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NYT Comes Clean on Hunter’s Laptop, The Utterly Useless UN, Another Biden Gift to Iran?

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Join Jim and Greg as they roll their eyes at the overdue admission from the New York Times that the Hunter Biden laptop was not Russian misinformation, but a real story as the New York Post reported in October 2020. They shame the United Nations for being an expensive “Debate Society” that has proven itself completely useless in solving international issues. And despite its long record of evil, including the targeting and killing of American troops, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps may soon lose its “Foreign Terrorist Organization” tag as part of the ongoing nuclear negotiations.

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State Department’s Dodge, COVID Concerns Easing, Manchin Quashes BBB

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Join Jim and Greg as they analyze a tense exchange between the AP’s Matt Lee and State Department spokesman Ned Price over the UN’s approach to Russia. They also review a new poll that shows Americans are ready to move on from COVID-19. And they cheer for West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin as he pronounces the Build Back Better Bill dead again.

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What’s Behind the Dems’ Climate Hysteria?

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This week, many Democrats running for president appeared in a marathon CNN town hall to demand sweeping, urgent action on climate change, but a leading climate scientist says it’s little more than hot air.

Over the course of several hours, former Vice President Joe Biden endorsed shutting down all coal-fired power plants.  Sen. Kamala Harris said she would ban fracking.  Sen. Bernie Sanders vowed to expand abortion to control the population.  And former Rep. Beto O’Rourke claimed he told his son their hometown of El Paso, Texas, would soon be uninhabitable.

“This is pure alarmism based on absolute ignorance,” said Dr. Tim Ball, former professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg.  He is also the author of :The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science.”

“These people haven’t got a clue what they’re talking about.  They don’t even know the difference between weather and climate,” said Ball.

Ball says candidates like Harris and Biden – and the others – are attacking coal and fracking because their entire climate agenda consists of the assumption that carbon dioxide is the problem and we have to stop burning it to fuel our society.

Listen to the entire podcast as Dr. Ball explains where the Democrats base their argument that we have only eleven years to do anything about the “climate crisis” and why the science behind that conclusion is bogus.  He also reveals which direction the earth’s temperature is quickly heading, and it’s not what the activists would have you believe.

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‘Absolute Rubbish’ that Climate Threatens One Million Species

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The United Nations reports that human-caused climate change now threatens one million plant and animal species in the coming years if urgent global action is not taken, but a scientist who frequently butts heads with the UN says that conclusion is “absolute rubbish.”

The report on biodiversity says a half-million land species “have insufficient habitat for long-term survival” and will likely go extinct in a matter of decades until human activity radically changes.  The report also says our actions are putting human survival in long-term jeopardy.

“It’s more of the current hysteria.  Absolute rubbish.  There’s not one bit of evidence to support anything they’re saying,” said Dr. Tim Ball, a former professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg and author of “The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science.”

George Mason University Professor Thomas Lovejoy told the Associated Press “the biological diversity of this planet has really been hammered, and this is really our last chance to address all that.”  UC Santa Barbara ecologist Lee Hannah is quoted as saying we are “in the middle of the sixth great extinction crisis.”

Ball has a challenge for the experts.

“Get them to name the species that have gone extinct in the last ten years.  Get them to give you some names.  Don’t just say that there’s this number.  Give me the actual names.  You can’t find it,” said Ball.

According to Ball, most scientists believe only about 35 percent of the earth’s species are even identified and the concrete data we do have shows species numbers moving in the opposite direction.

“Every single week we’re finding far more species than they’re claiming are going extinct,” said Ball.  “Just a few years ago they were saying there were something like 20,000 species.  Now the estimates are 20 million.”

Ball says numbers like this are hard to rebut in detail because they’re not based on any detail.

“It’s purely a number that they’ve come up with that, because it’s put out by a scientist suddenly is treated like it’s an actual measurement.  It isn’t” said Ball.

Listen to the full podcast as Dr. Ball explains the logic used by climate scientists to conclude that species are vanishing or endangered at an alarming rate and what the real goal of these sorts of reports is.

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‘They Can’t Find One Single Crime That’s Been Solved’

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President Trump is taking heat from political adversaries and international activists for withdrawing the United States from the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, but one of the nation’s leading crime researchers says the tactics used in the treaty have never been used to solve any crime.

The Obama administration signed onto the Arms Trade Treaty shortly before Trump took office.  It would require widespread firearm registration and licensing within signatory nations.  The goal is to be able to track guns and prevent them from winding up in the hands of terrorists, gangs, cartels, and other nefarious elements.

