Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Tyranny by unelected bureaucrats...so the only gains are for the government treasury

Gas Prices In California About To Rise Even Higher

BY TYLER DURDEN
WEDNESDAY, NOV 06, 2024 - 03:30 AM

Authored by Eric Lendrum via American Greatness,

A series of new state regulations are set to make gas prices in California rise even higher in 2025, despite the state already having the highest gas prices in the nation.

As the Washington Examiner reports, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) is set to vote on a series of new fuel standards regulations on November 8th. 

These regulations, which will go into effect immediately if approved, will increase the average price of gas in the state by 47 cents, according to CARB’s own estimates.

However, a study from the University of Pennsylvania’s Kleinman Center for Energy Policy released its own study suggesting that prices are more likely to increase by at least 65 cents.

Following backlash after the initial announcement of the new regulation, CARB appeared to backtrack and suggested it would revamp the new rules to minimize the price increase.

But instead, they simply re-announced the same regulations with the added caveat that, instead of being able to calculate the price increase for Californians, their study simply could not determine what the price increase would be.

“I don’t expect them to,” said CARB Executive Officer Steven Cliff.

He added that although “there will be additional impacts to costs to refiners,” he did not “think” that those costs would impact consumers as well.

The coming price increase is in addition to other regulations approved by Governor Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) as part of an anti-price gouging bill, which mandates all oil refineries in the state to build new storage facilities for reserve gasoline.

As a result of the higher costs of building new refineries, many companies have been forced to simply shut down various facilities. The net decline in oil refineries means that the state may have to turn to importing foreign oil instead.

In 2019, California had 11 gas refineries. Currently, it is down to just 8. As a result, imports of oil from overseas are expected to more than double, from 8% five years ago up to 17% in 2025.


How America Became Unburdened By What Has Been

How America Became Unburdened By What Has Been

BY TYLER DURDEN
WEDNESDAY, NOV 06, 2024 - 07:45 AM

Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack,

Trump just beat Kamala despite the formidable odds that were against him.

He survived two assassination attempts, withstood the government’s lawfare, and is on track to secure the popular vote even though the legacy media was fully in support of his opponent.

Speaking of her, she’s infamous for repeating her phrase about America becoming unburdened by what has been”,which means moving past the Trump era.

Ironically, the country just moved past her, and here’s how it happened:

1. “It’s The Economy, Stupid!”

Democrat consultant James Carville famously coined the abovementioned phrase in reference to the most important electoral issue for most Americans. It still rings true to this day since the majority of the country is worse off after four years of the Biden-Harris Administration than it was after Trump’s first term. It doesn’t matter what the reasons for that are since such developments strongly work against incumbents. Americans accordingly voted to bring back the golden economy that Trump ushered in.

2. Immigration, Both Legal & Illegal, Is Out Of Control

Immigration is always a hot button issue, but it was even more so during this election due to the unprecedented influx of illegal immigrants that invaded the country under Biden and viral reports of legal Haitian immigrants brought in by the government eating people’s pets in Ohio. Trump pledged to crack down on the illegal component and more properly vet those who come into the country via legal channels to ensure that they’ll assimilate and integrate. This approach is wildly popular with Americans.

3. Folks Are Afraid Of World War III

Americans have never been as afraid of World War III as they are now. The NATO-Russian proxy war in Ukraine and the back-and-forth Israeli-Iranian strikes, each of which have the potential to spiral into the apocalypse in the worst-case scenario, were unthinkable under Trump. He promised to do his utmost to bring peace to Europe and the Mideast if he’s re-elected while Kamala promised more of the same policies that brought the world to the brink of war. A vote for Trump therefore became a vote for peace.

4. The Media’s Smears Against Trump No Longer Work

The past eight and a half years of the legacy media’s smears against Trump no longer have the effect that they used to in manipulating voters’ perceptions of him and have even become counterproductive. The more that they accuse Trump of being a “Nazi” or whatever else, the less that people care. Their celebrity surrogates are just as bad, and some like Mark Cuban dealt a powerful blow to their cause by viciously attacking Trump’s female supporters in what can be seen as this year’s “October Surprise”.

5. Musk Restored Freedom Of Speech Online

The preceding points are all important, but they wouldn’t have led to Trump’s victory had Elon Musk not restored freedom of speech online by buying Twitter. Americans were then able to share news about the election without fear of censorship, which showed them that they weren’t alone in questioning the Biden Administration and legacy media’s false claims. Those two were also debunked in real time. Had it not been for Musk, then their lies would have proliferated unchallenged, likely reshaping the election.

