement

Don’t rejoin the Paris climate agreement

Send the Paris Climate Treaty to the Senate

How to Stop the Paris Climate Accord

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Recent Election Fraud, Covid, Energy and Environmental News

Welcome to our latest Energy & Environmental Newsletter… (For all 2020 Newsletters, go here. To review the current issue, see below.)…

Note: a team of experts has volunteered their time to improve US voting integrity. A Michigan analysis is a sample of one of their reports.


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US National Elections

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2020 Voting Irregularities: Here is some evidence

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Anomalies in Vote Counts and Their Effects on Election 2020

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US National Elections: State Issues

Analysis: How Dems May Have Pulled Off Fraud in PA (Part 1Part 2)

Biden TX campaign staffer not arrested for voter fraud

PA State Legislature Holds Public Hearing on 2020 Election

Election Fraud Expert Files Affidavit re ‘Impossibility’ of Michigan Results

Other US Politics and Related

Is America Doomed to Split Apart?

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Polls, Polls, Everywhere Polls, Mostly Wrong As It Turns Out

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21 HCQ positive studies of early treatment: 1 was negative

Study finds 84% fewer hospitalizations for patients treated with HCQ

Low Zinc Levels Linked to Increased Risk of Death in COVID-19

Experimental COVID Treatment Given to Trump Wins Approval

COVID-19: Misc.

Face Masks Are a Religion Now

Cleveland Clinic: Melatonin as COVID-19 Preventer and Treatment

Study: Cost of US COVID-19 Evictions

Greed Energy Economics

This green fantasy will bankrupt us

Renewable Energy is a Losing Proposition: End the Subsidies

Europe’s largest employer association questions EU climate policy cost

Wind Energy

Court Upholds Hog Verdict — direct application to wind energy!

Giant 750± foot Vestas wind turbine collapses

Wind Power Trap Threatens to Make the UK the New California

How NYS Will Force Renewable Energy Projects on Rural Towns

NYS Communities have little influence over wind, solar projects

NYS senator has concerns about renewable energy siting process

Fishermen vow to take action to prevent offshore wind facility

Solar Energy

Study: Solar Geoengineering May Not be a Solution for Climate Change

Economics of Utility-Scale Battery Systems (e.g. for solar)

Developer pulls application for utility-scale project in Virginia

Misc Energy

Hydrogen, WSJ Spin

Lithium Batteries Ain’t No Solution If You’re Worried About Pollution

Will Biden’s 100% clean energy plan work? Look to TVA

Uranium in 2020: A Guide to The Commodity’s Price, Value, and Uses

Europe’s Green Deal in limbo as Poland demands ‘further cost analysis

Manmade Global Warming

Archive: John Kerry Explains the Greenhouse Effect

Jeff Bezos announces first winners of $10 billion climate-change pledge

Nuclear physicist talks climate change

Energy-Related CO2 Emissions Decline Again: Thank Fracking

Religion Related

Supreme Court rules against Cuomo’s COVID-19 religious gathering limits

Short video: You Can’t Be Free Without Religious Liberty

Biblical Principles for Human Sexuality

Bishop Barron on the “McCarrick Report”

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Millions in Africa Being Sacrificed to Extreme Poverty, Premature Death on Altar of ‘Green Energy’

Obama-era policies that favor so-called green energy over coal-fired electricity are dooming millions of Africans to lives of extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and increased risk of early death, according to a new analysis by the CO2 Coalition.

The study by the Arlington, Virginia-based coalition of 60 climate scientists and energy engineers contends that inadequate access to electricity is one of the key reasons for Africa’s grinding poverty.

Economic growth in a competitive, global market requires reliable, universal electrification. Without sufficient electricity for heating and cooking, Africans are exposed to high levels of indoor pollution from dirty fuels, the world’s greatest environmental health risk, according to the World Health Organization.

Globally, the WHO estimates that 3 billion people still cook and heat and illuminate their homes with solid fuels—wood, charcoal, and dried animal dung.


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The poisons and particulate matter from burning solid fuels kill almost 4 million people a year from pneumonia, heart disease, pulmonary disease, stroke, lung cancer, and a variety of impaired immunities. Half of pneumonia deaths in children under age 5 are from soot in the house.

