Alan Caruba: The Slow, Sure Death of "Climate Change" Lies

http://terrellaftermath.com/    

Warning Signs    ... "Obama is on record saying that climate change “once considered an issue for the distant future, has moved firmly into the present” and is “affecting Americans right now.” Climate change as studied by climatologists is measured in terms of centuries whereas the weather is what is happening today. It has been happening before and since the rise of civilization. Obama’s claim that “climate-related changes are outside of recent experience” and “have become more frequent and/or intense” is a lie from start to finish."

 

"Climate Change Reconsidered II devoted to biological impact features scientific studies that conclude: ..."

 

Mr. Caruba is an advisor to "The Heartland Institute, a non-profit market-based think tank, responded by creating the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) and by sponsoring a series of international conferences".

"If global warming is not a fraud, why do the promoters of it so often do the sorts of things that fraudsters do?" (Thomas Lifson*)

Rich Terrell

Sorry, Greta: Trump skips UN climate summit  "Up until now, the public relations build-up for the big United Nations climate summit has been humongous.

"After all, who better than the United Nations to get carbon emissions choking the Earth down?  The world's at stake!  Twelve years to oblivion.  Submerged islands!  Funerals for glaciers.  Polar bears!  A very big march of some manipulated kids, led by Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg — and all of this hoopla getting lots of press.

"Well, President Trump has a response for it, according to ABC News:" . . .

This points to the wisdom of Trump's refusal to even bother with this United Nations clown show.  It's a new takeover bid from unelected leftist bureaucrats to rule the U.S., which has the most pristine record on climate emissions anyway.  It stinks; President Trump knows it stinks; and, mercifully for us, he has the steely resolve to ignore the pressure campaigns and just let these compulsive meddlers play among themselves, except not on his time.

Canada’s global warming models threw out actual historical data and substituted models of what the temperature should have been . . . "In other words, the computer models Canada uses to measure and project “global warming” are themselves based on other computer models.  The expression “Garbage in / garbage out” refers to the vulnerability of all computer models to poor quality data used as the basis of their calculations."
. . . "NOAA, for example, has frequently been caught adjusting past temperatures downwards and more recent temperatures upwards in order to make “global warming” look more dramatic. During the Climategate scandal, scientists at the CRU admitted that they had thrown away much of their raw data, leaving only their revised data intact." . . .
* Thomas Lifson

The Morning Briefing: Let's Put the Climate Hoax Kids In a Time Out

"Enough with the Adolescent Human Shields 
"Climate hoaxer truant Greta Thunberg has dominated the news for the last several days, largely thanks to the fact that none of the adults around her seem to care if she gets an education. In fact, the little spectrum girl finally admitted that her antics are mostly about having an excuse to play hooky from school.
"Time: "Why should we study for a future that is being taken away from us. That is being sold for profit.”
"Last month, I wrote that scaring young people into believing that climate change is going to kill them is child abuse. The adults responsible for spreading this hysterical propaganda should be rounded up and jailed. They use children as messengers to provide some cover for their fantastical and nonsensical claims.
"When they aren't unleashing the brats to fill news cycles with lies about weather, the adults are even more insane. The New York Times published a "News Analysis" article this past weekend that suggested likening forest fires to Nazi war crimes:" . . .

Elon Musk is enthralled with Greta  . . . "Others have encouraged Thunberg too, such as Hillary Clinton who wrote on Facebook: “One of my favorite #gutsywomen: Greta Thunberg, the Swedish activist whose school strikes for climate action have inspired a global climate strike that will start tomorrow.”
"Former President Barack Obama also praised Thunberg, stating on Facebook after a meeting with the young activist: “At just 16 years old, Greta Thunberg is already one of our planet’s greatest advocates. Her age might have something to do with it. With full knowledge that her generation will bear the heaviest burden of climate change, she’s unafraid to believe that progress is possible—and fight for real change. She’s an example of why Michelle and I started the Obama Foundation — because we believe in a future that’s shaped by the courage and hope of young people like Greta.' ”

The Left’s Cynical and Childish ‘Climate Strike’  "What is even more obnoxious than thousands of smug, self-righteous leftists preaching hysterically about the Church of Mother Earth and the imminent destruction of our planet due to “global warming?” Hearing this same song-and-dance from a bunch of literal children." . . .

