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Why Socialism is Gaining Ground – Episode 27 – Brian Sussman Show Podcast

This Episode of the Brian Sussman Show Podcast was the result of my previous post on The New Currency. I’ve added a bit more commentary, which I think you will find thought-provoking.

To be clear, conservative media is totally missing the real story. This current tidal wave of socialist adherence is not a passing fad and, unless an entire generation were to change their minds, our Republic is doomed for a dark future.

As I’ve share in recent posts and podcasts, Millennials and Gen Z have been brought up in a cauldron of hyper-liberal propaganda and mind-washing sloganism that has been taught in the public school system for 40-years, enhanced via social media, and confirmed by acquiring the new “currency,” a form of heightened street credibility that hinges upon a spirit of unforgiveness directed towards anyone who disagrees with them.

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God bless you.

Bill Gates and His Climate Change About-Face

Tech billionaire Bill Gates has altered the discourse of climate politics by publishing a lengthy memo calling for a rethink on his pet issue, climate change. Gates refers to his latest actions as setting the stage for a “strategic pivot” in climate strategy.

This pivot is being described by the left as an about-face, reversal, or even a retraction. Many are confused and angry over his new revelation. In my mind, Gates’ memo is the closest we will come to hearing him confess there is no such thing as anthropogenic climate change. He actually did something slightly similar some years ago when he and his influencer buddies swapped the term “global warming” for the all-encompassing handle, “climate change.” Back then, liberal environmentalists were panicked by facts that were too obvious to ignore; namely, the earth’s atmospheric temperature was maintaining itself within historical norms as described in my bestseller, Climategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam (2010).

So, “climate change” became the title to scare the world’s idiots into submission.

Bill’s long-winded missive begins with a befuddling claim: “Although climate change will have serious consequences—particularly for people in the poorest countries—it will not lead to humanity’s demise. People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future.”

See what I mean? “Climate change…will not lead to humanity’s demise.” This is a far cry from the cataclysmic predictions Bill and friends made back in the day regarding global warming bringing an end to humanity. Clearly, the important books written by me and others—blasting holes into their pet theory of human-caused global warming/climate change—have proven to be more convincing than the left will ever admit.

So now, instead of spending gazillions to supposedly straighten an out-of-control atmosphere, Gates contends more money must be spent to improve living conditions for the world’s poorest. No doubt Gates is all for New York’s Mamdani who was elected Mayor of New York with a similar theme. As for we conservatives, we know the best way to help the down and out is by first exposing the very real dangers imposed by communism, socialism, democratic socialism and tyrannical governments.

In his new plan, Gates highlights what he refers to as three “Truths.” The first is, “Climate change is a serious problem, but it will not be the end of civilization.” Very likely, this was the statement causing President Trump to respond to Bill’s memo with a post on Truth Social exclaiming, “I (WE!) just won the War on the Climate Change Hoax. Bill Gates has finally admitted that he was completely WRONG on the issue.”

Indeed, given a myriad of past gloom and doom statements by Gates, including his 2021 book entitled, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, this new “truth” seems to indicate even Billy silently concedes that just a few years ago he was full of hot air.

Gates’ second so-called truth states, “Temperature is not the best way to measure our progress on climate.” What a hilarious copout. Obviously, Mr. Microsoft has finally realized he can run but can’t hide from the fact that global temperature has not altered out of its age-old rhythm.

The third claims, “Health and prosperity are the best defense against climate change.” Certainly, health and prosperity are incredibly important issues, but the best defense against climate change?  That’s another nuanced allegation by a guy who refuses to just come out and admit he’s lost a major battle in his efforts to scare the masses into submission. Health and prosperity are the fruits of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in a republic that is by, of and for its citizens.

No doubt Gates published his memo to coincide with the United Nations climate confab, “COP30,” held in Brazil with 50,000 hypocrites from over 190 countries flying in on fossil fueled jets, staying in air-conditioned luxury hotels, and drinking lots of booze (which requires fossil fuels for distillation) as they bloviated about their communist green agenda and other one-world machinations.

Thank you, President Trump, for wisely keeping the U.S. from participating with the blowhards in Brazil.

Focus on the Family Founder, Dr. James Dobson, dies at 89

In large measure, Susie and I owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. Dobson for the many ways in which he equipped us to not just raise our four children, but to share his teachings and philosophies with hundreds of others.

Back in the day we’d literally rent a projector so we could invite people to our house to watch his parenting films.

I would also add that Focus on the Family played a significant role in us adopting our sons as well.

We were blessed to have the personal opportunity to share these sentiments with Dr Dobson, in his private study in Colorado, some years ago. It was a tremendous honor to spend time with him.

Dobson’s legacy are the countless people and families he touched. Thank God that includes mine.

 

Not a Natural Disaster: The Los Angeles Fires

Both the Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, and the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, are blaming the horrific fires in Southern California human-induced climate change. This is a bogus mantra designed to cover for the gross dereliction of duty employed by a myriad of elected officials at all levels of government in the Golden State.

As mentioned in my last post, the incredibly high winds experienced in Southern California were accurately forecast by the National Weather Service several days before they began. These winds are seasonal, blowing east to west, down the slopes of the nearby mountain ranges and towards the Pacific. As the winds rush down the mountainside, they manifest warm and extremely dry air. This is NOT a feature of so-called climate change. It’s a weather condition that has been around forever.

