Thursday, September 26, 2019
EU plans to spend more on private jets for top officials – POLITICO
EU plans to spend more on private jets for top officials – POLITICO
"The European Union is planning to spend millions of euros more on private jet flights for its top officials — just as it is proclaiming its green credentials and pledging to step up the fight against climate change.
The bloc has raised the amount that can be spent under a five-year contract for “air taxi” flights...represents a 50 percent increase on the original value of €7.14 million.
The EU has been placing increasing emphasis on green policies in recent months.
Ahead of Monday's U.N. climate summit in New York, Miguel Arias Cañete, the European commissioner for climate action and energy, declared: “The EU has a strong story to tell — we are global climate leaders.”...
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The bloc has raised the amount that can be spent under a five-year contract for “air taxi” flights...represents a 50 percent increase on the original value of €7.14 million.
The EU has been placing increasing emphasis on green policies in recent months.
Ahead of Monday's U.N. climate summit in New York, Miguel Arias Cañete, the European commissioner for climate action and energy, declared: “The EU has a strong story to tell — we are global climate leaders.”...
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Walmart’s Entry Into Health Care Could be Hugely Disruptive in All the Best Ways – Reason.com
Walmart’s Entry Into Health Care Could be Hugely Disruptive in All the Best Ways – Reason.com:
The big box retailer opened its first Walmart Health in-store clinic this month in Dallas, Georgia, offering primary medical, dental, vision, and mental health care.
Though Walmart has not yet made public any plans for a national roll-out of similar facilities, the new clinic in the Atlanta suburbs appears to be a pilot for a new way to provide basic health care to Americans.
The clinic will be staffed with medical professionals capable of handling everything from immunizations to counseling sessions to lab testing to X-rays..."
- Perhaps the most radical aspect of the new Walmart Heath clinic? Consumers will know exactly what each service costs.
The big box retailer opened its first Walmart Health in-store clinic this month in Dallas, Georgia, offering primary medical, dental, vision, and mental health care. Though Walmart has not yet made public any plans for a national roll-out of similar facilities, the new clinic in the Atlanta suburbs appears to be a pilot for a new way to provide basic health care to Americans.
Perhaps the most radical aspect of the new Walmart Heath clinic?
Consumers will know exactly what each service costs.
The company has published a pricing list showing that basic check-ups will cost $30 (or $20 for kids) while getting tested for the flu will cost $20 and having a routine vision exam will be $40. The clinic will be staffed with medical professionals capable of handling everything from immunizations to counseling sessions to lab testing to X-rays..."
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Now they want to ban the sale of pointed kitchen knives in the UK to reduce knife crime. Brutal mockery follows. - TheBlaze
Now they want to ban the sale of pointed kitchen knives in the UK to reduce knife crime. Brutal mockery follows. - TheBlaze:
Following a Friday conference titled — what else? — The Point, experts penned an open letter urging the government to "take urgent measures to promote the sale of safe kitchen knife designs and restrict those designs which have been used in so many acts of violence," the outlet said.
"There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young"
Darrin Moore - "There are few things more dishonorable than...- "There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young. . . . We’re raising whole generations who regard facts as more or less optional… They’re being taught that it’s important to have views, and they’re not being taught that it’s important to know what you’re talking about." — Thomas Sowell
- "The gap between the culture acquired spontaneously by the young, and that which should be imparted in the university, is so cavernously wide that the teacher is apt to look ridiculous, as he perches on his theatrical pinnacle and beckons the youth across to it. Indeed, it is easier to make the passage the other way, to join your young audience in the enchanted field of popular entertainment, and turn your intellectual guns on the stately ruin across the chasm. Increasingly, therefore, modern intellectuals define their position as one outside the high culture to which they owe their status. Their task, they claim, is not to propagate Western culture, but to question its assumptions, to undermine its authority, and to liberate young people from the 'structures'." ~Roger Scruton in his chapter on the predominance of the youth culture, 'Yoofanasia' in his book 'Modern Culture'...