"Let’s just take a look at some of the most stomach-churning examples of this totally organic and not-orchestrated-in-the-slightest media narrative:

The Atlantic: “Children Know It’s Time to Panic About Climate Change”

• ABC: “Five Youth Climate Activists You Need to Know”
• Fox News (seriously?): “Yes, there is a climate crisis—Mr. Trump, listen to the kids”
• USA Today: “Climate strike: Students protest in San Francisco, Chicago, New York” (Later changed to: “‘Our house is on fire.’ Global Climate Strike draws out hundreds of thousands of protesters in New York, DC”)

WATCH: California School Kids Chant, “Who Do We Hate? Donald Trump”
. . . "The video shows children being coached by their teachers to chant, “Who do we hate? Donald Trump.”
"This should horrify every freedom-loving American. These children should be learning about math and science. Instead, the public schools in San Francisco are teaching the youngsters how to be community organizers." . . .  Or transgenders

They are joining the climate cult

Why doesn't President Obama address the nation about the climate change crisis?

 "My guess is that President Obama is avoiding Congress (and public opinion) because he knows he's got a very weak hand."  

 

Silvio Canto, Jr.   "President Obama is flying solo again, as The Wall Street Journal tells us:

Rarely do American Presidents display the raw willfulness that President Obama did Monday in rolling out his plan to reorganize the economy in the name of climate change. Without a vote in Congress or even much public debate, Mr. Obama is using his last 18 months to dictate U.S. energy choices for the next 20 or 30 years. This abuse of power is regulation without representation.
The so-called Clean Power Plan commands states to cut carbon emissions by 32% (from 2005 levels) by 2030. This final mandate is 9% steeper than the draft the Environmental Protection Agency issued in June 2014.
The damage to growth, consumer incomes and U.S. competitiveness will be immense—assuming the rule isn’t tossed by the courts or rescinded by the next Administration.

"Yes, what about the damage to the U.S. economy?
"What about the damage to the U.S. Constitution and the presidency? 
"Let me make this suggestion to President Obama: 

1) Address the nation, and tell us about the threat of climate change, in much the same way as previous presidents have spoken about problems.  Climate change is either a crisis or a lot of hot air.  Obama should treat it like a crisis if he believes that it is one.
2) Tell us how a failure to act will devastate our economy and national security and affect people all over the world.
3) Send Congress a proposal that he can eventually sign into law.     

"Why won't he do any of this?  Why won't he make his case to the American people?  
"My guess is that President Obama is avoiding Congress (and public opinion) because he knows he's got a very weak hand.   
"In other words, all of this climate change doom and gloom sounds good until you actually put it to a debate."

 

The Alarmist-in-Chief Rallies the Troops against Climate Change

 If climate change were a true enemy of the United States, President Obama would extend a hand of peace, or declare victory and go home.

Rich Lowry at NRO   "President Barack Obama is less than stalwart in the fight against ISIS and doesn’t seem overly concerned about Vladimir Putin’s predation in Ukraine or China’s aggression in the South China Sea. It is the fight against climate change, an allegedly dire threat to the nation’s security, that brings out his inner Churchill. In remarks at the Coast Guard Academy commencement, Obama pledged his undying hostility to climate change and his determination to fight it on the beaches and in the fields. 

""He called it “one of the most severe threats” we face and “an immediate risk to our national security.” President Obama is to climate change what Cato the Elder was to Carthage.

  

"He hailed the Coast Guard for building more fuel-efficient cutters, and the Marines for deploying with portable solar panels. It was one of the most insipid calls to arms ever made by an American commander-in-chief, and there is unlikely to be much competition until President Elizabeth Warren rallies the U.S. Navy against income inequality." Full article

 

Biden Will Veto Military Pay Raise Because It Doesn’t Cater to Climate Change, Transgenders Enough

  Townhall

"The White House condemned the GOP's changes to the bill, claiming the new proposal is unfair to the LGBTQ community and would make "deep cuts to climate change and clean energy programs.' "

"Since day one in office, President Joe Biden has advanced policies that weaken America's military and distract from its core mission of protecting the nation. 