Crime Prevention Research Center President Dr. John Lott says the premise seems to make sense: if you can find the gun used to commit a crime, you can find the person responsible.  However, Lott says most guns aren’t left at the crime scene, those that are are not registered, and killers do not use guns registered in their own names.

In addition to concerns about second amendment rights, Lott says there’s literally no evidence the UN approach works.

“When you look at Hawaii or Chicago or Washington, D.C. or other countries such as Canada, people have gone back and looked at the data.  They can’t find one single crime that’s been solved as a result of registration and licensing,” said Lott.

In Honolulu, for example, Lott says police logged 50,000 working hours filling out paperwork for gun licensing and registration.  Not only has it not solved crimes, he says it’s taking valuable time away from police work that does yield results.

“Maybe if you’d solved thousands of crimes, or at least hundreds of crimes, or at least a dozen crimes, or at least any crime, then there might be some discussion about the trade-offs that were there.  Obviously, 50,000 hours of police time could have been used in traditional policing that we know works, we know solves crime,” said Lott.

Listen to the full podcast as Dr. Lott explains how the UN Arms Trade Treaty could also handcuff U.S. foreign policy and how fierce the debate over the second amendment will be in the 2020 campaign.

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What Next at the UN?

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Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney says Nikki Haley is cut from the same mold as the most successful American ambassadors to the United Nations and says President Trump must find a successor who truly believes in his foreign policy.

Haley announced this week that she will step down at the end of 2018. Trump says he hopes to nominate a successor within the next few weeks.

Haley says the great accomplishment of the past two years is winning back respect, noting that other nations may not like our policies but they know we will keep our word.

Gaffney says Haley’s tenure at the UN reflected the Trump agenda very well.

“She has been a tireless defender of America against all attacks. She has been a catalyst for really tough love for the United Nations and its various corrupt and malfeasant entities,” said Gaffney.

“She’s very much in the mold of some of the truly great UN ambassadors from the United States: Jeane Kirkpatrick, Daniel Patrick Moynihan (and) John Bolton come to mind,” added Gaffney.

“I would hope very much that the president will replace her with someone with both a similar capability and in terms of clarity of their admiration and, indeed, love for our country and vigor in willing to defend her,” said Gaffney.

Gaffney says it is imperative for Trump to find a successor who shares his vision for the world. He says hiring someone who clashes with Trump on policy will be counterproductive.

Former Deputy National Security Adviser Dina Powell was widely touted for the job until removing her name from consideration on Thursday. Gaffney is relieved Powell is off the short list given her performance at her previous job.

You don’t want somebody as an ambassador representing out government, representing this administration, representing this president who is at odds with the policies of the president.

“That was certainly true of Dina Powell during the time she served under H.R. McMaster, the National Security Adviser. I called them the insubordinate subordinates,” said Gaffney.

Listen to the full podcast to hear Gaffney’s assessment of how important the UN ambassador is and the three names he hopes are being considered to replace Haley.

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Expert Rips UN Climate Warning: ‘It’s Basically Fear-Mongering’

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Earlier this week, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC,  issued a dire warning, arguing that unless world leaders take sweeping action to drastically reduce carbon emissions, our planet could be irreparably changed within a dozen years.

The IPCC report says the planet is on pace to warm by 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030.  That figure chronicles warming of the Earth since the pre-industrial era.  The solution, according to the IPCC, is for the world to spend $2.5 trillion in capturing and reducing carbon emissions and eliminating them worldwide by 2050.

Dr. Roy Spencer is a principal research scientist at the University of Alabama-Huntsville and says the new report is basically alarmism wrapped in bad science.

“There’s just so many things that are wrong with this report,” said Spencer.  “It’s basically fear-mongering.”

“The less people listen to the IPCC, it seems like the louder they have to scream, because this report is even more alarmist than previous reports,” added Spencer.  “The science doesn’t support the idea that we are even going to warm by that much, let alone that we could prevent that warming from occuring.”

Spencer believes the planet is getting warmer and that human activity contributes to it, but he says the IPCC greatly exaggerates how much warmer the Earth is getting, arbitrarily declares critical benchmarks like a 1.5 degree increase to be hugely significant, and, most significantly, assumes that any warming is due entirely to human activity.

He estimates that the warming is about half of what the IPCC says it is and that even if the planet were 1.5 or two degrees warmer than a century ago, we should not have much problem adapting.  Spencer says higher carbon dioxide levels have brought about good things like a greening of the Earth, and that so far he doesn’t see any downsides.

