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Congress is terrified of Intel Agencies; Facial Recognition; Global Warming Debate; Billion Fragments of DNA in Every Dose

“They’re worried about someone putting kiddie p*rn on their computer. Members of Congress are terrified of the intel agencies. I’m not guessing at that. They’ve told me that, including people on the intel committee, including people who run the intel committee. The people whose job it is to oversee and keep in line, these enormous secretive agencies whose budgets we can’t even know, their black budgets…They’re afraid of the agencies.”

Facial Recognition

The Great Global Warming Debate

No Oaths of Office in the Federal Government; Leaked Dossier Shows German Government Conspired To Silence Reiner Fuëllmich; WW3

We are in WW3

This is What’s Happening

The Hidden Cost of the Border Crisis Nobody Tells You About

By Janice Hisle
Updated:

April 02, 2024

EAGLE PASS, Texas—Mass illegal immigration is pushing rescue crews in this small Texas border town close to their breaking point.

The mighty Rio Grande has become a river of misery for Eagle Pass Fire Chief Manuel Mello III and his 52 first responders.

His medics sometimes confide: “Chief, I’m sick and tired of going out to the river and pulling bodies out,” Chief Mello told The Epoch Times, as he described how much the border crisis is affecting his department’s rescue workers.

They are grappling with record numbers of drowned men, women, and children who perish while crossing the river from Mexico into the United States.

The chief’s crews are risking their lives in nightmarish scenarios with unidentified people who are sick, hurt, or dead—not just along the river, but also on nearby roads, ranches, and railways.

They are responding to immigration-related emergencies so frequently that legal residents of their own community may be left waiting for medical care.

People in the community hear those sirens. Some see the bodies washed up along the riverbank. And they feel the impact.

“It breaks my heart to know that there are children drowning in the river; there are people on the way over here being raped and being robbed,” Eagle Pass resident Ruben Camarillo, a 35-year-old father of a 9-year-old son, said.

As he stood on a city street corner in support of former President Donald Trump’s recent border-focused visit to Eagle Pass, Mr. Camarillo told The Epoch Times that illegal immigration is “causing so much death and destruction … and we’re experiencing that firsthand.”image-5619099

Rescuers Need Assistance

The Eagle Pass Fire Department is getting little, if any, help from the federal government to ease burdens stemming from the nation’s border crisis, Chief Mello said.

He’s seeking funds to cover costs from hundreds of ambulance runs carrying illegal aliens. He also is trying to secure counseling for first responders who are coping with stress and trauma that linger long after they go off duty.

While dealing with death is an accepted part of an emergency responder’s job, Eagle Pass medics are overdosing on gruesome encounters that are rare occurrences elsewhere—such as drowned children.

“The mental impact will take a long time to heal if we do not get help for them soon,” the chief told federal lawmakers.

Above all, Chief Mello would like to see U.S. leaders stem the tide of illegal immigrants. That would be much better than throwing money at the consequences, he said.

“There needs to be some unity within the federal government so we can actually stop it,” the chief said.

In hopes that the right people finally hear—and heed—his pleas, Chief Mello shared his story with Congress in brief testimony earlier this year. He also gave a two-hour interview to The Epoch Times about the challenges that his department faces.

But the chief also emphasized that the problems extend beyond Eagle Pass. “It’s not just me with this issue,” Chief Mello said. “It’s every single fire department along the border.”

‘Epicenter’ of Crisis

Still, Eagle Pass arguably has been affected more than the average border town.

“At points, we have had 1,500 people crossing [the Rio Grande] at one time,” Chief Mello said. One evening, 2,000 people were lined up, waiting to be transferred to a U.S. Border Patrol processing station; by the next morning, the line had grown to 4,000.

 Since taking office in 2021, President Joe Biden has enacted more than 500 immigration policies, many of them reversing or rolling back measures enacted by his predecessor, President Trump.

Illegal border crossings during the Biden administration have surpassed the 9 million mark, mostly at the U.S.–Mexico border, according to Customs and Border Protection data.

Because of the recent surges, Eagle Pass has been in the national spotlight frequently.

Sometimes called “the epicenter of the border crisis,” the city has been the site of a standoff between state and federal government agencies. They are clashing over approaches to illegal immigration, just as the two leading presidential candidates do.

While President Trump advocates a crackdown on illegal immigration, President Biden has embraced a more “welcoming” approach and loosened restrictions.

But the crisis has escalated so much that “even some of Biden’s fellow Democrats have begun advocating for more stringent border control,” the Migration Policy Institute noted.

One Month, 17 Drownings

When Chief Mello first joined the fire department in 1992, the Rio Grande’s strong currents would snatch about six lives a year.

But the department recently recovered 17 victims drowned in a single month, the chief said, citing figures from Jan. 20 to Feb. 19.

That’s a record high during Chief Mello’s 32-year career, which includes a decade as chief. And it excludes drowning victims that the Border Patrol or other agencies picked up.

“These past couple of years, we have been going to the river, basically almost every day—sometimes three, four times a day—for drownings; for body recovery,” Chief Mello said.

The casualty count has fluctuated over the years, but before 2021, the annual number of drownings was a dozen or fewer.

However, according to Chief Mello, in 2023, his crews retrieved 43 bodies from the Rio Grande; the youngest was a 2-month-old infant.

“I’ve seen 5-year-olds, 10-year-olds, when they’re pulled out of the river, their lifeless bodies,” the chief said, his brow furrowing.

Those images are seared in his mind. “It’s something that never goes away,” he said.

Most first responders in his department are “young guys,” many of whom are fathers of children who are about the same ages as the drowning victims, Chief Mello said.