At this point in time, the only suspected and known cause for these fires is arson.

Now, let me diverge for a moment and speak to a subject I wrote about in my 2012 bestseller, Eco-Tyranny (WND Books).

In 2005, the FBI stated that America’s number one domestic terror threat was eco-terrorism. At that time the concern was focused on two radical environmental organizations, Earth Liberation Front and EarthFirst. Why should we think that such terror concerns would have evaporated since 2005?

In large measure, the leadership of these eco-radical orgs has been able to curry favor with liberal elected leaders and bureaucrats to see their goals accomplished within the construct of government. This is all easily accomplished through the doctrine of Sustainable Development.

Created by the United Nations in the 1983, Sustainable Development requires, as Al Gore has stated, “a wrenching transformation of society.” It seeks the near elimination of fossil fuels, the shuttering of all nuclear power plants, the tearing down of dams (they are declared “unnatural”), and—perhaps more germane to the situation in Los Angeles—moving the population from single family residential housing to stack-and-pack complexes in “Fifteen Minute Cities.”

Driving this Sustainable mentality is something also created by the UN: Social Equity.

Social Equity is not DEI. It declares that all species are equal. In other words, humans are no more important than termites. This is one of the reasons why farmers in the California’s Central Valley (one of the richest agricultural valleys in the world) can no longer get the water they need from the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta. The environmentalists claim that using the water for crops endangers a 3-inch-long fish known as the Delta Smelt. Thousands of acres of farms have gone to weeds as a result of the delta water pouring out to sea.

Social equity also accused the homes on the Malibu coast of endangering the nests of the California Least Tern.

Also, I discovered this from a friend who is a municipal water consultant in California regarding that empty reservoir in Pacific Palisades that was supposed to be under repair: normally such maintenance takes thirty or fewer days. Instead, this critical reservoir had been bone-dry for the past TEN months. Perhaps Sustainable Development is why the elected officials and desk-jockeys in LA County decided it wasn’t a critical piece of infrastructure?

California is the wealthiest state in the nation. It possesses the highest overall tax base. It has the most restrictive environmental rules and regulations. It’s also a one-party state dominated by elected officials who have more in common with Marx than Madison.

You can blame this entire disaster on authoritarian office holders and monolithic public officials, all of whom are overpaid and promised a hefty pension to boot.

And, perhaps the arsonists are radical environmentalists.

Hope you’ll read my newest book, Climate Cult.  Just Click Here.

Thank you!

UPDATES – The Southern California Fires: Not Climate Change 

Updated Friday, January 10 –

Fire officials in Southern California are investigating the causes of several wildfires that have destroyed homes and businesses primarily located in Los Angeles County.

The initial blaze—The Palisades Fire—was reported at 10:30AM Tuesday and has scorched thousands of acres in and around the beach towns of Santa Monica and Malibu. This fire was preceded by an Extreme Warning from the National Weather Service in Los Angeles as early as Thursday, January 2, which warned of “a particularly dangerous situation – in other words this is as bad as it gets in terms of fire weather.”

The Weather Service then forecast winds blowing to 100MPH.

The naturally occurring atmospheric scenario responsible for this event has nothing to do with so-called “global warming” or “climate change.”

The conditions are meteorologically referred to as “downslope” winds. In the Los Angeles region they are known as “Santa Ana Winds” and blow from land to sea, across the Santa Ana mountains (5600’) on the eastern edges of the Los Angeles and into the Pacific Ocean. As the winds sweep down the mountainside they naturally warm and dry the air making for ideal fire conditions. These winds generally occur in the cooler months when air from a high-pressure system in the Desert Southwest flows westward towards a low-pressure system in the Pacific off the California coast.

Similar wind scenarios are often found north of Los Angeles in Santa Barbara where the events are called “Sundowner Winds.”

Later on Tuesday, around 6:30PM, the Eaton Fire broke out in Altadena near Pasadena and swelled to more than 10,000 acres. By 10:30 that night a smaller blaze, The Hurst Fire, ignited in Sylmar, in the San Fernando Valley northwest of downtown Los Angeles and consumed about 500 acres. Altogether there are at least six major fires in the region.

The cause of all the blazes remain under investigation, according to Cal Fire. However it has been determined that at least one fire was arson; in fact there have been several credible reports of  arson, several which include video.

The powerful Santa Ana winds are likely to continue through the weekend.

Aside from the tremendous winds, the fires were able to initially grow out of control because of what I described in my 2012 book, Eco-Tyranny, as being part of an “earth-first” mentality that has overtaken common sense within California’s environmental practices (it’s occurring in other states as well). In the case of the Los Angeles fires, forests in California are never properly cleared or manicured, making for wild overgrowth and fire potential. Additionally, as we have learned, in the name of budget cuts the County of Los Angeles allowed its residential fire hydrants to go untested. As a result, hundreds of hydrants were found to be inoperable when they were finally needed this week.

Brian Sussman is a Certified Meteorologist and the author of the new book, Climate Cult: Exposing and Defeating heir War on Life, Liberty and Property.