Source: http://www.breitbart.tv/welcome-to-obamaville-sign-marks-co-homeless-tent-city/
Date: Dec 10,2009
Source: http://www.krdo.com/Global/story.asp?S=11660020
By Political Reporter Marshall Zelinger
m.zelinger@krdo.com
Follow me on Twitter at www.twitter.com/mzelinger
COLORADO SPRINGS – We now know the reasons behind the "Welcome to Obamaville" sign near a homeless tent city at I-25 and Cimarron.
"You mention his name, you get some attention, I think that was the whole idea behind it," said Spencer Swann of Colorado Canyon Signs. "I didn't dream it up, but I thought it was a good idea. I thought that it would help some of these guys down here."
Swann designed the "Welcome to Obamaville: Colorado's Fastest Growing Community" sign on behalf of someone else, whose identity he wouldn't reveal. Swann also designed a new sign Thursday that replaced "Obamaville". The new sign reads: "Please help, we need firewood, propane and canned food."
"I thought it was just something to draw attention and help those folks," said Swann.
On krdo.com, Mary wrote, "The person that had the sign made could have donated to the homeless shelter instead."
Harley agreed, writing, "…you should have taken this money for the sign and given it to them."
Swann says the "Obamaville" sign cost around $150. He didn't charge the unknown creator for either sign. Swann also tells NEWSCHANNEL 13, the person who put up the sign makes donations of his own to the homeless.
"He gives them money, he gives them food, he gives them support," said Swann.
A NEWSCHANNEL 13 viewer forwarded us an e-mail he received from a friend, which included a picture of the "Welcome to Obamaville" sign. The viewer wrote us, "I am disgusted by the sign."
"I've had 100 calls today and not a single one of them was negative," said Swann.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Putin says no plans to leave power; PRAISES STALIN FOR INDUSTRIALIZATION AND VICTORY... Russia has no evidence of Iran nuclear bomb...
Source: http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B21GS20091203?sp=true
Date: Thu Dec 3, 2009 3:04pm GMT
By Michael Stott and Gleb Bryanski
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, in power for over 10 years, ruled out a departure from politics on Thursday, telling a questioner: "Don't hold your breath."
The country's most powerful leader made the comment with a smile when asked on his annual televised question and answer session with the Russian people if he would like to leave politics and start a quiet life.
Putin, 57, also said he "will think about" taking part in the 2012 presidential election, when many Russians expect him to return to the Kremlin for a six-year term.
Looking relaxed and confident, Putin said Russia had passed the peak of the economic crisis and reassured callers worried about job security, pensions and living standards.
"The economy has grown by an average of 0.5 percent per month over the last five months," Putin said in the session, broadcast live nationwide by state television and radio. "I'm counting on these positive trends in economic development becoming more significant in the middle of next year."
Putin's eighth annual phone-in entitled "A Conversation with Vladimir Putin. The Sequel" showed the premier back on form after an uncharacteristically subdued performance last year amid the economic crisis.
Commenting on everything from Russia's football performance to the brand value of Lada cars, Putin showed the mastery of detail, firm command, trademark frankness and humor which has made him the country's most popular politician.
An increase in oil prices has pulled the Russian economy back from the brink of collapse this year but despite billions of dollars of government aid, Russia still lags far behind emerging market peers such as Brazil, India and China.
Many questioners asked Putin about their jobs and their pensions, including workers in the town of Pikalyovo, which the premier visited in the summer to help a cement factory threatened with closure and scold its oligarch owner.
"The situation in one-industry towns, including Pikalyovo, is under control," Putin said.
RUSSIAN NOUVEAUX RICHES "A PROBLEM"
Asked why nobody was in jail for allowing the crisis to hit Pikalyovo, the prime minister shot back: "If we put everyone in jail, who would work?"
Putin had harsh words for Russia's new rich, saying the way they flaunted their wealth was wrong, and implicitly condemning a group of young Russians whose Lamborghini and Bugatti luxury sports cars crashed recently in Switzerland.
"The nouveau riche all of a sudden got rich very quickly but cannot manage their wealth without showing it off all the time. Yes, this is our problem," Putin said.
"In Soviet times some of our rich showed off their wealth by having gold teeth put in, preferably at the front. The Lamborghinis and other pricey knickknacks -- they are simply today's gold teeth which are shown off to everybody."
The televised question and answer session was conducted in a specially built Moscow studio with invited guests.
It included video links to Pikalyovo, to an aircraft plant in a Far Eastern city and to the turbine room of the giant Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric dam in Siberia, damaged in an August accident which killed 75.
All questions were screened in advance and access to the Moscow studio and the video link-up locations was by invitation only. Journalists were not given access to the questioners.
Enthusiastic presenters beamed as they counted more than two million questions submitted by phone, internet and text message.
Foreign affairs were barely mentioned in a session dominated by domestic issues.
Putin reassured a grieving widow from the dam about her children's education, calmed factory workers worried about their jobs, joked over his sometimes awkward relationship with the leader of neighboring Belarus and condemned terrorism.
Islamist rebels have claimed responsibility for detonating a bomb under a luxury express train as it traveled from Moscow to St Petersburg last week, derailing and wrecking carriages and killing 26 people, including some senior officials.
Putin said Russia would "break the spine" of terrorism and demanded tough action against "criminals" who attacked their own people. "The threat of terrorism remains very high," he added.
A caller said that an old woman near the train crash site who cared for the victims, lived in horrible conditions and her fence was damaged during rescue work.
"You have a good heart. Just like this old woman. Do not worry, everything will be fine with her," Putin said, adding that Russian Railways had already doubled the old woman's pension and would fix her fence and the house.
Helped by lavish coverage on state media and an absence of credible political opponents, Putin still dominates Russian politics 10 years after he was first picked as a successor by ailing then-president Boris Yeltsin.
Although his ratings have drooped slightly to an eight-month low of 65 percent, down from 72 percent in mid-October, according to the FOM pollster, they remain numbers most politicians would envy after 10 years of rule.
They also outshine those of his hand-picked successor Dmitry Medvedev, who most Russians believe has little real power. It was almost two hours into the question session before Putin mentioned Medvedev's name at all.
He later told a questioner asking about their "tandem" system of government that he and Medvedev worked well together and shared common values.
"We graduated from the same university, had the same teachers, who not only gave us the same knowledge but also a common approach to life. Those common principles allow us to work efficiently today," he said.
(Editing by Ralph Boulton.)
Author's Google docs:
Fall of Capitalism Rise of Islam
Is Barack Obama a Marxist? Jerry Stokes 2009
"the world as it is" v. "the world as it should be"
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B0jE9taMWseFMDIwNTM5Y2UtNTQ2Zi00N2UxLTgxZDQtOTE4YmU2OWU4ZjEx&hl=en
Obama’s B.A. Ddegree Columbia in I.R. Redefines Constitutional godly Government as a Global Enemy to be Developed into Marxism Who Benefits the Most
Are We Sliding From Liberty to Serfdom?
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.f098d02d-0fd8-4b28-a157-b51c97e1e8a9&hl=en
Date: Thu Dec 3, 2009 3:04pm GMT
By Michael Stott and Gleb Bryanski
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, in power for over 10 years, ruled out a departure from politics on Thursday, telling a questioner: "Don't hold your breath."
The country's most powerful leader made the comment with a smile when asked on his annual televised question and answer session with the Russian people if he would like to leave politics and start a quiet life.
Putin, 57, also said he "will think about" taking part in the 2012 presidential election, when many Russians expect him to return to the Kremlin for a six-year term.
Looking relaxed and confident, Putin said Russia had passed the peak of the economic crisis and reassured callers worried about job security, pensions and living standards.
"The economy has grown by an average of 0.5 percent per month over the last five months," Putin said in the session, broadcast live nationwide by state television and radio. "I'm counting on these positive trends in economic development becoming more significant in the middle of next year."
Putin's eighth annual phone-in entitled "A Conversation with Vladimir Putin. The Sequel" showed the premier back on form after an uncharacteristically subdued performance last year amid the economic crisis.
Commenting on everything from Russia's football performance to the brand value of Lada cars, Putin showed the mastery of detail, firm command, trademark frankness and humor which has made him the country's most popular politician.
An increase in oil prices has pulled the Russian economy back from the brink of collapse this year but despite billions of dollars of government aid, Russia still lags far behind emerging market peers such as Brazil, India and China.
Many questioners asked Putin about their jobs and their pensions, including workers in the town of Pikalyovo, which the premier visited in the summer to help a cement factory threatened with closure and scold its oligarch owner.