UNICEF estimates that the African share of those 4 million untimely deaths is 400,000.

Dangerous levels of indoor air pollution are almost guaranteed for families without access to electricity.

They also report that 352 million African children live in homes with solid-fuel cooking. Millions of women and children continue to walk many miles a day to gather not just water, but also wood for indoor burning, adding to deforestation.

The illnesses, deaths, and misery that are the result of energy poverty in Africa are improving only slowly compared with the rest of the world.

In 1960, those living in China and sub-Saharan Africa had a nearly equal life expectancy, 44 years. Today, China is at 77, which is only slightly less than the U.S. figure of 79. Regrettably, the African average is 61, better than it was 60 years ago, but still lagging behind much of the rest of the world.

According to the new research, that means that the 1 billion sub-Saharan Africans have a combined loss of 16 billion years of life compared with the Chinese.

Extreme generational poverty in sub-Saharan Africa is endemic, with 41% of the population living in absolute poverty, defined by the World Bank as an income of less than $1.40 per day.

A lack of access to reliable electricity is one of the primary reasons for this lack of economic growth.

Even in electrified areas of Africa, access is not reliable, since the grid is often down, sometimes on a daily basis.

That has led to a “dieselization” of the continent in recent decades. Soot-spewing diesel-fueled backup generators are in place for homes of the wealthy, factories, and government buildings. The reliance on this dirty source of power is so great that it’s estimated that many African nations spend more on diesel generation than on the electricity grid itself.

Is the answer to this energy poverty a complete reliance on wind and solar power? Not at all, as the unreliability of renewables would mean even more blackouts and brownouts, leading to even more “dieselization.”

The solution for providing dependable, affordable electricity may lie beneath the Africans’ feet in the form of cheap, abundant coal reserves that could be developed using American clean coal technology.

South Africa controls nearly 70% of the continent’s reserves, but substantial coal deposits are also found in East Africa and in the Sahel of West Africa. More than 100 new coal-fired plants are on the drawing board in 11 African nations, and almost half of those are being financed and built by China.

In spite of Africa’s deadly health crisis, the World Bank now bars lending to maintain or build new coal-fired power plants. Instead, it is lending to countries to assist them in closing mines and replacing the existing power plants with renewables.

According to Akinwumi Adesina, the African Development Bank’s president, “Coal is the past, and renewable energy is the future.” He added: “There’s a reason God gave Africa sunlight.”

But that’s exactly the wrong formula.

No matter who sits in the Oval Office after Jan. 20, the president should consider rolling back the restrictions on African energy development to improve the lives of millions of our African brothers and sisters.

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VIDEO: John Stossel discusses film Climate Hustle 2

John Stossel posted a great video with extensive excerpts from CFACT’s feature move Climate Hustle 2: Rise of the Climate Monarchy.

Watch Stossel:

Stossel interviews CFACT’s Marc Morano and asks him about the climate campaign’s insatiable appetite for power.

Stossel: Your movie suggests this world government conspiracy, that they want to rule us. But I think they are genuinely concerned and they want to save us. 
Morano: Their vision of saving us is putting them in charge. 
Stossel: And if they’re in charge says the movie, they will destroy capitalism.
Guardian columnist George Monbiot: We’ve got to go straight to the heart of capitalism and overthrow it.

The opponents of free markets and free minds have long seized upon climate change to boost their radical agenda.  Climate Hustle 2 presents an ironclad case.

John Stossel did a great job on his video.  There’s much more, take a look.

Yesterday’s Washington Times called CFACT’s Climate Depot, the website Marc Morano manages, “an astute website which tracks climate, political and culture-related aberrations around the world.”

CFACT continually educates the public with news, commentary and analysis.  We’re proud to have created this latest feature film.

Have you watched Climate Hustle 2 yet?

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Recent Energy and Environmental News

Welcome to our latest Energy & Environmental Newsletter… (For all 2020 Newsletters, go here. To review the current issue’s highlights, see below.)