Picturing their own children as they attend to the deceased or imperiled youngsters, these tough men are sometimes reduced to tears. The chief, too, has wept. A mixture of sadness and anger spills out.

“You get sad because of what they’ve been through,” he said, “but you also go through the anger.”

That’s because, encouraged by some government leaders, the illegal immigrants keep coming despite the risks to them and their children.

Sometimes crews spot migrants preparing to cross the river and shout warnings from the riverbank. “You’re telling them, ‘Go back, go back,’ because we know that it’s dangerous,” Chief Mello said. “But then you see them tying their children down.”

Shaking his head at the thought, the chief said he has seen adults strap children onto them, using ropes or rags, “and then they walk into the river.”

“Then you can see that little baby, going up and down, bobbing for air every time they go up and down,” he said. “And that’s very sad.”

For those who survive crossing the Rio Grande, “You see the mom and dad crying, because they’ve made that trek and now that they’re on U.S. soil,” the chief said.

Why Eagle Pass?

To some degree, Eagle Pass’s unique characteristics make it a hotspot for illegal aliens.

The city is located directly across from one of the “safest” areas of northern Mexico, one that migrants consider a “smoother path” into the United States, the chief said.

Located about 140 miles southwest of San Antonio, Eagle Pass is also home to one of the United States’ busiest rail-crossing areas. Illegal immigrants “hop into the rail cars coming from Mexico,” the chief said. “It’s like having a free ride.”

And then there’s the 30-mile stretch of the Rio Grande that Eagle Pass shares with its Mexican sister city, Piedras Negras.

The Rio Grande’s name translates to “big river;” and Chief Mello calls it a “precious” one because of its significance as a natural resource.

As the third-longest river in the contiguous United States, flowing nearly 1,900 miles from Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico, it supplies life-sustaining water for animals, people, and more than 2 million acres of cropland.

But it also churns out tragedies that have smacked Chief Mello and his medics in the face with shocking regularity lately, “almost daily.”

Twelve of the department’s 52 members are cross-trained in swift-water rescue. Sometimes, they’re called to drownings-in-progress.

However, these specially trained rescuers were able to save only about four or five near-drownings in the past year.

“By the time we get there, they’ve been underwater for a while,” the chief said. “I doubt any fire department right now is going through what we’re going through.”

Two Little Boys

On Jan. 11, just before the record-shattering month of drownings began, Chief Mello told a congressional committee about the toll that the border crisis is taking on his department.

“As a witness to many incidents, I am here to tell you that we are being overwhelmed with EMS [emergency medical services] calls and body recoveries,” he testified.

In the Border Patrol’s Del Rio Sector, which includes Eagle Pass, agents apprehended nearly 53,000 illegal immigrants in August 2022—the same month that Chief Mello’s crews dealt with a pair of heart-wrenching deaths, back-to-back.

He shared details of that tragedy with the congressional committee, to give its members “an idea of what my men and women are going through.”

On Aug. 22, 2022, dispatchers sent the department’s swift-water rescue crew and an ambulance to one of the two international bridges that span the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass.

There, they found Border Patrol agents performing CPR on a 3-month-old boy who had been pulled from the river. Their efforts restored a faint pulse, and crews whisked the infant to a hospital.

Moments later, a second call for help originated from the same area, reporting a 3-year-old male victim. At first, medics thought this was a duplicate call for the same incident. They wondered: Were callers mistakenly talking about a 3-year-old when they meant to describe a 3-month-old?

But there was no mistake; a second child was indeed needing help. Others had already tried to revive the boy, who had been submerged for quite some time. “He died right there in the back of that pickup truck,” the chief recounted to The Epoch Times.

Both boys died. And these weren’t two random little boys. They were brothers—a realization that made a sad situation even sadder, the chief said.

He found out that the brothers had come from Nicaragua, but the chief has no idea how they made the journey of some 1,600 miles from their home. He also doesn’t know the fate of their mother, who was apparently traveling with them.

But he did learn that the boys most likely died because their mother lost her grip on the children, as many river-crossers do.

He explained that migrants often meet their demise when the Rio Grande lulls them into complacency. But most people are unaware of the river’s quirks.

“There are areas where you’re walking, the water is maybe knee-deep,” the chief said. People mistakenly believe that “because they’re walking on a sandbar, that the whole river’s going to be shallow, and it’s not,” he said.

Suddenly, the riverbed drops, plunging a person up to 15 feet underwater, the chief said. If that person is weighted down with a backpack, other belongings, or a child, there’s little chance of emerging alive.

“This river is very treacherous,” the chief said. “The currents are very swift; there’s some undertow. … and they just can’t make it out.”

Congress Members React

After hearing Chief Mello’s testimony, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said she sensed the emotion in his voice. Stating that she also has long championed the causes of firefighters, she looked directly at Chief Mello and declared, “I am committed to getting you dollars.”

Ms. Jackson Lee’s office didn’t respond to The Epoch Times’ request for an update on her efforts since that Jan. 11 hearing.

During the hearing, Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) said: “This unprecedented illegal migration is exactly what the Democrats promised to do. It’s exactly what they have done. And it’s exactly what they have defended for the last three years in this Congress; if you voted for them, this is exactly what you voted for.”

He suggested that Democrats are welcoming illegal immigrants, yet most of those supporters have no idea as to the perils that those immigrants will face en route to the United States.

“When we pick them up, they regret making that trek,” Chief Mello said.

The chief wrapped up his remarks by telling the congress members that he sees an enormous cost “of not being a normal community.”

