FBI Official: FBI Lost Count of How Many Paid FBI Informants Were at Capitol on Jan. 6

FBI director Chris Wray denied all of this to Congress. We are under siege by a hostile government. The testimony of the Capitol Police chief (on the day of the protest) is made even more damning.

FBI lost count of how many paid informants were at Capitol on Jan. 6, and later performed audit to figure out exact number: ex-official

By Miranda Devine, NY Post, September 19, 202:

The FBI had so many paid informants at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, that it lost track of the number and had to perform a later audit to determine exactly how many “Confidential Human Sources” run by different FBI field offices were present that day, a former assistant director of the bureau has told lawmakers.

At least one informant was communicating with his FBI handler as he entered the Capitol, according to Steven D’Antuono, formerly in charge of the bureau’s Washington field office.

D’Antuono has testified behind closed doors to the House Judiciary Committee that his office was aware before the riot that some of their informants would attend a “Stop the Steal” rally thrown by former President Donald Trump, but he only learned after the fact that informants run by other field offices also were present, along with others who had participated of their own accord.

The Washington field office had to ask FBI headquarters “to do a poll or put out something to people saying w[ere] any CHSs involved,” he said, so they could get a handle on the scale of the FBI’s spying operations at the Capitol that day.

“We started getting responses back” from FBI headquarters, added D’Antuono, which helped identify which field offices had planted confidential informants in the crowd.

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PayPal handles donations for ‘charity’ linked to ‘Palestinian’ terror group

Of course. The Leftist Big Tech companies see no problem with the “Palestinian” jihad, which the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine aids and abets.

Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz sound alarm over PayPal working with terror-linked group

by Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner, September 12, 2023:

EXCLUSIVE — Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) are raising concerns over PayPal, the multinational technology company, processing payments for an anti-Israel charity with Palestinian terror group affiliations.

PayPal has begun handling donations for the Arizona charity Alliance for Global Justice, which has come under fire from Congress and watchdog groups for being linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror group, following the two software companies Salsa Labs and Stripe jumping ship. Congressional Republicans are now vowing investigations into PayPal, which doesn’t allow entities to use its services for “the promotion of hate, violence, racial, or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory or the financial exploitation of a crime,” according to its policies.

“PayPal should obviously and immediately cut ties with any group linked to Palestinian terrorism,” Cruz told the Washington Examiner. “Big Tech companies are not exempt from American laws or reputational risk from boosting terrorism.”…

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As Fentanyl Overdoses Rise, a Child in New York Dies of Exposure

Records concerning the fentanyl epidemic started being kept in 2020, and the latest numbers show that the issue is getting worse. According to Breitbart, August marked a new record of overdose deaths in San Francisco, with approximately three deaths per day due to fentanyl. As reported by The San Fransisco Chronicle, the city “is on track to see 845 overdose fatalities this year.”

London Breed, the mayor of San Francisco, declared the fentanyl crisis a “state of emergency” in 2020, and since then the problem has continued to worsen across the U.S. This week, in an at-home day care in New York City, a one-year-old boy, Nicholas Dominici, died due to drug exposure, with three other children hospitalized. While the tragedy is still under investigation, the presence of fentanyl has been confirmed. Grei Mendez and Acevedo Brito, the owner and tenant of the day care where the deaths took place, have been charged for murder, manslaughter, and assault and “ordered to be held without bail.”

Ashwin Vasan, the City Health Commissioner, said in a news conference, “I’m very sorry, but one of the things that my child care inspectors are not trained to do is look for fentanyl. But maybe we need to.” Otoniel Feliz, the father of Nicholas Dominici, shared, “In what mind does it make sense that you’re going to mix narcotics with children?”

In 2021, the U.S. witnessed more than 100,000 people across the nation being killed by drug overdose — the highest it had ever been in a single year. According to BBC News, over 66% of those deaths were directly related to fentanyl. As reported by BBC, a recent study revealed “virtually every corner of the US, from Hawaii to Alaska to Rhode Island, has been touched by fentanyl.” Experts say nearly “300 individuals a day [are] dying from overdose, and almost all of those are fentanyl related.”

Joseph Backholm, senior fellow for Biblical Worldview and Strategic Engagement at Family Research Council, commented to The Washington Stand, “Certainly the consequences of sin have often lead people to medicate their pain through drug use. That’s not a new phenomenon, but it is evidence of sin.”

He continued, “The problem with fentanyl is that it’s killing people who aren’t trying to use it, like the children in New York.” For Backholm, this tragedy can be traced back to homeland security issues. “We have a completely open southern border,” he said. “Virtually anyone from anywhere can walk across the border into the U.S. … [It] is killing a lot of Americans and enriching cartels who are able to benefit tremendously from the human and drug trafficking opportunities it provides.”

In a reflection on how to respond to the fentanyl crisis earlier this year, The Christian Post’s Matthew Barnett wrote, “Light shines brighter when darkness hovers. We can see farther at night, out into the expanse of stars surrounding us than we can during the day. These truths remind us that we must hold onto hope during [the] fentanyl crisis.”

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The Biden Administration’s Parole Abuse Amounts to a Parallel Immigration System

Every administration comes to office vowing to be the “most transparent in history,” only to be more opaque than the previous one. The Biden administration is certainly carrying on that tradition, nowhere more so than in providing information about its handling of immigration matters.

From Day One, this administration has done its best to hide the true scope of illegal immigration from the American public. One of the ways they have gone about this is to expand the use of the Executive Branch’s parole authority on an unprecedented scale. Those who want to know how many inadmissible foreign nationals have been paroled into the country have to sift through mountains of carefully hidden data. Over the summer, those numbers began to be revealed.

In July, CBS News reported that since President Biden came to office, more than 541,000 otherwise inadmissible aliens had entered the country under parole. That is an astounding number, given that the statutory language granting the Executive Branch such authority. Section 212(d)(5)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act states that the secretary of Homeland Security “may … in his discretion parole into the United States temporarily under such conditions as he may prescribe only on a case-by-case basis [emphasis added] for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit any alien applying for admission to the United States, but such parole of such alien shall not be regarded as an admission of the alien and when the purposes of such parole shall, in the opinion of the [DHS secretary] have been served the alien” must leave the country. Based on the language of the statute, the number of people qualifying for parole would be a lot closer to 541 than 541,000.