— This Newsletter’s Articles, by Topic —


US National Elections

The Clown In The White House

Up to $1M Reward for Voter Fraud Whistleblowers

Video: Why Scott Adams of Dilbert Fame Says Trump Wins

Wait Just a Minute! Some Very Good News May Be Coming

Short video: Jon Voight —Fighting the Lie that Biden Won

Most pollsters failed on a spectacular scale

Election 2020 showed Republicans that it pays to be bold

Why the Left Lost the US Election

Will Trump Ride Off Into The Sunset?

New Poll Questions What Americans Believe about the Election

US National Elections: Likely Malfeasance

Evidence of Voter Fraud in the 2020 US Presidential Election

How Might Election Fraud Get Litigated?

Quantifying 2020 Illegal Votes Cast by Non-Citizens in Swing States

Scientist Finds Telltale Signs Of Election Fraud

WSJ: Harvesting The 2020 Election

Trump Win Validated by Quantum Blockchain System Recount of Votes

Short video: Ballot Watermark Sting Operation!

Ten Days of Darkness

Dr. Robert Epstein’s Congressional Testimony re Voter Manipulation

Video: Voter Fraud Compilation

Big Data to the Rescue: The Electoral College Meets Data Pattern Science

Biden Sainthood Considered After He Raised Millions From the Dead on Election Day

US National Elections: Software/Hardware Shenanigans

Whistleblowers From Dominion Have Come Forward

Short Video: Hacking Democracy – The Hack

The Vote-Switching Ghost in the Machine

Alleged “Software Glitches” and “Voter Irregularities” Raise Questions

Hammer’ and ‘Scorecard’ Explained

Short video: Hammer & Scorecard and US Vote Manipulation

Video: Interview with Source on Electronic Vote Fraud

Trump knew there would be voter fraud…

Data deep dive on Dominion Voting Systems offers proof of election hack

List of over 500,000 votes Switched from Trump to Biden

US National Elections: State Issues

How a Philly mob boss stole the election — and why he may flip on Biden

Detroit Sued for Voter Fraud

Election Systems in Michigan County Appeared to Be Connected to Internet

Thousands of WI Voters May Have Circumvented ID Requirement

US 2020: Georgia Election officer admits illegal voting

Mathematical Evidence the Election is Being Stolen

“Operation Scorecard” CIA-run vote theft software was running in EVERY swing state

Short video: Trump Votes Found in the Trash

Out-of-State Vehicles Brought Thousands of Unsealed Ballots to Michigan

PA Election Analysis: HUGE Anomalies & Indisputable Data

Vote-Fraud Complaints by Attorneys General Cannot be Dismissed

353 Counties have Millions More Registered Voters than People Eligible to Vote

US National Elections: Misleading Media Reports

The Complete Illogic of a Biden Victory

Short video: Beijing On The Potomac

The Vote, The Fraud, The Consequence!

Short video: Levin — Biden’s Call for Unity is a LIE

US Politics and Socialism

Short video: Capitalism vs. Socialism

Short video: Defining Liberty

Short video: Rowan Atkinson on free speech

Racing Down the Socialist Road with Joe Biden

Class Conflict Will Cripple the Democrats

Radical ’Heroes Act’ Is a Leftist Wish-List

How Fascism Has Converged With Capitalism to Redefine Government

Other US Politics and Related

CA Leaders Are Wrong to Fault the Trump Administration on Wildfires

Short video: Why Black Lives Matter

Video: The Depth of the Swamp

Where Did ‘Cancel Culture’ Come From?

Short video: Ronald Reagan’s Interview by Johnny Carson

COVID-19: Therapies

20 HCQ positive studies of early treatment: NONE were negative

A Guide to Home-Based COVID Treatment

COVID-19 Update Illness Day 7 Treatment

The Strange and Twisted Tale of HCQ

From a professor of pharmacy at U of Toronto

COVID-19: Models and Data

Authors Retract Study Showing Efficacy of Mask Mandates

CDC Data Suggest Lockdowns Could Kill As Many People As COVID

The Facts on Andrew Cuomo’s Nursing Home Policy

Gates Conflict Of Interest In Pandemic Protocols

In Unprecedented Move CDC Stops Tracking Influenza for 2020-21

COVID-19: Misc

COVID Has Led to a Constitutional ’Stress Test’ for Religious Freedom

Why Would Media Frighten People About a Virus?