6. Musk, RFK, & Tulsi Made It Cool To Defect From The Democrats

Musk, RFK, and Tulsi Gabbard are former Democrats who defected from the party in protest of what it’d become, namely a radical liberalglobalist ideological movement that totally severed its perceived roots with the working class. They all eventually rallied behind Trump, which made it cool for other Democrats to defect from the party too and helped win him some of the Independent vote that took him over the edge in key swing states. He couldn’t have won had it not been for this unity coalition.

7. The Amish & Poles Helped Trump Pull Ahead In Pennsylvania

The Keystone State became the key to Trump’s victory this time around, and he has the Amish and Poles to thank for that. Scott Presler, the one-time chairman of Gays for Trump, played an indispensable role in mobilizing the first while the Posobiec Brothers (popular conservative commentator Jack and his brother Kevin) recruited their fellow co-ethnics from the second in their home state. The combination of these two, both groups and activists, guaranteed Trump’s victory there.

8. The Republicans’ GOTV Campaign Made All The Difference

The Republicans were determined to make Trump’s lead “too big to rig” after being convinced that he was defrauded out of his rightful second term during the last election. To that end, they embraced early voting and harvested ballots as enthusiastically as their Democrat rivals did four years ago, knowing that literally every vote counts and not wanting to miss a single one. This made all the difference by preemptively averting speculative scenarios by which Trump could have been defrauded yet again.

9. Abortion Is No Longer An Issue In Presidential Elections

The Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe vs. Wade in mid-2022 made abortion a states’ rights issue, which took the wind out of its former sails as a federal one and thus made it much more difficult for the Democrats to turn women against Republican presidential candidates like before. Try as they did, they couldn’t pull it off anymore, and this helped Trump come out ahead. The party relied on abortion for so long that they don’t know what to do now that it’s no longer relevant at the presidential level.

10. Walz Was One Of The Worst VP Picks Imaginable

Kamala might have had a chance if she picked Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro as her running mate instead of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, but the former is Jewish and has ties to the IDF, so she feared that she’d lose the Midwest’s Muslim vote if she chose him. That was a mistake since Walz was one of the worst VP picks imaginable and JD Vance made mincemeat out of him during their debate. Most Americans didn’t want Walz one heartbeat away from the presidency after that.

*  *  *

Trump’s political comeback story is one for the history books after the seemingly insurmountable odds that he overcame. 

A mix of masterful campaigning, Musk’s purchase of Twitter, and arguably a stroke of divine providence over the summer came together to make this possible.

America is now truly unburdened by what has been after decisively rejecting the past four years in full defiance of the Democrats. 

It’s now up to Trump to deliver on his ultimate promise to “Make America Great Again”.


The persecution of Daniel Penny

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Queens crook’s 23 arrests prior to stab attack on vendor show NYC’s insane crime fail

Queens crook’s 23 arrests prior to stab attack on vendor show NYC’s insane crime fail


Twenty-three arrests: Deranged street-sleeper Niser Cekic racked up that many before he stabbed a Queens fruit vendor multiple times. 

The vendor asked him to move, and Cekic flew into a violent rage on being awakened from his asphalt nap.

By some miracle, the victim of this heinous assault is still alive. 


Authorities killing pets

California girl, 11, wins $300K settlement from police who seized, slaughtered pet goat: ‘Can never get him back’



Alvin Bragg

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Some good news from California

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Antifa are the fascists

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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

EV's are not good for the environment when all the environmental damages added in

How can a country under genocidal attack be expected to look after the welfare of its attackers?


The UNRWA meltdown




How can a country under genocidal attack be expected to look after the welfare of its attackers?
A view of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) offices in Jerusalem on Oct. 29, 2024. Photo by Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90.
A view of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) offices in Jerusalem on Oct. 29, 2024. Photo by Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90.

MELANIE PHILLIPS
Melanie Phillips, a British journalist, broadcaster and author, writes a weekly column for JNS. Currently a columnist for The Times of London, her personal and political memoir, Guardian Angel, has been published by Bombardier, which also published her first novel, The Legacy, in 2018. To access her work, go to: melaniephillips.substack.com.

If anything illuminates the insanity and moral bankruptcy of our times, it’s the reaction to Israel’s decision to act against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).