But as jaw-dropping as the CBS estimate of parolees is, Andrew Arthur of the Center for Immigration Studies contends that the actual number of people granted parole under the Biden administration is nearly 1.44 million! In addition to the administration’s wholesale abuse of parole based on specific countries of origin or the use of CBP One phone app, the administration has been quietly handing out parole to large numbers of migrants encountered entering the country between ports of entry, i.e. illegal border-crossers. Arthur estimates that as of June 2023, an additional 896,000 inadmissible foreign nationals had been paroled into the United States during the first two and a half years of the Biden administration. Moreover, the administration is attempting to further expand the list of nationalities eligible for special parole programs as well as increasing the use of the CBP One app.

Put in perspective, the number of people allowed to enter under the Executive Branch’s very limited parole authority exceeds the population of Dallas, Texas – the nation’s ninth largest city. It is also beginning to rival the number of people who are issued green cards each year under our statutorily established immigration laws. In other words, the Biden administration is abusing its parole authority to create a parallel immigration system without any legal authority to do so. The Constitution vests Congress with plenary authority to establish immigration laws – a power that has been repeatedly affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court.

FAIR’s president, Dan Stein, has repeatedly charged that the current administration is acting lawlessly, and its assertion of limitless discretionary authority to allow as many people as it wants to settle in the United States is a threat not only to the well-being of the American people, but to our constitutional system of government.

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‘You May Have Just Perjured Yourself’: Massie Goes After Garland Over Jan. 6 Statements

Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie suggested Wednesday that Attorney General Merrick Garland may have perjured himself over his statements about Jan. 6.

Massie played a compilation of previous testimony from DOJ, FBI and other agency officials refusing to comment on ongoing investigations into Jan. 6-related incidents. In one instance shown in the clip, Massie asked Garland how many agents were assets of the U.S. government on Jan. 5 and 6 who were “agitating” the crowd to go into the Capitol and how many agents went into the Capitol. Garland refused to answer.

“Peter Navarro was indicted for contempt of Congress — aren’t you in fact in contempt of Congress when you gave us this answer?” Massie said. “This is an answer that’s appropriate at a press conference. It’s not an answer that’s appropriate when we are asking questions … you cannot continue to give us these answers. Aren’t you in fact in contempt of Congress when you refuse to answer?”

Garland invoked the U.S. Constitution, arguing the separation of powers means the executive branch has control over investigations and that out of respect for those involved and due process, he is not obligated to comment on an ongoing probe.

Massie argued Garland was impeding Congress’ ability to conduct oversight.

“Can you answer [my question] now?” Massie asked.

“I don’t know the answer to that question,” Garland said.

“You don’t know how many there were, or there were none?” Massie pressed.

“I don’t know the answer to either of those questions. If there were any, I don’t know how many, or whether there are any.”

“I think you may have just perjured yourself, that you don’t know that there were any?” Massie said. “You wanna say that again? That you don’t know if there were any?”

“I have no personal knowledge of this matter. I think what I said the last time–”

“You’ve had two years to find out, and – by the way, that was in reference to Ray Epps, and yesterday you indicted him, isn’t that a wonderful coincidence?” Massie said, arguing the DOJ is “sending grandmas to prison” and putting people in jail for decades for filming or being present in the Capitol building on Jan. 6, but Epps, who was on video appearing to encourage protesters to enter the Capitol, was charged with a misdemeanor.

“The American public isn’t buying it,” Massie said before yielding his time.

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The Firebombing of Maui: Part Two

LET’S NOT FORGET THE CHILDREN

And where are the 2,000 children who haven’t shown up in school in the weeks since the fire? Are their families keeping them close since the fire was so traumatizing—not just for the kids but for the whole families? Perhaps we’ll see this number dramatically decline as more children head back to school.

Or did many of them tragically perish in the fires and is the actual death toll on Maui not in the low hundreds, but in the thousands?  Two thousand children unaccounted for out of Lahaina’s community of only 12,000 people is one-sixth of the population. My guess is that the death toll is in the thousands, including many of the “missing” children who likely burned to death—excruciating to even contemplate–an atrocity of gargantuan proportions.

ONE MORE COINCIDENCE

Remember how the movie Contagion from 2011 almost perfectly mirrored the Plandemic of 2020? Or how the movie “White Noise” seemed to predict the East Palestine catastrophic train derailment?

Well take a look at the 2016 episode of The Simpsons entitled “Monty Burns’ Fleeing Circus”. You’ll see a town attacked by laser-like beams that leave a deadly stream of fire in their wake, quickly incinerating an entire town. And in the aftermath, among the rubble, there’s a closed blue patio umbrella standing tall, presumably due to the theory that lasers target the red end of the light spectrum, not the blue.

We weren’t warned, but we were told.

This is the twisted game the perpetrators play with us over and over. And by the way, the photos of the unburned blue umbrellas surrounded by ash and rubble in Lahaina have been mostly scrubbed from the internet. But I’m posting a screen shot of this mystery below, captured by Greg Reese. And just below that photo are a couple of frames from the Simpson’s episode Monty Burns’ Fleeing Circus.

Coincidence?

But this Reese Report is shocking for another reason. It alleges that Chinese satellites were beaming lasers over Maui moments before the fires began, citing robotics expert Steve Favis’ claims to this effect.

Ah, so it was China, Greg? Nothing to do with Hawaii Governor Josh Green’s commitment to the UN’s Sustainability Goals (SDGs) of Agenda 2030—the Net Zero Dystopia—that he reaffirmed at a UN Summit less than a month before the fires? That man has impeccable timing…

Let’s remember that it was a globalist plan all along to reclaim this land, and that American politicians and bureaucrats have been conspiring to do so for quite some time. And let’s also remember the “China virus” from 2020 turned out to be American-made. Easy to blame China, but would China commit an out-and-out kinetic act of war against the US by wiping out an historic corner of Maui along with much of its population? Motive, please.

Looks to me like we’re in false flag/psy-op territory. After all, cui bono? Who’s already salivating to snap up  the land on Maui for their preplanned Smart City?

The two pictures above are from the Simpson’s episode Monty Burns’ Fleeing Circus. The photo above them is from the Lahaina fire.

CONSPIRING APPARATCHIKS, MINIONS AND USEFUL IDIOTS

The men at the very top—mostly psychopathic billionaires and their hangers-on—are generally well protected and out of reach. But no matter how nefarious their plans, they can’t enact them without myriad minions and abettors. Hitler had to have his henchmen.