Will Anti-Lockdown Sentiments Spur The Next Populist Revolt?

This Doctor has COVID. He has a plan, for all of us.

Judge slaps down Gov. Newsom’s unconstitutional COVID lockdowns

Wind Energy: Offshore

First US offshore wind farm goes offline: An industry warning?

Icebreaker offshore wind project faces more obstacles

Wind Energy

Fuel and CO2 Reductions due to wind energy, less than claimed

The Myth of Glorious Renewables

The unintended consequences of ‘clean and green’

Carbon footprint of wind projects bigger than you think

Dutch Climate Refugees Fleeing ‘Unbearably Noisy’ Wind Turbines

Podcast: Please Get Your Noise Out of My Ears

Solar Energy

China’s human rights abuses may threaten U.S. solar

Are counties taking the lead in solar plant pushback?

Large NY Solar Project Brings Out Concerns

Nuclear Energy

Bill Gates’ Nuclear Option

Trusted and ready — the CFPP is a success in the making 

Fossil Fuel Energy

US Chamber of Commerce: 19 Million Jobs Lost if Fracking is Banned

Trump Signs Order to Protect Fracking Industry

Natural gas will not be eclipsed by renewables

How would life without fossil fuels impact society?

Burket-Geneseo Shale: The Next Super Giant?

Short video: Animation of Hydraulic Fracturing

New-tech Coal-fired Electricity for Africa: Clean Air, Indoors and Out

Misc Energy

The Hydrogen Illusion

The Green New Deal Can’t Break The Laws Of Physics

Geothermal energy is poised for a big breakout

Unlimited, on-demand renewable energy anywhere in the world

World and US Total Energy Consumption

Dr. Schernikau’s Future of Energy Presentation

FERC Pushes Carbon Taxes

Manmade Global Warming: Some Deceptions

Study suggests no more CO2 warming

Meet Climate Scientists Social Media Censors Don’t Want You to Know

CLINTEL challenges McKinseys climate alarmism

Manmade Global Warming: Misc

EU environment ministers strike deal on climate law, leave out 2030 target

US Greenhouse Gas Emissions Continue to Decline

Study: Ending greenhouse gas emissions may not stop global warming

Biden: Climate Change Is ‘The Number One Issue For Me’

Report: Climate Reregulation in a Biden Administration

Study: IPCC Cover-up of Sun’s Obvious Control of Climate

Education Related

Who Says Academia Isn’t Awash in Liberal Bias?

Unifying the Country Starts with the Education System

Science and Misc Matters

Science Nazis Demand Obedience To Their Political Agenda

11 Ways to #SavetheKids

Pearl Harbor Blast Zone

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Recent Energy and Environmental News

Three brief overviews about the US elections, so far:

  1. Due likely to God’s intercession, Republicans did FAR better than the media and  pollsters were projecting,
  2. Since the US voting public did not sufficiently cooperate with the plans of the Left, there appears to be a significant amount of shenanigans to keep the President from being reelected, and
  3. It’s now mostly in the hands of lawyers and judges.

If you’ve witnessed election fraud or manipulation, fill out this report

If you’ve witnessed election fraud or manipulation, call these numbers

We have one objective regarding the 2020 US election:

that every legal vote, and only legal votes, are counted.

Here is a cross-section of sample articles that explain some of the details of what is going on:

US National Elections (General):

Statement from the President

The Fight is Now

9 Constructive Things to do Regarding the Election

A Nation Counting on Integrity

A Prayer for the United States

Call in the Quants

Updated: Election Day!

The Ascendancy Of The Basket Cases — 2020 Edition

True The Vote Organization

US National Elections (Politics):

The Horrors That Await if They Get Away With Stealing the Election

Dennis Prager video: The Election – A Divided Nation

The Triumph and Tragedy of Trump

Taking a Closer Look at ‘Fact-Free Journalism’

America is at a tipping point!

Scholars and Writers for Trump

There are myriad reasons why I voted for Donald Trump

A Plea to My Evangelical Friends Supporting Biden

Senior ABC News Reporter Reveals Bosses Spikes Important News

The Fall of the House of Pelosi

Harris accused of promoting Marxism with video on ‘equality vs. equity’

Short video: Do You Understand the Electoral College?