“We’re being overwhelmed,” the chief testified. “One thing I can say is: It needs to stop.”

Beyond the Drownings

Mingled with the drownings, Eagle Pass crews sometimes find bodies of people who have suffered gunshot wounds to the head—apparently executed, perhaps by a Mexican drug cartel or gang, and then dumped into the Rio Grande, the chief said.

Chief Mello’s crews also treat illegal immigrants for all types of other medical complaints. He rattled off some examples: hypothermia, weakness, shortness of breath, fainting, headaches, fever, flu-like symptoms, allergic reactions, abdominal pains, pregnancy.

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“We transport patients almost every day” from the river’s edge or from nearby areas, he said.

In the five months between September 2023 and February, the department transported 486 illegal immigrants for medical treatment. Each of those ambulance runs costs at least $900, excluding medications and additional treatments.

The ambulance bill is normally sent to health insurance companies or patients. “But since these are undocumented people, who do you send the invoice to?” the chief asked.

As a result, just for that short span, Chief Mello’s department absorbed a loss of $437,400. That stings in a department that has a total annual budget of $6 million.

From its three fire stations, the Eagle Pass Fire Department handles emergency calls for all of Maverick County, where Eagle Pass is the county seat. On any given day, including “visitors,” the population is about 70,000.

Last year, the department handled 9,500 calls for emergency medical help; 10 percent of them were illegal immigrant-related. Chief Mello had to add a fifth ambulance and crew, dedicated solely to assisting illegal immigrants.

To defray some of the costs, the state of Texas gave the department $400,000 for overtime. But the department spent almost all of that in just three months.

All of the patients—illegal immigrants and citizens alike—go to the region’s only hospital, Fort Duncan Regional Medical Center. Only 18 emergency beds are available.

“That can be overwhelmed very quickly,” the chief said, particularly because Eagle Pass is a low-income community with many residents who use the hospital as a de facto doctor’s office.

At peak times, some people who transported themselves to the hospital have waited three or four hours for treatment, Chief Mello said.

Sometimes, ambulances loaded with patients have waited anywhere from 30 minutes to two hours “just to get a bed,” he said.

These statistics and stories only hint at the suffering that illegal immigration causes, the chief said.

He suspects that some of the groups that claim to be families “aren’t really families,” and that the children don’t really belong to those adults; he worries that those kids could be victims of sex trafficking.

Chief Mello wonders about the motives of the many military-age males who traveled here solo.

He is haunted by dozens of deaths that he cannot forget, in addition to the drownings.

“What about the people that have died in the brush?  What about the people that died in the deer blind, because they froze to death? We found them hugging each other because they were cold, but they were dead,” the chief said.

“What about the people that we pulled out of the rail cars that suffocated because of the heat, the people that got run over by vehicles out on the highway?”

And one time, a smuggler’s pickup truck overturned, leaving 11 people hurt and one killed.

Some of the images are so grisly, “you just can’t imagine,” Chief Mello said, shuddering.

He noted, with gallows humor, that public safety trainers have jokingly likened Eagle Pass to a “paramedic heaven,” because rescuers’ skills are put to the test in so many ways, with such frequency.

“But,” the chief said, grimly, “it’s more like hell than heaven right now.”

President of Guyana blasts BBC; Flynn and Trump Expose Child Trafficking; Chemtrails Contain Poisonous Aerosols; Bill Maher Drops Stunning Monologue on COVID

THIS IS HOW WE TAKE DOWN THE SHILLS WHO ARE PUSHING FOR RUNAWAY GLOBALIST TAKEOVERS [Climate change grifter crime families]
President of Guyana, Mohamed Irfaan Ali blasts BBC over the claim that oil reserves will cause damage to climate.

“Are you in the pockets of those that have damaged the environment?!”

Perhaps it should be ILLEGAL for families whose children headboards of Carbon and Energy related companies to speak publicly in support of Global Communist Takeovers [climate-change grifters] – like those executed by the Radical Left? Mandatory jail sentence for stock-price-fixing – until either they change their public pronouncements, or, their collective stock ownership and use?

And perhaps once they declare they are against Carbon based fuels, they should be denied access [true ESG score enforcement?] to any such fuels for their personal use – including their battery powered cars which receive coal-fired electricity to charge their batteries? Denied heat in their homes – and denied fuel for their personal jets? And their billion-dollar mansions given to “THE PEOPLE”, while they are given 300 square foot jail cells off the local tube station?

Perhaps they should be placed under house arrest until they recant their dystopic genocidal plots? Because, after all, having as a publicly stated goal the elimination of 95% of all mankind, is by very definition, “HATE SPEECH”?

As a placeholder, please consider President Trump’s recent introduction of Lt. General Flynn, and reconcile this against the recent accusations made by some against Lt. General Flynn. Was Trump lying? Or, is the attack matrix being employed against Patriots who are tearing down the false narratives of the Luciferians squarely in line with Cass Sunstein’s work, which was later memorialized by Biden’s CISA to take down Patriots? And weaponized by David Brock & daddy information-war bucks SOROS?

Goebels never had such a devoted secret army of wicked henchmen, as those who slay the characters of Patriotic Americans, like President Trump and Lt. General Flynn.

The answers are going to shake the Earth when we reveal them… and their financial dependencies.

PERHAPS BILL COULD DO A MONOLOG ON CHILD TRAFFICKING & HUMAN SACRIFICE TO RESURRECT HIS FLACID REPUTATION?
[Bill Maher Drops Stunning Monologue on the COVID “Experts” Who Got It Wrong]

“A lot of the dissenting opinions that were suppressed and ridiculed at the time have proven to be CORRECT.”