In regards to Lahaina, there are at least a few men who need to be held accountable before we consider going after bigger fish: Governor Josh Green, Police Chief and Coroner John Pelletier, and Deputy Director for the State of Hawaii Commission on Water Resource Management M. Kaleo Manuel. And let’s not forget Herman Andaya, head of the Maui Emergency Management Agency, who made the brilliant decision not to sound the disaster sirens. Mr. Andaya immediately resigned, due to…um…”health issues.”

And we need to know more about the policeman who refused to let desperate drivers get out of harms way because he was “following orders.” He likely believed he was doing the right thing, and that his superiors knew of hazards unknown to him. After all, he was risking his own life standing there with the flames approaching. Nevertheless, since the choice was between certain death from burning alive if people stayed put in their cars, and the possibility of escape, he should have stepped aside and let them drive toward safety.

THE PRIME SUSPECTS

Whether we call them the Davos Elites, Globalists, the Billionaires’ Club, the Cabal, etc., these powerful players who’re all in for creating a One World Government with themselves at the helm are the ultimate culprits behind nearly everything nefarious transpiring in our world today. This includes not only the new breed of “wildfires”, but also the plandemic, the Color Revolution in America that saddled us with Beijing O’Biden and the Kackler, and much, much more.

Some may be unknown to most of us, hiding at the top of the pile of crazed megalomaniacs, but many are familiar suspects, along with their large eponymous foundations always ready to help with their “philanthropy.” In no particular order, here’s a partial list: the Rockefellers, Bill Gates, Ted Turner, Larry Fink, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, the Clintons, Warren Buffett, Michael Bloomberg, George Soros, the person formerly known as Sustainable Prince Charles, et al., and with a nod to their various organizations of duplicity, chicanery and treason: the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the World Bank, the Bank of International Settlements, etc., presumably with Blackrock and Vanguard not far behind. True, we can’t simply point to this or that member of these “elites” as the culprit who organized the annihilation of Lahaina. That’s why we call them “the Cabal.” But they’ve left their fingerprints all over this atrocity.

MOTIVE AND OPPORTUNITY

As for motive, look no further than their grand agenda: Agenda 21—the Agenda for the 21st Century—and the flashpoint before us, Agenda 2030, as they turn up the heat both literally and figuratively.

And how do we know their agenda? They’ve published it!

To enact their One World Government utopia, they plan to reconfigure the world as we know it, ending national sovereignty, and redesigning countries into combined unions, e.g. the European Union, and the planned North American Union, etc. All will be vassal states serving the whims of the Masters of the Universe in their palatial digs.

Interestingly, the wildfires in California and Maui appear to have opposite purposes. The Wine Country fires were likely deployed as a first step in reclaiming that land as “wildlands” or “buffer zones” in which human access will be banned. Whereas the firebombing of Lahaina was likely done to clear the decks for the building of a 15-minute city—a high-density, urbanized mini-metropolis, filled with stack-and-pack housing, and miserable, constantly surveilled people. A travesty inflicted on the tranquil small town community of mostly native Hawaiians.

And as for opportunity, the sky’s their limit, although they likely waited for a hurricane somewhere in the Pacific for the sake of plausible deniability.

PROOF POSITIVE

They say a picture’s worth a thousand words.

This is a map of Maui from Appendix B of the Maui Island Plan Map Book.

One by one, I clicked on the boxes in the Lahaina coastal region, and they’re all earmarked the same way: “urban areas.” That’s Agenda 21-speak for Smart Cities, as opposed to rural areas and open space. So Lahaina’s been slated for this dystopian transformation since December of 2012. The globalists’ patience seems to have suddenly worn thin.

THE GLOBALISTS TAKE THE GLOVES OFF

The mega fires in California since 2017, as well as those in Canada this year, are essentially forest fires. This gives those who are behind the torching of such lands—the Davos elites and friends—plausible deniability. After all, forest fires do happen.

But the conflagration in Lahaina, coupled with a series of “coincidental” blunders that greatly magnified the deaths of Hawaiians as well as the destruction of their property, wasn’t a forest fire, nor a wildfire.

Instead, it was a heinous, even genocidal crime against innocent indigenous Hawaiians, many of whose families have lived in Lahaina for generations. Their very infrastructure failed them: no water, no warning siren, no power, no cell phone access, and police there to hinder, not to help.

Whole families were apparently intentionally immolated in their homes or in cars as they tried to escape the inferno. The powers-that-be turned Lahaina into a virtual crematorium.

Until now, the globalist elites have depended on their media lackeys and co-conspirators to fool We the People with false but seeming plausible narratives. Though many independent thinkers quickly figured out the Plandemic was essentially a psy-op, the cabal got away with it largely because their fearmongering was so successful, bolstered by their lackeys in the medical profession and all those supposedly helpful government agencies with their Orwellian motto: Trust the science.

However, the apocalyptic Lahaina demolition and mass murder defies such propaganda. There’s no fearmongering to distract us this time. And the evil is palpable. There are too many coincidences that can only be explained by a planned scenario. I wouldn’t be surprised if this turns out to be a watershed moment in waking up the public. The globalist powermongers have finally taken their gloves off.

Adding insult to injury, for those who aren’t familiar with the globalists’ grand plan, Agenda 21, that document is replete with verbiage about the importance of caring for “indigenous people.” In Lahaina, they’ve more than proven their venal hypocrisy, reminding us that actions speak louder than words, as they’ve decimated the only beachfront in Maui that was owned almost entirely by indigenous Hawaiians, whom they ruthlessly burned alive to get their land.

THE ULTIMATE WEALTH TRANSFER

The following quote is from the preamble to The Vancouver Action Plan approved at Habitat: United Nations Conference on Human Settlements in 1976:

Land, because of its unique nature and the crucial role it plays in human settlement, cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market.  Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice; if unchecked, it may become a major obstacle in the planning and implementation of development schemes.

Social justice, urban renewal and development, the provision of decent dwelling and healthy conditions for people can only be achieved if land is used in the interest of society as a whole.

Of course we’ve seen this in practice in the former Soviet Union and other Communist nations. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that Agenda 21 is primarily focused on land ownership and control. The globalist elites understand that most wealth emanates from land. Depending on how much you own and control, you can grow crops, graze cattle, claim water and mineral rights, drill for oil, mine for metals, build houses, buildings, shopping centers, and more.

From pre-Biblical times onward, countless battles have been fought over land ownership. Think about the changing boundaries of countries in Europe after WWI and WWII, not to mention the colonization of the New World by several of those nations, or even America’s famous Louisiana Purchase.