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History for September 26
History for September 26 - On-This-Day.com
John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) 1774, Ivan Pavlov 1849 - Physiologist, T.S. Eliot 1888
George Gershwin 1898, Christine Todd Whitman 1946, Serena Williams 1981 - Tennis player
1789 - Thomas Jefferson was appointed America's first Secretary of State. John Jay was appointed the first chief justice of the U.S. Samuel Osgood was appointed the first Postmaster-General. Edmund Jennings Randolph was appointed the first Attorney General.
1964 - "Gilligan's Island" premiered on CBS-TV. The show aired for the last time on September 4, 1967.
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Matt Bevin, Kentucky governor: Greta Thunberg 'remarkably ill-informed' - Washington Times
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin touted the reliability of fossil fuels and called teen climate activist Greta Thunberg “remarkably ill-informed” during a conference on energy.
Bevin was asked about the 16-year-old Swedish activist on Tuesday after he gave a keynote address at the annual meeting of the Southern States Energy Board in Louisville. Bevin said Thunberg is “an intelligent woman, young woman, she’s very emotional, she’s very passionate and she’s remarkably ill-informed.”
Dems grill more than 10,000 steaks despite lecturing Americans about climate change, meat consumption - TheBlaze
Democratic presidential candidates attended the Iowa Polk County Democratic Party's annual steak fry on Saturday despite lecturing Americans about climate change and the alleged dangers of meat consumption.
500 Scientists Write U.N.: ‘There Is No Climate Emergency’
500 Scientists Write U.N.: ‘There Is No Climate Emergency’"More than 500 scientists and professionals in climate and related fields have sent a “European Climate Declaration” to the Secretary-General of the United Nations asking for a long-overdue, high-level, open debate on climate change.
...The scientists underscored the importance of not rushing into enormously expensive climate action before fully ascertaining the facts.
“There is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying hurricanes, floods, droughts and suchlike natural disasters, or making them more frequent,” they declared. “However, CO2-mitigation measures are as damaging as they are costly.
...The signatories of the declaration also insist that public policy must respect scientific and economic realities and not just reflect the most fashionable frenzy of the day.”...
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Here’s The Transcript Of Trump’s Call With The Ukrainian President | The Daily Caller
Here’s The Transcript Of Trump’s Call With The Ukrainian President | The Daily Caller:
The White House released the declassified and un-redacted transcript of President Donald Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that became the center of a whistleblower complaint Wednesday.
Trump announced Tuesday while at the United Nations General Assembly that he would release the transcript in order to push back on claims he had threatened to withhold aid from Ukraine until they agreed to investigate his political opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden.
Trump announced Tuesday while at the United Nations General Assembly that he would release the transcript in order to push back on claims he had threatened to withhold aid from Ukraine until they agreed to investigate his political opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden.
Inside the shady private equity firm run by Kerry and Biden’s kids
Inside the shady private equity firm run by Kerry and Biden’s kids“My frustration,” writes Peter Schweizer in his new book, “Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends,” “is not that the solid reporting on Trump has been too tough, but that the reporting on the Obama administration has been way too soft or in some cases nonexistent.”
...One example: the little-noticed private equity firm run by the sons of Democrats Joe Biden and John Kerry, as detailed in this exclusive first excerpt.
...The new firm would be populated by political loyalists and positioned to strike profitable deals overseas with foreign governments and officials with whom the US government was negotiating.
...In short, the Chinese government was literally funding a business that it co-owned along with the sons of two of America’s most powerful decision makers.
Over the next seven years, as both Joe Biden and John Kerry negotiated sensitive and high-stakes deals with foreign governments, Rosemont entities secured a series of exclusive deals often with those same foreign governments.
Some of the deals they secured may remain hidden..."
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NRA gives Beto O'Rourke mock award over gun confiscation policies — and he's not gonna like it - TheBlaze
NRA gives Beto O'Rourke mock award over gun confiscation policies — and he's not gonna like it - TheBlaze:The National Rifle Association crowned Beto O'Rourke the "AR-15 salesman of the month" last week amid the Democratic presidential contender's anti-Second Amendment crusade.
