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UN doubles down on climate as Putin’s tanks roll
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bonner Cohen With exquisite timing, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has seized the opportunity of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine to warn of impending doom – not from Putin’s putting Russia’s nuclear forces on high alert, but from countries failing to reduce their carbon emissions. “Climate change is killing people,” […]
Ford Foundation’s Big Left Influence: The Climate Hypocrites
/in Environment, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Ken Braun The Climate Hypocrites In January 2019, more than 600 left-leaning policy and climate organizations co-signed a letter to members of Congress under the headline “Legislation to Address the Urgent Threat of Climate Change.” Outlining their proposals demanding “renewable energy” and “100 percent decarbonization,” the letter pointedly singled out nuclear power as being “dirty energy” […]
Russian Collusion Exposed: Russia Funded Environmental Groups to Oppose Fracking in Europe and U.S.
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Featured, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Marc Morano From 2018 Congressional Report: A Republican staff report by the Senate suggests that Russian funds have been funneled through off-shore corporations and passed on to U.S.- based environmental activist organizations with the intent to effect political change. [ … ] In January 2017, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued […]
Defeat Tyrants With Energy Independence
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow They said it couldn’t be done. Then we did it. Energy independence! Then Biden yanked away what generations had worked for in the blink of an eye. Put that together with Biden’s provocative weakness in Afghanistan and now Ukrainians are paying the price in blood. Will Taiwan be next? […]
The War in Ukraine Shows a Dark Side of Environmentalism
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy MercatorNet – Navigating Modern Complexities Europe’s dependence on natural gas mutes its objections to Russia’s invasion. “Save the planet!” Ah, what a wonderful phrase. To quote an adorable little Swedish girl, “how dare you” even think otherwise? Well, pace Greta, dare we must. Garry Kasparov recently hit the nail on its head, when he tweeted, […]
Acid Fish Latest Greenpanicking Scare
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Skirmish – Liberato.US Acid rain – remember that one? Alar – remember that one? The earth is cooling – remember that one? No reason you should. They were all nonsense. More recent green scares also turned to be nonsense, or less there than meets the eye – polar bear extinction, sea level […]
U.N.’s New Climate Change Report Underwhelms
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Skirmish – Liberato.US The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is out with another report, this one declaring: “Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health. Any further delay in concerted anticipatory global action on adaptation and mitigation will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to […]
Leftists Want To Control Your Money So They Can Control You
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Gun Rights, Healthcare, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Kyle Sammin Editors’ Note: We ourselves have suggested that governments would not permit the full operation of cryptocurrencies because it challenges their entrenched power to manipulate money. This manipulation in the past was limited to inflation of the currency, redistribution of wealth, and supposed countercyclical measures to modulate the business cycle. Then that power […]
American Solar Factory to Close After Joe Biden Guts U.S. Tariffs on China
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Biden continues to reward our mortal enemies while punishing the American people. #stolenelection As one commenter pointedly exclaimed, “….in Jan. 2021 when the fraud Democrat regime shut down the Keystone pipeline, gutted US energy production, and put thousand of people out of work. John “F-n” Kerry swaggered to a microphone, sneered, […]
VIDEO: The West’s Energy Policy Is the Greatest National Security Threat We Face
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, National Security, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Marc Morano Watch my interview with Tucker Carlson on Ukraine, Russia and how Biden’s policies aided Russia: ‘The West’s Energy Policy Is the Greatest National Security Threat We Face’ EXCERPT: Tucker Carlson: “So we wanted to walk you some of the likely consequences of what they are now doing in Eastern Europe and Marc […]
How a Mindless Climate War on Energy Surrendered Ukraine
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report The Biden Administration gutted America’s energy sector to appease it’s radical climate czar John Kerry. They actually gifted America’s energy industry to Russia, because of John Kerry’s hatred of fossil fuels. This disastrous decision has financed Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. John Kerry is a total wrecking ball. The Geller Report predicted […]
John Kerry Warns Ukraine Invasion Will Worsen Climate Change
/in Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Thomas Catenacci Editors’ Note: As we read this, we could not help but think about how detached from reality the Left and the Democrats have truly become. We are really dealing with a kind of secular religious dogmatism of an extreme variety. It is obvious Putin could care less about “emissions”, and the global warming […]
Why Frackers Are Returning to Abandoned Oil Patches in Droves
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) For consumers, high oil prices are a headache; for drillers, they are an opportunity. Less than two years after the price of oil briefly plummeted to roughly negative $37 a barrel, an oil boom is underway in America—even in places where drilling was all but abandoned two years ago. “Private oil […]
Why Is Democratic Biden Rescuing Autocratic Erdoğan at the Expense of U.S. Allies?