Land is key. And that’s why the cabal wants to own it all. Yes, all.

Thus in a corner of Maui, repository of much Hawaiian history and sacred cultural artifacts, where indigenous Hawaiians have lived for generations, they simply razed it with fire, incinerating properties along with many of their owners. Now they’re having the ashes swept up and thrown in the trash out of sight of the people. And then, one way or another, they’ll quietly confiscate this land. That was the whole point.

We on the mainland should be outraged by this murderous premeditated land grab, but must not congratulate ourselves that land grabs couldn’t happen here. They’re already happening.

Sometimes, as in Paradise, California, they take place through DEW fires; sometimes sneakily, through bureaucratic soviet-style tyranny by our own cities, counties and states as they mandate stack-and-pack multifamily housing projects in “priority development” areas near public transit. And if this agenda proceeds and intensifies, it won’t be long before the tranquil suburbs of the American Dream become distant memories and we’re left with the transformation of our cherished neighborhoods into the dystopian 15-minute cities that our globalist masters have planned for us.

And this is why we must fight this agenda every step of the way.

How’s this for a battle cry: Remember Lahaina!

©2023. Cherie Zaslawsky. All rights reserved.

[S]ELECTION CODE: Fact-Based Exposé on Election Fraud

On November 30, 2020, members of the Arizona State Legislature held a day long televised hearing in Phoenix addressing national election fraud. Evidence and subject-matter specialists provided testimony with evidence demonstrating such horrendous activity did, indeed, occur. Non-stop since then, Arizona Legislators have led to expose multiple forms of election fraud. The honorable manner by which they fulfilled their sacred oaths of office to represent the people and Preserve and Protect the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, encouraged five additional states to investigate the same. Two and a half years later, a large cache of evidence has been produced demonstrating the election of 2020 and again 2022, was severely compromised in multiple states.

[S]ELECTION CODE will show how an elected official in Colorado fought to expose election fraud and was arrested by federal agents. The film will also show that other elected officials in Colorado worked to negate evidence, smear the county recorder uncovering the election fraud, and the steps taken to create a false election narrative in the first place. Forensic cyber-security specialists nicely demonstrate and discuss how election numbers were changed. Very similar steps have been uncovered in six states besides Arizona. Arizona has led the way the past two and a half years with various investigations and attempts to truly secure our next election. This untiring example and leading has encouraged others to join the fight for election security in a way and manner not known before. But there is still push back promoted by office holders who have a sinister and dark agenda to make our Republic weak and even impotent against addressing such diabolical acts. There are threats and various forms of intimidation against elected officials, and others, who continue to expose the dark side of election rigging.

Arizona State Senate Majority Leader, Sonny Borrelli, who I have enjoyed working with the past ten years, has stated on multiple occasions…”Fear and cowardice is contagious, so is courage.” A retired U.S.M.C. Gunny Sargent, Senator Borrelli has strongly shared with elected officials, “the act of failure is failing to act!” Ladies and Gentlemen, our nation is under a direct threat to be collapsed by forces who despise our founding principles and documents. We need to find leaders who are not afraid to lead, who will stand and be counted for doing what is correct not what is expedient.

I conclude with the following statement from one of our Forefathers.

Thomas Jefferson, “When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles: every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”

WATCH: [S]ELECTION CODE

Was 2020 stolen? It’s deeper than that.

You’ve heard it said “Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.”

What about those who code the vote?

What if our leaders aren’t actually being elected by us, but instead… selected?

[S]ELECTION CODE follows the story of Tina Peters the County Clerk in Mesa Colorado, who made a backup of her counties Dominion Voting System server, only to stumble across evidence of manipulation in a recent local city council election…. and also the 2020 general election. Tina’s discovery ignites a chain reaction upending her life. And upending the world.

You will not be able to unsee what you see.

We stand at an apex in human history. Are we handing too much power to technology – and those that program it?

[S]ELECTION CODE is a political thriller uncovering a secret so critical to the survival of America it transcends political parties. It is not about correcting the past. It’s about correcting the future.

Once you see [S]ELECTION CODE you’ll never again let a machine near your vote.

©2023. Lyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D. All rights reserved.

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Fear-Mongering UN Chief Wants $100B to Combat ‘Climate Chaos’

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres opened the annual U.N. General Assembly debate on Tuesday – where over 100 heads of government are expected to speak – demanding $100 billion from “developed countries” to fight allegedly deadly “climate chaos.”

“No more dirty production. No more fake solutions. No more bankrolling climate denial,” he declared.

Guterres’ call for countries to invest $100 billion in “developing country climate action” and another unspecified amount in the U.N.’s “Green Climate Fund” follows the publication of a report last week revealing that his organization’s claims to carbon neutrality are largely fraudulent, based on a system known as “carbon credits” where the U.N. pays off allegedly “green” projects to offset its own emissions.

Many of those projects, non-profit news agencies Mongabay and the New Humanitarian found, are of dubious value to combating climate change and some actively hurt their local environments.

U.N. agencies emit pollution “roughly equal to the annual emissions of 1.5 million gasoline-powered cars,” the agencies found.

Guterres nonetheless portrayed the UN as a leader in the fight against “climate chaos,” a phrase he used repeatedly throughout his speech, and which the fear-mongering globalist called “the most immediate threat to our future.”


Global Warming / Climate Change

In May 2014, Secretary of State John Kerry warned graduating students at Boston College of the “crippling consequences” of climate change. “Ninety-seven percent of the world’s scientists tell us this is urgent,” he added. Three days earlier, President Obama tweeted that “Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: #climate change is real, man-made and dangerous.” What is the basis of these claims?…

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Student Group Sues West Point Over Race-Based Admissions

Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) filed a lawsuit against the military academy West Point Tuesday alleging that the school is violating the Fifth Amendment’s equal protection clause by using race-based admissions policies.

The Supreme Court ruled against Harvard and the University of North Carolina in June in a 6-3 decision, arguing that a “student must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual—not on the basis of race.” SFFA, who represented the plaintiffs in the previous cases, sued the military academy, arguing that the Supreme Court’s decision should apply to all schools.

“Over the years, courts have been mindful of the military’s unique role in our nation’s life and the distinctive considerations that come with it,” Edward Blum, president of SFFA said in a press release. “However, no level of deference justifies these polarizing and disliked racial classifications and preferences in admissions to West Point or any of our service academies.”