The IPCC counters by saying natural disasters like flooding, hurricanes, droughts, and forest fires, are all getting worse because of the warming.  Spencer says the facts don’t back that up at all.

“I hate to say it, but I think they are just making things up.  Just because something bad happened, like wildfires in Northern California, that doesn’t prove anything.  Globally, wildfires are down substantially.  Wildfires in the western U.S. are down substantially,” said Spencer, noting that there’s no discernible change in hurricane activity either.

But Spencer is most concerned by the impact of the “solution” pushed by the IPCC and others to prevent the warming from going 1.5 degrees Celsius to two degrees.

“The cost of preventing half a degree C of warming…would require such a huge cutback in fossil fuel use that it would greatly exacerbate poverty around the world.  Already, tens of thousands of people are dying from energy poverty during the winter and that’s going to get massively worse.

“What the IPCC wants to do and what the United Nations wants to do is tax carbon-based fuels – coal, natural gas, petroleum – at such a large extent that we will only have access to very expensive fuel sources, wind and solar, which are still quite a bit more expensive than carbon based fuels.

“Every single thing humans do requires energy.  It’s going to make all of humanity poorer and poverty kills,” said Spencer.

Listen to the full podcast to hear more of Dr. Spencer’s scientific rebuttal to the IPCC, his contention that what the UN wants to do is not even possible and how he responds to those who say the human impact in climate change is settled science.

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Bolton Cheers Trump’s UN Performance

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Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton is cheering President Trump for a strong address to the United Nations this week and for perhaps already reaping critical results in his effort to isolate North Korea.

On Thursday, Trump announced a new round of U.S. sanctions aimed at North Korea and also reported that China is vowing to deal a major financial blow to the communist regime in Pyongyang.

“Today I’m announcing a new executive order I just signed that significantly expands our authorities to target individuals, companies, financial institutions that finance and facilitate trade with North Korea,” said Trump.

Bolton says this could be a very significant move.

“It’s potentially significant because if we were to sanction companies or banks doing business with North Korea, that could have a knock-on effect to other countries doing the same and could effect their ability to do transactions in the United States,” said Bolton.

He says it leaves those banks and corporations with a stark choice.

“Do you want to do business with us or do you want to do business with North Korea?  Your choice entirely, but it’s going to be one or the other,” said Bolton.

Bolton likes the aggressive nature of the sanctions.

“Why didn’t we do this about eight or ten years ago?  Why is it that we’ve waited this long?  I think we have the answer.  I think President Trump is determined to do something about North Korea and Iran and their nuclear programs,” said Bolton.

Bolton served as ambassador to the United Nations for President George W. Bush.  So why didn’t these sanctions come then?

“There was a lot of discussion in the Bush administration about sanctions but (there was) a lot of opposition to really squeezing North Korea.  Ultimately, I don’t think we did really anywhere near what we could have,” said Bolton.

He says there was virtually no chance for stiff penalties in the Obama years.

“There was no appetite for sanctions against North Korea.  They were exercising what they called ‘strategic patience’ in the Obama administration.  That’s a synonym for doing nothing and the North Koreans took advantage of it,” said Bolton.

Just as importantly, Bolton says the new sanctions turn the screws on China as well.

“The vast bulk of the institutions doing business with North Korea – financial, commodities, machinery, you name it – are Chinese.  China, for 25 years, frankly, has two-timed us on their concern about the North Korean nuclear program.  So this gives the president some bite,” said Bolton.

That may have already paid off Thursday, as, Trump announced news that seemed to surprise even him, as China appears ready to play hardball with Kim Jong-Un as well.

“China, their central bank has told other banks – and it’s a massive banking system –  to immediately stop doing business with North Korea,” said Trump.

Bolton says if China is serious about taking this step it could have a huge impact on North Korea.   However, he says it is very tough to determine if China is making good on such a policy.

“I think that’s difficult from the outside.  God knows how many banks there are and how many new banks can be created that might be able to facilitate North Korean trade, for example with Iran,” said Bolton.

Trump made major headlines with his blunt talk about North Korea in his speech on Tuesday.

“The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.  Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime.  The United States is ready, willing and able, but hopefully this will not be necessary,” said Trump.

Bolton says Trump struck exactly the right tone.