"The situation in one-industry towns, including Pikalyovo, is under control," Putin said.
RUSSIAN NOUVEAUX RICHES "A PROBLEM"
Asked why nobody was in jail for allowing the crisis to hit Pikalyovo, the prime minister shot back: "If we put everyone in jail, who would work?"
Putin had harsh words for Russia's new rich, saying the way they flaunted their wealth was wrong, and implicitly condemning a group of young Russians whose Lamborghini and Bugatti luxury sports cars crashed recently in Switzerland.
"The nouveau riche all of a sudden got rich very quickly but cannot manage their wealth without showing it off all the time. Yes, this is our problem," Putin said.
"In Soviet times some of our rich showed off their wealth by having gold teeth put in, preferably at the front. The Lamborghinis and other pricey knickknacks -- they are simply today's gold teeth which are shown off to everybody."
The televised question and answer session was conducted in a specially built Moscow studio with invited guests.
It included video links to Pikalyovo, to an aircraft plant in a Far Eastern city and to the turbine room of the giant Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric dam in Siberia, damaged in an August accident which killed 75.
All questions were screened in advance and access to the Moscow studio and the video link-up locations was by invitation only. Journalists were not given access to the questioners.
Enthusiastic presenters beamed as they counted more than two million questions submitted by phone, internet and text message.
Foreign affairs were barely mentioned in a session dominated by domestic issues.
Putin reassured a grieving widow from the dam about her children's education, calmed factory workers worried about their jobs, joked over his sometimes awkward relationship with the leader of neighboring Belarus and condemned terrorism.
Islamist rebels have claimed responsibility for detonating a bomb under a luxury express train as it traveled from Moscow to St Petersburg last week, derailing and wrecking carriages and killing 26 people, including some senior officials.
Putin said Russia would "break the spine" of terrorism and demanded tough action against "criminals" who attacked their own people. "The threat of terrorism remains very high," he added.
A caller said that an old woman near the train crash site who cared for the victims, lived in horrible conditions and her fence was damaged during rescue work.
"You have a good heart. Just like this old woman. Do not worry, everything will be fine with her," Putin said, adding that Russian Railways had already doubled the old woman's pension and would fix her fence and the house.
Helped by lavish coverage on state media and an absence of credible political opponents, Putin still dominates Russian politics 10 years after he was first picked as a successor by ailing then-president Boris Yeltsin.
Although his ratings have drooped slightly to an eight-month low of 65 percent, down from 72 percent in mid-October, according to the FOM pollster, they remain numbers most politicians would envy after 10 years of rule.
They also outshine those of his hand-picked successor Dmitry Medvedev, who most Russians believe has little real power. It was almost two hours into the question session before Putin mentioned Medvedev's name at all.
He later told a questioner asking about their "tandem" system of government that he and Medvedev worked well together and shared common values.
"We graduated from the same university, had the same teachers, who not only gave us the same knowledge but also a common approach to life. Those common principles allow us to work efficiently today," he said.
(Editing by Ralph Boulton.)
Author's Google docs:
Jesus “Truth” Contrasted to Quran, Darwin or Marx
Hamas Intl Terror Group [Are Our Eyes Open to this Threat]
Are We Holding Our Current Leaders Accountable to Their Oath?
Is Barack Obama a Marxist? Jerry Stokes 2009
"the world as it is" v. "the world as it should be"
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B0jE9taMWseFMDIwNTM5Y2UtNTQ2Zi00N2UxLTgxZDQtOTE4YmU2OWU4ZjEx&hl=en
Obama’s B.A. Ddegree Columbia in I.R. Redefines Constitutional godly Government as a Global Enemy to be Developed into Marxism Who Benefits the Most
Are We Sliding From Liberty to Serfdom?
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.f098d02d-0fd8-4b28-a157-b51c97e1e8a9&hl=en
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Obama's Marxist Administration
Source: http://www.socialists.com/
Jesus: I have come to set you free. John 8:32
Marx: I have come to send you to a gulag.
OBAMA'S MARXIST QUOTES
HISTORY & DEVELOPMENT OF OBAMA'S MARXISM
OBAMA'S MARXIST 32 CZARS
OBAMA: Our Constitution is Deeply Flawed
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Are We Sliding From Liberty to Serfdom?
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Friday, August 28, 2009
War News: U.S. Senate Bill Will Give Control Of The Internet To The White House In The Event Of A National Security Emergency
Source: http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/
Date: Friday, August 28, 2009
Declan McCullagh is a contributor to CNET News and a correspondent for CBSNews.com who has covered the intersection of politics and technology for over a decade. Declan writes a regular feature called Taking Liberties, focused on individual and economic rights; you can bookmark his CBS News Taking Liberties site, or subscribe to the RSS feed. You can e-mail Declan at declan@cbsnews.com.
Bill Would Give President Obama Emergency Control Of Internet
They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.
nternet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.
They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.
The new version would allow the president to "declare a cybersecurity emergency" relating to "non-governmental" computer networks and do what's necessary to respond to the threat. Other sections of the proposal include a federal certification program for "cybersecurity professionals," and a requirement that certain computer systems and networks in the private sector be managed by people who have been awarded that license.
"I think the redraft, while improved, remains troubling due to its vagueness," said Larry Clinton, president of the Internet Security Alliance, which counts representatives of Verizon, Verisign, Nortel, and Carnegie Mellon University on its board. "It is unclear what authority Sen. Rockefeller thinks is necessary over the private sector. Unless this is clarified, we cannot properly analyze, let alone support the bill."
Representatives of other large Internet and telecommunications companies expressed concerns about the bill in a teleconference with Rockefeller's aides this week, but were not immediately available for interviews on Thursday.
A spokesman for Rockefeller also declined to comment on the record Thursday, saying that many people were unavailable because of the summer recess. A Senate source familiar with the bill compared the president's power to take control of portions of the Internet to what President Bush did when grounding all aircraft on Sept. 11, 2001. The source said that one primary concern was the electrical grid, and what would happen if it were attacked from a broadband connection.
When Rockefeller, the chairman of the Senate Commerce committee, and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) introduced the original bill in April, they claimed it was vital to protect national cybersecurity. "We must protect our critical infrastructure at all costs--from our water to our electricity, to banking, traffic lights and electronic health records," Rockefeller said.
The Rockefeller proposal plays out against a broader concern in Washington, D.C., about the government's role in cybersecurity. In May, President Obama acknowledged that the government is "not as prepared" as it should be to respond to disruptions and announced that a new cybersecurity coordinator position would be created inside the White House staff. Three months later, that post remains empty, one top cybersecurity aide has quit, and some wags have begun to wonder why a government that receives failing marks on cybersecurity should be trusted to instruct the private sector what to do.
Rockefeller's revised legislation seeks to reshuffle the way the federal government addresses the topic. It requires a "cybersecurity workforce plan" from every federal agency, a "dashboard" pilot project, measurements of hiring effectiveness, and the implementation of a "comprehensive national cybersecurity strategy" in six months--even though its mandatory legal review will take a year to complete.
The privacy implications of sweeping changes implemented before the legal review is finished worry Lee Tien, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. "As soon as you're saying that the federal government is going to be exercising this kind of power over private networks, it's going to be a really big issue," he says.
Probably the most controversial language begins in Section 201, which permits the president to "direct the national response to the cyber threat" if necessary for "the national defense and security." The White House is supposed to engage in "periodic mapping" of private networks deemed to be critical, and those companies "shall share" requested information with the federal government. ("Cyber" is defined as anything having to do with the Internet, telecommunications, computers, or computer networks.)
"The language has changed but it doesn't contain any real additional limits," EFF's Tien says. "It simply switches the more direct and obvious language they had originally to the more ambiguous (version)...The designation of what is a critical infrastructure system or network as far as I can tell has no specific process. There's no provision for any administrative process or review. That's where the problems seem to start. And then you have the amorphous powers that go along with it."
Translation: If your company is deemed "critical," a new set of regulations kick in involving who you can hire, what information you must disclose, and when the government would exercise control over your computers or network.
The Internet Security Alliance's Clinton adds that his group is "supportive of increased federal involvement to enhance cyber security, but we believe that the wrong approach, as embodied in this bill as introduced, will be counterproductive both from an national economic and national secuity perspective."
Date: Friday, August 28, 2009
Declan McCullagh is a contributor to CNET News and a correspondent for CBSNews.com who has covered the intersection of politics and technology for over a decade. Declan writes a regular feature called Taking Liberties, focused on individual and economic rights; you can bookmark his CBS News Taking Liberties site, or subscribe to the RSS feed. You can e-mail Declan at declan@cbsnews.com.