The lawsuit argues that instead of basing admissions on “objective metrics and leadership potential” the academy’s administrators had instead opted for discriminating on the basis of race. It notes the school’s “benchmarks” for the amount of students in each class that should be made up of  “African Americans,” “Hispanics,” and “Asians.”

“Because skin color can be—and often is—a decisive factor for successful applicants who are chosen from those congressional nominee pools, it is equally dispositive for the other qualified nominees who are turned away,” SFFA argues. “Put differently, because race is a ‘positive’ factor for some West Point applicants, it is necessarily a ‘negative’ factor for others.”

SFFA criticized the military’s justification for the racial quotas, saying that these kinds of policies insinuate that all minorities think alike. The lawsuit also dismissed the academy’s claim that these policies were needed in order to gain legitimacy in a “diverse nation,” noting that a country’s military should not be considered trustworthy only because of its racial make up.

The lawsuit asks that the court issue a “declaratory judgment that West Point’s use of race in admissions is unconstitutional under the Fifth Amendment” and that it grant a preliminary injunction barring the academy from enforcing the policy while the lawsuit goes through the court system.

“Because the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent opinion in the SFFA cases expressly forbids all institutions of higher education from using race in admissions decisions, it must follow that the U. S. military higher education institutions must end their race-based policies as well,” Blum said.

West Point did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

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KATE ANDERSON

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The Firebombing of Maui: Part One

The recent conflagration in Maui’s Lahaina Town shocked the nation. Some have called it an act of war—if so, one might argue that it has a predecessor.

Although the Allies in World War II clearly needed to stop Hitler and to aid Russia in its advance on Germany from the east, many have questioned whether the firebombing of Dresden, the “Florence on the Elbe,” was justified. It was certainly horrific. Historian Donald Miller paints a vivid picture of the cataclysmic scene:

“People’s shoes melted into the hot asphalt of the streets, and the fire moved so swiftly that many were reduced to atoms before they had time to remove their shoes. The fire melted iron and steel, turned stone into powder, and caused trees to explode from the heat of their own resin.”

History may not exactly repeat, but it often rhymes. The above description sounds eerily similar to the effects of the inferno in Lahaina. Of course, Dresden was a major European cultural center in the midst of a world war, while Lahaina is a small town in Hawaii, so there the comparison ends.

And, in the case of Dresden, the apocalyptic ruination of that beautiful city resulted from incessant Allied bombing including incendiaries that created a firestorm, killing tens of thousands of civilians and leaving only charred remains of the exquisite architecture that had graced the city.

Whereas in Lahaina, there were no visible bombs, no readily discernible enemy, and for the most part, not even any rubble. Only ash.

NATURAL VS UNNATURAL EVENTS

But how can one say this fire was an act of war? Wasn’t it an accident? Can’t we call it a natural disaster?

We’ve long used the terms “acts of nature,” “acts of God,” and “natural disasters” to describe earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and wildfires. Yet ever since our own military fulfilled its goal of “owning the weather,” all bets are off.

Some people still think geoengineering, aka chemtrails, is a “conspiracy theory” rather than believing their own eyes when they see planes spewing long white plumes that expand till they cover a clear blue sky with a pale, sickly haze. And perhaps, if you’re old enough, you remember what the night sky filled with stars looked like—truly dazzling. Because in many places, we don’t see that anymore.

And beyond chemtrails, technologies exists today that can cause earthquakes and tsunamis, and even amplify and steer hurricanes. An hour or two of diligent research online can yield plenty of examples. But let’s focus on fires.

Here in California, we’re all too familiar with forest fires. Summer is also known as “fire season.” In the past, such fires were often caused by careless campers leaving a camp fire untended, or tossing a lit cigarette on the ground. There’s also the issue of neglect of our forests, which need controlled burns to thin them out. Overgrown, mismanaged forests are certainly part of the reason we’ve had worse fires than in past decades.

But in the past seven years or so, something new has been added to this picture: fires intentionally started using a form of high tech energy warfare. This technology, known as Directed Energy Weapons (DEW), is similar to that of your microwave oven. If you’ve ever had a piece of tinfoil in that oven, you know how metal reacts to microwaves. And if you do an experiment, as YouTuber Max Mogren did, and put leaves and fronds in your microwave, you’ll also learn that plant matter doesn’t burn. This explains why these modern day weaponized fires melt metal but leave trees standing with all their foliage. The trees die, but they don’t burn. They’re cooked from the inside, like your potatoes.

DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS: SMART FIRES

Here’s what many researchers have learned: Fires that vaporize houses and melt glass and metal while leaving nearby trees standing tall—not even blackened or striped of foliage—are deliberately set using DEWs.

That this technology exists is well known, as is its footprint. Take a look at the ashen remains of Paradise, California as an example. The infamous Camp Fire in 2018 wiped out the wine country towns of Paradise and Concow. Prior to that, there was the 2017 Wine Country Fires, aka the Northern California Firestorm, a series of 21 major fires, including the disastrous Tubbs Fire. Here’s another shot of the aftermath of the Tubbs fire that clearly shows trees standing while homes and buildings have been burned to the ground as ash and rubble—nothing left standing at all: no walls, no chimneys, no charred remains—nothing.

LAHAINA: GROUND ZERO

While some DEWs deploy microwave technology, others use high-energy lasers. How else than by laser could the perpetrators have drawn a perfect fiery ring around Lahaina as revealed in an aerial drone view in this one-minute video on Rumble?

What is so telling about it is that the two main fires, the one in Kihei and the horrific Lahaina fire, have very distinct and geometric outlines—something not possible in nature. Note the oval-shaped circle of fire with clear perimeters around Lahaina—evidence in plain sight of a high-tech DEW attack.

Heart-wrenching before and after photographs of Lahaina can be found on the San Francisco Chronicle’s website, including another drone aerial video of the Maui fires.

And what makes the assault on Lahaina particularly heinous is the fact that this town is a repository of Hawaiian history as the capitol of the Hawaiian Kingdom for twenty-five years in the 19th century. Now a substantial trove of that history has been summarily eradicated. This is an accelerated version of what we see on the mainland with the tearing down of important historical statues and monuments: the erasure of a people’s history.

RED FLAGS GALORE

Take a look at some of the “anomalies” and “coincidences” and you’ll see why Occam’s Razor suggests we need an explanation that accounts for them all.