This includes, but is not limited to:

• COVID came from a lab
• Ivermectin worked
• Masks offered no benefit and were harmful
• Should have never kept kids out of school
• Natural immunity is better than vaccinated immunity
• Long COVID is often a symptom of long vax
• Hospitals murdered COVID patients
• COVID fatality rate and death count were highly inflated
• Unvaccinated were scapegoated for the failure of the shots
• Early treatment was suppressed to make way for a “vaccine”
• Risks of the jab were intentionally hidden from the public
• Vaccine mandates are wrong
• More shots = more risk of infection
• COVID shots are neither safe nor effective

Former military doctor states chem trails contain barium salts, human plasma, micro viruses, non-terrestrial nano-silicon machines, poisonous aerosols, and can even be used to augment ‘bio coding’ frequency-transmission capabilities, to provide an assistive-basis for “thought-based DNA warfare”.

Human Trafficking; More Fake Climate Change; E-Car Runs on Frequency; Ukraine and the End Game Explained; WEO Immunity Claims

Interviewer: “A new study shows the world’s richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than the poorest 66%.”

Bill Gates: “I spend about 9 million a year buying sustainable aviation fuel, to cancel out my footprint.”

Make no mistake: The entire “CO2 will lead to climate apocalypse” narrative is just a pretext for globalist so-called “elites” to restrict YOUR freedom, prosperity, mobility and standard of living, while continuing to enjoy all those things in abundance for themselves—under the guise of “saving the planet”.

African develops first TV AND e-car that run on electricity generated by radio waves.

Completely self-sufficient, with no power or solar source.
No one is talking about it in the mainstream and they even tried to poison him last year.

The elite doesn’t want us to evolve. Nor does it want us to know that free energy is available for very little money. We are being screwed through the teeth so that we can be exploited.

Ukraine war cause and the end game explained: War of the globalist elite, Blackrock, and bankers.

Dr. David Martin: If the WHO Pandemic Agreement passes in May, the WHO will gain the ability to “suspend all civil liberties”, should it arbitrarily decide there’s a “public health emergency”.

“Covid was used to terrorize the world, convince them that we need some giant protector state that actually has some sort of supranational ability, and then suspend civil liberties as long as they need to be suspended… at the whim of funding agencies who have no criminal accountability.”

“These things are set up to be terror campaigns, to modify the public’s willingness to give up their liberties.”

 

WEF Great Reset Agenda; Where Did The Money Go? Why Trump Will Win; Sniffing Biden; It’s Worse than We Ever Imagined.

A perfect one minute summary the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ agenda, aired on Fox News:

“The WEF is a fanatical political organization that uses fear and manipulation, like Covid hysteria, like the hoax of global warming, to really facilitate people thinking that somehow they’re the saviors, but really all you’re doing is helping them accomplish their goal, which really is a global public-private fascist movement, and fusion of big government, big tech [and] big money, to create a technocratic ruling elite, which conveniently is them.”

“They want to create feudalism 2.0, in which we are serfs, and they are the lords ruling over us… That’s what they’re aiming for.”

If you wonder where our tax money went this week — here you go.

Additional $6.2B “unaccounted” Pentagon money is missing.. Guess where they went?
Of course, Ukraine.

Five months before his assassination, President John F. Kennedy issued this executive order that would give the American currency back to the people by printing money based on a silver standard, taking away the power of the Federal Reserve Banking Cartel.
Many argue this is the reason that JFK was assassinated.

Why Most People Will be Voting for Trump
Sniffing Biden

40 senators have co-sponsored a bill that would require you to upload your drivers license before being able to post online. They say it’s to “protect children” but in reality, they want your home address on file and to ensure you’re not using a VPN.

Watch at your own discretion. This is just the surface of it. It’s more evil than we even know.

World Legislators Speak; British legislator Bridgen demands Bill Gates to face death penalty; New York is Involved in Election Interference

Australian senator, Malcolm Roberts

MEP Rob Roos

British legislator Bridgen demands Bill Gates to face death penalty over ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ during COVID-19 pandemic
ByMaravi Post Author

LONDON-(MaraviPost)-British Member of Parliament (MP) Andrew Bridgen has called for Bill Gates and the elite “Covid cabal” to face the death penalty for alleged “crimes against humanity” during the Covid pandemic.

Bridgen made the call during a sitting of parliament in Westminster this week, stating that he has always opposed capital punishment, however “events have caused me to reconsider my position.”

“CAN WE HAVE A DEBATE ON CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, AND THE APPROPRIATE PUNISHMENT FOR THOSE WHO PERPETUATE, COLLUDE AND COVER UP FOR THESE ATROCITIES,” CONTINUED BRIDGEN. “ATROCITIES AND CRIMES THAT ARE SO SEVERE, THAT THE ULTIMATE PUNISHMENT MAY BE REQUIRED.”

“Heads of governments around the world and others below them have engaged in what is tantamount to treason against the public,” declared Bridgen in response to the sanctimonious rebuttal by his colleague Penny Mordaunt (who is coincidentally a long-term WEF member).

Bridgen has also contacted the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Mark Rowley, to organise a three-hour meeting where experts and whistleblowers will lay out the evidence to prove criminal activity has been conducted by the most senior members of government and the civil service in the UK.

Bill Gates did not call for the withdrawal of COVID-19 vaccines. Last week, Bridgen revealed a senior cabinet minister in the British government told him details of the plan to use turbo cancer to depopulate the world.

Bridgen explained the incident took place in the tea room at Westminster Houses of Parliament, where the unnamed senior Minister told him that he would be “dead of cancer soon” because he was misled into taking the vaccine during the pandemic.