US National Elections — Likely Corruption (General):

Trump’s legal team responds after race is called for Biden

Fractional Magick

Intelligence Expert Claims 2020 Election was a ‘Sophisticated Sting Operation’

How the most important election in our lifetime was rigged

Democrats are to Blame for Post-Election Hanky-Panky

Video: Sidney Powell re Voter Fraud

And you thought elections were decided by The People?

Votes Changed in Pre-Election Counting Connected to Hammer and Scorecard?

Short video: Steve Bannon “Trump Won the Election”

Short video: Voter Fraud Exposed — Computer Program Hacking

Video: Election Fraud Is a ‘Time-Honored Tradition’ in Dem Cities

Did a Computer Glitch Switch 2.3 million Trump Votes to Biden?

US National Elections — Likely Corruption (State Specific):

America or “Banana Republic”?

USA 2020: Looks like a coup, smells like a coup…

Why Does Biden Have Many More Votes Than Democrat Senators In Swing States?

Two Statistical Curiosities that Allowed Biden to Pull Ahead in PA

Stealing Pennsylvania

Yes, Democrats Are Trying to Steal the Election In Michigan, Wisc, and PA

Wisconsin Voter Irregularity = Likely Fraud

Massive Voter Fraud in Wisconsin

Five Milwaukee wards report 89% turnout in 2020 presidential vote

‘Vertical’ Vote Counts In Michigan, Wisconsin

Math Proves Trump Won

Dems collude with CIA to launch operation that alters voting results in swing states

As we’ve recommended before, please continue to pray about this election, as God can fix anything.

Thank you for your interest in, and support of, the principles of America.

PS — We are currently examining the Pennsylvania voting result for statistical anomalies (and have found considerable evidence for that (e.g. see here).

Additionally, the President’s team needs attorneys willing to help with Pennsylvania lawsuits (and likely other key swing states: AZ, WI, MI, GA, NV). If you’d like to assist with either of those actions, or how someone who would, please let me know.

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ALERT: Fascist Anarchists’ group ‘Shut Down D.C.’ targets American Patriots

Fascism

“a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control”


Never in my lifetime have I seen the kinds of hate and violence in American cities that I see today. These even outdo the violent anti-Vietnam War protests that swept our nation in in 1960s.

Groups like BLM, Antifa and now Shut Down D.C. are openly revolting in an attempt to overthrown our governments at every level. We are seeing, in primarily Democrat controlled enclaves such as Portland, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, Atlanta, Detroit, Baltimore and many others, violence and destruction the likes of which I have never seen before.

Now this hate and destruction is coming to the “Deep State” located in our nation’s capital.

The ShutDownDC website states:

ShutDownDC uses strategic direct action [riots and violence] to advance [social] justice and hold [Republican] officials accountable. We’re a growing movement and we’re getting ready for an uprising [revolution]. Now’s the time to get involved so we’re ready to hit the streets [riot and destroy]. [Emphasis added]

ShutDownDC is specifically targeting Republican members of Congress:

ShutDownDC is part of the Green New Deal movement. They are the Green Shirts of the Democrat power grab to control American industry via climate regulation and intimidation.

In a 2019 Washington Post column Hannah Natanson titled ‘Shut Down D.C.’: What you need to know about the protests that are creating gridlock in Washington wrote:

A broad coalition of climate activists called “Shut Down D.C.” is blocking streets throughout the nation’s capital during the Monday morning commute to draw attention to climate change.

The protest is timed to coincide with the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York, at which climate activists and leaders, including 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, are slated to speak. It follows a strike across six continents Friday and a youth conference at the United Nations on Saturday.

The traffic shutdown is meant to send a particular message to D.C.’s powerful political elite, according to Liz Butler, an organizer for Shut Down D.C. and vice president of organizing and strategic allegiances for Friends of the Earth Action.

Read more.

©Dr. Rich Swier. All rights reserved.

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Friends:

Although I’ve said it before, it bears repeating: As citizens, there is likely no more important political matter in our lifetime, than the current US national election!