  • Mysterious green lasers beamed down over Maui in January 2023, supposedly from a Chinese satellite. According to University of Hawaii Institute of Astronomy’s Roy Gal, it had instruments for “topographical mapping.” Coincidence?
  • Schools were closed on August 8th, due to high winds from Hurricane Dora, though the hurricane was 500 miles away; or was the wind manmade perhaps using VLF waves as some have suggested?
  • Maui’s state-of-the-art disaster warning siren system was never used, though the Lahaina firestorm was arguably the worst disaster the island has ever experienced.
  • On July 17th, Governor Josh Green signed an Executive Order declaring a “housing emergency” in Hawaii due to housing shortage, skyrocketing house prices and homelessness. Under this “emergency,” (which sounds a lot like life in California) he suspended a number of laws, including the all-important safeguard of “Historic Preservation.” That means historic Lahaina is ripe for a land grab. Amazing timing, Governor. Says he: “I’m already thinking of ways for the state to acquire that land so that we can put it into workforce housing, to put it back into families, or make it open spaces in perpetuity as a memorial to the people who were lost.”
  • The single road out of the path of the encroaching inferno was subject to a police barricade, presumably on orders from the Chief of Police, none other than John Pelletier, a Police Captain during the Las Vegas Massacre. Hmmm…disaster seems to follow him like a magnet. He’s not only Maui’s Police Chief, he’s also the Coroner! Here’s a statement he made about the barricades: “So there was a point when we didn’t let traffic into Front Street because Front Street was on fire. But we did not impede people from exiting the area.” Tell that to the people stuck in their cars trying to leave as the fire roared down Front Street. Oh, that’s right, you can’t. They perished.
  • Unbelievably, Lahaina’s water was turned off! Deputy Director for the State of Hawaii Commission on Water Resource Management, M. Kaleo Manuel, waited five hours to release desperately needed water to combat the fires. Here’s a statement he made last year: “My motto is always like: Let water connect us and not divide us. We can share it, but it requires true conversations about equity.” I’m wondering what would be an equitable recompense for his criminal collusion in the incineration of so many innocent Hawaiians. By the way, Kaleo is one of 200 inaugural Obama Leaders representing the Asia-Pacific region with the Obama Foundation.
  • Hawaii Electric claims the power was turned off by 9am on August 8th and stayed off, while Pelletier claims the police used barricades to save people from driving over dangerous downed power lines. So were the power lines energized or de-energized? And why wasn’t it a top priority to remove them if they presented a hazard?
  • Boats that were 50 yards or more out in the harbor waters caught fire. In fact, some said the sea was on fire! And in some videos taken during the conflagration, it seemed the ground burst into flames.
  • “Gosh, what a coincidence that the only parts of the island affected were the ones with all the poors. [sic] You know, the same ones who have been fighting with property developers over the sale of land from natives/locals……” . Quote from a reader on a New York Post article about celebrity estates on Maui—all unharmed. Oprah’s estate in Kula remained untouched by fires both north and south of Kula, including one that was a mere 2 miles away, which with 80 mph winds, would take less than 2 minutes to reach her home. What a lucky break.
  • The aftermath: FEMA’s fencing off of the burned areas. Why the secrecy? Why keep the locals from surveying what’s left of their own homes? And why forbid citizens from using drones to observe what the government is doing? Destroying evidence, perhaps?

And we’re just getting started.

Stay tuned for Part Two!

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Mitt Romney’s Four Mistakes on Aid to Ukraine

Republican Senator and former U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney responded to critics for the amount of U.S. assistance provided to Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression. In response to allegations that the United States cannot afford to finance the armed forces of Ukraine, he said: “The idea that it’s too expensive is a little funny.”

“We spend about $850 billion (£685 billion) a year on defence. We’re using about five per cent of that to help Ukraine. My goodness, to defend freedom and to decimate the Russian military – a country with 1,500 nuclear weapons aimed at us. To be able to do that with five per cent of your military budget strikes me as an extraordinarily wise investment and not by any means something we can’t afford,” Romney said.

Mitt Romney’s statement is understandable, but it contains four errors.

1. The real amount of U.S. military assistance to Ukraine in 2022-2023

Romney said U.S. military aid to Ukraine represents about 5% of annual U.S. defense spending of $840 billion, which translates to about $42 billion.

Unfortunately, this figure is not accurate.

According to the latest press release from the U.S. Department of Defense, since the beginning of large-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the United States has promised to provide $43.7 billion of military assistance to Ukraine.

However, on the same date, the United States actually transferred military assistance to Ukraine is only $19.4 billion, which results from the addition:

2. Time-correct comparison of aid to Ukraine and U.S. defense spending

Romney incorrectly compared U.S. military aid to Ukraine over nearly 19 months of intense military action with defense spending over the course of one year. To obtain a correct result, it is necessary to compare the assistance actually provided to Ukraine and U.S. expenditures on national defense over comparable time periods.

U.S. defense spending and U.S. military assistance to Ukraine in 2022 and 2023

Indicators/ Years 2022 2023 2022 and 2023
U.S. expenditures on national defense, in billions of dollars 838.8 905.5 1744.3
Actual U.S. military assistance to Ukraine, in billions of dollars 7.9 11.5 19.4
Percentage of total U.S. national defense spent on military assistance to Ukraine 0.94% 1.27% 1.11%

Source of data on U.S. government budget expenditures:

The table shows that U.S. military assistance actually provided to Ukraine amounted to:

  • in 2022 – 0.94%,
  • in 2023 – 1.27%,
  • in 2022-2023 – 1.11% of U.S. national defense spending.

Thus, military aid actually transferred by the U.S. to Ukraine as of September 18, 2023 only slightly exceeded 1% of annual U.S. military expenditures.

3. Possibility of defeating the aggressor troops

Although Russia has suffered serious losses over the past almost 19 months of wide-scale military operations against Ukraine, neither its destruction nor its defeat has occurred. Further, there have been increasing reports of an uptick in military production in Russia. It should be recognized that the provision of U.S. military assistance to Ukraine at the current drip-dropper level – at a level of just over 1% of the annual U.S. military budget – is, in principle, not capable of leading to the destruction of the second largest army “with 1,500 nuclear weapons.”

4. The price of defending freedom

“To defend freedom and to decimate the Russian military,” which Romney spoke about, occurs not only thanks to the supply of military aid from Ukraine’s partners, including the United States, but also, above all, thanks to the lives and health of Ukrainian military personnel. In an interview with the Washington Post on June 30, 2023, the commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Valery Zaluzhny, shared the following calculation: “If I don’t receive 100,000 shells a week, then 1,000 people will die.”