“I thought it was entirely appropriate.  Some of these people who talk about what’s becoming or unbecoming to say at the UN.  Honestly, the United Nations is not a church.  You’re not supposed to be reverential towards threats to international peace and security and innocent American civilians,” said Bolton, who thought the Trump approach was refreshing after the past eight years.

“After eight years of global governance kind of rhetoric from Obama and the weakness that he projected, maybe some people are shocked when they hear what a real American president has to say.  All in all, I think it’s the right thing for the president to do.  In America, plain speaking is a virtue and it’s important that these other countries hear it,” said Bolton.

Bolton also lauded Trump for labeling the Iran nuclear deal an “embarrassment” and “one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into.”  He says that puts the onus on Trump to get out of the deal soon.

“If you don’t certify but stay in the deal that you’ve described already as embarrassing, I think that’s unpresidential.  It’s sort of a one shoe on, one shoe off foreign policy.  He needs to lead with moral and political clarity.  I think the way you do that is to say this deal is a disaster for the United States and its friends and allies and we’re getting out of it,” said Bolton.

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Haley Hits Hard, Scalise Status Ignored, Fury of the 1%

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Jim Geraghty of National Review and Greg Corombos of Radio America cheer UN Ambassador Nikki Haley in her firm-handed approach to the security threat posed by North Korea, specifically regarding China’s refusal to cooperate with UN resolutions against the isolated nation.  They also express frustration with national media over their lack of coverage of Rep. Steve Scalise’s condition as he returns to the ICU.  Finally, they highlight that most of those protesting Trump’s presidency are among the most wealthy in the DC area.

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‘A Tremendous Victory for America’s Gun Owners’

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Former National Rifle Association President David Keene says the second amendment dodged a major bullet when the vacant seat on the Supreme Court was filled by Neil Gorsuch, but he warns the threat to gun ownership is far from over.

Keene gives credit to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for refusing to advance President Obama’s choice of Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court and for doing what was necessary to get Gorsuch confirmed.

“If Garland had won confirmation, that would have reversed the majority favoring the second amendment as defined by the founders and as ratified by the Supreme Court in the Heller decision some years ago as an individual right to keep and bear arms,” said Keene.

“Preventing the Garland confirmation and replacing Antonin Scalia with Justice Gorsuch is a tremendous victory for America’s gun owners, for believers in freedom and for the second amendment,” said Keene.

Keene, who is now opinion editor at The Washington Times and co-author of “Shall Not be Infringed,” firmly believes that the gun issue and the Supreme Court vacancy was a big reason for President Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton and for winning over voters in swing states who had supported Democrats in the past.

But Keene is quick to warn second amendment supporters that the fight is not over.

“It does not mean that gun owners can be comfortable in terms of what might happen during the course of the next year or so at the Supreme Court level because it simply re-establishes the majority that existed with Scalia on the court, a very shaky majority,” said Keene.

Another major threat, he says, comes from Obama’s handiwork in signing on to the United Nations Small Arms Treaty.  Even without Senate ratification, Keene says the agreement puts pressure on the U.S. to violate its own Constitution.

“Even if it’s not ratified, under international law, a nation is supposedly prohibited from acting contrary to the spirit and letter of a treaty, even though it has not been ratified through processes within the country itself,” said Keene.

The U.S. can ignore the treaty, but Keene is urging decisive action against it.

“It really needs to be killed.  There are two ways to do that.  One, the President of the United States has the authority to withdraw this nation’s signature from the treaty.  I hope that President Trump will consider doing that.  The other way to handle it is for the Senate to bring it up and put a stake through it’s heart,” said Keene.

Keene says the treaty is just an international version of the gun restrictions that many Democrats want to impose here in the U.S.

“They want bans on so-called assault weapons that are in fact semi-automatic weapons rather than real assault weapons.  They want limits on magazines.  They want all the things that Dianne Feinstein and Chuck Schumer and Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton wanted here,” said Keene.

Despite the wind being at the back of gun rights advocates, Keene says his side must realize that gun control supporters are never going to to give up.

“They actually believe that if they snap their fingers and if firearms would disappear, there’d no longer be burglaries.  There’d no longer be robberies.  We’d all live in peace and I assume unicorns would dance across the horizon.  It’s almost a religious fervor with which they go after firearms ownership,” said Keene.

And Keene says pro-second amendment Americans must be equally relentless in protecting their constitutional rights.

“Like most freedoms, this is a freedom that if you don’t stand up for it and if you aren’t wiling to defend it and if you’re not vigilant, it’s liable to disappear on you,” said Keene.

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