Bill Would Give President Obama Emergency Control Of Internet
Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.
They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.
nternet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.
They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.
The new version would allow the president to "declare a cybersecurity emergency" relating to "non-governmental" computer networks and do what's necessary to respond to the threat. Other sections of the proposal include a federal certification program for "cybersecurity professionals," and a requirement that certain computer systems and networks in the private sector be managed by people who have been awarded that license.
"I think the redraft, while improved, remains troubling due to its vagueness," said Larry Clinton, president of the Internet Security Alliance, which counts representatives of Verizon, Verisign, Nortel, and Carnegie Mellon University on its board. "It is unclear what authority Sen. Rockefeller thinks is necessary over the private sector. Unless this is clarified, we cannot properly analyze, let alone support the bill."
Representatives of other large Internet and telecommunications companies expressed concerns about the bill in a teleconference with Rockefeller's aides this week, but were not immediately available for interviews on Thursday.
A spokesman for Rockefeller also declined to comment on the record Thursday, saying that many people were unavailable because of the summer recess. A Senate source familiar with the bill compared the president's power to take control of portions of the Internet to what President Bush did when grounding all aircraft on Sept. 11, 2001. The source said that one primary concern was the electrical grid, and what would happen if it were attacked from a broadband connection.
When Rockefeller, the chairman of the Senate Commerce committee, and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) introduced the original bill in April, they claimed it was vital to protect national cybersecurity. "We must protect our critical infrastructure at all costs--from our water to our electricity, to banking, traffic lights and electronic health records," Rockefeller said.
The Rockefeller proposal plays out against a broader concern in Washington, D.C., about the government's role in cybersecurity. In May, President Obama acknowledged that the government is "not as prepared" as it should be to respond to disruptions and announced that a new cybersecurity coordinator position would be created inside the White House staff. Three months later, that post remains empty, one top cybersecurity aide has quit, and some wags have begun to wonder why a government that receives failing marks on cybersecurity should be trusted to instruct the private sector what to do.
Rockefeller's revised legislation seeks to reshuffle the way the federal government addresses the topic. It requires a "cybersecurity workforce plan" from every federal agency, a "dashboard" pilot project, measurements of hiring effectiveness, and the implementation of a "comprehensive national cybersecurity strategy" in six months--even though its mandatory legal review will take a year to complete.
The privacy implications of sweeping changes implemented before the legal review is finished worry Lee Tien, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. "As soon as you're saying that the federal government is going to be exercising this kind of power over private networks, it's going to be a really big issue," he says.
Probably the most controversial language begins in Section 201, which permits the president to "direct the national response to the cyber threat" if necessary for "the national defense and security." The White House is supposed to engage in "periodic mapping" of private networks deemed to be critical, and those companies "shall share" requested information with the federal government. ("Cyber" is defined as anything having to do with the Internet, telecommunications, computers, or computer networks.)
"The language has changed but it doesn't contain any real additional limits," EFF's Tien says. "It simply switches the more direct and obvious language they had originally to the more ambiguous (version)...The designation of what is a critical infrastructure system or network as far as I can tell has no specific process. There's no provision for any administrative process or review. That's where the problems seem to start. And then you have the amorphous powers that go along with it."
Translation: If your company is deemed "critical," a new set of regulations kick in involving who you can hire, what information you must disclose, and when the government would exercise control over your computers or network.
The Internet Security Alliance's Clinton adds that his group is "supportive of increased federal involvement to enhance cyber security, but we believe that the wrong approach, as embodied in this bill as introduced, will be counterproductive both from an national economic and national secuity perspective."
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Saul Alinsky War Room Wins the White House
Author's Google docs:
Decepticon’s Alynsky War Room
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Is the Media Presenting Democratic Candidates as Having Conubial Rights?
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Ethics Problem: Former Senator Tom Daschle's Law Firm Doing Work for the White House Helping Spin Facts to Promote New State Health Care Program
Source: http://gretawire.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/08/25/what-is-going-on-2/
Date: Aug 25, 2009
New York Times’ David Kirkpatrick
Ethics Problem: Former Senator Tom Daschle's Law Firm Doing Work for the White House Helping Spin Facts to Promote New State Health Care Program
Do you like the idea of Former Senator Tom Daschle being so cozy with the White House while his law firm is deeply involved in lobbying for health care providers? Daschle is, in my opinion, candy coating what he does and calls himself a "resource" and not a lobbyist. Resource? He might be right -- he gets info at the White House, or gains info of which way the "wind is blowing" and then returns and tell his partners who represent (make $) who have a giant interest in the health care bill. He knows or is part of the "inside track" ....and then pedals it to others he works with. He calls it being a resource. I call it way too cozy. Is this transparency?
Author's Google docs:
Life and Human Dignity Jerry Stokes 2009
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B0jE9taMWseFODA0NjNhYjYtY2VkNi00MDA4LWI2YjktNjhmMTBhOWU0YmM3&hl=en
Date: Aug 25, 2009
New York Times’ David Kirkpatrick
Ethics Problem: Former Senator Tom Daschle's Law Firm Doing Work for the White House Helping Spin Facts to Promote New State Health Care Program
Do you like the idea of Former Senator Tom Daschle being so cozy with the White House while his law firm is deeply involved in lobbying for health care providers? Daschle is, in my opinion, candy coating what he does and calls himself a "resource" and not a lobbyist. Resource? He might be right -- he gets info at the White House, or gains info of which way the "wind is blowing" and then returns and tell his partners who represent (make $) who have a giant interest in the health care bill. He knows or is part of the "inside track" ....and then pedals it to others he works with. He calls it being a resource. I call it way too cozy. Is this transparency?
Author's Google docs:
Life and Human Dignity Jerry Stokes 2009
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B0jE9taMWseFODA0NjNhYjYtY2VkNi00MDA4LWI2YjktNjhmMTBhOWU0YmM3&hl=en
Saturday, August 22, 2009
First Lady Now Requires 26 Servants
Source: http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13827
Date: Aug 17, 2009
By Dr. Paul L. Williams Monday, August 17, 2009
“In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much,” she said. “See, that’s why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service,”— Michelle Obama.
We were wrong.
Michelle Obama, as we reported on July 7, is not served by twenty-two attendants who stand by to cater to her every whim.
She is served by twenty-six attendants, including a hair dresser and make-up artist.
The annual cost to taxpayers for such unprecedented attention is approximately $1,750,000 without taking into account the expense of the lavish benefit packages afforded to every attendant.
Little did American voters realize the call for “change” would result in the establishment of an Obama oligarchy.
The discovery of the additional attendants was made by D’Angelo Gore of factcheck.org and by calls to Katie McCormick Lelyyeld, Michelle Obama’s press secretary.
Mr. Gore launched his investigation of the First Lady’s staff in the wake of an article that appeared on thelastcrusade.org and Canada Free Press on July 7.
The article, which became a chain letter viewed by millions of Americans, reported that Michelle Obama requires more than twenty attendants - - more than any First Lady in U.S. History. It provided the following list of White House staff members assigned to the First Lady:
$172,2000 - Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
$140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
$113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary)
$102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
$102,000 - Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
$90,000 - Medina, David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
$84,000 - Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
$75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
$70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
$65,000 - Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
$65,000 - Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
$62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
$60,000 - Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
$60,000 - Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
$52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)
$50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)
$45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
$45,000 - Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
$40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
$36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
$36,000 - Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
$36,000 - Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)
Readers throughout the country expressed outrage that Mrs. Obama would hire an unprecedented number of staffers in the midst of the Great Recession.
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Are We Sliding From Liberty to Serfdom?
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.f098d02d-0fd8-4b28-a157-b51c97e1e8a9&hl=en
Q: Are We Just Whining What Did Past First ladies Spend?
