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A new ICE report released on Friday revealed a whopping 6.2 million migrants have been released from federal custody, but ABC’s Good Morning America on Saturday acted as if the true hardship was the few thousand migrants recently bused to New York City, twice conveying the Democratic spin that Texas Governor Greg Abbott was guilty of “cruel and inhumane politics.”

If New York City finds a few thousand people overwhelming, what about border states that have had to deal with multiple millions of migrants every year since Joe Biden became President?

ABC’s opening tease showed their focus was limited to the concerns of Democratic mayor now inconvenienced by the faraway border crisis. Fill-in co-host Stephanie Ramos: “Migrant crisis: The pleas for help from mayors in major cities overwhelmed by busloads of asylum seekers, turning to the federal government for support, with the Texas governor accused of cruel and inhumane politics; his response this morning.”

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An attack on Christians in Nigeria over Christmas has left nearly 200 people dead. While Muslim herders are thought to be behind the violence, some major media outlets have blamed climate change for the killings, appearing to downplay existing religious conflicts.

The massacre took place on Christmas Eve in 26 different villages across the central Plateau state in the country’s interior. Locals said that bands of men armed with guns and machetes attacked villagers, killing 198 and wounding a further 300 in some of the worst anti-Christian violence seen in Nigeria in years, according to the Catholic News Agency.

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ABC’s The View is not known for rational and measured conversations, so for this retrospective of The View’s antics in 2023, you’re advised to get multiple rolls of tin foil! Throughout the year, the liberal ladies have floated all sorts of harebrained, truly bonkers, and rather laughable accusations and theories about everything from Republican ninjas planting drugs to presidential candidates using body doubles.

And what makes their insane accusations even worse is the fact that The View is under the ABC News umbrella.

Newsbusters.

Of course, every year there is way too much bias for just one category. So Baker led a panel of NewsBusters editors to break down the Worst of 2023 into eight additional categories (The Craziest Analysis Award; The Damn Those Conservatives Award; The Joy of Hate Award for Joy Reid Rants; The Jihadist Journalism Award for Helping Hamas; The Damning Florida’s Dictator Award; The Praising and Protecting Old Joe Award; The Cursing the Conservative Court Award and the Celebrity Freak-Outs Award).

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When he appeared on CNN last week, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was confronted with a video from one of his speeches — a video CNN clipped to convey a false impression that he had compared Covid restrictions to conditions in Nazi Germany.

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It was 32 years ago — on Christmas Day, December 25, 1991 — that the world rejoiced at the final dissolution of the Soviet Union after seven decades in which the totalitarian communist state inflicted war, poverty and despair on its own people and the rest of the world.

The end had been in sight since communist hardliners failed in their coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev four months earlier. Russian President Boris Yeltsin and throngs of ordinary citizens stood against the coup, and Gorbachev was freed after 48 hours of house arrest. Following the coup, power quickly flowed from the communist party and the central Soviet government to the U.S.S.R.’s 15 individual republics, of which Russia was by far the largest.

For a world that had for decades feared the Cold War might lead to a global thermonuclear apocalypse, this was the best possible outcome — for the long-suffering people of the now-defunct Soviet Union, as well as those in the free nations they threatened. But some in the media refused to blame the communist system for its failures, even as they treated Gorbachev, the last communist, better than his Western counterparts and his anti-communist successors.

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Broadcast networks are still angry about a bill signed into law Tuesday by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, which empowers state and local law enforcement to arrest and deport illegal aliens.

This is the second round of whining we’ve seen in response to this law; the first bout came when the Texas legislature passed the bill several weeks ago. At that time, the common refrain from talking heads was that the bill necessarily would lead to “racial profiling” and “discrimination.”

Broadcast reporters this week raised that same objection, while also touting pending litigation by outraged open borders advocacy groups (which they described as “civil rights” organizations).

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People need to realize the Left is using the alleged “existential” threat of global warming to wage war against liberty, against the Western world’s (not China’s) economy, and against joy.

The automobile, that magnificent enhancement to human freedom and joy, is a target of the Left.

The idea that individuals should be able to go where they want when they want in their own car is anathema to the Left. It provides way too much individual liberty.

Ideally, almost no one should own a car. We should all aspire to live in a high-rise apartment building in a major metropolis and use public transportation, ride bicycles, or walk. If for some reason we have to travel a longer distance, let us say to conservative relatives who selfishly own their own homes in the suburbs, we can use public transportation, and if none is available, we can use Uber or Lyft.

