LET THEM EAT CAKE: Buttigieg Says Tens of Thousands Of Keystone Workers Need to Get ‘Different’ Union Jobs

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Terrible.
Every Democrat action is an attack on Americans. Every action is anti-American.

Buttigieg acknowledges Keystone workers may need to get ‘different’ union jobs

By Fox News, January 21, 2021
Transportation Secretary nominee Pete Buttigieg claimed Thursday that President Biden‘s decision to block the Keystone XL Pipeline is part of a broader plan that will end up being a net positive for employment, despite union outrage based on the loss of more than a thousand jobs.
Biden revoked a necessary cross-border permit for the pipeline in an executive order on Wednesday, one of more than a dozen actions he took during his first hours in office. Construction on the project had stopped earlier in the day in anticipation of the move.
“Environmental ideologues have now prevailed, and over a thousand union men and women have been terminated from employment on the project,” North America’s Building Trades Unions said in a statement following Biden’s action.
Asked about this at his confirmation hearing by Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, Buttigieg was optimistic that these losses will be offset by new positions created as the new administration shifts towards climate-conscious goals.
“I believe that the president’s climate vision will create more jobs on that,” the former mayor of South Bend, Ind. said. “And I think it’s going to be very important to work with him and work with Congress to make sure that we can deliver on that promise too. That on that, more good-paying union jobs will be created in the context of the climate and infrastructure work that we have before us than has been impacted by other decisions.”
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, pressed Buttigieg on what this actually means.
“So for those workers, the answer is somebody else will get a job?” Cruz asked.
“The answer is we are very eager to see those workers continue to be employed in good-paying union jobs, even if they might be different ones,” Buttigieg said.
The Keystone XL Pipeline project was initially proposed in 2008 and has volleyed back and forth as the fossil fuel and industry and climate activists battle over energy policies. President Barack Obama rejected the project in 2015, but President Donald Trump gave it the green light shortly into his tenure in the Oval Office.

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Beijing Biden to KILL Keystone XL Pipeline

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America didn’t vote for this. Biden’s energy polices will cripple the U.S. energy sector.
The $9 billion project, which would move up to 830,000 barrels of crude oil daily from the province of Alberta to Nebraska, has been delayed by legal issues.
In a lengthy statement posted to Twitter, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said he was “deeply concerned” by the report, arguing that the move would “kill jobs on both sides of the border, weaken the critically important Canada-U.S. relationship, and undermine U.S. national security by making the United States more dependent on OPEC oil imports in the future.”
He also warned that Alberta would work with TC Energy Corp. to use “all legal avenues available to protect its interest in the project.”

Biden to end Keystone XL pipeline early on: source

Posted January 17, 2021
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden is planning to cancel the permit for the $9 billion Keystone XL pipeline project as one of his first acts in office, and perhaps as soon as his first day, according to a source familiar with his thinking.

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VIDEO: Bill Gates Carbon Hypocrisy

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Bill Gates wants you to pare down your over-the-top lifestyle.
How about we all agree to not let our “carbon footprints” exceed his.
CFACT’s Marc Morano exposed Gates’s hypocrisy on Fox and Friends:

“Bill Gates was listed in 2019 as the number one carbon footprint of all the celebrities. He beat Al Gore, Jennifer Lopez. He beat Bernie Sanders and a bunch of others [including] Harrison Ford. He came out number one, Bill Gates. He has a new book coming out about the climate crisis; what we can all do. He spoke to the World Economic Forum and claimed we have to change every aspect of our lives to fight global warming but Bill Gates is not willing to do it. The last estimate in 2010 he paid $30,000 a month in his electricity bill at his home. Since he…recently bought a 43 million-dollar oceanfront property, [he’s] not very worried about sea-level rise apparently.”
Marc reports that Gates and the rest of the climate elite want us to refrain from flying unless we can come up with a “morally justifiable” reason to do so.  Of course they expect their moral justification travel visas to be permanently stamped.
“Gates just said we need to continue lockdowns on bars, restaurants, small businesses. Meanwhile, the billionaire class is reaping benefits of lockdowns — his pals from Amazon, Walmart, all other big box stores. What is interesting [is that] climate activists are calling for flying only when it is ‘morally justifiable’ as the new normal post-pandemic. Bill Gates is in on that. He is saying, well business travel – he expects a 50% reduction. So now if you want to fly commercial, if you’re not Bill Gates or Leonardo DiCaprio or Al Gore, you need to come up with a ‘morally justifiable’ reason. This is what the climate activists are doing. Crushing the airline industry, by boosting private planes. They’re living one way for themselves and imposing…another set of austerity on the rest of us.”