“You can speak out all you want,” the minister told Bridgen. “It doesn’t matter. You are vaccinated. You will be dead of cancer soon.”

Bridgen has served as Member of Parliament for North West Leicestershire since 2010.

He has become a prominent voice in the fight against globalist authoritarianism in the UK, railing against Covid vaccine mandates, lockdowns and mask mandates.

Source: The People’s Voice

Everyone, yes everyone, is far right!

Eric Trump brought the heat this morning on Maria Bartiromo. He perfectly explains the insanity happening in New York to the entire Trump family.Watch this whole clip.Eric wraps up by explaining how determined President Trump is to keep fighting:“What he’s had to fight through for the last 8 years, I can tell you as a son, is unthinkable… The amount of arrows, the amount of shots that they’ve taken at this man and he never ever stops. He’s the toughest guy I’ve ever met in my entire life. Hes gonna win in November. I don’t care what they do to him…. He will never ever ever stop fighting. That’s his conviction. That’s who he is. That’s frankly who we are as a family.”

FBI is Shielding Biden; Child Trafficking; Businesses Moving From New York; Chemtrail Pilot Speaks; What is Really Going on in Gaza?

FBI is Shielding Biden

Child Trafficking

Businesses Moving From New York

Chemtrail Pilot Speaks

What is Really Going on in Gaza?

Sir Lindsay Hoyle’s Future as Speaker in Doubt After Shambolic Gaza Ceasefire Vote

Sir Lindsay Hoyle’s Future as Speaker in Doubt After Shambolic Gaza Ceasefire Vote

Sir Lindsay Hoyle’s Future as Speaker in Doubt After Shambolic Gaza Ceasefire VoteSpeaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle making a statement after SNP and Conservative MPs walked out of the House of Commons in Westminster on Feb. 21, 2024. (UK Parliament/PA Wire)

More than 50 MPs have signed a motion of no confidence in Sir Lindsay Hoyle, whose future as speaker of the House of Commons is in doubt after a chaotic vote on a ceasefire in Gaza on Wednesday evening.

Health minister Maria Caulfield said she would “struggle to support” Sir Lindsay after he undermined parliamentary convention and agreed to put to the vote Labour’s amendment to the SNP’s motion calling for an immediate ceasefire.

Dozens of Conservative and SNP MPs walked out of the chamber in protest.

Sir Lindsay, 66, was criticised after he decided the first vote would be on Labour’s amendment, before moving on to further votes on the SNP’s original motion and then the government’s own proposal for an, “immediate humanitarian pause.”

The House of Commons clerk warned him his decision was unprecedented and against parliamentary protocol.

Conservative and SNP MPs claimed he had made his decision to avoid Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer facing a revolt by his backbenchers, many of whom were thought to be set to vote in favour of the SNP motion.

Labour’s amendment was passed unopposed without a formal vote and afterwards Sir Lindsay issued an apology.

He said, “I thought I was doing the right thing and the best thing, and I regret it, and I apologise for how it’s ended up.”

By mid-morning on Thursday, 53 MPs had signed up to a motion of no confidence in Sir Lindsay, who was elected as Labour MP for Chorley in Lancashire in 1997 and became Speaker in 2019.

There is no formal mechanism for MPs to remove him but there is a precedent for Speakers resigning after coming under political pressure.

In 2009 Michael Martin, a former Labour MP, resigned for the sake of “unity” after his handling of the parliamentary expenses scandal was heavily criticised.

Due to Meet Penny Mordaunt

He is due to meet the leader of the Commons, Penny Mordaunt, later. She has already accused him of having, “undermined the confidence” of the House.

Ms. Mordaunt blamed Labour for the debacle and told MPs on Thursday, “It fell to the government benches to defend the rights of a minority party (the SNP) in this House.”

he said the shadow Commons leader Lucy Powell should reflect on the “appalling consequences of her party’s actions” which she said had damaged the office of the speaker.

“I would never have done to him what the Labour Party have done to him,” Ms. Mordaunt added.

Sir Keir said: “The speaker did the right thing in making sure the debate was broad. But the tragedy is the SNP walked off the pitch because they wanted to divide the Labour Party and they couldn’t, and the government walked off the pitch because it thought it was going to lose a vote.”

He added, “We should have had a proper debate and a proper resolution with all three propositions being put to a vote.”

The chaotic vote and the MPs’ walkout overshadowed the debate on whether there should be a ceasefire in Gaza, where Hamas-controlled health ministry claims 29,000 people have died since the start of the conflict on Oct. 7.

Israel launched a ground offensive a few weeks after Hamas terrorists launched an attack over the border from Gaza which killed 1,200 people, including women and children.

Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered outside the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday evening as the debate on the ceasefire turned into a political shooting match.

Ms. Caulfield said Sir Lindsay’s position was “difficult” following the fiasco.

She told Sky News: “I would struggle now to support him but let’s see what happens in the next 24-48 hours. He knows he did wrong and he has apologised. Let’s see what he proposes to fix the situation.”

SNP Furious With Sir Lindsay

The SNP’s leader at Westminster, Stephen Flynn, said it would be difficult to convince him the Speaker’s position was, “not now intolerable” and he said the SNP had been treated with, “complete and utter contempt.”

Sir Lindsay’s predecessor as speaker was John Bercow, who was criticised by pro-Brexit MPs for a perceived pro-remainer stance during debates on Britain’s exit from the European Union.

In 2021 Bercow, a former Conservative MP, announced he had joined Labour.
PA Media contributed to this report.