"Biden has continually proposed cuts to the defense budget while sending hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine. The president has also tried to politicize America's armed forces and cater to those who are transgender, pro-abortion, or radical climate change activists. 

"This week, the White House announced Biden will veto a GOP bill that includes military pay raises for soldiers should it pass. 

The House Republican legislation would have given the military's junior enlisted troops a 30 percent raise next year and ensure that no military member would make less than the equivalent of $15 per hour during a 40-hour work week.

" 'If the president were presented with H.R. 4365, he would veto it.," the White House said in a press release, pointing to the lack of Left-wing agenda items such as diversity initiatives, abortion, transgender issues, and climate change. 

" 'The draft bills also include numerous new, partisan policy provisions with devastating consequences, including harming access to reproductive healthcare, threatening the health and safety of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) Americans, endangering marriage equality, hindering critical climate change initiatives, and preventing the Administration from promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion," the White House stated. " . . .

Angry French middle-class rioters and clueless liberals in America

It is hard to visualize Californians rioting over things like this; they're too mellow. Unless of course, someone opposes illegal immigration or gay marriage, then it's Katy, bar the door (Millennials may have to Google that term). TD

The French flinch: French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe announced Tuesday that the government is suspending a gas tax that roiled the country in widespread violence and chaos.

No leftist introspection so far. After Paris riots and green tax retreat, warmists at yet another UN Meeting escalate rhetoric, warn of the end of 'civilization'

. . . "And never mind the decline in global temperatures the last two years.  There are models that can rationalize that away.Trust the experts!Meanwhile, watch what the warmists do, not what they say.Here is what Bernie Sanders says about global warming: . . .

. . . "Glenn Reynolds, law professor and proprietor of Instapundit, has it exactly right when he says: "I'll believe global warming is a crisis when the people telling me it is a crisis start acting like it is a crisis!"

"Here we were able to elect a man whom the elites loathe – but who is making our government act again (as it used to and as it was designed to) on our behalf."

. . . "The trigger was a grossly high tax on gasoline, this to satisfy the green lobby – one designed to "wean" the French people off fossil fuels."But who uses such fuels?  Who depends on automobiles to get around?"Not the elites making the decision.  They live in cities such as Paris.  No, it was the nobodies who live in the sticks."

 Protesters chanted "We want Trump!"  . . . "If people cannot afford to drive their vehicles and possibly heat their homes, climate change is going to be of little significance to them. Climate change is a failed science predicated on money, money and profit for the wealthy industrialists and governments that push this propaganda.
"Oh, and lets not forget former presidents, like Barack Obama who said climate change is not being “fixed” because – “We could reduce carbon emissions by 30 percent, and it’s not like we would all have to go back to caves and live off fire … The reason we don’t do it is because we are still confused, blind, shrouded with hate, anger, racism, [and] mommy issues.”
"Climate change also has other insidious aspects to it, climate change is:" . . . Read on...
"Mommy issues"?

Trump’s SOTU Was First in Eight Years Not to Mention ‘Global Warming’

Liberty Review

"While President Donald Trump touted policies to make the U.S. into an energy superpower, his first State of the Union (SOTU) address to Congress left out a hallmark of Obama-era speeches.

"Trump’s address is the first in eight years to not refer to manmade global warming — nine years if you include former President Barack Obama’s 2009 address to Congress. Instead, Trump emphasized deregulation and boosting energy production — many of the regulations Trump rescinded were Obama-era global warming policies.

“ 'In our drive to make Washington accountable, we have eliminated more regulations in our first year than any administration in history,” Trump said in his speech Tuesday night.

“ 'We have ended the war on American Energy – and we have ended the War on clean coal,” Trump said. “We are now an exporter of energy to the world.”

"Nearly all of Obama’s addresses to Congress explicitly mentioned climate change. Obama addressed Congress eight times, explicitly mentioning “climate change” in all but one speech.

"While Obama’s 2011 SOTU address did not explicitly say climate change, he did call for investments in “clean energy technology” to “protect the planet.” Obama’s six other SOTUs used the term “climate change.”

"While not technically a SOTU, Obama said in 2009, “to truly transform our economy, to protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy.' ” . . .