Abraham Lincoln prophetically warned us that there would be serious threats to America: 1) from major external enemies [e.g. China and Russia], and 2) from divisive internal forces — which he stated were more likely to succeed than #1!

For the rest of the explanation about this special Newsletter, see here.


For US Citizens —


Short video: The Best is Yet to Come

Short video: Life Too Boring 2020

Short video: New Democrat Campaign “Ad”


Energy and Environmental News By Topic


COVID-19

NIH Limiting Early COVID-19 Treatment, a Death Sentence for Many

The COVID Coup

What Trump Has Done to Change Health Care and Help Battle COVID-19

US National Elections

Rasmussen: Trump Approval Among Likely Black Voters Jumps to 46%

Trump Crushes Record for Largest GDP Increase in US History

Last Round-up at the Wokester Corral

The Gaslight Election

Editorial: The Boston Herald endorses Trump

Video: The Town Hall You Never Saw — Trump with Eric Bolling

If Trump Wins, There Must Be a Reckoning for the Destructive Left

China’s Plan to “Revise World Order.” If Biden Wins, They’ll take over the Globe

2020 Presidential Voter Guide

Trump Administration Accomplishments

Other US Politics and Related

Amy Coney Barrett sworn in as Supreme Court justice at White House

Short video: Eric Liu on the Meaning of Patriotism

Short video: The True Meaning of Patriotism

How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World

What are the facts behind Climate Change & the Green New Deal?

Religion Related

Short video: Patriotism vs Nationalism

Four Christian Voting Myths

Christians 2020: Between a Rock and a Polling Place?

America’s Teenagers Are Losing Their Religion

Video: A Pastor’s Rebuke of Christian Quietism

PS — Please pass this onto all US citizens on your contacts lists.

PPS — Please pray that US citizens do some critical thinking about this election…

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Science Nazis Demand Obedience To Their Political Agenda

We’ve seen this before.


Whether the issue is “Climate Change” or ways of dealing with COVID-19 the Radical Left ridicules anyone who would dare to question their positions on critical issues.  They accuse those who question them or their claims of not believing in science.

Consider the Yahoo News report that AOL posted on October 26, 2020, Bill Gates slams Trump’s COVID-19 adviser as  ‘pseudo-expert’ who’s ‘off-the-rails’ which began with this excerpt:

In a new interview, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates sharply criticized the Trump administration for muzzling experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) while instead listening to White House COVID-19 adviser Dr. Scott Atlas, whom Gates calls a pseudo-expert” whooff-the-rails.”

Atlas, a member of the administrations coronavirus task force who formerly appeared as a commentator for Fox News, reportedly opposes an expansion of COVID testing and earlier this month posted a tweet falsely downplaying the effectiveness of masks. Twitter later removed the post from Atlas, a Stanford University professor with a medical degree from the University of Chicago School of Medicine.

We now have a pseudo-expert advising the president,” Gates, the former Microsoft (MSFT) CEO and a leading backer of global public health initiatives, told Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer in an interview that aired on Monday as part of the the news organizationAll Markets Summit.

After the interview, taped on Oct. 15, Gates confirmed that he had made the comments in reference to Atlas, who has opposed lockdowns and co-authored an op-ed in The Hill called The COVID-19 shutdowns will cost Americans millions of years of lives.”

This article is important for a number of reasons.  First of all, Gates demonstrated colossal chutzpah to insult a medical doctor who graduated from a highly respected medical school and serves as a professor at Stanford University, while Gates, himself, never attended any medical school.

In fact, Gates has no degree of any kind!

What then, could possibly qualify Gates to pass judgement on the credibility of a medical doctor especially one with the clear credentials of Dr. Scott Atlas even as he castigated President Trump for challenging the contradictory and morphing advice of Dr. Fauci.

The AOL/Yahoo article stated that Twitter had removed what they claimed was a tweet posted by Dr. Atlas that they claim falsely downplayed the effectiveness of masks.

It is more than a bit disturbing that Twitter censored Dr. Atlas and, in so doing, prevented the general public from benefitting from his perspectives.  This should alarm everyone.

About 20 years ago I was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer.  The surgeon who examined me and told me of my situation was the chief of urology at a major New York Hospital and chaired the department of urology at a major medical school.

