Author Archive: Stephen Green

DAVID MARCUS: We’re choking on your idiocy, Mr Trudeau – Canadian wildfire smoke is burning our lungs because of YOUR incompetence… and no amount of greenwashing can mask the inconvenient truth.

There is not a single plank in the green platform that will fix this mess over the next four or five decades as we wait for rising temperatures to ease – if that even happens.

Net Zero by 2050 is poor consolation for the millions in Gotham, who are choking their way to work in a facemask that at least serves a purpose this time.

Electric buses and wind power 10 years from now won’t restore missed school days or ease the breathing of asthmatics today.

What Ottawa’s Captain Planet and the rest of the ‘Blame Climate Change Squad’ don’t want you to know is that there is a solution for right now. And it’s one that our inept, self-described saviors have been ignoring.

For years, Canadian parks officials have been warning that their country does not do enough to cull its forests and now we’re witnessing the catastrophic results.

It’s simple really. Edward Struzik, author of ‘Dark Days at Noon, The Future of Fire’ lays it out well.

‘We have been suppressing fires for so many decades in North America that we have forests that are older than they should be,’ he said. ‘We have dead and dying trees that are more vulnerable to increasing temperatures.’

‘Prescribed burns are one of the best ways to mitigate the wildfire threat,’ he added.

Did you hear that? We mustn’t wait until we’re all driving flying cars powered by unicorn farts to be free of the smoke.

What graft is there to be had from controlled burns?

NOT EVEN A LITTLE: Are China’s Intentions Really Such a Mystery?

In an article in the Naval War College Review, three academics cast doubt on what they call the “growing hawkish consensus” about China’s “intent and capabilities.” Jeffrey Meiser, an associate political science professor at the University of Portland (Oregon), Renny Babiarz, an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins, and David Mudd, who recently graduated from the University of Portland with English and political science degrees, “see significant evidence that China’s intentions are indeterminate and, in some arenas, neutral or even possibly aligning with U.S. national security interests.” The best strategic approach to China, they conclude, is not engagement or containment, but instead what they term “entanglement.” This article is an example of why most academics should be kept as far away from policy making as possible.

Heh.

WHEN YOU’VE LOST CHRIS CUOMO…:

WOW: Parents of Nashville trans school shooter vow to give rights to manifesto to victims’ families. “According to the Tennessee Star, attorney David Raybin argued that the Hales have the right to their daughter’s manifesto and writings. They claim that since the police took the documents from their home it is their property and they can assign them to whomever they want.”

That’s an amazing gesture, but since the Powers That Be clearly want to keep the manifesto under wrap, the parents have a hard legal fight ahead.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Trump Is Indicted, But Biden Is the Real Criminal. “Joe Biden is guilty of pretty much everything. Trump is a halo-wearing saint compared to President LOLEightyOneMillion and his drug-dealing kid. Biden has classified document from the days when MTV still played music videos but no one in the Justice Department wants to upset the pudding-brained boss.”

HMM: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 7, 2023. “The destruction of the KHPP dam is affecting Russian military positions on the eastern bank of the Dnipro River. The flooding has destroyed many Russian first line field fortifications that the Russian military intended to use to defend against Ukrainian attacks. Rapid flooding has likely forced Russian personnel and military equipment in Russian main concentration points in Oleshky and Hola Prystan to withdraw. Russian forces had previously used these positions to shell Kherson City and other settlements on the west (right bank) of Kherson. Ukrainian Southern Operational Command Spokesperson Nataliya Humenyuk stated that Russian forces relocated their personnel and military equipment from five to 15 kilometers from the flood zone, which places Russian forces out of artillery range of some settlements on the west (right bank) of the Dnipro River they had been attacking. The flood also destroyed Russian minefields along the coast, with footage showing mines exploding in the flood water. Kherson Oblast Occupation Head Vladimir Saldo, however, claimed that the destruction of the KHPP is beneficial to the Russian defenses because it will complicate Ukrainian advances across the river.”

GOVERNMENT: The Real Reason State Farm Won’t Sell Home Insurance in California Anymore.

Though State Farm said nothing about climate change in its press release, there’s no question that California has struggled mightily with wildfires in recent years. Data collected by Policygenius show California experiences more wildfires than any other U.S. state (9,280 in 2021) and the most acreage burned (2.2 million acres).