 

Chemicals in East Palestine; Proof Global Warming is a Hoak; Floride is Poisonous; The Lies We Were Told

Chemicals in East Palestine

Proof Global Warming is a Hoak

 Floride is Poisonous

Trillions Spent on ‘Climate Change’ Based on Faulty Temperature Data, Climate Experts Say

Trillions Spent on ‘Climate Change’ Based on Faulty Temperature Data, Climate Experts Say

By Katie Spence
January 29, 2024

Updated:

January 29, 2024
To preserve a “livable planet,” the Earth can’t warm more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the United Nations warns. Failure to maintain that level could lead to several catastrophes, including increased droughts and weather-related disasters, more heat-related illnesses and deaths, and less food and more poverty, according to NASA.
To avert the looming tribulations and limit global temperature increases, 194 member states and the European Union in 2016 signed the U.N. Paris Agreement, a legally binding international treaty with a goal to “substantially reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.” After the agreement, global spending on climate-related projects increased exponentially.
In 2021 and 2022, the world’s taxpayers spent, on average, $1.3 trillion on such projects each year, according to the nonprofit advisory group Climate Policy Initiative.

 

That’s more than double the spending rate in 2019 and 2020, which came in at $653 billion per year, and it’s significantly up from the $364 billion per year in 2011 and 2012, the report found.

Despite the money pouring in, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that 2023 was the hottest year on record.

NOAA’s climate monitoring stations found that the Earth’s average land and ocean surface temperature in 2023 was 1.35 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average.
“Not only was 2023 the warmest year in NOAA’s 174-year climate record—it was the warmest by far,” said Sarah Kapnick, NOAA’s chief scientist.

“A warming planet means we need to be prepared for the impacts of climate change that are happening here and now, like extreme weather events that become both more frequent and severe.”

But a growing chorus of climate scientists are saying the temperature readings are faulty and that the trillions of dollars pouring in are based on a problem that doesn’t exist.

More than 90 percent of NOAA’s temperature monitoring stations have a heat bias, according to Anthony Watts, a meteorologist, senior fellow for environment and climate at The Heartland Institute, author of climate website Watts Up With That, and director of a study that examined NOAA’s climate stations.

“And with that large of a number, over 90 percent, the methods that NOAA employs to try to reduce this don’t work because the bias is so overwhelming,” Mr. Watts told The Epoch Times.

“The few stations that are left that are not biased because they are, for example, outside of town in a field and are an agricultural research station that’s been around for 100 years … their data gets completely swamped by the much larger set of biased data. There’s no way you can adjust that out.”

Meteorologist Roy Spencer agreed.

“The surface thermometer data still have spurious warming effects due to the urban heat island, which increases over time,” Mr. Spencer said.

He is the principal research scientist at the University of Alabama, the U.S. Science Team leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer on NASA’s Aqua satellite, and the recipient of NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for his work with satellite-based temperature monitoring.

Mr. Spencer also said computerized climate models used to drive changes in energy policy are even more faulty.

Lt. Col. John Shewchuk, a certified consulting meteorologist, said the problems with temperature readings go beyond heat bias. The retired lieutenant colonel was an advanced weather officer in the Air Force.

“After seeing many reports about NOAA’s adjustments to the USHCN [U.S. Historical Climatology Network] temperature data, I decided to download and analyze the data myself,” Lt. Col. Shewchuk told The Epoch Times.

“I was able to confirm what others have found. It is obvious that, overall, the past temperatures were cooled while the present temperatures were warmed.”

He contends that NOAA and NASA have adjusted historical temperature data in such a way as to make the past appear colder and, by so doing, make the current warming trend more pronounced.

Faulty Temperature Readings

The urban heat island effect causes higher temperatures in areas where there are more buildings, roads, and other forms of infrastructure that absorb and then radiate the sun’s heat, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

The agency estimates that “daytime temperatures in urban areas are 1–7 degrees Fahrenheit higher than temperatures in outlying areas, and nighttime temperatures are about 2–5 degrees Fahrenheit higher.”

Consequently, NOAA requires all its climate observation stations to be located at least 100 feet away from elements such as concrete, asphalt, and buildings.

However, in March 2009, Mr. Watts released a report that shows that 89 percent of NOAA’s stations had heat bias issues due to being located within 100 feet of those elements, and many were located by airport runways.

“We found stations located next to the exhaust fans of air conditioning units, surrounded by asphalt parking lots and roads, on blistering-hot rooftops, and near sidewalks and buildings that absorb and radiate heat,” Mr. Watts said.

“We found 68 stations located at wastewater treatment plants, where the process of waste digestion causes temperatures to be higher than in surrounding areas.”

The report concluded that the U.S. temperature record was unreliable, and because it was considered “the best in the world,” global temperature databases were also “compromised and unreliable.”

Following the report, the U.S. Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the Government Accountability Office confirmed Mr. Watt’s findings and stated that NOAA was taking steps to address the issues.
“NOAA acknowledges that there are problems with the USHCN data due to biases introduced by such means as undocumented site relocation, poor siting, or instrument changes,” the OIG report reads.

“All of the experts thought that an improved, modernized climate reporting system is necessary to eliminate the need for data adjustments.”

Despite the assurances, Mr. Watts had doubts about NOAA addressing the issues and in April 2022 and May 2022, he and his team revisited many of the same temperature stations they had observed in 2009.

He published his findings in a new study on July 27, 2022. It found that even more, approximately 96 percent, of NOAA’s temperature stations still failed to meet its own standards.

“There are two main biases in the surface temperature network for the United States, and most likely the world, that I have identified,” Mr. Watts said.