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has acknowledged there is no data supporting the co-administration of vaccines for mpox, COVID-19, and influenza, in contradiction of advice a top agency official gave to the public.

“There are no data on administering JYNNEOS vaccine at the same time as other vaccines,” the CDC said.

Newsbusters.

It was a challenging task, but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors led by MRC President L. Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker, boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2023 and declared a winner. This year the winner is Joe Scarborough! The MSNBC host won for his absurd and dire prediction that if Donald Trump wins re-election he will “imprison” and “execute” his political opponents. The former Republican Congressman, on the November 21 edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe also claimed that the federal judiciary was the “only thing that stood between” Trump and “the destruction of American democracy” when he was in office.

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Wikipedia’s woke editors are scrambling to downplay recent scandals involving Harvard President Claudine Gay.

In recent days, editors have removed mention of the allegations from the intro to her article, eliminated detailed descriptions of the alleged plagiarism, and have attempted to minimize Gay’s handling of antisemitism on campus, Breitbart reports.

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A fight over Harvard’s page ensued as well, with one attempt to mention Gay’s controversy rejected by editor Samuel Klein, who previously served on the board of the Wikimedia Foundation, which governs Wikipedia. He argued that the content was ‘undue,’ and suggested an alternative version which essentially avoided Gay’s issues.

Newsbusters.

If ABC News is going to spend precious newscast time on a sex predator that tried to grab and do God-knows-what to three female students on separate occasions, then wouldn’t it be worthwhile to provide viewers with as much information as possible on the suspect so people know what to look for? It appears not.

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The US Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear an appeal from a Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendant which will highlight a law used to charge hundreds of people in connection with that fateful day.

The case will decide whether defendant Joseph Fischer can be charged under a 2002 law which stemmed from the Enron collapse which makes it a crime to obstruct or impede an official proceeding (like pulling a fire alarm to delay a vote?). The law has been invoked against Trump, along with 327 Capitol riot defendants – which an appeals court said the government could continue to invoke.

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Part of the ongoing invasion of the woke movement involves regular attempts to undermine Christian holidays as “problematic” and archaic. Leftists argue that increasing diversity (mostly through open border policies or illegal immigration) requires increasing inclusion at the national level. Meaning, it is not for immigrants to adapt to the west, the west must adapt to them. National celebrations like Christmas are therefore a representation of “discrimination” because they are being given preference over minority holidays.

This was the message given by the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) in a paper published under the radar in October. The treatise on “Religious Intolerance” was then condemned in a motion unanimously adopted on Nov. 30 by the House of Commons, the lower chamber of the Canadian Parliament. The paper cited Christianity’s two biggest holy days (Christmas and Easter) as examples of “present-day systemic religious discrimination” linked to colonialism because they are statutory holidays in Canada.

Watts Up With That.

Check out AlGore’s carbon footprint sometime.

The Atlantic.

Editor’s Note: This article is part of “If Trump Wins,” a project considering what Donald Trump might do if reelected in 2024.

Reality is what hangs around even if you don’t believe in it.

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“It just goes to show you that, at a time when these people are talking about telling poor countries to switch over to renewable energy, and people are starving, we also have folks driving the climate movement hosting ‘environmentally-friendly yachting’ panels,” Dan Kish, a senior research fellow for the Institute for Energy Research, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “It’s absolutely classic… they tell everyone else to sacrifice while they host discussions on ‘sustainable yachting’ among themselves.”

 

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More than 70,000 people are expected to show up to COP28, about 25,000 more people than last year’s summit, COP27.

Gates of Vienna.

Robert Fico, the new prime minister of Slovakia, has broken ranks with the New World Order in his pronouncements on the experimental mRNA treatment designed to prevent infection with the Wuhan Coronavirus, and related matters. It remains to be seen whether the actions of his government will line up with his words.

Supplying 65% Of Our Energy, America Must Lead On Oil and Gas

World facing ‘hellish’ 3C of climate heating, UN warns before Cop28 (The Guardian) Do you believe that ‘scientists’ can measure the temperature of the earth with any accuracy? I don’t.