However, while he told me that he believed that he could save my life, he urged me to seek out at least one additional opinion so that I would be confident that I was making the proper decision.

I did seek out that second opinion and my medical insurance policy covered that second opinion, because this notion of seeking additional opinions is considered the standard way for people to make certain that they are making proper life and death decisions.

Needless to say, my surgeon saved my life- this a good thing because I have not aggravated my quota yet!

Where science and the Radical Left are concerned, however, not blindly following what their anointed experts proclaim, is an act of heresy.

This flies in the face of commonsense and threatens the First Amendment and all of our freedoms.

In doing a bit of research I found a similar situation that existed in a different country many years ago.

That country was Germany as the Third Reich began taking control of Germany and its population, Jews came under vicious attack.  No less a scientist that Albert Einstein was attacked for his work.  Scientific America on February 13, 2015 published an important article about the lunacy that transpired at that time, How 2 Pro-Nazi Nobelists Attacked Einsteins “Jewish Science” [Excerpt].

The article discussed the mass book burnings carried out on college campuses, not unlike the way that Antifa operates today.  Books authored by Albert Einstein were incinerated.  Here is an important paragraph from this article:

It would be absurd, of course, to suppose that most of the book-burners had given these questions a moments thought. The simple fact was that Einstein was a prominent Jew, and his thoughts therefore fit for the bonfire. But Einsteins theory was attacked on racial grounds. This assault came not by asinine ideologues in the party whose knowledge of science extended no further than a belief in fairy tales about cosmic ice,” nor from individuals on the scientific fringe seeking official approval and support. It was orchestrated by two Nobel laureates in physics, who devised a full-blown thesis (it cant be dignified by calling it a theory) on how stereotypical racial features are exhibited in scientific thinking. They were Philipp Lenard and Johannes Stark, and they wanted to become the new Führers of German physics.

Einstein’s Theories of Relativity and his concept of Space-Time were mocked and ridiculed by two Nazi Nobel laureates.

Of course nearly all of Einstein’s brilliant theories have been validated in recent years by scientists and physicists who now have the technological tools to conduct appropriate experiments.

Understandably fearing for his life,  Einstein fled Nazi Germany and came to America where, ironically, he helped America defeat Fascism in Germany and Japan and, in so doing, safeguarded freedom for people across the globe.

Today the Radical Left demands obedience to theories about climate change that support their demands for the “New Green Deal” even as some scientists question the validity of the notion that human actions have climatological consequences that must be stopped at all costs.

They seek nothing short of a fundamental transformation in the way that we live and work and these demands can only be justified by claiming that catastrophic climate change can only be averted if we adopt draconian changes.

Science has always been about challenges beliefs and devising experiments to seek the truth.

To cite an interesting example of how highly respected scientists may come to diametrically opposed conclusions consider a pair of articles that ran on the same website (Space.com) on two consecutive days.

On October 19, 2020, that website posted, Whats Happening with Betelgeuse? Astronomers Propose a Specialized Telescope to Watch the Star Every Night.

The very next day, October 20, the website published, Wow, Betelgeuse Might Be 25% Closer than Previously Believed.

The physicists who wrote the first article postulated that because Betelgeuse is so huge and pulsating, it is likely to explode within our lifetimes.  They estimated that that star is 700 light-years from earth.  This is why they proposed the construction of a special telescope to keep an astronomical eye on that star.

However, if the physicists who published the second article are right, Betelgeuse is 548 light years away.  This would mean that the star is not nearly as large or bright as the other physicists believe.  This would mean that Betelgeuse is not likely to become a super nova any time soon- at least not for another 100,000 years by their estimates.

This may not seem important to us on our beleaguered planet, but the lessons to be learned is very important.

Experts can and do disagree.  The process of questioning is behind all of our achievements. Scientists who serve a political agenda are the scientists who must not be trusted.

Science is supposed to be the tireless search for universal truths and must be unencumbered by political agendas.

Scientists who yield to the political elite betray their professions and should be ignored as the science-fascists that they are.

Voltaire sagely observed that you could determine the intelligence of a person by considering the questions that they ask, the same questions that today will earn you scorn and ridicule by the Radical Left.

©Michael Cutler. All rights reserved.

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