“The biggest bias is the urban heat island effect. What happens is that because heat is retained by the surfaces and released into the air at night, the night’s low temperature is not as low as it could be if the thermometer were outside of town and in a field.”

Global average surface temperatures have been variable, but show an increasing trend in recent decades. (Illustration by The Epoch Times)
Global average surface temperatures have been variable, but show an increasing trend in recent decades. (Illustration by The Epoch Times)

Over the years, he said, more and more infrastructure has been built up around the thermometer locations, and at night, the asphalt and concrete release the absorbed heat and push up the temperature.

“You can look at any set of climate data, no matter who produces it, and you can see this effect. The low temperatures are trending upward much faster, and the high temperatures are virtually unchanged. But it’s the average temperature that’s being used to track climate change,” Mr. Watts said.

He said that even though both NOAA and NASA claim that they can adjust their data to account for the urban heat island effect, the bias is impossible to overcome because the problem impacts 96 percent of surface stations.

He said the few thermometers located at climate stations not experiencing a heat bias show half the rate of warming currently being reported.

Transient Temperature

The second primary bias that Mr. Watts identified is the transient temperature readings, which are short-term temperature changes that can give a false reading.

NOAA started switching out their mercury thermometers in the mid-to-late 1980s, according to Mr. Watts.

The majority of its network now consists of electronic thermometers that can measure temperature within seconds.

“But they’re only recording the high and the low temperature of the day, and these can be biased by simple effects of wind,” he said.

“For example, you can have one of these temperature sensors placed near a parking lot, which happens to be to the east of the thermometer. And the wind has been predominantly from the south all through the day. But then, all of a sudden, you get a wind shift, and the wind shift could be caused by a number of different things. It could be caused by a change in the weather patterns. It could be caused by something blocking the wind from the south, like a semi-truck pulling up nearby.

“So you get wind shifting out of the east suddenly, coming across the parking lot, and picking up that radiant heat. And the thermometer will respond to that in the space of a second or two. And it will report a high temperature from that wind gust that does not necessarily represent the weather that day. It’s an anomaly. And the same thing can happen at night.”

Mr. Watts said transient temperature is such a well-known problem that the Met Office in the UK and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology have abandoned their high-tech network and are retooling to get more accurate readings.

“These are the problems that NOAA has not really fully addressed,” he said. “The folks who do the climate data never leave the office, and they don’t administer these stations. They [the stations] are left to the National Weather Service field offices—and the National Weather Service field offices are understaffed.

“Some stations, like out here in the West, are hundreds of miles away or more from the National Weather Service office, so they can’t get out there and do maintenance regularly. And when the National Weather Service went to modernization in the early 1990s, they closed many Weather Service offices around the country.

“And so, the maintenance on these thermometers—and a lot of these monitors are run by the public, a lot are volunteers—has fallen off. I’ve had volunteers, when I go visit, ask me if I can get the Weather Service to come out and fix something. But they can’t, because the problem is, they don’t have the budget.

“The bottom line is that the Cooperative Observer Network, the COOP network—it’s literally a ragtag bunch of volunteers combined with some public agencies, such as police stations, fire stations, forest service, and so on.

“This is not a rigorously scientifically controlled network at the operational level.”

NOAA itself stated on its website that its temperature readings aren’t precise and that the agency adds a margin of error to its temperatures.
Neither NOAA nor NASA responded by press time to The Epoch Times’ request for comment regarding transient temperature anomalies or Mr. Watts’s claim that adjusting for a heat bias is impossible.

Adjusting Temperature Readings

NOAA has also been adjusting historical temperature data.

“Normally, when correcting data errors, you would expect a more random result in the data adjustments—both up and down—but the results instead show a systematic process of cooling the past and warming the present,” Lt. Col. Shewchuk said.
An example is Iceland’s Reykjavik station.

The February 1936 record for the Reykjavik station showed a mean temperature of minus 0.2 degrees Celsius for the month and an annual mean temperature of 5.78 degrees Celsius, according to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP). The original GISTEMP monthly data was known as v2, or version 2.

EPA data shows an increasing ratio of daily record high-to-low temperatures in order to indicate rising global temperatures (Illustration by The Epoch Times).
EPA data shows an increasing ratio of daily record high-to-low temperatures in order to indicate rising global temperatures (Illustration by The Epoch Times).
In 2019, NOAA released an updated version of its software, GISTEMP v4.
It shows Reykjavik station’s mean temperature for February 1936 as minus 1.02 degrees Celsius, and the annual mean temperature as 5.01 degrees Celsius. That’s a downward adjustment of 0.82 degrees Celsius for the month and 0.77 degrees Celsius for the year after the software update.
When comparing the GISTEMP v2 monthly data against the v4 monthly data, an overall cooling of the past is observed.

 

“Incredibly, the range of data adjustments exceeds 2 degrees Fahrenheit, which is significant with respect to current temperature trends,” Lt. Col. Shewchuk said.

“NOAA also employs a very unusual follow-on data adjustment process, where they periodically go back and re-adjust the previously adjusted data. This makes it difficult to find ground truth, which seems more like shifting sands.”

In response to The Epoch Times’ request for comment about the adjustments to historical data, NOAA’s public affairs officer, John Bateman, said he reached out to one of NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) climate experts, who responded: “NCEI applies corrections to account for historical changes in station location, temperature instrumentation, observing practice, and, to a lesser extent, siting conditions. Our approaches are documented in the peer-reviewed literature. At the national scale, the corrected data are in good agreement with the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN), which has pristine siting conditions.”

NASA didn’t respond to The Epoch Times’ request for comment about adjustments to historical data.