/in Environment, Featured, National Security, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Burak Bekdil Editors’ Note: Not only do we find it odd that Biden is snuggling up to the dictator Erdogan but it is unconscionable that he would deliberately hurt Israel, an ally, while cutting off alternative supplies of gas to European allies. This makes Putin even stronger and Erdogan stronger while our allies are made […]
Oil Soars Beyond $100 Per Barrel For The First Time Since 2014
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The worldwide price of crude oil skyrocketed to more than $100 per barrel for the first time since 2014 as Russia launched a full-scale offensive against Ukraine. The Brent crude index, the global oil benchmark, hit $101.66 per barrel Thursday morning, surging more than 4% overnight. The U.S. WTI index skyrocketed nearly 7% to […]
Biden Administration Adds Climate Roadblocks to Future Pipelines, Energy Projects
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Thomas Catenacci The Biden administration altered the official federal policy on approving new interstate natural gas facilities and pipelines, requiring a climate consideration. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission announced that it will begin to “undertake a robust consideration” of the environmental justice impacts of such fossil fuel projects before granting approval, according to a […]
Emissions Increased In States That Closed Nuclear Plant
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Thomas Catenacci Greenhouse gas emissions have surged in multiple Northeast states that shuttered nuclear power plants since 2019, Politico reported. The states — Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania — closed down the zero-emissions nuclear reactors in recent years, even as they announced ambitious pledges to transition away from fossil fuels, according to Politico. Since […]
The Supreme Court Confronts the Administrative State
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Peter Wallison It could be a coincidence—or it could foretell a historic Supreme Court term. The Court has now accepted two cases for this term that could threaten the essential legal underpinnings of the federal administrative state. The first is American Hospital Association v. Becerra, in which the plaintiff questions the Chevron doctrine—a rule fashioned by the Supreme […]
Biden Is Helping the Mullahs
/in Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Thomas C. Patterson When Joe Biden assumed the presidency one year ago, America had finally achieved energy independence. Iran was in chaos, fearing that its nuclear ambitions had been dashed. A year later, it’s America’s interests that have been dashed. Biden campaigned on a pledge to rejoin the Iran nuclear accord and work on […]
CFACT Resupplies Canada’s Freedom Truckers
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Healthcare, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow Things are getting a bit hairy in the Great White North. Last weekend, a Canadian judge issued an injunction blocking monies being sent to assist the trucker protest in Ottawa collected by a Christian fundraising site GiveSendGo. The site was subsequently hacked and donor information was compromised, leading many to fear […]
Climate Tyrants’ New Tactics
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Richard Morrison Chief Justice John Marshall’s observation, “[t]hat the power to tax involves the power to destroy,” has become part of American political lore. Marshall understood that the state’s revenue-extracting power can be weaponized—even against those who have committed no crime. We are now seeing a corollary to that notion in finance, with fossil […]
BMW Putting The Brakes On Their All Electric Vehicle folly
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow BMW CEO Oliver Zipse has a two-word message for those demanding an all-electric vehicle fleet and the outlawing of internal combustion engines. “Slow Down!” We would add three more. End. The. Mandates. Zipse, noting that IC engines power the large majority of vehicles on the road today, says that ditching them […]
Virginia House Passes Bill to End Virginia’s Clean Economy Act!
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow Give yourself a hand! The Virginia House of Delegates voted by a 52-48 margin to pass HB 118 — a bill crafted to roll back the disastrous Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA) put in place by former Governor Ralph Northam. As you may recall, CFACT asked you to chime […]
The Arrogance of Authority in Covid and Climate
/in Education, Environment, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Joe Bastardi I can’t help but see the link. In fact, it is clearer than ever with the passing of my parents due to Covid. They passed together holding hands within 10 minutes of each other on Jan 19. The evil , and that is what it is, whether well-intentioned or not, was revealed […]
Checkbook Journalism: AP announces ‘largest single expansion’ of climate reporting ‘paid for through philanthropic grants’ of $8 million
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Marc Morano Paid press releases now officially the news: AP announces ‘largest single expansion’ of climate reporting ‘paid for through philanthropic grants’ of $8 million. Welcome to a new form of Checkbook Journalism. Morano: “The AP will now have zero ‘obligation to serve as watchdogs over public affairs and government’ and instead be approved messaging […]
GOV. MIKE DUNLEAVY: Time For A Reset On Biden’s Disastrous Energy Policies
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller As tensions increase between the West and Russia over Ukraine, the risks to our national security from the Biden administration’s energy policies are coming into focus. President Biden is attempting to discourage aggression by President Vladimir Putin by positioning thousands of U.S. troops across Eastern Europe, and his Secretary of State Antony […]
AWED MEDIA BALANCED NEWSLETTER: We cover COVID to Climate, as well as Energy to Elections.
/in DrRichSwier.com, Elections, Energy, Environment /by DrRichSwier.comBy John Droz, Jr. Welcome! We cover COVID to Climate, as well as Energy to Elections. Here is the link for this issue, so please share it on social media. Particularly note the asterisked items below. Happy Valentine’s day! — This Newsletter’s Articles, by Topic — COVID-19 — Repeated Important Information: My webpage (C19Science.info) with dozens […]
Biden Effect: Oil Tops $90, 7-Year high
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report We were energy independent under Trump until the Democrat party of treason stole the election. Gas was $1.89 a gallon under Trump. The national average for gas prices is $3.41: AAA Gas prices in spring and summer will be ‘painful’: Energy expert Brent crude, the global benchmark, rose to $91 per barrel. […]
‘Clean’ Energy Is Dirtier Than Imagined
/in DrRichSwier.com, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow The effect of wind power on birds and bats is already well-publicized but is being swept under the rug. This article will explain why using wind and PV solar for generating electricity will cause greater harm to the environment than will using nuclear, natural gas combined cycle (NGCC), or […]
CFACT Blasts Virginia’s ‘Clean’ Economy Act Blunder With Facts
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow On Tuesday I delivered CFACT’s testimony regarding a bill that would roll back the “Virginia Clean Economy Act” (VCEA) — an aggressive renewable energy initiative that is both an environmental and energy disaster. CFACT”s friends and supporters used the Virginia House of Delegates legislative portal to submit well thought […]