Child abuse!-----Thousands of deaths linked to puberty blockers for gender-confused kids | News | LifeSite
Thousands of deaths linked to puberty blockers for gender-confused kids | News | LifeSite"WASHINGTON, D.C., September 24, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) -- The UK National Health Service (NHS) is investigating the use of medications to block normal sexual development that may have irreversible effects among children and teens.
In the UK, nearly 1,200 children under 15 were referred to the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) in 2018.
...According to the Daily Mail, Doyle-Price said, ‘It is important to note that this aspect of service has grown quickly, and it has done so in an absence of public scrutiny.”
In 2018, Minister for Women and Equalities Penny Mordaunt called for an investigation into the reasons behind a 4,400 percent increase in the number of girls being referred for transitioning treatment over the past 10 years..."
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FOX NEWS CUTS TIES WITH MICHAEL KNOWLES OVER GRETA THUNBERG COMMENTS
Instapundit Blog Archive FOX NEWS CUTS TIES WITH MICHAEL KNOWLES OVER GRETA THUNBERG COMMENTS
You may not be interested in the Gleichschaltung, but the Gleichschaltung is interested in you. Even at Fox News.--Posted by
One thing is certain: Everything Knowles said was correct and easily verifiable. Thunberg has Asperger syndrome, selective mutism, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and suffered from depression. In 2018, she described her own illnesses in a TEDx Talk, where she explained that she fell into a depression and became ill when she was eleven years old. “I stopped talking. I stopped eating. In two months, I lost about ten kilos of weight. Later on I was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, OCD, and selective mutism—that basically means I only speak when I think it’s necessary.”"A spokesman for Fox News blasted Knowles in a statement to Mediaite: “The comment made by Michael Knowles who was a guest on The Story tonight was disgraceful – we apologize to Greta Thunberg and to our viewers.” Fox News also told The Hollywood Reporter that the network has “no plans” to book Knowles in the future. This is not an official ban, however, but still pretty gutless.
Any single one of these would be described as a mental illness. Calling them such is not attacking a child, but acknowledging the fact that this girl is being thrust into the spotlight despite her numerous problems. While may on the left cheer this, because Thunberg is the latest human shield they’ve found to champion their causes, many on the right see it for what it is: child exploitation and abuse. That Fox News was so quick to cut ties with Knowles for acknowledging this fact is just bizarre.
As Brandon Morse adds at Red State, “And with that, Fox News just lost a massive amount of credibility. What the most-watched name in news did is deny reality in the name of political correctness. Knowles, as he explained and even later explained online, was not deriding Thunberg for having a mental illness, he was clearly bringing it up to highlight the fact that the left has sunk to new lows and will take advantage of someone like Thunberg.”
Here Are The Scenes From DC’s Climate Protest | The Daily Caller
Here Are The Scenes From DC’s Climate Protest | The Daily Caller:
Climate change activists protested on the streets of Washington, D.C., Monday, aiming to shut down the city in an effort to push the government to take action on the climate crisis.
Activists blocked key intersections throughout the nation’s capital Monday morning, causing “gridlocked” traffic across D.C., Sam Sweeney, a reporter for WJLA, tweeted. Police began arresting protesters Monday morning, and the demonstrations are expected to continue throughout the day.
Climate change activists protested on the streets of Washington, D.C., Monday, aiming to shut down the city in an effort to push the government to take action on the climate crisis.
Activists blocked key intersections throughout the nation’s capital Monday morning, causing “gridlocked” traffic across D.C., Sam Sweeney, a reporter for WJLA, tweeted. Police began arresting protesters Monday morning, and the demonstrations are expected to continue throughout the day.
Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions | Competitive Enterprise Institute
Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions | Competitive Enterprise Institute
"Thanks go to Tony Heller, who first collected many of these news clips and posted them on RealClimateScience.
"Thanks go to Tony Heller, who first collected many of these news clips and posted them on RealClimateScience.
SUMMARY
Modern doomsayers have been predicting climate and environmental disaster since the 1960s. They continue to do so today.
None of the apocalyptic predictions with due dates as of today have come true.