A Look at California’s Landmark Climate Reporting Laws

Maria Bartiromo Floats Bonkers New COVID Conspiracy About Trump and China (Daily Beast)

Longer COVID School Closures Linked To Youth Suicide Rates

IRS Says Some People Can Still Get COVID Stimulus Cash… Here’s How

Americans More Polarized Than Ever Over Ivermectin

Homeschooling Trend Accelerates Even After COVID Lockdowns

Vanity Fair: ‘Secret Warnings’ About Wuhan Before COVID

The mRNAs Didn’t End COVID, Omicron Did: Berenson

Earth passed a feared global warming milestone Friday, at least briefly (Washington Poop) Apparently they have a big thermometer stuck up the Earth’s butt, giving them the temperature from minute to minute. Sure, I believe that….

The world briefly smashed through the 2-degree warming limit for the first time (CNN) You heard the sound of the smash, of course, didn’t you? After all, it was a ‘limit’.

Earth likely briefly passed critical warming threshold on Friday (Axios)

Global Temperatures Briefly Crossed Critical Threshold For The First Time Last Week (Forbes)

One Greenwich school has a geothermal heating system. It’s ‘failed across the board,’ officials say.

Family Businesses Can’t Afford To Lose Access To Reliable Electricity

The Fifth National Climate Assessment Report is Driven by Government Deception & Climate Alarmist Politics

Federal Energy Efficiency Requirements Are Outdated and Should Be Repealed

Tuvaluan’s May ‘Escape’ to Australia, but if They Do, Associated Press, It Won’t Be Because of Climate Change

Study Reveals Most Common Chronic Symptoms After COVID-19 Vaccination

“Tranhausen By Proxy?” Parents’ Personality Disorders Driving Surge In Trans Kids: Psychiatrists

4 more free COVID tests will be available to each household ahead of the holidays (ABC News)

US to Offer More Free COVID Tests Nationwide  For all the people out there still wearing masks.

US Has Highest-Ever Childhood Vaccine Exemption Rate In History  Gee, I wonder why?

How Major Environmental Groups Ended Up on the Wrong Side of California’s Housing Crisis (Mother Jones)

“Reduce Your Emissions Within Two Months Or Face The Consequences”, Brussels Tells 12 Member States

Are EVs a Doomed Technology?

How Green Billionaires Groom the Public into Accepting Unworkable Net Zero Policies

Recycling Eco-Myths Is The Existential Threat

Climate Enron May Be Heading for a Crash

Uncle Sam Begging Anti-Vaxxers to Come Back to Army  Good luck with that.

The COVID Caper Gradually Unravels

CDC Claims On Vaccination And Natural Immunity Made Without Seeing Underlying Data: FOIA Document

Only 3.6% of Americans Got Updated COVID-19 Shots as of Oct. 31

Why So Many Countries Followed China’s Lockdown Example  Life (for the ruling  class) would be SO much easier if we were all just Communist dictatorships. Ask Thomas Friedman.

New Email Shows Fauci Adviser Suggesting He Destroyed Records

CDC CCP

Capturing Cop28 chief’s oil firm emissions would take centuries – study (The Guardian)

What Happens When You Put a Fossil Fuel Exec in Charge of Solving Climate Change (TIME)

Cop28 Climate Summit Host Also Runs Abu Dhabi’s State Oil Company (Mother Jones)

UAE oil giant’s two missions: a greener image and ‘accelerated growth’ (Politico)

Nitrogen wars: the Dutch farmers’ revolt that turned a nation upside-down (The Guardian)

Climate Change Is ‘Ultimate Threat to Humanity,’ Biden Says Before Boarding Private Jet To Meet World’s Largest Carbon Emitter

Price paid for offshore power to rise by 50%

India To Increase Coal Production By 60%

Wave-Powered Desalination System Produces 13,000 Gallons of Drinking Water a Day From Each Buoy

How China Dominates the World – And Lies about Climate Commitment

Biden DOJ Quietly Hires More Lawyers For Vaccine Injury Lawsuits

The Rise Of Pharma Fascism And The Ruination of the Commons

Top FDA Officials Accepted Jobs With Moderna After Playing Key Roles In The Licensure Of COVID-19 Vaccines  My, what a surprise.

Sen. Rand Paul Says He Wants Federal Prosecution Of Fauci For COVID Coverup

An Illegal Chinese Biolab Containing Infectious Diseases Operated in California. The Feds Ignored It for Months. 