The world will end SOON! Our children and their heroes are, like, terrified!

Fact-checking Beto and AOC claims about climate change

Stop having children! We're all going to die!

Supporting AOC is the climate change pablum being spoon-fed our children by not only schools but by shallow teen culture sources such as this from Teen Vogue magazine:

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Said Climate Change and Immigration Are Connected — Here's Why She's Right

. . . AOC is right. The environmental impacts of climate change and disaster-level events related to itare displacing people from their homes all across the planet. Many of these people are fleeing destroyed homes and livelihoods in the wake of climate change-related crises. But at the same time, it’s getting harder to seek refuge." . . .

Teen Vogue Promotes Staring At Women's Butts, For Liberalism!

Why The Left Suddenly Thinks Teen Vogue Is A Great News Source

In general, the rise of Trump has convinced many in the media that the traditional rules of news coverage are not sufficient to make clear his dark and duplicitous nature. This is a dangerous idea. What they see and admire in Teen Vogue is not courage, it is the abandonment of journalism standards.

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Maxine Waters: Pictures of Tide Prove Climate Change-Fiction!

Let the left - CNN, for one example - be the only source of fake news

Summary of eRumor:U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, a Democrat from California, tweeted side-by-side pictures of Venice Beach at high and low tide as proof that climate change is real and is impacting California’s coast.

Truth or Fiction "Maxine Waters didn’t tweet these side-by-side pictures of Venice Beach at high and low tide to prove that climate change is having an impact on California beaches.
"The tweet was from a fake Twitter handle in effort to make it appear that Maxine Waters was naive to natural environmental forces, or that she was intentionally trying to misinform people.
"The image shows Venice Beach at high and low tides and includes the caption, “This is Venice Beach, in my district. And these were taken only 6 hours apart! Still think climate change isn’t real?”
. . . 
"The handle for Waters’ official account is @MaxineWaters, and the handle for the imposter account was @MaxineVVaters." . . .   Also here.

Greenpeace Founding Member: 'The Whole Climate Crisis Is Not Only Fake News, It's Fake Science'

As for the alarmists, "that’s all they are doing is instilling fear. Most of the scientists who are saying it’s a crisis are on perpetual government grants.' 

Greenpeace Founding Member: 'The Whole Climate Crisis Is Not Only Fake News, It's Fake Science'

PJ Media  "On Tuesday morning, Patrick Moore, a founding member of the environmentalist organization Greenpeace, slammed climate alarmists for promoting a fake emergency. President Donald Trump tweeted Moore's remarks shortly after he made them.
" 'In fact, the whole climate crisis as they call it is not only fake news, it’s fake science. There is no climate crisis," Moore, author of the book Confessions of a Greenpeace Drop-Out: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist, told "Fox & Friends" Tuesday morning.
" 'There is weather and climate all around the world. And, in fact, carbon dioxide is the main building block of all life," Moore said. "That’s where the carbon comes from in carbon-based life, which is all life on land and in the sea. And not only that, a little bit of warming would not be a bad thing for myself being a Canadian and the people in Russia wouldn’t mind a little couple of degrees warmer either."
"The Greenpeace founding member did not deny that climate change is real, but he insisted that it is not a crisis.
" 'Yes, of course, climate change is real. It’s been happening since the beginning of time. But it’s not dangerous and it’s not made by people," Moore insisted.
"What is climate change, if it's not a man-made imminent crisis? "Climate change is a perfectly natural phenomenon and this modern warm period actually began about 300 years ago when Little Ice Age began to come to an end," he explained. "There is nothing to be afraid of." . . .

Tucker gives the left another reason to go after him:

On Global Warm....er....Climate Change

Alan Caruba: A History of the Disastrous Global Warming Hoax    " 'It is the greatest deception in history and the extent of the damage has yet to be exposed and measured,” says Dr. Tim Ball in his new book, “The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science”.

"Dr. Ball has been a climatologist for more than forty years and was one of the earliest critics of the global warming hoax that was initiated by the United Nations environmental program that was established in 1972 and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) established in 1988."

But...but.... climate change is settled science!  Settled, I tell you!
 