Maybe Bill Gates and the rest of the carbon elite will shock us all someday and lead by example.
Don’t hold your (CO2-laden) breath.
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CFACT “Green New Wheel” teaches facts at TPUSA conference

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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”

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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.
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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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Here’s the List of 106 HOUSE GOP LAWMAKERS Who Support Texas’ Efforts to Invalidate the Election

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https://twitter.com/PatrickHussion/status/1337148773294776321?s=20
Here’s the list:

No. 155, Original

IN THE Supreme Court of the United States

STATE OF TEXAS, Plaintiff, v. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA,STATE OF GEORGIA,STATE OF MICHIGAN, AND STATE OF WISCONSIN, Defendants.

Motion for Leave to File Brief Amicus Curiae

Pursuant to subparagraph 2(b) of Rule 37, amici U.S. Representative Mike Johnson, et al., hereby move the Court for leave to file a brief amicus curiaein support of Plaintiff Texas’ Motion for Leave to File a Bill of Complaint and Motion for Preliminary Injunction. This brief is being filed timely, as it was filed by approximately the same time as Defendants response to Plaintiff’s motions. In support of their motion, these amici state:
Identity of Amici Curiae As members of the federal legislature, Amici seek to protect the constitutional role of state legislatures in establishing the manner by which Presidential Electors are appointed to ensure the Electoral College selects the candidate for President of the United States that was chosen by counting only lawful votes. Amici include 106 U.S. Representatives currently serving in the 116th Congress, listed above. Relevance of Amicus Brief to Motion for Leave to File a Bill of Complaint This brief amicus curiae presents the concern of amici as Members of Congress, shared by untold millions of their constituents, that the unconstitutional irregularities involved in the 2020 presidential election cast doubt upon its outcome and the integrity of the American system of elections. Amici respectfully aver that the broad scope and impact of the various irregularities in the Defendant states necessitate careful and timely review by this Court. 2
On the merits, this amicus brief defends the constitutional authority of state legislatures as the only bodies duly authorized to establish the manner by which presidential electors are appointed, one of the central issues in the pending litigation. As members of the federal legislature, these amici seek to protect the constitutional role of state legislatures in determining the manner by which states choose their electors. The Positions of the Parties Due to the press of time to file this amicus brief before the deadline given to Defendants and the need to coordinate among the amici, the position of the parties on this motion is unknown. Conclusion For the foregoing reasons, amici respectfully request the Court to grant them leave to file the brief amicus curiae which is appended hereto.
vi Amicus U.S. Representative Bob Gibbs represents the Seventh Congressional District of Ohio in the United States House of Representatives. Amicus U.S. Representative Louie Gohmert represents the First Congressional District of Texas in the United States House of Representatives. Amicus U.S. Representative Lance Gooden represents the Fifth Congressional District of Texas in the United States House of Representatives. Amicus U.S. Representative Sam Graves represents the Sixth Congressional District of Missouri in the United States House of Representatives. Amicus U.S. Representative Mark Green represents the Seventh Congressional District of Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives. Amicus U.S. Representative Michael Guest represents the Third Congressional District of Mississippi in the United States House of Representatives. Amicus U.S. Representative Andy Harris, M.D. represents the First Congressional District of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives. Amicus U.S. Representative Vicky Hartzler represents the Fourth Congressional District of Missouri in the United States House of Representatives.
vii Amicus U.S. Representative Kevin Hern represents the First Congressional District of Oklahoma in the United States House of Representatives. Amicus U.S. Representative Clay Higgins represents the Third Congressional District of Louisiana in the United States House of Representatives. Amicus U.S. Representative Trey Hollingsworth represents the Ninth Congressional District of Indiana in the United States House of Representatives. Amicus U.S. Representative Richard Hudson represents the Eighth Congressional District of North Carolina in the United States House of Representatives. Amicus U.S. Representative Bill Huizenga represents the Second Congressional District of Michigan in the United States House of Representatives. Amicus U.S. Representative Bill Johnson represents the Sixth Congressional District of Ohio in the United States House of Representatives. Amicus U.S. Representative John Joyce represents the Thirteenth Congressional District of Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives. Amicus U.S. Representative Fred Keller represents the Twelfth Congressional District of Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives.
viii Amicus U.S. Representative Mike Kelly represents the Sixteenth Congressional District of Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives. Amicus U.S. Representative Trent Kelly represents the First Congressional District of Mississippi in the United States House of Representatives. Amicus U.S. Representative Steve King represents the Fourth Congressional District of Iowa in the United States House of Representatives. Amicus U.S. Representative David Kustoff represents the Eighth Congressional District of Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives. Amicus U.S. Representative Darin LaHood represents the Eighteenth Congressional District of Illinois in the United States House of Representatives. Amicus U.S. Representative Doug LaMalfa represents the First Congressional District of California in the United States House of Representatives. Amicus U.S. Representative Doug Lamborn represents the Fifth Congressional District of Colorado in the United States House of Representatives. Amicus U.S. Representative Robert E. Latta represents the Fifth Congressional District of Ohio in the United States House of Representatives.
ix Amicus U.S. Representative Debbie Lesko represents the Eighth Congressional District of Arizona in the United States House of Representatives. Amicus U.S. Representative Blaine Leutkemeyer represents the Third Congressional District of Missouri in the United States House of Representatives. Amicus U.S. Representative Kenny Marchant represents the Twenty-Fourth Congressional District of Texas in the United States House of Representatives. Amicus U.S. Representative Roger Marshall, M.D. represents the First Congressional District of Kansas in the United States House of Representatives. Amicus U.S. Representative Tom McClintock represents the Fourth Congressional District of California in the United States House of Representatives. Amicus U.S. Representative Cathy McMorris Rogers represents the Fifth Congressional District of Washington in the United States House of Representatives. Amicus U.S. Representative Dan Meuser represents the Ninth Congressional District of Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives. Amicus U.S. Representative Carol D. Miller represents the Third Congressional District of West Virginia in the United States House of Representatives.
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Recent Election Fraud, Covid, Energy and Environmental News

