Expensive Climate Policies Sparked the Chile Riots, Just Like the Yellow Vest Protests in

Climate activists and the United Nations are suffering a major black eye this week as protests and riots resulting from high energy prices have erupted in Santiago, Chile.

Chile, which is hosting a major U.N. climate conference in December, earned praise from climate activists for recently imposing a carbon dioxide tax on conventional energy sources and switching the Santiago Metro system to renewable power. Now, the people of Chile are rising up and firing a shot across the bow of other nations considering similar energy taxes and expensive renewable energy programs.

On Friday, protestors took to the streets throughout Santiago in response to Metro fare hikes. The protests soon spread to other cities and led to rioting and at least five reported deaths. The Chilean government and the legacy media blamed the fare hikes on rising oil prices. But that is not true.

Oil prices are not rising. Global oil prices are currently 25 percent lower than they were a year ago and 37 percent lower than they were five years ago.

In Chile, gasoline prices reflect the lower oil prices. Chilean gasoline prices were $1.12 U.S. per liter in August 2019 (the last month for which data are available), compared to $1.28 a year ago. Five years ago, Chilean gasoline sold at $1.50 U.S.

Santiago Metro fares are rising, despite falling oil and gasoline prices, because government officials in 2018 traded out most of the Metro’s energy sources from conventional power to wind and solar power. The Chilean government also hit the portion of conventional power that remains with new carbon dioxide taxes.

As a result, Chileans are now burdened by higher Metro fares reflecting unnecessary energy price hikes. As Chileans protest in the streets, climate activists and their media allies want people to believe oil is to blame rather than government climate programs that raise energy prices and impoverish people.

Unlike speculative climate change harms that never seem to really happen, carbon dioxide taxes and renewable energy mandates immediately and measurably raise living costs and reduce living standards. In the United States, people may have some concern about climate change, but polling shows most Americans are not willing to pay $2 per month to...

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The 90 Miles Mystery Video: Nyctophilia Edition #91

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REPORT: SHOCKING FBI LOVE TRIANGLE — FBI Director McCabe Had Affair With Top FBI Lawyer Lisa Page, Who Also Had Affair With FBI Boss Strzok (Video)

One America News Network is reporting that Andrew McCabe had an affair with his subordinate Lisa Page who was also reportedly having an affair with Peter Stzok.

The FBI love trio set out to destroy President Trump and Gen. Mike Flynn, according to the report.

All three FBI bosses — or would-be lovebirds — have been either fired from the FBI or removed and are targets of a newly-minted criminal probe targeting the FBI’s role in concocting the Russia collusion hoax.

McCabe was the boss of both Page and Strzok.

The new revelations take this unfolding saga to an entirely new level of bizarre.

Here is the report from OAN:

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ICE SVU Saboteurs Withdraw Trump-Ordered Fines For Illegals Who Fail To Depart

The Deep State saboteurs in ICE SVU have struck again. Some time ago a patriot in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) decided to use one of the many tools which are available for immigration enforcement but have never been used before, in this case fines directed against illegal aliens who fail to depart, codified in Title 8 United States Code Section 1324d, Civil Penalties For Failure To Depart.

These are monetary fines directed against illegal aliens who have had their due process in the immigration courts, the Executive Office For Immigration Review (EOIR), and failed to leave the United States when legally ordered.

While most illegal aliens don’t have much cash assets, real property, or valuable tangible property, most have some, even real property, that can be seized or converted to pay the fine. This is just another tool in the immigration law enforcement toolbox. It is not a wonder weapon, just another tool, albeit an effective tool, as exemplified by the reaction of the illegal aliens and their supporters.

Sadly though, there is a member of the Resistance high up in ICE who is sabotaging the use of this tool, all to the benefit of illegal aliens, aiding them to remain in the United States. And it is President Trump that is made to look bad. Why is Stephen Miller allowing this? Why is Matthew Albence, Acting Director at ICE, allowing this to happen?

The Trump administration is withdrawing hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines against some immigrants in the country illegally who have sought refuge in churches.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has withdrawn the fines, ranging from $300,000 to nearly $500,000 for five immigrants living in sanctuary conditions around the country, according to the National Sanctuary Collective, which works with the families.

Edith Espinal Moreno, who has been living in a church in Ohio over the past two years, received a notice from ICE in June telling her that she owed $497,000 for “failing to depart the U.S. as previously agreed,” among other factors.

[Trump Administration Withdraws Huge Fines For Some Immigrants In U.S. Illegally, by Franco Ordonez, NPR, October 22, 2019]

This is in direct contradiction of orders from President Trump to use fines to punish and discourage illegal immigration. However someone at ICE SVU has decided that they make immigration policy, not President Trump. It is similar to the Ukrainian controversy, which is steeped in the anger that State Department bureaucrats have over being ignored in the making of foreign policy. The Deep State wants to make foreign policy and immigration policy.

The latest round of letters withdrawing the fines is a significant reversal for the administration. When he took office in 2017, President Trump signed an executive order that promised to begin collection of “all fines and penalties that the Secretary is authorized under the law to assess and collect from aliens unlawfully present in the United States.”

So, it appears that Acting Director Albence is a Deep State saboteur. Well, perhaps not. He may just be following bad legal advice about fines and ICE’s discretion to impose those fines, bad legal advice from the lawyers at ICE, the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA), who are themselves well known saboteurs in the immigration enforcement bureaucracy, actively interfering with and sabotaging immigration enforcement at ICE. I wrote about them concerning another legal issue, interior enforcement by Deportation Officers in...