Unsettling “Settled Science”    ... "The Earth was flat and the sun revolved around it. Bleedings were prescribed for healing at one point by science. But we don’t need to go back that far to find confusion and contradictions in “settled science.' ” ...

The Coming Paradigm Shift on Climate  ... "Watch for it: We may be on the threshold of a tipping point in climate history.  No, I’m not talking about a tipping point in the sense that the Earth will be covered with ice or become hellishly hot.  I’m talking about a tipping point in our views of what controls the climate -- whether it’s mainly humans or whether it’s mainly natural.  It makes an enormous difference in climate policy: Do we try to mitigate, at huge cost, or do we merely adapt to natural changes -- as our ancestors did for many millennia?

Smearing Climate Skeptics

No Joke: Feds Spend $700,000 On “Climate Change Musical”…

 

The latest on the climate change industry

Dissenters to the climate change theory have said often there was no increase in temperatures over the past twenty years. They were mocked and refuted often, but now this indicates they were right.
Recall that it was once "settled science" declaring the earth was flat.

CLIMATE “SCIENCE” ROCKED BY ANOTHER SCANDAL

"Of all the “fake news” stories that emerged in the last two years, this is undoubtedly the most important. "

. . . "Dr. John Bates, who until the end of 2016 was one of NOAA’s top scientists, told the story to the Daily Mail:

The Mail on Sunday today reveals astonishing evidence that the organisation that is the world’s leading source of climate data rushed to publish a landmark paper that exaggerated global warming and was timed to influence the historic Paris Agreement on climate change.

A high-level whistleblower has told this newspaper that America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) breached its own rules on scientific integrity when it published the sensational but flawed report, aimed at making the maximum possible impact on world leaders including Barack Obama and David Cameron at the UN climate conference in Paris in 2015.. . .More at the link.

Government whistle blower accuses NOAA of manipulating climate data

"It's very difficult to see how this data manipulation could have been the result of stupidity or carelessness. And it only proves what has become the norm for government scientists on a wide variety of issues; scientific agencies run by taxpayer dollars are not in the business of performing "real" science to get at the truth of an issue. They are in business to validate the political agenda of their masters in the White House. And if they have to manipulate data or, as in the Bush White House, ignore contradictory data, they will do so."  Rick Moran

End climate propaganda

"With a solidarity that makes North Korea look distinctly liberal, they have relentlessly claimed that "the science is settled."  This "fixed opinion," supported by a deluge of government cash and media control, means that open-minded research is impossible – all we get is one-eyed propaganda, doctored data, and vilification of skeptics."

 

Beto: We only have '10 years' left to address climate change

Andrew Wilkow

Fox News  . . . "Appearing on MSNBC, O'Rourke promoted his proposal but was asked about his prior support from the oil and gas industry, and whether the relationship would be a problem going forward.
" 'Do you see the oil and gas industry as an opponent in that? Won't you have to declare yourself in opposition to their interests?" MSNBC host Chris Hayes asked." . . .

Beto O'Rourke's 'Ambitious Climate Plan' Is Even Worse Than the Green New Deal

Beto O'Rourke takes a selfie with Anne Kelly of the Sierra Nevada Research Stations and activist Leslie Martinez Monday, April 29, 2019, in Yosemite National Park, Calif. 

. . . "The Green New Deal would cost at least $49 trillion — some estimates place it at $93 trillion. Ocasio-Cortez's plan is a resolution, however, not a bill. By contrast, O'Rourke's plan — which adopts many of the Green New Deal's worst proposals — is a presidential candidate's platform, spelled out in executive orders, government grants, and legislative proposals.

"O'Rourke seems intent on repurposing the Green New Deal as his own, and visiting Yosemite National Park to prove his love for the environment.

"This radical new proposal comes at a tough time for the former congressman, however. Shortly after he entered the presidential race, another fresh-faced candidate stole his thunder. Pete Buttigieg, the military veteran and Rhodes scholar who serves as the openly gay mayor of South Bend, Ind., outpaced O'Rourke in the media and in the polls. In many ways, Buttigieg was the better Beto." . . .

The Babylon Bee has some fun with O'Rourke: Beto Unveils Plan To Replace All Cars With Skateboards By 2030  . . . "O'Rourke got the idea while skating a half-pipe and smoking some weed with some local youths over the weekend." . . .