What follows is a collection of notably wild predictions from notable people in government and science.
More than merely spotlighting the failed predictions, this collection shows that the makers of failed apocalyptic predictions often are individuals holding respected positions in government and science.
While such predictions have been and continue to be enthusiastically reported by a media eager for sensational headlines, the failures are typically not revisited.
1967: ‘Dire famine by 1975.’
1969: ‘Everyone will disappear in a cloud of blue steam by 1989.’
1970: Ice age by 2000
Labour votes to abolish private schools at party conference | The Independent
Labour votes to abolish private schools at party conference | The Independent
"Labour will pledge to abolish private schools if it wins the next election, after the party’s annual conference voted for a proposal to “integrate” them into the state sector.
In a major policy shift, a motion approved by delegates at the gathering in Brighton said a government led by Jeremy Corbyn would “challenge the elite privilege of private schools” and claimed that “the ongoing existence of private schools is incompatible with Labour’s pledge to promote social justice”.
It said the party would include in its next manifesto “a commitment to integrate all private schools into the state sector”..."
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- Labour votes to abolish private schools at party conference
- Party says it would ‘integrate’ independent schools into state sector, while universities would be told to ensure that no more than seven per cent of their students were privately educated
"Labour will pledge to abolish private schools if it wins the next election, after the party’s annual conference voted for a proposal to “integrate” them into the state sector.
In a major policy shift, a motion approved by delegates at the gathering in Brighton said a government led by Jeremy Corbyn would “challenge the elite privilege of private schools” and claimed that “the ongoing existence of private schools is incompatible with Labour’s pledge to promote social justice”.
It said the party would include in its next manifesto “a commitment to integrate all private schools into the state sector”..."
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It's The Bee!-----Democrats Introduce Debate Strategy Of Holding Up Small Child Whenever Their Positions Are Challenged | The Babylon Bee
Democrats Introduce Debate Strategy Of Holding Up Small Child Whenever Their Positions Are Challenged | The Babylon Bee:"U.S.—Democrats are bringing a new tactic to the next presidential debate.
Each candidate will arrive on the debate stage with a child to hold up whenever someone tries to question or challenge any of the statements they make.
...Recently, presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren was asked about accepting lobbyist money and she immediately lifted up a five-year-old girl named Sophie.
"Why are you attacking this child? Are you some kind of monster?" she asked, leaving her interviewer speechless.
"These are the kind of people I'm up against," Warren later said to her supporters after dropping Sophie into a carrying case for later. "People who ruthlessly attack children."...
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Adam Schiff threatens to withhold funds from intelligence community over whistleblower report - TheBlaze
House Intelligence Community Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Sunday threatened to withhold funds from the intelligence community unless the government discloses the whistleblower complaint recently lodged against President Donald Trump.
Michael Mann "Hockey Stick" Update: Now Definitively Established To Be Fraud — Manhattan Contrarian
Michael Mann "Hockey Stick" Update: Now Definitively Established To Be Fraud — Manhattan Contrarian"The Michael Mann “Hockey Stick” is suddenly back in the news.
It’s been so long since we have heard from it, do you even remember what it is?
The “Hockey Stick” is the graph that took the world of climate science by storm back in 1998.
...The claimed “new statistical approach,” when applied to a group of temperature “proxies” that included tree ring samples and lake bed sediments, yielded a graph — quickly labeled the “Hockey Stick” — that was the perfect icon to sell global warming fear to the public.
The graph showed world temperatures essentially flat or slightly declining for 900+ years (the shaft of the hockey stick), and then shooting up dramatically during the 20th century era of human carbon dioxide.
..Now that is seriously scary!
The Medieval Warm period — an era between the years of about 1000 and 1300 once generally accepted to have had temperatures warmer than the present — had disappeared.
The Medieval Warm period — an era between the years of about 1000 and 1300 once generally accepted to have had temperatures warmer than the present — had disappeared.
The clear implication was that the earth had had a benign and unchanging climate for about a thousand years, and now humans had entered the picture with their fossil fuels and were rapidly destabilizing the situation..."
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