Laura Bush was far from a fiscal conservative during her time in the White House and, like her husband, served to bloat the White House budget. A list of Mrs. Bush’s staff attendants is as follows:
McBride, Anita B. assistant to the president and chief of staff to the first lady $168,000.00
Harder, Cherie S. Special assistant to the president for domestic policy and director of project of the first lady $108,000.00
Niemiec, Sally M. Press secretary to the First Lady $90,000.00
Miller, Sonja M. Deputy chief of staff to the first lady $84,700.00
Ballard, Deanna M. Director of scheduling for the First Lady $75,000.00
Underwood, Carrie P. Deputy director of policy and projects for the First Lady $65,000.00
Wallace, Charity N. Director of advance for the First Lady $65,000.00
Marshall, Misty C. Director of correspondence for the first lady $59,700.00
Etter, Marisa L. Deputy director of scheduling for the First Lady $50,000.00
King, Kristin N. Deputy director of advance for the first lady $50,000.00
Lineweaver, Lindsey M. Special assistant and personal aide to the first lady $47,500.00
Rawson, Kimberly D. Executive assistant to the chief of staff to the First Lady $46,200.00
Donoghue , Tarah C. Deputy press secretary to the First Lady $43,000.00
Vogel, Campbell B. Deputy director of correspondence for the First Lady $42,500.00
Block, Jonathan F. assistant press secretary to the First Lady $39,000.00
This amounts to a total of $1,083,700.00. Laura was no piker when it came to spending. But she pales in comparison with Miz Michelle, who requires eight to ten additional attendants at an extra cost to taxpayers of $700,000 and change - - the only change American taxpayers can believe in.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Obama Death Panel: 'We are God's partners in matters of life and death'
Source: http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0809/
Date: Aug 19, 2009
By Ben Smith 04:25 PM
We_are_Gods_partners_in_matters_of_life_and_death?
A reader points out that President Obama's call with the rabbis today — as recorded in Rabbi Jack Moline's and other clerics' Twitter feeds — freights health care reform with a great deal of religious meaning, and veers into the blend of policy and faith that outraged liberals in the last administration.
"We are God's partners in matters of life and death," Obama said, according to Moline (paging Sarah Palin...), quoting from the Rosh Hashanah prayer that says that in the holiday period, it is decided "who shall live and who shall die."
The president ended the call by wishing the rabbis "shanah tovah," or happy new year — in reference to the High Holidays a month from now.
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Life and Human Dignity Jerry Stokes 2009
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Ronald Reagan on Socialized Medicine
Source: http://blatheringsblog.com/
Date: August 14, 2009
this is from the 1961 ‘Operation Coffee Cup Campaign’ when private citizen and hollywood actor ronald reagan spoke out against a proposed democratic plan for nation-wide socialized medicine. it’s awesome!
it’s not about reagan. it’s about the words and how incredibly applicable they are today.
Eight Reasons Why Big Government Hurts Economic Growth
Source: http://blog.heritage.org/2009/08/19/eight-reasons-why-big-government-hurts-economic-growth/
Date: Posted August 19th, 2009 at 2.17pm in Ongoing Priorities.
- The features CATO’s Dan Mitchell in this video on how and why government spending diminishes economic performance:
Monday, August 3, 2009
Changing Laws Rob G.I.'s of Hope
Source:
Q: What Caused So Many of our G.I.'s to Loose their GI Homes?
A: Eminent Domain: The power of governments to take private real or personal property has always existed in the United States, being a part of the common law inherited from England. This power reposes in the legislative branch of the government and may not be exercised unless the legislature has authorized its use by statutes that specify who may use it and for what purposes. The legislature may so delegate the power to private entities like public utilities or railroads, and even to individuals for the purpose of acquiring access to their landlocked land. Its use was limited by the Takings Clause in the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1791, which reads, "...nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation".
A: IRS seizures: The Internal Revenue Code provides for a federal tax lien in favor of the government against any person who fails to pay federal taxes. 26 U.S.C. § 6321. This lien attaches to "all property and rights to property, whether real or personal, belonging to such person."
A: Property Tax Seizures: In 1796 seven of the fifteen states levied uniform capitation taxes. In the United States, property tax on real estate is usually levied by local government, at the municipal or county level. Those who live in city limits face double property taxation, once by the city and once again by the county. Property taxes are imposed by counties, municipalities, and school districts, where the millage rate is usually determined by county commissioners, city council members, and school board members, respectively. The taxes fund budgets for schools, police, fire stations, hospitals, garbage disposal, sewers, road and sidewalk maintenance, parks, libraries, and miscellaneous expenditures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_tax 6/27/2009 11:58 AM.
A: Greed in Explosive Market Selling Seized Homes: Search nearly 650,000 Foreclosure and Government Tax Foreclosure properties. More than 1 million total properties including For Sale by Owner, VA Foreclosures, HUD Homes, and Home Auctions!
http://www.realtytrac.com/foreclosure/government/tax-foreclosure.html 6/27/2009 12:10 PM.
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.2a6348af-1434-42f0-bbc0-af8ae726c390&hl=en 6/27/2009 10:45 AM.
Date: June 27, 2009Q: What Caused So Many of our G.I.'s to Loose their GI Homes?
A: our entire nation after 1944 that if they dared to purchase properties and began to prosper they would be protected by our amazing Bill of Rights that spoke about those protections.
“ We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
Before Counter Culture Revolution: We were free to speak, own firearms, go to any church of our choice who did not pay taxes, supported our church with deductions from our taxes. We were free to own and protect our properties or real estate and the government helped protect us with local police forces who worked for the people.
A: the 4th Amendment guaranteed we are secure in any lawful enterprise we choose to purchase was safe from our government’s intrusion. Most of this generation of G.I.’s were forced to memorize the Bill of Rights before they could bet out of the 5th grade.
A: Seventh Amendment refers to a safe body of what the author called Common Law: This safe body of common law was meant to protect all of our Bill of Rights including the 4th amendment right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects. Historically [until the counter culture revolution] this body of common law did a pretty good job of informing courts at all levels as well as state and local governments about our rights each citizen is to enjoy.
A: Eminent Domain: The power of governments to take private real or personal property has always existed in the United States, being a part of the common law inherited from England. This power reposes in the legislative branch of the government and may not be exercised unless the legislature has authorized its use by statutes that specify who may use it and for what purposes. The legislature may so delegate the power to private entities like public utilities or railroads, and even to individuals for the purpose of acquiring access to their landlocked land. Its use was limited by the Takings Clause in the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1791, which reads, "...nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation".
A: IRS seizures: The Internal Revenue Code provides for a federal tax lien in favor of the government against any person who fails to pay federal taxes. 26 U.S.C. § 6321. This lien attaches to "all property and rights to property, whether real or personal, belonging to such person."
A: Property Tax Seizures: In 1796 seven of the fifteen states levied uniform capitation taxes. In the United States, property tax on real estate is usually levied by local government, at the municipal or county level. Those who live in city limits face double property taxation, once by the city and once again by the county. Property taxes are imposed by counties, municipalities, and school districts, where the millage rate is usually determined by county commissioners, city council members, and school board members, respectively. The taxes fund budgets for schools, police, fire stations, hospitals, garbage disposal, sewers, road and sidewalk maintenance, parks, libraries, and miscellaneous expenditures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_tax 6/27/2009 11:58 AM.
A: Greed in Explosive Market Selling Seized Homes: Search nearly 650,000 Foreclosure and Government Tax Foreclosure properties. More than 1 million total properties including For Sale by Owner, VA Foreclosures, HUD Homes, and Home Auctions!
http://www.realtytrac.com/foreclosure/government/tax-foreclosure.html 6/27/2009 12:10 PM.
Obama Joker Poster: Barack Obama Socialism Joker Picture
Source: http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=4506#more-4506
Date: Aug 3, 2009
By Ignatius Reilly
In Los Angeles today, numerous posters have popped up featuring President Barack Obama portrayed as Heath Ledger’s “Joker” character from the Dark Knight Batman movie.
Obama Joker
Under the picture of Obama as the Joker, there is a large caption stating “Socialism.”
So far, no one has taken credit for the poster, and no one seems to have any idea who is behind them. The posters have been appearing in the Hollywood area in particular, though there have been sightings across Los Angeles.
There are unconfirmed rumors that this is a campaign by conservatives who are angry over Obama’s policies. So far, there is no evidence to indicate that is the case. There are also unconfirmed sightings in cities other than L.A.
I’m not sure I “get” the Joker imagery. The Heath Ledger Joker character seemed to be more of an anarchist than a socialist. Also, as to be expected, some are claiming that the comically large red lips are racist. I think that’s nonsense. There’s nothing racist about depicting Obama as a famous movie character. The poster equates him to a famous clown which had large red lips. If you think this is racist, I guess a black man can never dress up as a clown.
If I had to design the poster I would’ve turned Obama into Mao or Lenin. That would seem to make more sense, and get the “Socialism” message across loud and clear.
Get Stoked Google docs:
Are We Sliding From Liberty to Serfdom?
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.f098d02d-0fd8-4b28-a157-b51c97e1e8a9&hl=en
Friday, July 24, 2009
Super Citizen Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. Arrested???
Source: http://blatheringsblog.com/
Date: July 23, 2009
Being a Friend of Pres Obama's Not Worth Much in Cambridge?