Expert warns green energy projects ‘are not worth it’ as prices spiral ‘out of control’ (Fox Business)

China and US push through tensions in reaching climate deal (Politico)

U.S. and China Agree to Displace Fossil Fuels by Ramping Up Renewables (N.Y. Times)

The tough truth behind corporate net zero sustainability targets (BBC)

Corporate progress on curbing emissions is slowing, MSCI finds (Reuters)

Global heat deaths could quadruple if action is not taken on climate change, study finds (NBC News)

Biden’s ‘War on Fossil Fuels’ Out of Step With Geopolitical Realities, Energy Policy Analysts Say

Coalition Files Notice of Intent to Sue Federal Agencies to Stop Whale-killing Virginia Wind Project

Gulf Stream Collapse Scare Debunked by Royal Society

The Climate Cult and Its Mythic Origins

Sunnylands Statement on Enhancing Cooperation to Address the Climate Crisis (State Dept.)

Fifth National Climate Change Assessment Propaganda “Science Report” Released

The EU Shouldn’t Block Poland’s Move Toward Nuclear Energy

Trust climate predictions from climate models that cannot reproduce the past?

I Visited over 120 EV Chargers: Why So Many Were Broken

$17 a Gallon to Charge an EV

Study suggests Covid rebound is far more common with Paxlovid than without (STAT)

COVID-19 Antivirals Can Trigger Viral Rebound, Study Finds (MedScape)

Virologic rebound observed in 20% of patients treated with nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (MedicalXPress)

Paxlovid Lifesaving, Yet May Allow Viral Rebound Contagion (Mirage)

The Declaration That Wasn’t Supposed To Happen

“We Might Need To Let It Burn”: Firefighting In The EV Era Is A Whole New Game

BlackRock invests $550M in world’s largest direct air capture plant

Green Dreams Turn Into Nightmares: After US Withdrawal, Orsted Pulls Out Of Norway Wind Bidding

OPEC Oil Production Inches Up In October, Sees “Healthy” Demand In US And China

IEA Raises Oil Demand Outlook For 2023 And 2024  Time to buy oil stocks.

Prioritizing Justice in New York State Climate Policy

Electric heat to cost 77 percent more than natural gas, federal agency says

What if climate change meant not doom — but abundance? (Washington Poop)

Newsom Says Homeless Camp Pallet Fire Was Caused By Climate Change (Babylon Bee)

Boston’s plan to ban fossil fuels in new buildings goes up in smoke (Boston Globe)

Europe Taps Record-High Natural Gas Storage As Temperatures Drop

A Nuclear Renaissance Is The Best Path Forward

Climate Data Refutes Crisis NarrativeWatchdog Has Grim Winter Warning: There May Be Blackouts

A COVID-19 vaccine reckoning is coming for the DOJ over federal gov mandates (N.Y.Post)

Lawsuit Challenges Federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (MedPageToday)

Sen. Schmitt Wants Answers on COVID Learning Losses

Thousands of Greenland’s glaciers are rapidly shrinking. Before-and-after photos reveal decades of change (CNN)

After a Last-Minute Challenge to New Loss and Damage Deal, U.S. Joins Global Consensus Ahead of COP28 (Inside Climate Narrative News)

Claim: $5.9 Trillion Government Money Grab Required for Climate Action

L A Times Fails to Comprehend the Difference between “Average Temperature Anomaly” & “Absolute Maximum Temperature” Climate Data

Climate Fact Check: October 2023 Edition

West Antarctica Temperature FALLS 2°C in 20 Years

Sahara Expert Says Desert Shrinking, Calls Alarmist Tipping Points “Complete Nonsense”

First vaccine for chikungunya virus, an ’emerging global health threat,’ gets FDA approval (Fox News)

Certain COVID-19 Vaccines Linked To Elevated Risk Of Guillain-Barré Syndrome

El Niño is now ‘strong’ but acting strange. What that means. (Washington P00p)

Climate change is pushing American farmers to confront what’s next (Washington Poop)

A new COVID variant, HV.1, is now dominant. These are its most common symptoms (TODAY)

Alarming collapse of Greenland ice shelves sparks warning of sea level rise (LiveScience)

Power grid watchdog warns of higher winter blackout risks, cites Biden energy policies as top threat

America’s power grid at risk of buckling this winter: Regulator (WSYR)

Two-Thirds of North America Could Face Power Shortages This Winter (Insurance Journal)

FERC, NERC Caution Against Closing Everett LNG Import Terminal in New England (Natural Gas Intelligence)

More people not having children due to climate breakdown fears, finds research (The Guardian) Think of it as evolution in action.

