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BIDEN CLIMATE CZAR JOHN KERRY
SNAPS WHEN CONFRONTED ABOUT
HIS OWN CARBON FOOTPRINT

President Biden's climate czar, John Kerry, gave a fiery response after he was confronted Tuesday by a reporter in Switzerland who asked about his carbon footprint.

"What's the carbon footprint of these events every single year that you come here? Do you think it's worth it — peasants paying for your crimes?" Avi Yemini, an Australian reporter with independent outlet Rebel News, asked Kerry who was walking on a street in Davos, Switzerland.

"That's a stupid question," Kerry responded.

"Nobody ever suggested that. Don't make up stupid questions," he said when asked a follow-up question about why his carbon footprint didn't matter.

Kerry — who is in Davos to attend the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) summit, which largely focuses on environmental issues like climate change and achieving net-zero ambitions — added that he has done a "huge amount" to combat climate change. Security personnel escorting Kerry between WEF events ultimately blocked Yemini from asking further questions.

Yemini later said in a social media post that Kerry "found it difficult to justify his carbon footprint in attending the World Economic Forum each year in Davos."

Shortly after taking office in 2021, President Biden appointed Kerry to the role, a position that hadn't previously existed and didn't require Senate approval, and gave him a spot in the president's Cabinet and National Security Council. The SPEC office is housed at the State Department and has an estimated $13.9 million annual budget with approval for 45 personnel.

Since assuming the role, Kerry has traveled worldwide, attending high-profile climate summits and diplomatic engagements in an effort to push a global transition from fossil fuels to green energy alternatives. In addition to attending multiple United Nations global warming summits, he has attended multiple WEF conferences.

But Kerry has received criticism for his carbon footprint, including his past use of a private jet owned by his family. According to flight tracking data obtained by Fox News Digital in July 2022, a Gulfstream GIV-SP jet owned by Kerry's family made a total of 48 trips that lasted more than 60 hours and emitted an estimated 715,886 pounds, or 325 metric tons, of carbon over the course of the Biden administration's first 18 months.

I need point out that the moment Fox Digital broke that news that Kerry sold the plane to a NYC hedge-fund, then started saying he has no private jet. He still uses them all the same.

BIDEN MAKES PARTIAL U-TURN:
PUTS HOUTHIS BACK ON TERROR GROUP LIST
AFTER RED SEA ATTACKS

A terrorist by any other name...

After two months of Houthi attacks on merchant vessels in the Red Sea, President Biden is finally redesignating the Iran-backed, Yemen-based group as a terrorist organization — partially reversing his decision to remove the label in February 2021.

Wednesday’s move comes 23 months after Secretary of State Antony Blinken knocked the Houthis from the lists of “Foreign Terrorist Organizations” (FTO) and “Specially Designated Global Terrorists” (SDGT), undoing one of the final actions by the Trump administration before its departure from office in January 2021.

Now, the White House has opted to restore the Houthis to the specially designated global terrorist list — but not the FTO list.

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters at the White House Wednesday that the SDGT redesignation for the Houthis allows the US a “measure of flexibility in terms of humanitarian assistance” to the people of Yemen, which has been ravaged by civil war for nearly a decade.

“A big reason why we delisted them literally on day one was to address a dire, dire humanitarian situation on the ground,” Kirby said. “Today it remains dire in many cases – the Houthis are more concerned about getting weapons and capabilities and attacking ships in the Red Sea than they are about the humanitarian situation.”

The restored SDGT designation allows Washington to “give aid organizations a higher level of comfort that they’ll be able to provide this assistance without running afoul of sanctions,” he added.

The US plans to issue “a number of licenses” to absolve organizations attempting to bring aid to Yemen from having to abide by associated sanctions, according to the NSC rep.

“The license, as you know, is basically like a waiver,” Kirby said. “It’s a carveout when you have a sanctions regime that allows for certain goods to continue to flow despite the sanctions regime.”

How many missile and drone attacks from the Houthis against commercial and civilian vehicles did it take for Biden to put them back on the Global Terror List? It was former President Trump that put them on in the first place while also taking a tough stance against their backer, Iran.

FRESHMAN DEM PROPOSES BILL
TO REMOVE STATUE OF LIBERTY
IN PROTEST OF GOP's 'BIGOTED'
IMMIGRATION LAW

Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., was mocked on social media Wednesday for telling Republicans to pass a bill to remove the Statue of Liberty along with their "bigoted" immigration law.

A House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on immigration discussed H.R.2, the House GOP’s Secure the Border Act, the comprehensive border security and immigration bill passed back in May. The bill would restrict the asylum process for people crossing the border and require resumed construction on the border wall.

The freshman congressman was one of many Democrats who attacked the bill, though he also produced a mock bill to remove the Statue of Liberty for Republicans to also pass.

ep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., was mocked on social media Wednesday for telling Republicans to pass a bill to remove the Statue of Liberty along with their "bigoted" immigration law.

A House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on immigration discussed H.R.2, the House GOP’s Secure the Border Act, the comprehensive border security and immigration bill passed back in May. The bill would restrict the asylum process for people crossing the border and require resumed construction on the border wall.

The freshman congressman was one of many Democrats who attacked the bill, though he also produced a mock bill to remove the Statue of Liberty for Republicans to also pass.

 Let's be fair, shall we? There is a complete and stark difference between legal immigration and illegal immigration, and the current administration is completely (and dare I say criminally) negligent in its duties. On top of that, the sheer number of TERRORISTS apprehended in Fiscal Year 2023 hit over 700. In 2019, there were NONE attempting to cross.

HUNTER BIDEN'S GUN POUCH
TESTED POSITIVE FOR COCAINE

Hunter Biden was loaded in more ways than one in October 2018, federal prosecutors alleged Tuesday in a scathing response to the first son’s attempt to dismiss weapons charges against him.

Five years after the now-53-year-old’s sister-in-law-turned-lover Hallie Biden dumped Hunter’s firearm in a trash can behind a grocery store in Delaware, FBI officials re-examined the pistol.

Agents removed the sealed Colt Cobra 38SPL revolver from a state police vault to photograph the weapon sometime last year and found white powder on the pouch that held the weapon, a court filing from special counsel David Weiss revealed.

“An FBI chemist subsequently analyzed the residue and determined that it was cocaine,” the 52-page document read.

“To be clear,” the prosecution motion added, “investigators literally found drugs on the pouch where the defendant had kept his gun.”

Weiss’ team was responding to a motion to dismiss the gun charges filed by Hunter Biden’s lawyers last month.

In the rebuttal, Weiss’ team recounted the evidence it had to confirm that the troubled first son was using illicit drugs at the time he completed a background check to buy the pistol and stated he was not addicted to any illicit substance, committing a federal crime in the process.

At another point in the rebuttal, prosecutors referenced Hunter Biden’s 2021 memoir “Beautiful Things” in which he “made countless incriminating statements about his years-long drug usage.”

“The defendant’s choice to sell a book containing these admissions not only made the government’s case against him stronger but also increased a potential prosecution’s general deterrence value,” Weiss’ team wrote.

There is way more in the article.   But let me point out that the FBI government form (the FBI NICS 4473 <available here>) requires you to answer under penalty of perjury (a Federal Felony) if you are a convicted felon, were dishonorably discharged and were the unlawful user of illegal drugs. Hunter perjured himself three times. And with this, his attempted sobriety defense is now completely shot (pardon the pun).