Even after 7 months of his carefully staged ‘hopechangery’, it’s the unscripted, off the cuff moments when america sees who the real barack obama is. and frankly, it’s just not pretty. there were just sooo many moments in last night’s ‘lying‘ press conference, but this one seems to be resonating with the public and guess what? it didn’t have a thing to do with healthcare.
do you think The iOne knows he lost control of the message? i mean no one is mentioning or debating critically important healthcare issues very much today at all. we’re all salivating over barack obama v the cambridge, massachusettes police department - specifically sgt. james crowley and his arrest of the belligerent friend of obama, harvard prof henry louis gates jr. the story continues to evolve with everyone, from the police union to bill cosby, weighing in on the ’stupidity’ of The iOne’s comment:
“Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof he was in own home.” And then going on (and on) tying it to racism.
“What I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there’s a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That’s just a fact.”
no doubt there has been racism shown in law enforcement actions across this country however there is absolutely none shown in this one.
here’s the police report.
and The iOne? he’s backpeddling because of the stupidity of his racist remarks on a non-racial issue. he didn’t have all the facts — he said so. he should have said something like “because I don’t have all of the facts in the case, no comment.” he should have displayed to the world that post-racial candidate that he claimed he was in the campaign.
but no. instead, the president of the united states pulled a jesse jackson.
update: well it seems The iOne is walking his ’stupidly’ comment backwards. after police unions blasted obama for sticking his nose into a law enforcement issue before he had all the facts, which include 911 and police tapes of the incident, obama said this:
“Because this has been ratcheting up and I helped contribute to ratcheting it up, I want to make clear that in my choice of words I unfortunately gave an impression that I was maligning the Cambridge Police Department or Sgt. Crowley specifically and I could have calibrated those words differently.
“My sense is you’ve got two good people in a circumstance in which neither of them were able to resolve it the way the wanted to resolve it,” President Obama said.
but wait! the ‘it’s not about me’ president also said this:
“I continue to believe based on what I’ve heard that there was an overreaction in pulling Professor Gates out of his home.”
his attempts at defusing the situation, including invited sgt. crowley over to the wh for a beer with prof. gates, only resulted in ’stupidly’ mucking it up again.
Follow up Sgt. Crowley's Attorney Considering Legal Action Against Prof. Gates
Date: July 24, 2009
Alan McDonald, who represents Crowley, the veteran cop who teaches a racial profiling class for rookie police officers told ABC News earlier that the sergeant had not ruled out filing a defamation of character or libel lawsuit against Gates.
"He is exploring all of his options,'' McDonald told ABC News.
Though charges were dropped, Gates has loudly asserted his arrest was a result of racial profiling.
The arrest and subsequent storm of racially charged comments has enveloped the White House after Obama said on Wednesday the Cambridge police acted "stupidly" in arresting the prominent black scholar.
In a press conference held by the Cambridge police unions and Massachusetts Municipal Police Officers Association to support Crowley, members said they hope Obama and Massachusetts Gov. Patrick Deval will apologize for their remarks. Crowley stood with them but remained silent.
McDonald argued that race "played no role in the decision making in this case," adding that it was "inappropriate" of Obama to use this case to talk about racial profiling.
Get Stoked Google docs: we need to recall a time when we still had a sense of humor. As this news is unfolding it reminded me of the great 1993 MGM comedy written and directed by : E. Max Frye Amos & Andrew with Samuel L. Jackson and Nicolas Cage. Check out the IMDB listing at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106266/
Truth Justice & the American Way? Does it Still Exist
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.ba0ce396-ca6b-484f-875e-0e93b7e56602&hl=en
Fall of Capitalism Rise of Islam
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.ed370757-b2ac-4657-8bee-f70e84259ec4
Decepticon’s War Room
Best Conservative Movies
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.841abd49-06dc-48b6-bf3a-54f9fb9a944f&hl=en
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Obama's Czar Over New Jobs in Business Communist Background
Source: http://www.rightpundits.com/ http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=4324#more-4324
Date: July 17, 2009
By Shannon Bell
Van Jones Green Jobs Czar
Is Van Jones, Obama’s Green Jobs Czar a Communist? If you take him at his word he is. His official title is Special Advisor on Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation for the White House Council on Environmental Equality. That’s a fancy way of saying Green Jobs Czar that only answers to President Obama.
Let’s take a look at Van Jones for a moment shall we? A young African-American, Yale Law School Graduate, advocate for the downtrodden and all around white knight for the misfortunate; sounds like a top notch guy to have as an advisor if you’re the President.
There was a little incident though back in 1992 that some of you may remember. The Rodney King beating and subsequent riot that took place after the police officers were acquitted. Van Jones happened to be one of those who was arrested during that awful period. From a 2005 interview with East Bay Express:
Jones had planned to move to Washington, DC, and had already landed a job and an apartment there. But in jail, he said, “I met all these young radical people of color — I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, ‘This is what I need to be a part of.’” Although he already had a plane ticket, he decided to stay in San Francisco. “I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary.” In the months that followed, he let go of any lingering thoughts that he might fit in with the status quo. “I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th,” he said. “By August, I was a communist.”
It gets better, Van Jones Green Jobs Czar Communist (self-proclaimed), founded an organization called Storm. From the same interview:
In 1994, the young activists formed a socialist collective, Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, which held study groups on the theories of Marx and Lenin and dreamed of a multiracial socialist utopia.
One of Storms projects was the “Bay Area Police Watch”, basically a bunch of thugs keeping tabs on the police and reporting “abuses” by law enforcement.
I guess for Van Jones, the best thing about being Green Jobs Czar is that he didn’t have to sit in front of Congress and be confirmed. Nobody can ask him questions about his past and his proclivity for trouble. Of course given the make-up of Congress right now, it may not really matter.
Obama sure can pick em’, tax dodgers, communists, anarchists, liars and thieves. But I’m sure Obama has no idea about Van Jones checkered past. So the question remains; is Van Jones Green Jobs Czar a Communist? I suppose you’d have to ask him, problem is nobody will.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
STATE PRESS 101: Minority Broadcasters Seek Federal Aid
Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124752187967935029.html
Date: JULY 13, 2009, 5:59 P.M. ET
THE WALL STREE JOURNAL
By FAWN JOHNSON
WASHINGTON --A group of minority broadcasters asked Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner Monday for financial assistance akin to the aid that has been extended to the financial and auto industries.
"Minority-owned broadcasters are close to becoming an extinct species," the letter said. "Even in better economic times, minority broadcasters have historically had difficulties accessing the capital markets."
The broadcasters told Mr. Geithner they can bounce back if they are given some temporary assistance while the credit markets are slow. "Unlike the auto business, broadcasting has been healthy for many years," their letter said.
The broadcasters appeal follows a proposal sent in May to Mr. Geithner by a group of influential House members asking for a minority broadcaster support program, bridge funding, or government-backed loans.
The House letter was signed by House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D., S.C.) and a group of key committee chairmen, including Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D., Mass.) Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel (D., N.Y.) and Oversight Committee Chairman Edolphus Towns, (D., N.Y.).
At a hearing last week, National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters President James Winston told lawmakers that advertisers have severely cut investments in minority audiences at the same time minority broadcasters are having difficulty negotiating loan terms with banks.
Research from the Internet advocacy group Free Press says minorities own just 7.7% of full power commercial radio stations and 3.2% of full power commercial TV stations.
Minority broadcast ownership also is an issue important to Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Michael Copps, who was acting chairman of the agency earlier this year.
Companies and groups that signed on to the Geithner letter included the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters, the Inner City Broadcasting Coalition, the Spanish Broadcasting System, Taxi Productions Inc., and Carter Broadcast Group, Inc.
Write to Fawn Johnson at fawn.johnson@dowjones.com
Get Stoked google docs
Bill of Rights not a Suicide Pact
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.2a6348af-1434-42f0-bbc0-af8ae726c390&hl=en
Truth Justice & the American Way? Does it Still Exist?
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.ba0ce396-ca6b-484f-875e-0e93b7e56602&hl=en
Are We Holding Our Current Leaders Accountable to Their Oath?
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.944bf9ab-c480-4fb5-a02a-8e4b980b80a9&hl=en
Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.7505039f-1bb8-410b-b928-a798e4aa4ecb&hl=en
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.f098d02d-0fd8-4b28-a157-b51c97e1e8a9&hl=en
Friday, July 10, 2009
Argentine glacier advances despite global warming
Source: http://news.lp.findlaw.com/ap/other/1501/06-15-2009/20090615012006_15.html
Date: June 15, 2009
By JEANNETTE NEUMANN Associated Press Writer
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier is one of only a few ice fields worldwide that have withstood rising global temperatures.