Satellite Readings

To get a more accurate reading of the Earth’s fluctuating surface temperatures, Mr. Spencer and climatologist John Christy developed a global temperature data set from microwave data observed from satellites.

Mr. Christy is a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and director of the Earth System Science Center, who, along with Mr. Spencer, received NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for his work with satellite-based temperature monitoring.

They started their project in 1989 and analyzed data going back to 1979.

According to satellite data, since 1979, the Earth’s temperature has been increasing at a steady rate of 0.14 degrees Celsius every 10 years.

And while 2023 was the hottest year on record due to linear warming trends, they say it’s not a cause for public panic.

“Yes, it appears 2023 was the warmest in the last 100 years or so. But numbers matter. The magnitude isn’t large enough for anyone to feel,” Mr. Spencer said.

“Besides, a single year is weather, not climate. What matters is the long-term trend, say many decades.”

He said the 2023 data, added to the 45 years of data since 1979, doesn’t alter the overall trend of 0.14 degrees Celsius increase every 10 years

“I believe both satellites and thermometers show a warming trend, especially since the 1970s,” Mr. Spencer said.

“But the strength of that trend is considerably less than what climate models predict, and it is those models which are used to argue for changes in energy policy and CO2 emissions reduction.”

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An employee gestures toward a global map showing information coming in from NASA satellites at an exhibit at NASA headquarters in Washington on June 21, 2023. (Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
Lt. Col. Shewchuk agreed that satellite-based temperature data is more precise, and it shows a much smaller warming trend than NOAA’s surface-based warming trend.
“The satellite data are a better measure of global temperature change because [they] do not suffer from conventional surface temperature station location problems or the numerous forms of NOAA data editing activities,”  he said.
Satellite readings are also “routinely calibrated to radiosonde (weather balloon) data, which are the gold standard for atmospheric data.”
Mr. Spencer published a report on Jan. 24 that addresses inaccuracies in climate modeling.
“Warming of the global climate system over the past half-century has averaged 43 percent less than that produced by computerized climate models used to promote changes in energy policy,” the report reads.
“Contrary to media reports and environmental organizations’ press releases, global warming offers no justification for carbon-based regulation.”
Mr. Spencer said the public has been led to believe that modeling is “fairly accurate,” but a number of additional variables have been added to the modeling that result in higher temperature estimates.
“Current claims of a climate crisis are invariably the result of reliance on the models producing the most warming, not on actual observations of the climate system which reveal unremarkable changes over the past century or more,” he wrote.

NASA Props Up Ground Readings

NASA claims on its website that ground thermometers are more accurate than satellite measurements.

“While satellites provide valuable information about Earth’s temperature, ground thermometers are considered more reliable because they directly measure the temperature where people reside,” NASA stated.

“Satellite data require complex processing and modeling to convert brightness measurements into temperature readings, making ground thermometers a more direct and accurate source of temperature information for us.”

Mr. Spencer quickly pointed out the flaws in NASA’s claim.

“Surface thermometers only cover a tiny fraction of the Earth, whereas the satellites provide nearly complete global coverage,” he said.

“NASA’s complaint that the 16 separate satellites must be pieced together ‘like a jigsaw puzzle’ is ironic since the surface temperature record is pieced together from hundreds (if not thousands) of stations, with almost none of them, anywhere, providing a continuous, uninterrupted record unaffected by increasing urban heat island effects.

“Finally, the complaint is that satellites only measure the deep atmosphere, not the surface where people live. … Well, if that is so, why are deep ocean temperatures touted as being so valuable for climate research? All of these measurements are important in their own right, and each system has its strengths and weaknesses. Our satellite dataset is widely used by climate researchers around the world.”

As to NASA’s critique that satellites don’t directly measure temperature but instead the brightness of Earth’s atmosphere, making them inaccurate, Mr. Spencer said: “Strictly speaking, that is true. But surface thermometers are electronic, so (technically) they measure electrical resistance.

“The satellites are calibrated with the highest quality, laboratory-standard platinum resistance thermometers. If NASA is going to fault remotely-sensed satellite data, they might as well shut down their myriad Earth satellite programs, which have the same (supposed) ‘defect.’”

Lt. Col. Shewchuk called NASA’s claim that satellite data is inferior to surface temperature readings “nonsense.”

“UAH satellite data is the only data source that is truly global in nature. It effectively measures the temperature of earth’s entire atmosphere, and especially the lower troposphere—where our weather is actually created,” he said.

“The only limitation is that the satellite data only begins in 1979.”

Mr. Watts said that when he looked at data from ground surface stations in grassy fields (absent an urban heat island effect), the temperature readings closely matched Mr. Spencer’s satellite data.

When asked why NOAA isn’t only using thermometers where there’s no possibility for an urban heat island effect, Mr. Spencer said: “I think their goal is not to get the most accurate long-term temperature record but to use as much thermometer data as they can get their hands on. This is good to build a congressionally-funded program and keep people employed.”

The current amount of money, $1.3 trillion annually, being spent on climate initiatives is nowhere near enough, according to the Climate Policy Initiative.

“In the average scenario, the annual climate finance needed through 2030 increases steadily from $8.1 to $9 trillion. Then, estimated needs jump to over $10 trillion each year from 2031 to 2050,” the group stated.

“This means that climate finance must increase by at least five-fold annually, as quickly as possible, to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.”

The organization lists its funders on its website, including the Rockefeller Foundation, WWF, and Bloomberg Philanthropies. Its partners include BlackRock, two U.N. climate groups, several large global banks, and government groups such as the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy.

Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to include a comment from NOAA.