During almost 19 months of large-scale military operations, the United States supplied Ukraine with a total of 3.6 million shells, mines, and missiles, which is approximately 44,000 units of ammunition per week. Thus, the shortfall in the supply of ammunition required at the front over more than a year and a half of intense military operations averages at least 56,000 shells per week. How many servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine died, were wounded, became disabled because they were not supplied with the ammunition necessary?

If the U.S. supplied 100,000 shells per week, it would be an increase of 2.3 times. If all other types of military assistance were proportionally increased at the same time, then U.S. military aid to Ukraine would amount to 2.5% of annual U.S. military spending. The total value of assistance in this scenario would be $46 billion, only a few billion short of the $48.7 billion dollars military aid to Ukraine Congress has actually approved for 2022 and 2023.

Whether such a modest increase in the supply of military aid would have led to the destruction of Russia’s troops and their expulsion from all the territories it occupied can’t be known, but it would certainly have saved the lives of thousands and tens of thousands of Ukrainians.

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Andrei Illarionov

Senior Analyst for Russian and European Affairs.

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House Schedules First Biden Impeachment Inquiry Hearing

The Republican-held House will hold its first impeachment inquiry hearing into President Joe Biden on Thursday, Sept. 28, the Daily Caller News Foundation confirmed Tuesday.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced an impeachment inquiry last week into Biden over his alleged involvement in his son Hunter’s foreign business dealings. The House Oversight Committee, led by Chairman James Comer of Kentucky, will hold the first hearing to further investigate the corruption and abuse of power allegations against the president, according to a committee spokesperson.

“The House Oversight Committee will hold its first hearing on the impeachment inquiry next Thursday, September 28,” a spokesperson for the committee told the DCNF in a statement. “The hearing will focus on constitutional and legal questions surrounding the President’s involvement in corruption and abuse of public office. The Committee also intends to subpoena Hunter and James Biden’s personal and business bank records as early as this week. The Oversight Committee will continue to follow the evidence and money trail to provide the transparency and accountability that Americans demand from their government.”

The speaker launched the impeachment inquiry after finding that the House Oversight Committee and the House Judiciary Committee, led by Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio, uncovered enough evidence to move forward with the investigations. The impeachment inquiry will allow the House to obtain more documents, like the bank records of the Biden family.

McCarthy, Comer, Jordan and the White House did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment.

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Keep Virginia’s lights on! CFACT submission on natural gas generating plants

Wind and solar are wholly inadequate for Virginia’s energy needs.  CFACT makes plain the hard math that explains Virginia’s need to generate abundant, efficient electricity.

To: Virginia State Corporation Commission
Re: PUR-2023-00066
From: Craig Rucker, President
CFACT
1717 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Suite 1025
Washington, D.C. 20006
202-559-9036
Via SCC comment portal

Comments of CFACT regarding Dominion Energy’s 2023 IRP and their need for additional gas fired generating capacity during the 15 year planning period

Introduction

In their latest IRP, Dominion Energy argues that they will need to add some gas-fired generating capacity during their 15-year planning period. We support this expansion. Several lengthy comments have been filed in opposition to their proposal. We believe they are misguided. In actuality, Dominion must not just add what they propose, but add considerably more gas-fired capacity to their operations. This is because the amount of battery storage the company will need to reliably make their proposed renewable energy expansion possible is far greater than they currently have planned.

The economics are clear. The required storage is prohibitively expensive. Thus, gas-fired backup is a better alternative as it is far less costly. Moreover, given the much higher capacity factor and low cost of gas-fired capacity, it would be more cost effective to use fewer renewables. This is especially true of the offshore wind capacity, which is a serious threat to whales and other marine life. Offshore wind should not be built.

These issues are discussed briefly below. Additional analysis by Dominion is called for to address them properly.

Grossly inadequate storage

Dominion’s preferred option, Option B, calls for 2,370 MW of battery storage in the planning period. MW are the battery discharge rate, not the storage capacity. Assuming these are standard 4-hour batteries, the storage capacity is 9,480 Mwh.

This is an extremely small amount of storage, nowhere near enough to back up the proposed increase in renewables. A simple analysis makes this clear. Figure 1.1.1 projects an increase in DOM Zone summer peak of over 10,000 MW.

Dominion will likely see load increases of 5,000 or more, possibly often. This load is supposed to be met using renewables and batteries. This isn’t likely to happen. Consider the simple case of a 12-hour night with low wind fulfilling that load. The storage requirement is 60,000 MWh, over six times the proposed storage capacity. Even if the batteries had a 10-hour capacity, they would not come close to meeting the need.

Even worse, this simple case is far from worst likely to occur. Multiple cloudy, hot and cold days with low wind are common in Virginia. Detailed historical analysis will be needed to correctly estimate the likely maximum required storage capacity, and it will certainly be in the hundreds of thousands of MWh.

Even assuming huge battery price reductions, this much storage would be prohibitively expensive. Gas-fired backup power is a better option.

Dominion has indicated it plans to meet some of this need with imported energy. But, all the neighboring utilities are pursuing a similar dependence on renewables. The spatial extent of protracted low wind cloudiness with high load is often very large, including all the states near Virginia. Therefore, it is very likely that energy will not be available to import during these episodes. In fact, Dominion made this very point in its 2022 IRP Update. A much better path than relying on out-of-state electricity will be for the company to expand its gas-fired generating capacity.


Low projections of load growth

Dominion says the large projected load growth in the IRP is mostly due to new data centers rather than the electrification of other energy uses. However, the load growth from electrification will also be very large under present policies. A great deal of gas-fired generation will be required to meet this additional load.

The reality is complex, but if we keep it simple enough, one can readily see the stark general picture.

To begin with, consider electrification of gasoline usage, most of which is for cars and light trucks. According to EIA, Virginia’s estimated 2021 gasoline consumption is around 440 trillion Btu. The conversion is 3,412,000 btu = 1 MWh. So that is about 130 million MWh in gasoline energy. Also, in 2021 Virginia’s electric power generation is 93.5 million MWh. Thus, the gasoline energy is 1.4 times the total power generation. If it takes this much energy to power cars and light trucks in the Old Dominion, then it becomes necessary to build a new generation capacity that is almost one and a half times the Commonwealth’s present generation to make the transition. We have seen no plan that even begins to address this issue seriously.