Nourished by Andean snowmelt, the glacier constantly grows even as it spawns icebergs the size of apartment buildings into a frigid lake, maintaining a nearly perfect equilibrium since measurements began more than a century ago.
"We're not sure why this happens," said Andres Rivera, a glacialist with the Center for Scientific Studies in Valdivia, Chile. "But not all glaciers respond equally to climate change."
"The glacier has a lot of life," said Luli Gavina, who leads mini-treks across the glacier's snow fields.
2009-06-15 07:54:08 GMT
Legal Threat Based on this Reality?
http://supreme.lp.findlaw.com/supreme_court/briefs/05-1120/05-1120.mer.ami.crc.pdf
... need to reduce global warming pollutants now. Over the ... to prevent grave injury from global
http://supreme.lp.findlaw.com/supreme_court/briefs/05-1120/05-1120.mer.ami.crc.pdf
Global warming is not merely a future threat, but a present deadly reality, claiming the lives of up to 150,000 people each year due to malnutrition, malaria, and other
maladies.
Stoked Notes on Real Weath Death Stats: if we study that chart we should be surprised to see a lessoning of extreme weather deaths from 1900 to 2004. The worst year is the decade between 1920 and 1929 where you see 485 deaths in thousands and 242 per million. The most current extreme weather deaths between 2000 and 2006 are only 22 death in thousands and 3 per million. This chart can be found at: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/07/05/going-down-death-rates-due-to-extreme-weather-events/
Is this the reason more than 31,000 scientists initiated a law suit against Al Gore's data calling it a fraud. The names of these 31,000 scientists can be revealed at the following we site: :
http://www.oism.org/pproject/31,000 Scientists Suing Al Gore for Gloval Warming Faud!!
Source: http://patriotsforamerica.ning.com/video/video/show?id=2734278:Video:100997&xgs=1
Date: June 13, 2009
Author Twana Blevins on June 13, 2009 at 9:13pm
Al Gore is the High Priest behind global warming Dangerous claims
1. loyal agenda driven disciples as they predict a calamitous outcome from anthropogenic global warming.
2. According to Mr. Gore the polar ice caps will collapse and melt
3. sea levels will rise 20 feet inundating the coastal cities making 100 million of us refugees.
4. numerous Pacific islands will be totally submerged and uninhabitable.
5. dramatically changing climates will throw the world food supply into chaos.
6. global warming will turn hurricanes into super storms, produce droughts.
7. heat waves will kill tens of thousands.
8. we must change our lives and eliminate fossil fuels or face the dire consequences.
9. With a preacher’s zeal, Mr. Gore sets out to strike terror into us and our children and make us feel we are all complicit in the potential demise of the planet.
Names of over 31,000 Scientists Rejecting Global Warming Hypothesis
Source: http://endofmen.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/names-of-over-30000-scientists-rejecting-global-warming-hypothesis/
The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM) will announce that more than 31,000 scientists have signed a petition rejecting claims of human-caused global warming. The purpose of OISM’s Petition Project is to demonstrate that the claim of “settled science” and an overwhelming “consensus” in favor of the hypothesis of human-caused global warming and consequent climate damage is wrong. No such consensus or settled science exists. As indicated by the petition text and signatory list, a very large number of American scientists reject this hypothesis.
It is evident that 31,072 Americans with university degrees in science – including 9,021 PhDs, are not “a few.” Moreover, from the clear and strong petition statement that they have signed, it is evident that these 31,072 American scientists are not “skeptics.”
NOAA reports that April 2008 was a full degree (F) below normal making it the 29th coldest April out of 115 years for the United States, the coldest in 11 years. Much of the western 2/3rds of the lower 48 were colder than normal. In Washington State, it was the second coldest April on record. In contrast in the east, in New York State it was the 3rd warmest.
All of these names can be found alphabetically at this web site:
http://www.oism.org/pproject/
Tyrany: New Congress Not Reading Bills or Writing Them!!
Q: Can we impeach congress for failure to do their job?
A: The Patriot Act, for example, weighed in at 340 pages.
A: the Global Warming bill is 1200 pages.
A: the Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade Bill about 1,200 pages long.
A: “No LEGISLATION without representation,” they state on their campaign website. “We hold this truth to be self-evident, that those in Congress who vote on legislation they have not read, have not represented their constituents. They have misrepresented them.”
Source: http://www.examiner.com/x-1051-Independent-Examiner~y2008m11d18-We-can-make-Congress-read-the-bills-they-pass
A: At the start of each new Congress, the entire House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate are sworn into office. This oath-taking dates to 1789, the first Congress; however, the current oath was fashioned in the 1860s, by Civil War-era members of Congress.
A: Congressional oath they swore to follow after election day requires they represent us in the legislative process by protecting each bill as preserving our constitution. In Congress, all members take the same oath of office when they begin a new term. The Vice President usually administers the oath to senators, and the Speaker of the House administers the oath to representatives: http://www.answers.com/topic/oath-of-office 7/10/2009 11:17 AM
I, [member's name], do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.
Get Stoked Freedom docs:
Evil Junta Attacking the Bush Admin
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.e1580b3e-4e22-4b42-a281-0b65f7e4dc6e&hl=en
Congress Not Reading Bills Tyranny
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.ce119723-4350-4d9a-9878-6ac173b85363
GI’s shocking homeless rate is it safe to forget them?
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.67cec174-bc04-4500-852d-2692403edf87&hl=en
Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.7505039f-1bb8-410b-b928-a798e4aa4ecb&hl=en
Bill of Rights not a Suicide Pact
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.2a6348af-1434-42f0-bbc0-af8ae726c390&hl=en
A: The Patriot Act, for example, weighed in at 340 pages.
A: the Global Warming bill is 1200 pages.
A: the Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade Bill about 1,200 pages long.
A: “No LEGISLATION without representation,” they state on their campaign website. “We hold this truth to be self-evident, that those in Congress who vote on legislation they have not read, have not represented their constituents. They have misrepresented them.”
Source: http://www.examiner.com/x-1051-Independent-Examiner~y2008m11d18-We-can-make-Congress-read-the-bills-they-pass
A: At the start of each new Congress, the entire House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate are sworn into office. This oath-taking dates to 1789, the first Congress; however, the current oath was fashioned in the 1860s, by Civil War-era members of Congress.
A: Congressional oath they swore to follow after election day requires they represent us in the legislative process by protecting each bill as preserving our constitution. In Congress, all members take the same oath of office when they begin a new term. The Vice President usually administers the oath to senators, and the Speaker of the House administers the oath to representatives: http://www.answers.com/topic/oath-of-office 7/10/2009 11:17 AM
I, [member's name], do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.
Get Stoked Freedom docs:
Evil Junta Attacking the Bush Admin
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.e1580b3e-4e22-4b42-a281-0b65f7e4dc6e&hl=en
Congress Not Reading Bills Tyranny
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.ce119723-4350-4d9a-9878-6ac173b85363
GI’s shocking homeless rate is it safe to forget them?
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.67cec174-bc04-4500-852d-2692403edf87&hl=en
Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.7505039f-1bb8-410b-b928-a798e4aa4ecb&hl=en
Bill of Rights not a Suicide Pact
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
Billions in aid go to areas that backed Obama in '08
Souce: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-07-08-redblue_N.htm
Date: July 8, 2009
USA TODAY
By Brad Heath,
WASHINGTON — Billions of dollars in federal aid delivered directly to the local level to help revive the economy have gone overwhelmingly to places that supported President Obama in last year's presidential election.
That aid — about $17 billion — is the first piece of the administration's massive stimulus package that can be tracked locally. Much of it has followed a well-worn path to places that regularly collect a bigger share of federal grants and contracts, guided by formulas that have been in place for decades and leave little room for manipulation.
REPORT: Cities missing out on much needed road funds
STIMULUS FUNDS: States aren't using money as intended
"There's no politics at work when it comes to spending for the recovery," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says. Counties that supported Obama last year have reaped twice as much money per person from the administration's $787 billion economic stimulus package as those that voted for his Republican rival, Sen. John McCain, a USA TODAY analysis of government disclosure and accounting records shows.
That money includes aid to repair military bases, improve public housing and help students pay for college. The reports show the 872 counties that supported Obama received about $69 per person, on average. The 2,234 that supported McCain received about $34.