Worse, California’s wildfires tend to be the most destructive. The Golden State suffered $14 billion in insured wildfire losses in 2017, the most in history. The worst years for other states don’t even come close: The next closest is Texas, which suffered $530 million in insured wildfire losses in 2011, followed by Colorado ($450 million in 2012) and Arizona ($120 million in 2002).

Many have seized on California’s struggles with wildfires to perpetuate the myth that wildfires are at historic highs in the United States—they are not—because of climate change. The truth is wildfires are not a serious problem in most parts of the U.S., and it’s not because the climate change gods are fickle, but because these states practice better land management.

In a 2020 ProPublica article, journalist Elizabeth Weil pointed out that California officials have turned the state into a tinderbox through years of fire suppression.

Plus: “The authorities have shown they are far less competent than the indigenous tribes who managed the land far more effectively through prescribed fire.”

DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERICA: Execs at OneTaste, SF ‘orgasmic meditation’ startup, indicted by feds. “At one point, OneTaste had five global locations — including its downtown San Francisco ‘retreat’ next to Uber’s offices — where a yearlong membership ran up to $60,000 a year. The classes held at these centers focused on ‘orgasmic meditation,’ claiming that a specific type of clitoral massage had mental and physical health benefits. A website attached to the center claims that the practice creates ‘increased brain connectivity’ and ‘increased emotional range.'”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: The #1 Dessert to Help Relieve Acid Reflux, According to a Gastroenterologist. “Gastroenterologist and author of The Fiber Fueled Cookbook Will Bulsiewicz, M.D. posted a recent Instagram reel noting three surprising foods that can be triggering your acid reflux: chocolate, peppermint and ‘fun’ drinks, which he classifies as carbonated, caffeinated or alcoholic beverages.”

Winding up a meal with something dangerously chocolate and a brandy is actually good for me?

COLD WAR II: Cuba to Host Secret Chinese Spy Base Focusing on U.S.

An eavesdropping facility in Cuba, roughly 100 miles from Florida, would allow Chinese intelligence services to scoop up electronic communications throughout the southeastern U.S., where many military bases are located, and monitor U.S. ship traffic.

Officials familiar with the matter said that China has agreed to pay cash-strapped Cuba several billion dollars to allow it to build the eavesdropping station, and that the two countries had reached an agreement in principle.

The revelation about the planned site has sparked alarm within the Biden administration because of Cuba’s proximity to the U.S. mainland. Washington regards Beijing as its most significant economic and military rival. A Chinese base with advanced military and intelligence capabilities in the U.S.’s backyard could be an unprecedented new threat.

“While I cannot speak to this specific report, we are well aware of—and have spoken many times to—the People’s Republic of China’s efforts to invest in infrastructure around the world that may have military purposes, including in this hemisphere,” John Kirby, spokesman for the National Security Council, said. “We monitor it closely, take steps to counter it, and remain confident that we are able to meet all our security commitments at home, in the region, and around the world.”

Biden wouldn’t even shoot down a Chinese spy balloon over U.S. airspace until after it had completed its mission.

ASSUMES A FACT NOT IN EVIDENCE: Shake Up In CNN Leadership Reveals The Left Has Completely Lost Its Sense Of Reality.

On his first day, Licht sent out a memo describing his mission at the network: to make CNN “a vital, relevant, and respected part of our culture,” while lamenting that “too many people [had] lost trust in the news media.”

Regaining trust required “fearlessly speaking truth to power, challenging the status quo, questioning ‘group-think’ and educating viewers and readers with straightforward facts and insightful commentary, while always being respectful of differing viewpoints.”

In short, Licht pledged to make CNN a news outlet again. Now that is one thing the rabid, conservative-hating employees could not abide.

Reports surfaced frequently during Licht’s tenure bemoaning CNN’s alleged capitulation to the right and the low morale among staffers. Axed hosts like Brian Stelter and John Harwood complained openly about Licht’s “strategy shift,” while prominent anchor Christiane Amanpour lampooned his “both sides-ism” as obscuring “the truth.”

To be fair, Amanpour has a long history of being uninterested in doing journalism.