Laws passed this week by the Israeli Knesset, which will come into force in three months’ time, ban UNRWA from operating in either Israel or Gaza, prohibit state officials from having any contact with the agency or its representatives, and enable Israel to arrest and prosecute any of its employees with terrorist connections.


The evidence is overwhelming that UNRWA is indeed an active partner of Hamas.

Israel has claimed that dozens of UNRWA officials and staffers directly participated in last year’s Oct. 7 pogrom in southern Israel, when 1,200 were murdered and more than 250 kidnapped into Gaza.

Mohammad Abu Itiwi, who led the murder and kidnapping of Israelis hiding in a roadside bomb shelter on that terrible day, and who was killed by the Israel Defense Forces last week in Gaza, had been employed by UNRWA since July 2022 while serving as a Nukbha commander in Hamas’s Bureij Battalion.

Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin, who led Hamas in Lebanon and was killed in an Israeli airstrike there in September, doubled as the head of Lebanon’s UNRWA teachers’ union. A school principal, he oversaw 65 schools and roughly 40,000 students. He had also been responsible for coordinating terror activities between Hamas and Hezbollah; procuring weapons and recruiting terrorists; and using social media to incite attacks.

The IDF repeatedly discovered terrorist infrastructure sited in and around UNRWA schools, hospitals and other facilities. Back in February, Israeli forces found below UNRWA’s headquarters in Gaza City a subterranean data center that was hooked up to the electricity supply in the UNRWA facility above.

According to the curricula monitoring organization IMPACT-se, UNRWA’s school curriculum has had a “central, radicalizing influence on generations of Palestinians” and teaches children that the Jews are liars and fraudsters” who “spread corruption.”

Despite all this and more such evidence of UNRWA’s terrorist ties, there has been hysterical outrage over Israel’s ban. There have been claims that it will deepen the humanitarian crisis with Gazans now on the brink of starvation—a claim that’s been made repeatedly during the war but has always proved untrue.

In reality, hundreds of aid trucks enter Gaza every week, but Hamas continues to steal the aid and sell it on the black market at hugely inflated prices that Gaza residents cannot afford. Hamas has seized an estimated $500 million in foreign aid since the war began.

Most of the assistance coming in isn’t even being distributed by UNRWA. Israeli officials have said that aid agencies such as the World Food Program, World Central Kitchen and UNICEF have a bigger role in distributing Gaza’s aid supplies.

None of this is acknowledged by those claiming that the Palestinian Arabs in Gaza are starving and UNRWA is irreplaceable. Other aid agencies, they say, don’t provide health and education services.

But UNRWA’s schools have taught generations of Gaza’s children to hate and murder Jews. According to the IDF, every single UNRWA hospital and clinic has been used as a terrorist hub, with clinical staff doubling as Hamas members.

In any civilized universe, how can such a provision be deemed “irreplaceable”? Shouldn’t the appropriate response to the organization that has facilitated such terrorist assistance be to shut it down?

Moreover, why should Israel be held responsible for providing Gaza with humanitarian assistance? Israel has been under bombardment from the coastal enclave for two decades. Gaza’s population elected Hamas to rule them. Opinion polling consistently reveals that even among those who now hate Hamas, the vast majority support the killing of Israelis.

Thousands of those civilians took part in the Oct. 7 atrocities in Israel and grossly abused the Israeli captives when they were dragged into Gaza. The IDF subsequently found evidence of ties to Hamas in virtually every house.

In what conceivable moral universe is a country targeted for such a remorseless and genocidal attack expected to look after the welfare of its murderous attackers?

The United Nations says that Jerusalem has an obligation under international law to provide humanitarian assistance in Gaza because Israel is the occupying power. But this is totally untrue. Israel is not occupying Gaza. It withdrew from it altogether in 2005.

It’s the United Nations that has failed to live up to its own international obligation not to fund and support violence. For years, the world body has turned a blind eye to UNRWA’s ties to terrorists. So have America, Britain and other countries. They still refuse to acknowledge this problem.

In a statement this week expressing “grave concern” over the Israeli ban, the foreign ministers of Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea and the United Kingdom claimed that UNRWA was tackling its employees’ support for terrorism by pursuing the recommendations made in last April’s independent review by the former French foreign minister, Catherine Colonna.

That review was a travesty. Before the report was even written, Colonna said that her goal was to “enable donors … to regain confidence, when they have lost it or when they have doubts, in the way UNRWA operates.” Her report was drafted to achieve precisely that rather than stop the rot.