Investigators who track the stimulus are skeptical that political considerations could be at work. The imbalance is so pronounced — and the aid so far from complete — that it would be almost inconceivable for it to be the result of political tinkering, says Adam Hughes, the director of federal fiscal policy for the non-profit OMB Watch. "Even if they wanted to, I don't think the administration has enough people in place yet to actually do that," he says.
"Most of what they're doing at this point is just stamping the checks and sending them out," Hughes says. The stimulus package Obama signed in February includes about $499 billion in new spending, and to date, the Obama administration has allocated about $158 billion to specific projects and programs.
Most of that money has gone directly to state governments, which then disperse the money to prevent school layoffs, repair roads and fund social services. That contrasts with the $17 billion that Washington distributes directly to local communities.
Including the larger chunk of money given to state governments, the aid favors states that voted for Obama, which have received about 20% more per person Not all of the money favors places that supported Obama. About a third of the $17 billion, or $5.5 billion, in contracts that the federal government has signed for projects ranging from repaving runways to cleaning up nuclear waste has gone overwhelmingly to counties that supported McCain.
Jake Wiens, an investigator with the non-profit Project on Government Oversight, says it's too soon to draw meaningful conclusions about whether the type of aid in the stimulus favors Obama's constituents. But, he says, "it will be important to pay close attention as the data come in to ensure that political favoritism plays no role."
The imbalance didn't start with the stimulus. From 2005 through 2007, the counties that later voted for Obama collected about 50% more government aid than those that supported McCain, according to spending reports from the U.S. Census Bureau. USA TODAY's review did not include Alaska, which does not report its election results by county.
Get Stoked Notes:
Are We Sliding From Liberty to Serfdom?
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.f098d02d-0fd8-4b28-a157-b51c97e1e8a9&hl=en
"Queen Michele" Obama's Amazing Cost
Source: http://blatheringsblog.com/
Date: July 7, 2009
Released yesterday was the annual disclosure to congress of the west wing payroll and on it was an unprecedented 22 paid lackeys staffers from the office of the first lady.
check this out:
1. $172,2000 – Sher, Susan (CHIEF OF STAFF)
2. $140,000 – Frye, Jocelyn C. (DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND PROJECTS FOR
THE FIRST LADY)
3. $113,000 – Rogers, Desiree G. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND WHITE HOUSE SOCIAL SECRETARY)
4. $102,000 – Johnston, Camille Y. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS FOR
THE FIRST LADY)
5. Winter, Melissa E. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DEPUTY
CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)
6. $90,000 – Medina, David S. (DEPUTY
CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)
7. $84,000 – Lelyveld, Catherine M. (DIRECTOR AND PRESS SECRETARY TO THE FIRST LADY)
8. $75,000 – Starkey, Frances M. (DIRECTOR OF SCHEDULING AND ADVANCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)
9. $70,000 – Sanders, Trooper (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND PROJECTS FOR THE FIRST LADY)
10. $65,000 – Burnough, Erinn J. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY SOCIAL SECRETARY)
11. Reinstein, Joseph B. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY SOCIAL SECRETARY) $62,000 – Goodman, Jennifer R. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF SCHEDULING AND EVENTS COORDINATOR FOR THE FIRST LADY)
12. $60,000 – Fitts, Alan O. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ADVANCE AND TRIP DIRECTOR FOR THE FIRST LADY)
13. Lewis, Dana M. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT AND PERSONAL AIDE TO
THE FIRST LADY)
14. $52,500 – Mustaphi, Semonti M. (ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY TO THE FIRST LADY)
15. $50,000 – Jarvis, Kristen E. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR SCHEDULING AND TRAVELING AIDE TO THE FIRST LADY)
16. $45,000 – Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)
17. Tubman, Samantha (DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR,SOCIAL OFFICE)
18. $40,000 – Boswell, Joseph J. (EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE
CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)
19. $36,000 – Armbruster, Sally M. (STAFF ASSISTANT TO THE SOCIAL SECRETARY)
Bookey, Natalie (STAFF ASSISTANT)
Jackson, Deilia A. (DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)
Reality Check: mary lincoln was taken to task for purchasing china for the wh during the civil war. mamie eisenhower had to shell out the salary for her personal secretary. and nancy reagan’s china for the wh? well even though it was paid for through private foundation money, was excoriated in the press.
Stoked Notes:
Let Them Eat Cake: Eating Obama’s Cake Socialism Unmasked
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.0ce2a212-3a3b-4a62-b297-99fa04725564&hl=en
Reality Check: state media still having very high views of their white house even though some people are starting to doubt their worth. "Apart from Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, both owned by News Corp., the media "remains very supportiveMurdoch said he was "shocked" at the sour mood media executives are in regarding their own businesses and the economy in general. Some, he said, are predicting "five years at least" before seeing real economic growth return. of him, perhaps not of all of his policies," Murdoch told Stuart Varney of Fox Business Network. " According to the Rasmussen daily tracking poll, as of Thursday, 30% of Americans "strongly approve" of the way Obama is performing as president while 38% "strongly disapprove."
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Latest Obama Approval Rating At 52%: Obama Approval Rating Dropping
Source: http://www.rightpundits.com/
Date: July 7, 2009
By Ignatius Reilly
A couple of stunning new polls from Rasmussen Reports and Gallup show that approval for President Barack Obama is weakening dramatically.
Both polling services had Obama’s approval rating well over 60% in January when Obama first took over as President.
Now:
Rasmussen Reports: 52% (13% drop since January)
Gallup: 58% (11% drop since January)
The Gallup poll results are available here. The Rasmussen Reports results can be viewed here.
Global Warming Alert: Tax the Wealthy for Carbon Footprint
Source: http://www.rightpundits.com/
Date: July 6, 2009
By Bryan McAffee
If you want to read an article that will surely make your eyes bleed, be sure to check out Reuter’s latest “alert”, New climate strategy: track the world’s wealthiest. This piece of tripe, written by so-called “environment correspondent” Deborah Zabarenko, is one of the most egregious examples of MSM propaganda that I’ve come across in a long time. The gist of the article is that we should tax the “wealthy” and by extension the country they belong to, more for carbon emissions. From the article:
As it stands now, under the carbon-capping Kyoto Protocol, rich countries shoulder most of the burden for cutting the emissions that spur global warming, while developing countries — including fast-growing economies China and India — are not required to curb greenhouse pollution.
Rich countries, notably the United States, have said this gives developing countries an unfair economic advantage; China, India and other developing countries argue that developed countries have historically spewed more climate-warming gases, and developing countries need time to catch up.
The study suggests setting a uniform international cap on how much carbon dioxide each person could emit in order to limit global emissions; since rich people emit more, they are the ones likely to reach or exceed this cap, whether they live in a rich country or a poor one.
One wonders why they don’t look at the carbon footprint of Algore? He must easily have one of the largest carbon footprints of anyone alive as he runs around the world in his private jet and leaves the lights on in his large 14 bedroom mansion, which only he and his wife now live in (servants too I guess). Ms. Zabarenko also points out that the average carbon footprint is about 5 tons, but for Americans the average carbon footprint is 20 tons. Obviously the gist here is we have to make the evil Americans pay, after all they are responsible for all this gorebull warming.
I’m guessing that the Obama administration will be down with this proposal, I wonder if its too late to add it to the current Cap and Trade legislation. Get ready to pay up.
PALIN: 'Obama is growing government outrageously and it's immoral'...
Source: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1908983,00.html
Date: July 7, 2009
President Obama is growing government outrageously, and it's immoral and it's uneconomic, his plan that he tries to sell America. His plan to "put America on the right track" economically, incurring the debt that our nation is incurring, trillions of dollars that we're passing on to our kids, expecting them to pay off for us, is immoral and doesn't even make economic sense. So, his growth of government agenda needs to be ratcheted back, and it's going to take good people who have the guts to stand up to him, stand up to him and debate policy, not personalities, not partisan politics, but policy to effect the change that we need there. And allow free enterprise and the industrious Americans who run our small businesses and want to raise a family, allowing our families to grow and prosper and thrive, Americans who still believe in those ideals to get in there and effect change. I want to work for people who believe in that.
Two of his big platform issues right now are universal health care and your favorite issue, energy, his global warming plan. What do you think of his positions on both?