In California’s Central Valley, a massive carbon removal factory is pulling CO2 from the air (Fast Company)

Nation’s first commercial carbon capture plant opens in Tracy (KCRA Sacramento)

A surprising green technology rises in the San Joaquin Valley (S.F. Chronicle)

Climate tech company Heirloom opens US commercial carbon capture plant (Reuters)

First-of-a-Kind Nuke Project Terminated in Blow to Biden Clean Energy

Arrests ‘Part of the Deal’: Climate Activists Who Struck Degas Exhibit to Return to DC

Australia Signs Historic Climate Refuge Pact With Tuvalu (Bloomberg)

German Gov’t Agrees To Bailout Giant Loss-Making Wind Farm, UK Increases Subsidies

Renewable Energy Meltdown Spreads: Plug Power Crashes After ‘Going Concern’ Warning 

Scientists: Nearly 4 Decades of Climate Model Failure Undermines Confidence In Future Predictions

As The Transition to Green Energy Crumbles, Funding for The Climate Scare Soars

Alarming collapse of Greenland ice shelves sparks warning of sea level rise (LiveScience)

Coral spawning season brings hope for the Great Barrier Reef (CNN)

What does a Jordan Peterson conference say about the future of climate change? Apparently we’re headed towards ‘human flourishing’ (The Guardian) Sarcasm in a headline never works.

Epstein lays out benefits — and morality — of fossil fuel use (Freightways)

The U.S. Project Meant To Debut Revolutionary Nuclear Reactors Just Fell Apart (Huffington Post)

First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled (Ars Technica)

Utah just lost an important future energy source. Here’s why (Deseret News)

Number of species at risk of extinction doubles to 2 million, says study (The Guardian)

Eco-friendly plastic turns into a source of nutrition for ocean life (Interesting Engineering)

Behind Mike Bloomberg’s $500 Million Donation To ‘Finish The Job On Coal’

Researchers Try Doomsday Images To Scare Meat Eaters

Climate Extremists Block Ambulance in ‘Life or Death’ Situation

New Study Finds Most Of Antarctica Has Cooled By Over 1°C Since 1999…W. Antarctica Cooled 1.8°C

Rand Paul Wants Fauci Taken Down or a New Law Passed (Newsweek)

‘Insanity’: petrostates planning huge expansion of fossil fuels, says UN report (The Guardian)

Plastic waste ‘spiralling out of control’ across Africa, analysis shows (The Guardian)

Plastic is plaguing lower-income countries. Where does fashion fit in? (Vogue)

WWF models cost of plastic pollution in Pacific region (Australia B.C.)

Indonesia must lead towards an ambitious Global Plastics Treaty (Eco-Business)

Chile shuts down a popular glacier, sparking debate over climate change and adventure sports (Fox News)

Prolific Wanker Known As ‘The Sperminator’ Creates ‘Unvaxxed Sperm’ Group On Facebook After Requests Skyrocket

California scientists suggest a strategy to ‘eat our way’ out of the climate crisis (The Hill)

Physicists Warn Earth Could Feasibly Descend Into Chaos (Science Alert)

Embattled conservation group leader heads for exit (Politico)

Why surging sales of large electric vehicles raises environmental red flags (The Narrative Conversation)

What’s really going on with the electric car market? (Axios) People are discovering that they are an expensive and impractical answer to a non-existent question.

An EV slowdown? Battery makers are cool with that. (E&E News)

Yet Another “Climate Crisis” News Cabal

Africa Doesn’t Need Western Elites’ Meaningless Climate Policies

COVID US Map Shows States Where Cases Are Highest in Latest Week (Newsweek)

World Bank to host climate damages fund despite opposition from developing nations (CNN)

California EV HELL: QUEUING for chargers at MIDNIGHT!!!

Setting Utility Rates

Watch: Just Stop Oil Climate Crazies Smash Glass Protecting 17th Century Painting with Hammers

Drunk grizzlies keep getting hit by trains in Montana  Think of it as evolution in action.

£15 Million AI Climate Change Grant for the University of Southampton

Professor Lockdown Denies Ever Calling For Lockdown

CDC to Test Travelers for Respiratory Viruses