Far from tackling the agency’s terrorist ties, its commissioner-general, Philippe Lazzarini, has batted them away. He claimed implausibly that UNRWA didn’t know about the Hamas data center underneath its Gaza headquarters.

He denied that it employed terrorists and said this claim was part of a “large-scale campaign aimed at undermining the agency.” Having suspended the teachers’ union head Abu el Amin under pressure over the revelation of his Hamas role, Lazzarini reinstated him three months later under pressure of a strike by UNRWA teachers supporting their union’s head.

As for U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, he appeared to blame Israel for the Hamas Oct. 7 pogrom by saying it “did not happen in a vacuum” and has repeatedly parroted Hamas talking points.

Instead of holding the U.N.’s and UNRWA’s feet to the fire, Israel’s supposed allies in America and Britain have been threatening to cut off the Jewish state at the knees.

Having told Israel earlier this month that it must take steps within 30 days to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza or face potential restrictions on U.S. military aid, the Biden-Harris administration threatened it with “consequences under U.S. law and U.S. policy” over its UNRWA ban.

In Britain, there have been reports that the government may suspend further arms sales to Israel as punishment. The U.K. ambassador to the United Nations, Dame Barbara Woodward, said that Israel must “ensure UNRWA can continue to provide essential services to those suffering in Gaza and the West Bank.”

But UNRWA’s role is not as a dispassionate provider of essential services. It was actually created in 1949 as a weapon to delegitimize the State of Israel. While refugee status for all other peoples is considered a temporary measure, it’s permanent for the Palestinian Arabs. Under UNRWA’s unique designation, it’s passed down from generation to generation.

That’s why the number of Palestinian Arab “refugees” has ludicrously increased from 700,000 in 1948 to 5.9 million today—an ever-growing running sore whose toxicity is vastly increased by the hatred of Israel taught in UNRWA schools.

The pretense that UNRWA exists to provide for the suffering was finally ripped apart by the part its employees played in the Oct. 7 atrocities and in the war that has followed.

Israelis are no longer prepared to tolerate people who are trying to kill them and destroy their country while parading as humanitarian relief workers. Yet the United States, Britain and the United Nations are pressuring Israel to continue to keep this malign farce going.

Such people aren’t appalled by UNRWA. They’re appalled by the ban on it. That tells you everything you need to know about the war against Israel by the so-called civilized world.

Illegal Alien Gangs Taking Root In Our Schools

Illegal Alien Gangs Taking Root In Our Schools

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BY TYLER DURDEN
TUESDAY, NOV 05, 2024 - 06:45 AM

Authored by Pawel Styrna via the Federation for American Immigration Reform,

The harmful impact of mass illegal migration is felt in every state and at every level of society, from the national to the most local. Rather than attempting to solve or at least acknowledge the problem, pro-open-borders officials prefer to silence criticism. Parents in Northern Virginia’s Loudoun County saw a demonstration of this reality earlier in October. The county school board chose to shut down public discussion about an alleged illegal alien MS-13 gang member in the county’s school system.

For mass-illegal-migration apologists on the school board, the real problem is not that illegal immigration is bringing gangs and crime into our classrooms, but that Americans notice it and dare speak out against it.

Twist your brain around this one

Tehran says German-Iranian died before execution


3 hours ago

An Iranian statement contradicts an earlier confirmation from the regime that Jamshid Sharmahd had been put to death. The software developer's family had demanded further details and the return of his remains.

The 10 airports with the longest wait times in the US :

The 10 airports with the longest wait times in the US :

https://nypost.com/2024/11/05/lifestyle/these-are-the-10-us-airports-with-the-longest-wait-times-see-where-jfk-lax-rank/
RankAirportState/TerritoryAverage TSA Wait TimeAverage Passport Control Wait TimeAverage Combined Wait Time
1John F. Kennedy International AirportNew York15:0524:4339:48
2Orlando International AirportFlorida15:3423:4239:16
3O’Hare International AirportIllinois11:5325:5937:52
4Los Angeles International AirportCalifornia11:3223:5335:25
5Austin–Bergstrom International AirportTexas15:5319:2935:22
6Miami International AirportFlorida14:4020:1934:59
7San Francisco International AirportCalifornia12:4321:0133:44
8George Bush Intercontinental AirportTexas13:5319:1633:09
9Ontario International AirportCalifornia13:3219:3533:07
10Salt Lake City International AirportUtah15:1717:2332:40