DU

The world has just over a decade to get climate change under control, U.N. scientists say  October 7, 2018

PopPolitics: Ted Danson on Climate Activism, Ignorance and 2016   October 3, 2015

DO YOU REMEMBER "Algore: "We Have Ten Years Left Before Earth Cooks' "
"in 2006 Al Gore said these words that struck fear into people around the world. 
"Here is 9 years and a dozen days later and we are no where near cooking. there is now only 326 days and the tepratures are no where near where Al Gore said they would be. Before that we had Ted Danson say in 1988, We had ten years to save the oceans; we were all going to pay the consequences, which would result in our death. 
"1998 came and went and not a single death from the resulted. 
"Here are a few more predictions made over the last 35 years" . . .
1) At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1969, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, “The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.” 
2) The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age. — Kenneth Watt, Ecologist 
3) A high-priority government report warns of climate change that will lead to floods and starvation. ‘Leading climatologists’ speak of a ‘detrimental global climatic change,’ threatening ‘the stability of most nations.’ The scenario is eerily familiar although the document – never made public before – dates from 1974. But here’s the difference: it was written to respond to the threat of global cooling, not warming. And yes, it even mentions a ‘consensus’ among scientists. — Maurizio Morabito 

Al Gore has been accused of profiting from the climate change agenda amid claims he is on course to become the world’s first “carbon billionaire”.

Five Ways We Know Al Gore's Been Running A Global Warming Racket  . . . Ten years later, he's probably hoping that everyone has forgotten about his categorical statement.
"The terrible truth for Gore is that there is no planetary emergency. Not one of the dire predictions he and the rest of the alarmist community made has come to pass. In fact, there is plenty of evidence that they have been running a racket. Here's how we know:
"One, Earth hasn't warmed in nearly 20 years." . . .

Trolling the left: Climate ‘activist’ at AOC event: ‘We have to eat the babies’.

One of Ocasio-Cortez's constituents loses her mind over climate change during AOC's townhall, claims we only have a few months left: "We got to start eating babies! We don't have enough time! ... We have to get rid of the babies! ... We need to eat the babies!"

https://www.americanthinker.com/cartoons/

Climate ‘activist’ at AOC event: ‘We have to eat the babies’

It’s unclear at this point whether she was trolling (she has to be trolling, right?) the Congresswoman and climate change or if she is just so far gone to the radical progressive indoctrination surrounding climate change that she inadvertently made a mockery of the event. Either way, it’s interesting to watch.

 "A woman at Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s town hall today took climate extremism to the next level. After saying the Green New Deal is great but it doesn’t work fast enough, she declared her own plan: eating children.

"Donning a t-shirt that read, “Save the Planet, Eat the Children,” the unhinged rant she delivered declared that bombing Russia would not be enough because there would still be too many people. She referred to a Swedish scientist who declared earlier this year that we need to start eating human corpses to fight climate change, but even that insane concept was far too sane for this activist." . . .

Troll?

Troll City?
"Editor’s Note: This post has been updated to include information that the woman may be part of a fringe political group known for employing political stunts. No other parts have been altered."

Viral Video About Eating Babies at AOC Town Hall Was Staged by Pro-Trump Group
"The woman may be part of a fringe political group known for conducting political stunts, according to a connection highlighted by Gizmodo, a tech-focused publication, which cites Operation Chaos author Matthew Sweet."

What Is The LaRouche Cult? The Group Taking Credit For ‘Eating Babies’ Ocasio-Cortez Troll

. . . "The group’s stunt is “a fairly well-established tactic” for it, Matthew Sweet, a historian who has documented the group, said according to WaPo. Conspiracy theorist Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. founded the LaRouche PAC.

“ 'They’ve been doing this since the ’70s,” Sweet told WaPo. “The tactic is you go to a political meeting and you create a disturbance that disrupts the meeting, and more importantly, that creates a kind of chaos.' ” . . .

. . . LaRouche Jr. built up his following, which reaches across the world, “based on conspiracy theories, economic doom, anti-Semitism, homophobia and racism,” WaPo wrote in an obituary on LaRouche Jr., who died in 2019. He ran for president eight times between 1976 and 2004.  . . .