My latest in PJ Media:
Old Joe Biden’s handlers have made it abundantly clear, with an astonishing indifference to any need to provide actual corroborating evidence, that it thinks “white supremacist” terrorism is the biggest threat the country faces today. Even that nod to woke authoritarianism, however, isn’t good enough for one Heidi Peltier, who is, according to the UK’s Guardian, a “senior researcher at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and director of programs for the Costs of War Project.” Peltier showed the way to the future when she penned an opinion piece in the Guardian entitled “It’s time to shift from the ‘war on terror’ to a war on climate change.” Because in the Left’s fantasy world, there is no jihad terror threat, and our resources are much better directed toward a hubristic initiative in economic and civilizational suicide.
“Large government bureaucracies,” Peltier informs us, “are often slow to adapt to changing realities, such as the catastrophic threats we face in a warming world. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is no exception.” How the Department of Homeland Security can be repurposed to control the weather, Peltier unfortunately did not explain.
“New research from Brown University’s Costs of War Project,” she went on to explain, “shows that the DHS has been overly focused on foreign and foreign-inspired terrorism, while violent attacks in the US have more often come from domestic sources. A combination of willful ignorance and institutional inertia caused the agency to miss the rise in white supremacy and domestic terrorism that led to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol.”
Yeah, or maybe the whole thing was trumped-up, so to speak, and never was any manifestation of “white supremacy” or “domestic terrorism” at all, but of course that is an unacceptable departure from the establishment narrative. It seems that “new data from Dr Erik Dahl, Associate Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, show that just one of the 46 failed terror plots in the US from 2018 through 2020 was directed by a foreign organization. In contrast, 29 plots were planned or carried out by domestic groups. In 2019, DHS finally acknowledged the growing threat of targeted violence and domestic terrorism borne mainly of far-right ideology and white supremacy and issued its first strategy document identifying these threats.”
The foreign/domestic distinction is misleading. On October 18, an American convert to Islam in Chicago, Thomas Osadzinski, was convicted of providing support to ISIS. Another American convert to Islam, Damon Joseph, a 24-year-old resident of Holland, Ohio, was sentenced on September 20 to twenty years in prison for a plot to attack a synagogue in Toledo. Yet another American convert to Islam, Noelle Velentzas, got a 16-year prison sentence last June for jihad bombing plots in New York City. There are many others like them, but neither Heidi Peltier nor the feds have such people in mind when they speak of “domestic terrorism.” They don’t mean domestic jihad terrorism; they mean parents protesting at school board meetings, people who support Trump, and the like.
There is more. Read the rest here.
Kepha says
Once upon a time, tired of the flattery of his courtiers, King Knut of Denmark, Norway, and England asked his lords if he believed he could do anything. They all answered that they believed so. He then took them down to the seaside nd asked them if they believed he could hold back the sea. They all shouted that their king had such power. Knut then ordered them to advance towards where the wash would come with the next wave, and shouted for the sea to stand back. The sea, of course, still came and broke on the beach, the wash wetting the shoes and boots of Knut’s courtiers.
“Now, said Knut, “don’t you feel foolish?”
I doubt a Washington-led war on climate change will go any better than the war on drugs or the war on poverty. Time was when the Norse could raise grains and cattle in SW Greenland; but things haven’t warmed to that point yet. In any case, Uncle Kepha is old enough to remember being warned about a coming ice age, running out of oxygen, standing room only, and other secular apocalypses. As an old Jesus Freak, he recalls people solemnly promising the 2d Advent every time someone in the Middle East belched from too much hummus.
revereridesagain says
And don’t forget that hold in the ozone that was supposed to kill us all.
You can’t “war” against climate. You can only, with regard to the most precise meaning of the word, conduct “war” against other people. And who, in the eyes of the “climate warriors”, might that mean?
E T says
All the acid rain and the professor of Environmental Ethics at the University of Windsor in 1987, telling the class all of Florida would be under water by 2014, little did he know, one person it that class thought he was on drugs. But he scared the heck out of the young gullible, followers.
gravenimage says
Good exchange.
Don McKellar says
If there really was a genuine war to be waged, and one that would make any difference at all, then all these people would only be talking about one thing: China. But they never do. Never.
I would not be at all surprised if there were actual journalists (probably a dozen left in the world right now) who would do a “follow the money” on most of these high profile climate alarmists, and find they are being financed by China. It just seems all too strange that none of them ever talks about reigning China in, nor about how they put out more “greenhouse gasses” than all the advanced countries of the world put together. Their silence is astounding.
E T says
New normal / insane
Mike says
Mother Nature loves all her mentally ill children equally and without exception.
Walter Sieruk says
On June first of the year 2017 on television on the Smithsonian channel was a program about the ecology and the dangers posed to it that would be harmful for all living things, including humans. Likewise in Summit on the subject of climate change held in Europe by the different countries in the ecology is, very obviously, viewed as a very important topic to many people.
Therefore, all of this is somewhat reminder that once when I was watching television a scientist was interviewed and he was, most likely, sincere when he said the in forty years unless drastic changes were enacted to stop the pollution of the environment living conditions on earth will be uninhabitable for all life.
So environmental issues of this plaint are extremely important. The point is that interview with that scientist on television was in the year 1967. Now it’s the year 2021 and thus more than fifty years sine he said “In forty years “there will be awful environmental disaster.
This should tell all thinking people something.
libertyORdeath says
Deaths from climate related disasters such as hurricanes or wildfires are actually DOWN to the lowest levels ever recorded. The numbers are down by an astonishing amount considering the hysteria surrounding the subject.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-deaths-from-natural-disasters
gravenimage says
+1
James Lincoln says
Dr. Frank has an IQ in the stratosphere, uses factual evidence-based logic, and follows the data:
“Douglas G. Frank, PhD- Climate Change”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C1SnRSRARY&t=1227s
gravenimage says
Academic Wants a U.S. ‘War’ Against ‘Climate Change’
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Lots of good replies above to this stupidity.