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

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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

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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.”
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VIDEO: Detroit Dominion IT Worker Describes Exactly How Poll Workers Inflated Biden Vote Tallies

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The fraud is so systemic, so institutionalized, it must have been going on since Joe Kennedy and Sam Giancana stole the election for JFK. They’ve perfected it. Well almost.
Carnone’s testimony is here:

Detroit Dominion IT worker describes exactly how poll workers inflated Biden vote tallies (Video)

Source: The Gateway Pundit,  Citizen Free Press, November 15, 2020:
Carone was sent to Detroit, Michigan, to provide technical support for the ballot counting process. While she was there she noted poll workers repeatedly double scanning ballots to generate multiple votes from the same batch of ballot sheets. Ms. Carone also witnessed election workers filling out ballots, fraudulently signing ballots, as well as the unloading of vans in an area of the Detroit election tabulation facility she was not permitted to inspect.
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In video testimony, Detroit IT worker Melissa Carone, who was employed by Dominion Voting Systems as a contractor to keep an eye on ballot-counting machines, says she witnessed poll workers at the TCF Center repeatedly run the same batches of 50 ballots through counters sometimes up to eight, nine, 10 times.
What’s more, she said that while she was not allowed to touch ballots or stand directly over machines, she said only saw ballots marked for Biden during her entire 24-hour shift – not a single ballot for President Trump.
She also testified that there was no legitimate, legal oversight of the balloting process – that Democrats were essentially ‘watching’ Democrats. She also says she saw poll workers duplicating ballots while changing the votes on others, stealing results in the open.
Carone also said she reported her findings to the FBI, but at this point, there is no indication that the bureau – or the Justice Department – has done a thing to investigate.
Her revelations come amid others by Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell, who says she and other legal eagles working on behalf of the president have discovered substantial evidence of alleged payoffs, vote alterations, and other shenanigans related to Dominion and certain state elected officials whom she did not name.

But she also appeared on Fox Business Network with Lou Dobbs, and that interview is here:

And here’s some food for thought: If – if – widespread, open vote fraud against this president were going to take place, it makes perfect sense that it would be carried out in Democratic strongholds like Detroit, where there is a corrupt machine already in place.

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

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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.

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