His cap and trade agenda is a cap and tax agenda, and it's going to drive the cost of consumer goods and the cost of energy so extremely high that our nation is going to start exporting even more jobs to China and to other countries that do not have the corporate tax or the equivalent of the corporate tax that the cap and trade — I call it cap and tax — agenda is going to usher in. What he needs to be understanding is we have the domestic supplies of energy in America. It's conventional sources — oil, gas, coal, it's nuclear — and we have the renewable sources here in America. But if we're not allowed to drill and develop those conventional sources in this transition period between now and when we can rely more on alternative sources, we're going to become more and more reliant on foreign sources of energy and importing more and more goods because they're going to be cheaper over there to produce, and our country is going to be in a world of hurt. And that, of course, has so much to do with his economic policy in thinking that it's okay to borrow money from other countries to fund this government largess that he's believing in. It doesn't make any sense. We need to develop responsibly our natural resources of energy here. This will provide the jobs here, the true economic stimulus is developing our domestic, safe supplies of energy here, and Alaska is the place to look to contribute.
Get Stoked Notes:
Are We Sliding From Liberty to Serfdom?
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.f098d02d-0fd8-4b28-a157-b51c97e1e8a9&hl=en
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.6881eb64-1c11-43a0-b773-e85073a75d4c&hl=en
Putin praises Bush hospitality during Obama visit
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersComService_2_MOLT/idUSTRE5661Q520090707
Date: Tue Jul 7, 2009 4:22am EDT
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin praised the hospitality and openness of U.S. former President George W. Bush in a telegramme sent hours before meeting his successor Barack Obama.
"During the last years we have been working on strengthening Russia-U.S. cooperation. Although there were differences between our countries, I always valued your openness and sincerity," Putin said, congratulating Bush on his 63rd birthday on July 6.
"With special warmth I recall your hospitality in the Crawford ranch and your family estate in Kennebunkport," Putin wrote, referring to their 2007 meeting at the Bush family vacation home when the two leaders went fishing and ate lobster.
Bush had said he "was able to get a sense of his soul" when he first met Putin and since then their warm rapport has helped limit the damage from a series of rows that returned ties between their administrations to chilly Cold War lows.
On Tuesday, Putin, who stepped down as president last year but remains the most influential Russian politician, invited Obama for a "Russian-style" breakfast during their first meeting at Putin's forest residence outside Moscow.
Russian agencies, quoting the government's press service, said Putin treated Obama to black caviar with sour cream, smoked beluga with pancakes and tea made in the traditional Russian samovar, a big coal-fired kettle.
(Writing by Gleb Bryanski)
Obama Lauds Putin’s ‘Extraordinary Work’ in Visit to Mend Ties
Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=al7IO7sebEWA
Date: July , 2009
By Hans Nichols and Roger Runningen
July 7 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. President Barack Obama lauded Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for his service to Russia, continuing a three-day push to overcome the animosities of the George W. Bush era.
“I am aware of not only the extraordinary work you have done on behalf of the Russian people in your previous role as prime minister -- as president -- but in your current role as prime minister,” Obama told Putin after more than an hour of talks at the premier’s residence near Moscow.
Obama and Putin’s protégé and successor Dmitry Medvedev reached agreements yesterday on nuclear arms and Afghanistan, which Obama said marked a “new start” in relations between the two nuclear superpowers. The two leaders called for a reduction of atomic warheads by as much as a third, while Russia also agreed to allow the transit of U.S. arms shipments to troops fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Relations had reached a post-Cold War low under the last U.S. administration because of disagreements over the eastward expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a proposed U.S. missile shield in Europe and Russia’s war with Georgia.
While Obama, 47, and Medvedev, 43, “had a symbolically successful day” yesterday, the U.S. president’s meeting with Putin, 56, was “key” to the relationship because Putin is still the dominant political figure in Russia, said Andrew Kuchins, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
‘Ability to Charm’
Most Russians believe Medvedev is controlled by Putin, a poll showed last month. Sixty-eight percent of respondents in a Levada Center poll said Putin controls Medvedev, while 19 percent said the president acts independently.
“Obama’s ability to charm is his greatest strength and Putin is not a guy that can be charmed,” Kuchins said late yesterday.
After four hours of meetings in the Kremlin yesterday Obama told reporters that he and Medvedev, a fellow lawyer by training, had succeeded in their goal to “reset relations” between the U.S. and Russia. “After less than six months of collaboration, we have done exactly that,” Obama said.
That represented a 180-degree turn from Bush’s first meeting with Putin, then Russia’s president, at a summit in Slovenia in 2001. Bush told reporters then that he had “looked the man in the eye” and found Putin trustworthy, adding: “I was able to get a sense of his soul.”
Cash Stockpile
In his eight years in the Kremlin, Putin consolidated political power, tamed the country’s new billionaires and led Russia’s resurgence in international affairs. Russia’s economy, contracting now for the first time in more than a decade, grew an average of 7 percent a year under Putin, as the price of oil, the country’s main export earner, climbed from $20 a barrel in 2000 to more than $100 when he stepped down in May 2008.
Russia amassed the world’s third-largest cash stockpile, increasing 30-fold to almost $600 billion before the war with Georgia a year ago. Putin also turned OAO Gazprom, the world’s biggest gas producer, into a geopolitical weapon as the state- run company’s market value surged from less than $5 billion to more than $330 billion.
Today, Putin, a KGB colonel during the Cold War, returned Obama’s compliment.
“With you we link all our hopes for the furtherance of relations between our two countries,” Putin said. “We are very glad to see you here and welcome you here in Russia.”
To contact the reporters on this story: Hans Nichols in Moscow at hnichols2@bloomberg.net ; Roger Runningen in Moscow at rrunningen@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: July 7, 2009 02:51 EDT
Get Stoked Notes: before Obama began this diatribe of praise it is interesting to note for those watching FOX news how witnesses say Puting spent the first more than an hour lecturing to Obama. Is Putin less progressive than Obama?
Is Jesus a Marxist as Many Claim?
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.39678dd5-c11e-4abf-b952-099950b50f1b&hl=en
Let Them Eat Cake: Eating Obama’s Cake Socialism Unmasked
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.0ce2a212-3a3b-4a62-b297-99fa04725564&hl=enAl Gore likens fight against climate change to battle with Nazis
Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6658672.ece
Date: July 7, 2009
Al Gore today compared the battle against climate change with the struggle against the Nazis.
The former US Vice President said the world lacked the political will to act and invoked the spirit of Winston Churchill by encouraging leaders to unite their nations to fight climate change.
He also accused politicians around the world of exploiting ignorance about the dangers of global warming to avoid difficult decisions.
Speaking in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by The Times, Mr Gore said: “Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War II.”
He added: “We have everything we need except political will but political will is a renewable resource.”
Mr Gore admitted that it was difficult to persuade the public that the threat from climate change was as urgent as the threat from Nazi Germany.
“The level of awareness and concern among populations has not crossed the threshold where political leaders feel that they must change.
“The only way politicians will act is if awareness raises to a level to make them feel that it’s a necessity.”
Mr Gore, who brought the issues around climate change to a mass audience with the 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, said the great hope for the future lay in a high level of environmental awareness among young people.
He said sceptics who refused to believe dramatic cuts in carbon emissions could be delivered should consider the example of the young scientists in the NASA team which put a man on the moon on 1969.
“The average age of scientists in the space centre control room was 26, which means they were 18 when they heard President Kennedy say he wanted to put a man on the moon in 10 years. Neil Armstrong did it eight years and two months later.”
He said future generations would put one of two questions to today’s adults.
“It will either be ’what were you thinking, didn’t you see the North Pole melting before your eyes, didn’t you hear what the scientists were saying?’ Or they will ask ’how is it you were able to find the moral courage to solve the crisis which so many said couldn’t be solved?’.”
Sir David King, the Government’s former chief scientist and now director of the Smith School, also berated politicians for failing to follow up their statements on climate change with a clear programme of action.
“I do think it’s relatively easy for a prime minister to make a speech on climate change which sounds committed and very much more difficult for that prime minister to persuade the Treasury to put the finance behind that commitment to make it a reality.
“There is a long distance in government between saying what you think needs to be said and then doing in terms of making budgets available.”
Sir David expressed disappointment that no senior British politician had taken up his invitation to address a conference attended by the world’s top climate scientists, senior business leaders and the presidents of the Maldives and Rwanda.
“I tried to pull in a lot of IOUs. But where was Lord Mandelson (the Business Secretary), where was Ed Miliband (the Energy and Climate Change Secretary)? Where was David Cameron? Where was William Hague?”
GetStoked Notes: sadly too many people are reading Al Gore with some dangerous kool-aid. The moment the 110th congress talked Bush 2 into signing a budget reflecting that reality we began loosing Automakers.
Is Our Crisis Manufactured by the 110th Congress?
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.8d6a766c-4515-4687-bb0b-a726ff248f71&hl=en
Law of Unintended Circumstances
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