Of course, a real analysis, which Dominion should do, would get very technical. For example, car engines are only around 40% efficient. One might argue that only 40% of that 130 million MWh, or 52 million, is needed to run the electric version. That is still well over half of the present generation. But the electric power and electric car system is also far from 100% efficient. There are line losses, storage losses, motor losses, etc. But the bottom line holds true: if 52 million MWh has to be used, then a lot more has to be generated. And this is just with respect to gasoline. The present policy goal is to electrify as much fossil fuel use as possible. Natural gas use is huge. EIA says Virginia’s 2021 consumption was about 700 trillion Btu or almost twice as much as gasoline, and many gas uses are efficient. Distillate oil, including diesel and heating oil, is roughly another 200 trillion Btu. Even coal is around 70 trillion Btu.

Therefore, widespread electrification could easily double the load increase from that projected for the planning period in the IRP. Many new gas-fired generation will be needed to meet that load. Dominion needs to include this case in its IRP.

Offshore wind is expensive, redundant, and environmentally destructive

Instead of building new gas-fired generating capacity to backup renewables, it will be far more cost-effective to use gas as a primary energy source. Having gas capacity sit idle simply because the wind is blowing or the sun is shining for part of the day is redundant and expensive. Dominion should analyze this issue.

The case of offshore wind is particularly extreme. Dominion projects 3040 MW of new wind in all five options, mostly offshore, on top of the 2,600 or so MW already in process. The total cost is projected to exceed $8 billion per 1,000 MW or over $45 billion. This for a technology that seldom produces full power and sometimes produces none at all, including during periods of peak load.

Moreover, the projected cost of offshore wind projects has increased dramatically in recent months, on the order of 50% at this point. It is likely that the IRP needs to be redone to take such huge increases into account.

In addition to this exorbitant cost, offshore wind has been implicated in numerous whale deaths — including the extremely endangered North Atlantic Right Whale. Strangely, the IRP does not include this issue.

IRP Appendix 5L is a five-page list of the many Environmental Regulations that Dominion is scrutinized under. On page 194, in a section called “Wildlife”, there are just three entries. These entries are all about the endangered Atlantic Sturgeon, threatened by hot water from nuclear power plants. There is no mention of the Marine Mammals Protection Act harassment authorizations, even though the present offshore wind construction and operation is waiting for one. They cannot start the offshore portion of the project without it. Also not mentioned are the crucial Environmental Impact Statement and BOEM approval of the project.

This is preposterous, as the threat to whales is clear. The project creates an intense noise wall that forces the whales to go around, either to the East or the West.

Immediately to the East lies the westernmost lane of the very busy coastal ship traffic. To the West lies the equally busy coastal barge traffic. Both are deadly to the species.

It seems the project was deliberately located where there is the least shipping traffic. This would make sense if it were not for the whales and other marine mammals. As it is the project closes  the low shipping corridor, which the whales undoubtedly use. Being hit by ships is the leading cause of death for whales, and the placement of wind turbines in these waters will facilitate more such collisions.

In summary

CFACT supports Dominion’s construction of new gas-fired power plants. The company will need a great deal of new gas-fired generating capacity to meet its vastly increased base load that is projected over the planning period. Many factors and drivers involved are not included in the present IRP, and Dominion needs to address them properly. In the meantime, however, given all these factors, it would seem building more gas-fired capacity is both a proper and responsible course to set.

AUTHOR

CFACT Ed

CFACT — We’re freedom people.

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ERASING GIRLS: Male crowned homecoming queen, beating out four other girls in Missouri school

TERRIBLE. The left hates women.

BREAKING: Male crowned homecoming queen, beating out four other girls in Missouri school

By: Libs of TikTok, Sep 18, 2023:

Oak Park High School students in Kansas City, Missouri just got sent a message loud and clear: boys are just better at things than girls are. Even at being a girl. Tristan Young, a male student who identifies as a female, was crowned the homecoming queen this week. He beat out four lovely female candidates because actually identifying as the gender that you are is like, sooo 2010.

Believe it or not, this isn’t the first time a transgender student was named Homecoming Queen at Oak Park High School. Back in 2015, a different boy who identified as a girl snagged the title.

We spoke with a parent in the district who asked to remain anonymous and she was disgusted by the district’s actions. She told us, “I’m appalled by NKC Schools’ continued support of the LGBT agenda. NKC Schools says they are “Champions for All Students” yet by embracing radical political statements like this they not only indoctrinate children, but they are placing certain student populations over others. Having two homecoming “queens” that are boys is a disgrace to the NKC Schools community. I hope more parents, community members and district employees start speaking out and start protecting children.”

This insane gender rhetoric not only teaches women and girls that men do things better, but also that a man who identifies as a woman is somehow more deserving of recognition and accomplishments in women’s spaces.

Another parent told us, “As a woman, it breaks my heart to see these girls get passed over and a man stealing what is rightfully theirs. As a parent I’m enraged that the school district is celebrating this on all of their social media accounts (conveniently locking down comments). On the other hand I’m broken-hearted because I know the students voted for him. Although Kansas City is a liberal leaning area of Missouri it is still more conservative than most cities. I don’t know how we’ve reached this point or how to turn it around.“

Imagine a little girl who dreams of being crowned homecoming queen one day when she’s older. Fast forward to high school, she gets nominated. Yay! She knows that she might not win, but to lose to a guy? Seriously? What could be more insulting? And even worse, confusing.

Predictably, the district limited replies and hid comments. If they’re so proud of embracing this radical gender ideology, why are they trying to hide?

Keep reading.

AUTHOR

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Wisconsin School District Defends Offering Kid’s Guides to Anal Sex and Sex Kinks

The district said the content passed the “selection guidelines.” It’s pedophilia, it’s predatory, it’s sick.

BREAKING: WI school district defends offering kids guides to anal sex and sex kinks, claims the content passed the “selection guidelines”

By: Libs of TikTok, September 3, 2023:Sep 3

Thanks to an email tip from a concerned parent, we did a deep dive into the books the Kenosha Unified School District is providing their students. What we found in their libraries and heard from their leaders is truly shocking.

So after sifting through their library, we reached out to the school with our findings: Our email to the district.

“This Book Is Gay” teaches students how to have gay sex and how to use a gay sex hookup app to meet up with others. It also includes a guide to sex kinks and fetishes such as peeing on each other and eating poop. It’s available as an eBook, students just need to login and can check it out digitally.

Sample pages from “This Book Is Gay” here.

Full guide to sex kinks, anal sex, sex toys, and more found in ‘This Book Is Gay”

“Let’s Talk About It” Is a guide to watching porn online and using sex toys with extremely graphic depictions of sex.

Keep reading.

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